The greatest intersection in the world: 58th Street and Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago
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| The excellent 57th Street Books. on, er, 57th Street |
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| Robie House, 1908-1910, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright |
(Photos by your humble blogkeeper, who will now get some sleep because he has museums to visit tomorrow.)
© Peter Rozovsky 2013
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| Detail from the decoration at the palace of Sargon II of Assyria |
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| Hand-wringing Mesopotamian priest. |
Labels: 57th Street Books, architecture, bookstores, Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright, images, independent bookstores, Oriental Institute, travel, University of Chicago, what I did on my vacation
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 2:04 AM
4 Comments:
There is in my memory an "intersection" in Pittsburgh that may not match Chicago's but remains a special place of magical confluences.
In the 50s and 60s, Forbes Field, the Cathedral of Learning (U of Pitt), the Carnegie Museums of Natural History and Art, the Carnegie Library, Schenley Park, Phipps Conservatory, the Schenley Hotel--although perhaps actually separated by several blocks--have morphed over time in my mind into sharing space at one grand and glorious intersection. Oh, how I loved to wander around those locales. That is the one of the most significant things I miss about urban living: the concentration of so much in such a specific amount of space. Old cities have that special kind of charm.
Forbes Field is what makes that one special. Cathedrals of learning are a dime of dozen, but how many of them have a baseball stadium on the premises?
A cheap seat at Forbes Field while watching Roberto Clemente, Bill Mazerowski, and others . . . life doesn't get any better/
I found when I visited the Field Museum today that Soldier Field is across the street. Connoisseurs of hard-nosed football and hard-nosed ethnographic collections can rejoice.
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