Ravenswood

 This is one of those glamour photos of downtown, taken from the roof of the London House which is all gussied up like a French whorehouse at Christmastime.  I am posting it because if you look at the tower on the right and look just above that row of lights about a quarter of the way up (our laundry room and storage lockers) in the center is my string of lights.

That photo I took in Old Dog's direction was on a muggy day of which we get a lot downtown. I meant to get another shot on those clear, crisp as an October apple, days, but by then Old Dog had indicated that he could not see the tower from his window so I gave up.

Maybe I should try again, things get very crisp often in the winter.  The line between the lake and the sky is so sharp that you fear it might cut you eye if you looked at it too long.  I wonder if Old Dog can see Marina City with his naked eye.  I suppose even if I couldn't see his building I could take a photo in the general direction and then fuck with it until Ravenswood Manor came into view.  It would be a big help if Old Dog could tell me if it is left or right of the Wrigley Building looking from the east tower.  

Oh wait a minute.  Further research reveals that it is not Ravenswood Manor, it is Ravenswood Senior Living, a much handsomer building, and plugging that into google earth I can see that it is definitely to the left of Wrigley.  I'll go up to the roof on the next sunny crisp day and see what I can get out of my hundred buck andriod.

I always liked the name Ravenswood which brings up a vision of a dark leafy forest full of cawing birds.  At one time I dug into it and came to the disappointing fact that it was called that because a fellow named Ravenswood was a big investor, but that was a false memory that I just learned looking it up.  It was the name of the development company doubtless chosen for the image it brings to mind.

And one of the developers was John H Kedzie.  I always wondered about the name of that street, it never seemed to fit in with the dignified names of the north/south main streets.  And what do you know, he is interred in Rosehill, a cemetery I have done much sketching.  The first warm spell we get after the holidays I shall have to go there and look him up, and while I am in the hood it would behoove me well to drop by Ravenswood Senior living and see if I can see Marina City.

Oh look here is his own little tower

 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_H._Kedzie_Memorial_Rosehill_Cemetery_Chicago_2019-0437.jpg

Pretty snazzy huh?