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Samuel Spade – Private Detective

Posted By Fuzzy Gerdes On February 17, 2009 @ 12:07 pm In Literature, Photos | Comments Disabled

Sam Spade Office Window [1]

Most people believe, just because the novels [2] and movies [3] tell them so, that Sam Spade (and his late partner [4] Miles Archer) lived and worked in San Francisco. But here’s photographic proof that their offices were in Chicago, on Wells Street in Old Town.


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[1] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzy/3288395706/

[2] novels: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679722645/thenewimprovpage

[3] movies: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033870/

[4] late partner: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307264645/thenewimprovpage

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