How to talk right in Chicago

August 20, 2003 | from an e-mail

[DrNo]

What say you: Brickhouse or Carey?

[mhking]

What say you: Brickhouse or Carey?

Bite your tongue! Brickhouse all the way!

[tiamat]

LIncoln -5-6927!

I remember my Mom giving it out. Long defunct!

Tia

[flaglady47]

Olson's Waterfall, a phony waterfall with steps up and around it, with the ice cream man down below, named for the Olson's Rug Company next door. A real family treat to go there on the weekend, get an ice cream cone or bar, and climb up and down, through and around the waterfall. That and Amling's Haunted House. Another great kid place to go.

[plsvn]

Everybody LOVES White Castles!(and everybody pays the price)

Truer words were never spoken! I have to have some when we visit. ONCE. Okay, maybe twice :-)

My favorite places to get sliders are 79th and Harlem and 63rd and Cicero right by Midway. yum.

[DrNo]

GLadstone 3-3392; it was a "party line!"

[tiamat]

Oh MY!

[Charles Henrickson]

Fahey Flynn and P.J. Hoff:

[DrNo]

Cool!

Where's the "Vice-President-in-Charge-of-Looking-Out-the Window?!"

[lizma]

Before I roast it, I make about 30 or so slits in the meat and place pieces on garlic in the slits. Cover the roast with oregano and a some fennel seeds. I put about an inch of water in the baking pan also.

I know what I'll be doing this weekend!

[Charles Henrickson]

What say you: Brickhouse or Carey?

Bite your tongue! Brickhouse all the way!

Absolutely! Harry Carey was an interloper! A Cardinals announcer, a White Sox announcer, fer cryin' out loud!

Now Jack Brickhouse . . . he's a Cub man, through and through. I grew up listening to two voices--two father figures, if you will--Jack "Cubs" Brickhouse and Frazier "Garfield Goose/"Family Classics" Thomas.

[Boiler Plate]

It is darndest thing. I was born in Chicago, but we moved away when I was three. Yet Chicago culture was so prevelant in my upbringing that anything about Chicago, be it a movie, an article, a story, or a news clip and I feel as though it is part of my life and there is a real tug at my heart.

The south has "Gone with the Wind" but Chicago has "The Blues Brothers.
The Blues Brothers was a great movie enjoyed by millions but if you are from Chicago it is the greatest movie ever.

It is the greatest city with the greatest people, this country has ever known.

[Petruchio]

An' when yer comin' in on da Ike, waach out when ya go troo da Strangler.

Dat's where I live!

[lizma]

This may date me a bit.

[DrNo]

Don't forget Frances Horwitch (sp?) and Uncle Johnny Coons!

I've enjoyed, gotta turn in, I ain't on Central Time no more!

See ya.

[sharkhawk]

I was flipping between the Cubs and White Sox games today, and Mrs. Brickhouse was on the White Sox telecast, reminding Hawk that Brickhouse used to also do the Sox games. (plus Bears). Does anyone remember when Harry was with the Sox in the early 70's and was the Falstaff man? There was the big grain elevators with his pictures. Can anyone remember WHY he couldn't be the Bud man back then?

[One_American]

This post brings back fond memories of me going over to my grandmas house in the 'back of the yards' neighborhood around 47th and Ashland. The smell was kinda bad but you got used to it after about 10 minutes. And my dad would take me to the corner bar to watch da bears games and he would have a couple, two, tree beers while I would play that game where you slid the metal disks down the long polished wooden table. There were small bars on almost every street corner.

[One_American]

Wow! Riverview. I remember going as a young kid. They had some cool rides. The parachutes, Aladins Castle, the Bobs and the Wild Mouse.

[sweetliberty]

"they stole that from us New Yorkers"

And both stole it from us southerners. ;-)

[sweetliberty]

"I hear that more here in the south than in the midwest."

Always heard "warsh" in parts of Kentucky.