Wednesday, June 22, 2005

We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.



Jason Togyer
Tube City Almanac

It's the 25th anniversary of "The Blues Brothers ," and the Chicago Sun-Times is running a weeklong look back at the places in Chicago that were featured in the film. The church where James Brown was preaching has fallen on hard times, and the street where John Lee Hooker was singing in an open market was demolished to make way for the expansion of the University of Chicago.

And don't tell The Penguin , but the orphanage has been torn down anyway. (Of course, it was only a false-front movie set, built in an alley.)

It's good stuff, even if you're not on a mission from God.

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