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The places had names like Perv's House, Pepper's Hide Out and the Five Fingers Social Club. Homes away from home where patrons dressed in their best, usually gold and mink, burning away the week's problems in cigarette smoke, Crown Royal and the electric chords of guitars. For the photographer Michael Abramson, they were oases on Chicago's rough-and-tumble South Side, where neon Schlitz signs beckoned from behind caged windows.
NYTimes features photos from mid-70s South Side black blues clubs
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Here's the web site for Micharl Abramson, the photographer who took all these terrific shots.
http://www.michaelabramson.com/
This NY Times "Lens" blog is absolutely stellar. Awesome find.
Also, these images beg to be viewed in full screen.
It's a really slick blog. I like how they took the standard NYTimes blog design and inverted all the colors for this one.
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