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PURITY MINING AND RAILROAD COMPANY 1988 Playlist 7/13/2025 NSFW!
NSFW! Part 1 of DJ Alex club playlist songs from his days spinning at PURITY MINING AND RAILROAD COMPANY on High Street in Columbus OH from 1988 with Max Bravo and very special guest Jessica Edwards of New Groovin Rhythms Online and PSYCHO BABBLE TV!
songlist:
Harley David The Bollock Brothers
I Wanna Be Sedated The Ramones
Tell That Girl To Shut Up Transvision Vamp
She Sells Sanctuary The Cult
Join In The Chant Nitzer Eb
Headhunter Front 242
Never Let Me Down Again Depech Mode
Sidewalking the Jesus and Mary Chain
Mirror People Love and Rockets
We Want Some Pussy 2 Live Crew
My Way Sid Vicious
It’s going to be charcoal in teh Weber grill for the balance of 2025. Old faithful who has served me very well for over 8 seasons finally gave up the ghost. Here Max is making post podcast smashed burgers
That would have been the pre Harris family across the street, the Groves to the left, the Hollingshead’s to the right and the Taylors across from the Groves. Nobody seemed to mind except for my father.
Did this ride Tuesday 11 AM – 5 PM in above 90F degree heat
Where my street and Max’s street intersect
Calvary Catholic Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, United States. The cemetery was consecrated on November 2, 1859 by Bishop James Duggan. The arched limestone entrance overlooking Evanston’s Chicago Avenue was designed by Chicago architect James J. Egan.
Calvary Cemetery is a burial ground for well known gangsters, like:
Joe Masseria
Ignazio Saietta
Peter Morello
Thomas Lucchese
Dominick Napolitano
Benjamin Ruggiero
The Wallace Bowl is now the home of the Park District’s summertime Starlight Theatre, which provides a unique outdoor setting for musical and dramatic performances offered to the public free of charge. The WPA began construction in 1936 of an outdoor amphitheater at the Lakefront. This outdoor stage was officially dedicated as the Wilmette Outdoor Amphitheatre in 1946. The same space would later be named the Wallace Bowl in honor of Gordon Wallace, superintendent of parks from 1936-68.
This project was made possible through the generosity of Charles H. Feltman, one of the commissioners of the Wilmette park district. It was also built with the help of federal funds. However another helping hand touched upon the Wallace Bowl.
Grass for the bowl was completely sodded and quantities of shrubbery have been planted. Seats for 2,500 auditors were constructed of Menominee stone and topped from redwood. The seats are arranged in 17 tiers along the natural slope leading to Lake Michigan. The opening concert was the 80-piece Illinois Symphony Orchestra on July 14, 1937. To help create the theatre programming, Gordon B. Wallace, and the park commissioners were aided by Theodore Fuchs, director of the Northwestern University Theater, and by Professor Samuel Sheldon, director of the Carolina Play Makers.
In 1982 the Park Board determined that age and the elements had taken their toll on the Wallace Bowl, which was originally dedicated as the Wilmette Outdoor Amphitheatre in 1946. The Ouilmette Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded to raise money for a complete rehabilitation of the Wallace Bowl and restore the historical site as close to its original state as possible.
The rejuvenated Wallace Bowl was rededicated in July, 1984, and included new stone terraces topped with Douglas fir benches; a new drainage system, new lighting, an enlarged stage and new landscaping and paved pathways allowing access for those with disabilities.
The North Shore Channel, a component of the Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS), flows from Lake Michigan, near the Bahá’í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, to the North Branch of the Chicago River in Chicago.
The channel begins at the Wilmette Pumping Station, where sluice gates are generally used to provide for a consistent water level in the channel by controlling water diversion from Lake Michigan, although the gates are opened during severe storm weather conditions to allow the channel to backflow into the lake in order to prevent downstream flooding. From the pumping station, the channel flows southwest, and then south, through or near Wilmette, Evanston, Skokie, and Lincolnwood, and into Chicago.
The Bahá?í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois (or Chicago Bahá?í Temple) is a Bahá?í temple. It is the second Bahá?í House of Worship ever constructed and the oldest one still standing. It is one of eight continental temples, constructed to serve all of North America.
The temple was designed by French-Canadian architect Louis Bourgeois (1856–1930), who received design feedback from ?Abdu’l-Bahá during a visit to Haifa in 1920. To convey the Bahá?í principle of the unity of religion, Bourgeois incorporated a variety of religious architecture and symbols. Although ?Abdu’l-Bahá participated in a ground-breaking ceremony in 1912 that laid a cornerstone, construction began in earnest in the early 1920s and was delayed significantly through the Great Depression and World War II. Construction picked up again in 1947, and the temple was dedicated in a ceremony in 1953.
I grabbed my first piece of shade after I took this shot and chugged water and pickle juice
The North Shore Channel Trail extends 8.3 miles from the junction of Green Bay Road and McCormick Boulevard in northern Evanston to the junction of Lawrence Avenue and Francisco Avenue in Chicago.
All but the southern-most 0.25 miles runs alongside the North Shore Channel, a drainage and aeration canal built in 1909; the southern-most 0.25 miles follows the North Branch of the Chicago River. For most of the way, a trail occupies both sides of the North Shore Channel.
Just north of North Lincoln Avenue (US Hwy 41), a pedestrian bridge connects the two main sections of the trail. Known as the Lincoln Village Bridge, the bridge creates a continuous route from Devon Avenue to Argyle Avenue with no street crossings.
Tuesday July 15 2025 2:56 PM message to Melita:
3 hours and 55 minutes in so far. Taking a break in Sculpture Park in Skokie. How many 60 year old men do you know that do this.?
This steel sculpture was hand welded of multiple small pieces, cut to reference anatomical parts of the body. The weld marks also contain anatomical references. The artist’s intention was to strip the human form to its base elements and then to rebuild it, exaggerating and emphasizing the heroic strength of the Native American figure.
This sculpture is part of the Permanent Collection of the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park.
Wednesday July 16 2025: Alex Zander was with Max Bravo at The Sovereign
Edgewater’s most notorious dive bar. Cheap drinks, shots that won’t break the bank. Legendary jukebox, Chicago’s best music selection. Raw atmosphere. Anchor of the Edgewater community since the 1940s, Chicago’s Sovereign Liquors is about as quintessential a neighborhood dive bar as it gets.
WOW 4 years since the girls from Arizona. Seems like longer.
I listed it 7 days ago for $50 and today it sold for $567.00 with fees deducted it was only $488.00
“Just finished listening to the show, nice work! Brought back quite a few memories! Can’t wait to hear you spin some tales about Sandro’s, Lawson, the Knights of the Round Table, rush, etc., and hear some more Love & Rockets, The Cult, etc.” – Ed Kowalski Columbus OH
Part 2 is Sunday and the playlist is done
A month or so back I saw this product above online as an ad. I love Lipton Iced Tea but not teh flavored other than lemon. I simply love it all year round. This looked damned good to me and I posted “I bet that would taste good with vodka.” and Max commented “You say that about mayonnaise.” Which was pretty fucking funny.
Melita called from the library where she is testing while I was at The Sovereign with Max for a cool down drink after doing laundry. I had just mentioned that post to Max and how Melita doesn’t like it when I eat mayonnaise for health reasons. She happened to call at that minute and I relayed the story. She laughed. And then this afternoon she called between tests and I told her she’d be happy that I was eating salad and she asked me to not put mayonnaise on it.