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Joy Riding, State and Division, 1962, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Drugstore Kiss, 1962, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Old Town Art Fair, 1965, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Greek Wedding, 1960, Chicago. Lee Balterman

People of Rush Street, 1962, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Rainy night, Randolph St, 1962, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Looking south on Rush from Cedar, 1973, Chicago. Lee Balterman

The Chicago poet Carl Sandburg, photographed shortly before his death in 1967, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Group of sailors standing with the Palmolive Building in the background, Untitled, 1957, Chicago. Lee Balterman.

Untitled (baseball fans at Wrigley), 1958, Chicago, Lee Balterman.

Untitled (King’s Men Grill), c. 1950’s, Chicago. Lee Balterman

Untitled, 1963, Chicago, Lee Balterman

The night during and the morning after the MLK riots of 1968, W Madison St, Chicago. Photo by Lee Balterman.

Barroom with a View

In 1947, Time Magazine wrote an article about the trend of bars installing televisions for patrons to watch, as it was a novelty and very expensive to have in the home. Here is the first couple of lines of the aticle. Love the phonetic spelling of the Chicago bar owners speech (the photo, by Lee Balterman, was taken at King’s Palace in the 1950’s) :

“Television is not yet available in every Chicago home, but it is literally just around the corner. The city’s only television station, WBKB, reports that two-thirds of its audience takes in the show with lifted elbows at the 250 Chicago bars that own television sets.

Al Schlossberg, manager of the King’s Palace, a television tavern on North Clark Street, last week analyzed the new drift:

” ‘Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin’ stinkin’. We was losin’ money, but fast. I gotta do somethin’ to goose da place up. Now I’m a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin’..”

Nellie Fox, second baseman for the White Sox, c.1964, Chicago. Lee Balterman

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Barroom with a View