November 9, 2010

Barouge Lounge and Liquor Town, Wilson Avenue, Uptown Chicago 1955

Maybe I'm a little tired tonight, but I don't recognize this intersection of Wilson offhand, and can't quite make out the name of the hotel in the background. Can anyone enlighten me?


Get the original here: Barouge Lounge

9 comments:

Joanne said...

Thanks to a Facebook reader for helping me to figure this out. We're looking at the southwest corner of Wilson and Racine. The hotel in the background is the Warren Hotel at 4546 N. Racine, an address which puts all of this where the current Truman campus is.

adgorn said...

Agreed. I found an address for Liquortown (1201 W. Wilson) from the Chgo Trib archives, so this jibes.

John in ID said...

A friend has a trade token from the Barouge Lounge, 1203 Wilson Avenue - it is good for a 5¢ drink. John in ID

Joanne said...

Cool! If only drinks were still a nickel.

If you have a pic, I'd love to see it.

John Mutch said...

I now have the picture of the Barouge Lounge token, but don't see how to post it here. e-mail me and I will send it. John in ID tokens at gmail dot com

Joanne said...

Awesome! You can send it to editor(a)compassrose.com, and we'll post it. Thanks!

John in ID said...

The token pictures were e-mailed to you Friday morning. John in ID

laura majchszak said...

I CAN REMEMBER STOPPING IN THERE WITH MY DAD, AROUND 1966 67? SUCH A LONG TIME AGO, THOUGH I STILL CAN REMEMBER THE DIM LIGHTING, EVEN THE SMELL, SITTING ON A BAR STOOL DRINKING A COKE, WHILE MY DAD DRANK A BEER AND TALKED TO HIS BUDDIES!

Anonymous said...

Lived in the apartments over the lounge in 1974/1975...lovely place! Roaches so bad that if you put food in the refrigerator, they'd eat the rubber seal off the door to get at it. Bathroom in the hall shared by four apartments, but it wasn't bad because the winos never bathed!

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