Mopetown* was an old Chicago neighborhood wedged between Bridgeport and McKinley Park - north of Archer and caressing Ashland Avenue. There was great old saloon that gave me shelter from Chicago weather, when rode the bus to work, or from Loyola back in the late 1960's and early '70's. The saloon was called McGloins, and now it is the Archer Foot Care: Total Foot and Fungus Treatment Center.
I read where President Obama renamed Mount McKinley. "Today we’re returning Mount McKinley to its native name - Denali, a step to reflect the heritage of Alaska Natives." He is a Mope!
We? He's Alexander Sixtus Borgia Hawaiian!
Our preening Progressive Pope will do anything to piss off a large number of people and get away with it for no other reason than . . . well, he can. I'm surprised he didn't give the whole dman Sarah Palin State back to the Russians, after all they had the initial naming rights to Mount McKinley when Seward cheated the Tzar out of one sweet land scam and he gives Putin anything. The Russkies called Mount McKinley Bolshaya Gora , which translates to Climate Change Big Lie. Now it is the biggest mountain in America is called Denali in Eskimo and translates to Man it's Cold Up Here!!!!!!!!!
In the spirit of America's worst President next to old Gay As Christmas Buck Buchanan, I , meaning we, give McKinley Park back to the The Scolios, the Forrers, the Walshes, the Verdons The Gerrings, the Atkinses, the Starrs and the Polyaks - the indigenous people who were forced to leave their homes by the State of Illinois, Cook County and City of Chicago so the slowest Expressway in North America could be built and screw up traffic three times a day.
*The great Anne Keegan wrote about vanishing Mopetown in 1987 and the last house in Mopetown in 1990.
*The great Anne Keegan wrote about vanishing Mopetown in 1987.
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Hi Patrick,
ReplyDeleteClick the link on Mope Town in the opening sentence. Try it here too. Nice article from back in the day.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-01-05/news/8701010992_1_neighborhood-families-bull-durham