Wed 7 Jul 2010
Chicago Block-by-Block: Rush Street
Posted by llworldtour under Chicago , Photography , USA[2] Comments
Ah, the ‘Gold Coast’ (aka the Viagra Triangle). It’s full of bars, old, rich men and young, drunken bachelorette parties complete with young ‘ladies’ doing unladylike things. One recent night, I was showing a friend around town and we literally passed five of these gatherings with gaggles of girls adorned in too-tight, too-short satiny dresses and tiaras.
This ‘hood has always been the scene for the wealthy and wanna-be wealthy to fake it, flaunt it, or find it. Besides the older crowd of gold-chain wearing sugar daddies, there is now a new crop of posers who all think they are in an episode of the HBO show, Entourage. Some might call them ‘douchebags.’ ‘Nuff said.
July 7th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Wow – I can feel the love you have for this neighborhood – it oozes out through your eloquent words!
July 8th, 2010 at 4:38 am
Oh how the little blue pill has changed commerce and the streetscape! Rumor has it that one old guy got the pill caught in his throat and had a stiff neck for 10 hours.
No report on whether he called a physician.