Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Getting beer on Friday and Saturday nights became a ritual for us in high school. We called it "making a run," but the run was seldom easy...
...friends and I went to a little store on the ground floor of the run-down Commodore Hotel, stood on the street corner and stopped shady looking people as they walked by. "Excuse me," the bravest of us asked politely, "would you mind going in and buying us some beer...
That was six years ago. Now, as my 21st birthday approaches, I look back at those six years of beer procurement and know it has been well worth the wait...
Freshman year we'd get the cheap stuff--quart bottles of Magnum or Olde English 800--and sometimes we'd splurge for a shorty (12-pack) of Henry's, a local brew which soon became our beer of choice. Then we'd go to the usual outdoor drinking spots, the names of which have been around since long before our time--Inspo, Arbo, the Circle, the Crest, the Peanut Bowl, the Meadow, the 18th Hole, the Water Towers, the list went...
Journalists tend to think of the world of The Front Page as a kind of Garden of Eden, an unspoiled idyll of frantic competition and luxuriant dissipation in an era when reporters worried about the price of a shot and a beer, not the tax consequences of a vacation home and an individual retirement account. In the mind's eye, the rowdy tabloid reportage of Chicago in the Roaring Twenties seems vivid, creative and a whole lot more fun than today's sober pursuit of facts and reasoned analysis. But 58 years of interpretation, including three film versions, may have...