Spaw,

Yes. Paddy Bauler, Win Stracke, Nelson Algren, Ed Balchowsky, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Bill Veeck, Al Capone, Paul Powell, Chloris Noelke, Pat Tuit, Earl Pionke, Upton Sinclair, Ben Reitman and Emma Goldman, Meridell Lafleur, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Bill Haywood, Big Joe Williams, big Wally Friedrichs, Cap and Ma Streeter, Anna Matindale, Gus John, Gus Hall, Doc Stanley, Bill Smith, Bob Gibson, Paul Durst, Cornelia Honchar, Floyd Dell, Maxwell Boddenheim, Vachal Lindsey, Casey Jones the chicken man of Clark Street, the Haymarket rioters and martyrs, Duke Nathaus, the St. Valentines Day massacre, the 1968 Democratic convention "Police Riot" and massacre------it all made for great drama and better literature. And if you were able to live through it, it made unique, if not exactly wonderful, memories. These are damn exciting memories of my well-spent youth.

All's well that ends well, I suppose.

Art Thieme