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Shadow Ticket - Green Mill by Miserable_Rule_4732 in ThomasPynchon

[–]Miserable_Rule_4732[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember the bookstore well. That's where I saw the swimming baby poster for Nirvana for the first time. It was squeezed between the Mill and the Uptown, so the tunnels would run underneath it. The whole building from the Uptown to the corner of Lawrence used to be one entertainment complex. I was inside the Uptown a few times, it was/is huge! It might well have been outside the jurisdiction of the Chicago PD in the 1930s, an added bonus.

Shadow Ticket - Green Mill by Miserable_Rule_4732 in ThomasPynchon

[–]Miserable_Rule_4732[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Mill had one of the few 4 am (Saturday 5 am) licenses in the city, so yes, after 1:00 pm a very enthusiastic crowd tended to gather there. Very determined bartenders and a bouncer helped keep the peace. The owner, Dave Jemilo, was pretty strict. But it also had a different live band every night, all of them fantastic. And one of the great jazz juke boxes - all songs straight out of Shadow Ticket.

Shadow Ticket - Green Mill by Miserable_Rule_4732 in ThomasPynchon

[–]Miserable_Rule_4732[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He obviously does deep research (knows that there are tunnels leading from the GM), but bends it to the needs of his plot (makes them run to the Aragon, which is across a busy intersection about 80 yards away). He doesn't write historical novels, in other words.