Jake Randolph in "Requiem For A Stripper" Pt. 163
Since it was Saturday night the place was packed. It was also smokier than the south side of Chicago on October 8, 1871. I went to the bar and sat down. This was the first chance I'd had to ask the bartender if he knew whether or not Honey Comb had received a note the night she disappeared.
When I asked, after ordering a bourbon on the rocks, he put the drink down in front of me and said, "I can't remember. You see how crowded it is in here?"
I supposed I wouldn't find the answer to that one...
- Category: Crime, Murder & Mystery
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Christopher 10 months ago
For those across the pond, there was a great fire that spread through the south side of Chicago in 1871 that killed about 300 people and burned over three square miles of the city over 2 days.
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Neville Hunt 10 months ago
More fine research, Christopher! When you mentioned Chicago south side, I thought you wuz talking about when Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis got filmed witnessing a massacre... but then I realised that wasn’t Valentine’s Day. But I started thinking about Marilyn Monroe anyway😍!
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Christopher 10 months ago
They call it the Great Chicago Fire and it was pretty famous. They used to say it was started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocking over an oil lamp in a barn or something like that. I don't know if that's since been debunked but that's what they used to say the origin of the fire was.
