Red Line, Saturday night, just after Midnight.

Most people believe, just because the novels and movies tell them so, that Sam Spade (and his late partner 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.

The animals can turn invisible!!! I think I’ll start my own zoo and have a bunch of empty cages with this sign on each one.

Why do I have the feeling that that smokestack used to be just a bit taller?

I suppose if you think about it, there’s no particular reason that one store couldn’t supply both needs. Fish are, after all, one of the few animals that are commonly* both kept as pets and eaten. But it still freaked Erica out. "It’s the same phone number!" she kept shouting.

* I said “commonly”. I don’t need to hear stories of cows as pets and iguanas as food.

A display in the window of the store Foursided.

Chicago HDRs
Flickr Chicago HDR images

Enjoy!

I think I got asked by three different people if I’d given back the special pen. Don’t take the special pen!