Ted McClelland
@tedmcclelland.bsky.social
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Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Editor, Chicago magazine
Harvey Pekar statue, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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Only in Michigan does a party store sell beer and liquor.
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Former movie theater and pizza parlor, Hegewisch, Chicago
about 10 hours ago
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The wall separating Chicago from Evanston
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In Pittsburgh, "Kennywood's open" means "your fly's unzipped." The term comes from the Kennywood amusement park.
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Tonight, make a tater tots hotdish in solidarity with Minnesota.
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Go Staleys!
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Breakfast at Valois Cafeteria. The most food for your money in Chicago.
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A precious Illinois artifact: Jeff Tweedy's hat, State of Sound exhibit, Navy Pier, Chicago
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Plaistow, New Hampshire
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Currently reading, for the nth time, my favorite book.
2 days ago
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Postcard style Chicago mural, Logan Square
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Timber Lanes, last of the old school bowling alleys, North Center, Chicago
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Mary Tyler Moore statue, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Spoonbridge and Cherry, Minneapolis, Minnesota
3 days ago
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Mr. Red tattoo, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Campaign poster for Richard J. Daley's first election as mayor, 1955.
3 days ago
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Superdawg, Forest Glen, Chicago
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Statue of Ronald Reagan that does look like Ronald Reagan, Dixon, Illinois
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reposted by
Ted McClelland
old roadside pics
5 days ago
seneca mobil, west allis, wisconsin, 1977
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Ronald Reagan statue that doesn't look like Ronald Reagan, Dixon, Illinois
4 days ago
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Gemini Giant, Wilmington, Illinois
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Goodman, Manzarek and Prine on a Chicago musicians mural.
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Dive bar, Portage Park, Chicago
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Hilliard Homes, Bertrand Goldberg, architect, South Loop, Chicago
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Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home, Oak Park, Illinois
5 days ago
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Carpet mosaic, Francisco CTA stop, Chicago
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Ghost bike on Milwaukee Avenue, the most dangerous stretch of road in Chicago.
6 days ago
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Masonic Hall converted to a Hare Krishna temple, Rogers Park, Chicago
6 days ago
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Ship passing under the Aerial Lift Bridge, Duluth, Minnesota
6 days ago
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German-American club in historically German Lincoln Square, Chicago
6 days ago
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A moose on Isle Royale, Michigan, which I visited 20 years ago. It's a long way from a long way from anywhere.
7 days ago
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Millard and Grover, City Hall, Buffalo, New York
7 days ago
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The most Instagrammed restaurant in Chicago
7 days ago
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The proposed Indiana state sandwich is the breaded pork tenderloin, of course. I ate one in Peru and can't recommend it.
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
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The Eternal Indian, Lowden State Park, Illinois. Sculpted by Lorado Taft. The statue is supposed to represent Black Hawk, but Taft used a friend as a model, so it doesn't look anything like Black Hawk.
7 days ago
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The original Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois. As a result of a court case, the other Burger King is not allowed to operate within 20 miles of Mattoon.
7 days ago
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Steamboat, Dubuque, Iowa
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Decatur, Illinois's minor league baseball team (d. 1974) was nicknamed the Commodores, after Commodore Stephen Decatur. They were popularly known as the Commies, even during the Cold War.
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It's considered good luck to rub Lincoln's nose at his tomb in Springfield.
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Street in Lansing, Michigan, where Malcolm X grew up.
8 days ago
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Eugene V. Debs house, Terre Haute, Indiana
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I saved this from 2004.
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reposted by
Ted McClelland
old roadside pics
9 days ago
gigi's geisha palace, peoria, illinois, 1980
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A shirt I got in St. Louis
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Currently reading. Late Theroux>early Theroux. He's less judgemental and more sympathetic in telling the stories of strangers.
9 days ago
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Ghost sign for a much-missed beer, Herrin, Illinois
9 days ago
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Graffito face peering through a hole in a wall, Packard Plant, Detroit
9 days ago
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Illinois's first state capitol in Vandalia, where Lincoln and Douglas met.
9 days ago
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The J.W. Westcott II, the only floating zip code in the United States, a boat that delivers mail and supplies to passing freighters in Detroit.
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