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Liz Gibbons

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Chicago, books, maps & meandering Pic is from my grandfather's bar on W Madison c1962

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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Azumith United States Coast and Geodetic Survey #ManholeCoverMonday
Square concrete marker with inscribed metal plate
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My grandfather and great uncles painting their house on W Arthington.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
3858 W Madison formerly a tavern My grandfather bought it in the 30's we think and his widow sold it in the 60's Pin 16-11-312-019-0000 My dad bartended there as well as grandfather and uncle.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Cicadas are fascinating. A thing I got at a thrift store years ago
Small cicada dish, two bowl sides with a painted cicada above.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Reminiscent of the Harry Weese townhomes on the Chicago River.
Harry Weese townhomes on the Chicago RiverHarry Weese townhomes on the Chicago River
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
After repotting and pruning the dining room plants, time to sweep up behind me. Is that my mother's face? Yes indeed I have turned in to my mother.
Old lady with plants and lace curtains.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The best Ritz was the Berwyn Ritz.
Closed movie theater, The Ritz in Berwyn on the 6300 block of Roosevelt. The building front is three stories of yellow brick with terracotta decor and four 'urns' across the top. Large light up sign proclaims RITZ.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We didn't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine.
My grandfather tending bar near Madison & Hamlin c1962. A man behind the bar looks towards the door while a patron engages in conversation looking in the opposite direction. 
There's advertisements for Blatz and Schlitz.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My grandfather's bar in 1962 with Blatz, Schlitz or Meister Brau. There's a record book where he tracked how many beers and how many shots sold each day.
Bartender wearily looks out the window of a working man's bar in 1962 with a Blatz sign behind him.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Detectorists
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
He thinks he's a Jedi.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Slap Shot was the last movie on the marquee and stayed up there for years. Parents let us go there by ourselves to be in air conditioning. Or maybe just to get rid of us. I loved that place, my neighborhood gem.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Reading this which is pretty rough going (war descriptions) & listening to Best Short Stories 2022 on Hoopla.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Where my grandparents lived
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
When they sell off the federal buildings in Chicago, will they sell Calder's Flamingo? Over my dead body.
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you see this, quote post with a photo you took of a sunset
sunset in the salt marshes of Delaware
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Turner's 'Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and the Dying'. Incredibly moving
Turner's "Slavers throwing overboard the dead and the dying"
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Patti (or Selma?) relaxing in the bath with a cig
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Liz Gibbons @readery.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
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