Fifteen years ago today:

Roaming around Chicago including a visit to a downtown Woolworth store in the midst of that chain’s mass store closings.

Original narrative.

Fifteen years ago today:

From Madison to Chicago via Milwaukee and the very first McDonald’s east of the Mississippi. Listen for a Sentry supermarket commercial and a very early one for “King of the Hill.” Joe, my host, offers a nighttime tour.

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…to alert you all that I am still very much alive and relived that I autopopulated all this 1997 stuff because I am really incredibly busy this week month. Back soon with info and pictures from a more recent road trip, etc. And now, back to Madison or Chicago or wherever the hell I was fifteen years ago tonight.

Fifteen years ago today:

Touring Madison, Wisconsin, a thoroughly pleasant sort of place that I might not have visited without an invitation from Steven, who later moved to the Bay Area. I think I’d have stayed in Madison if I’d been him.

Original narrative.

Fifteen years ago today:

Exit St. Louis and enter Illinois via Route 66. Stops at a roadside museum and the Ariston Cafe en route to Madison. I played Peoria but there is no video evidence.

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