Eliz.GurleyFlynn: fasscinating paragraph

Subject: Eliz.GurleyFlynn: fasscinating paragraph
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 07:02 PM

I think this is just a vivid paragraph from the early feminist. It's contained in a piece she wrote on her life in Chicago with Wobbly Jack Jones a founder of the infamous "DIL PICKLE CLUB" free speech forum and radical hangout and gathering place in that city---circa 1908. "Dil" -- with one "l" -- is correct!!

The book the essay is in is titled The Rise And Fall Of The Dil Pickle!!---published by Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company---1740 W. Greenleaf Ave.---Chicago, IL----60626 (their Bughouse Square Series)

"We moved to Oak Street on the North Side of Chicago. The landlady was extremely kind and gave us credit on our rent during that hard winter... Jones got a job shoveling coal. Some other I.W.W.s lived in the same house, among them B.H. Williams, later the editor of the I.W.W. paper Solidarity, and Joe Ettor then 22, rosy-cheeked, telling us of his adventures during the San Francisco earthquake when he worked in the kitchen of the St. Francis Hotel, below the street level. They thought the racket was the cook throwing the pots around. ---- Later, he and Jack London sat on a hillside across the Bay and watched the city burn."

People, I highly recommend this volume. The times and that place fit right in with the best of the threads here about The Greatest Coffeehouses and bars and their ilk. This one paragraph from E.G.F. just grabbed me and I felt like showing it to you. But it's a chace for me to tell you about this book and this amazing publisher that has been around in Chicago all through the years. Still there too. They're "going" -- if not exactly going strong.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Eliz.GurleyFlynn: fasscinating paragraph
From: Alice
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 08:20 PM

Thanks for that, Art. I'll look for it.
alice

Subject: RE: Eliz.GurleyFlynn: fasscinating paragraph
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 11:33 AM

Art-

Sounds like this book is a good way for getting a feel for these old hangouts, assuming one doesn't have an operational time machine.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Eliz.GurleyFlynn: fasscinating paragraph
From: GUEST,M.Ted
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 12:28 AM

Thanks for the paragraph--I've just ordered the book--never would have known about it without your kind tip!