Allen, Thanks, but that's just the way it was...

Ed Balchowsky was also a very surreal artist. He'd throw out reems of huge drawings and painings in the garbage behind the club at Belmont & Sheffield. (If Sheffield Ave. sounds familiar, yes, that is the street that hugs the right field wall at Wrigley Field.) Oprah Winfrey, the "Grand ole Orah" herself, has several of Eddy's paintings. But in those other times we just ransacked the garbage before they hauled it to get some amazing stuff. Sure do wish I'd kept some of it. Ed either fell or jumped in front of an "L" train in the subway station at North Ave. & Clybourn about 15 years ago. I'm thinking that I told this story of Eddy B. in another thread once. No matter I guess.

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