dfg wrote:Staying at the places on Lincoln would allow one to take the Lincoln bus to the Western Brown line stop, then take that to Armitage, and then grab an Armitage bus back a bit west. Or the CTA website is saying instead get off at Sedgewick and then hop on the North Ave bus.

I haven't really taken new public transportation routes since high school, so someone please let me know if I'm giving horrible and dangerous travel advice.

That's a good CTA route but check the schedule for the Lincoln Ave bus ( 11 route ); I think it stops running fairly early on saturday and sunday night, so you might have to go north from the western brown line stop on the western ( 49 ) bus when returning to the motels on the lincoln strip in the evenings ( you'll have a little walking to do if you get off at foster on western ). you could cab it back from the brown line stop to avoid that inconvenience, too- cabs are all over up there.

stewie wrote:I just booked the Arlington Hostel thing which was recommended by the T&G website. I don't care if it's a shithole or as good as the Ritz, because I'm attending for rock only. I have a few other buddies staying there too, so it made sense to pick it.

Goddamn it, roll on September.

Yeh, thats the same hostel us newfies booked. Anyone know what the place is like? Going off the pictures on a webpage can be very deceptive........although, it does says they have free coffee.
Mayhaps we'll all have a bathtub brew before the shows.

nick92675 wrote:

dfg wrote:

nick92675 wrote:

wrig wrote:Interesting tidbit about the Purple Hotel - its parking lot was where mobster Allen Dorfman died from an assassin's gunfire in 1983. The crime has never been solved.

too cool. at this moment i am sitting .5 blocks from said assasination point!

It also went from a Radisson to a Ramada to the Purple all within the last year or so. Sketchy. But down the street from it (west on Touhy) are the best bagels and lox schmear in the city, at New York Bagels & Bialys, open 24 hours.

YES! i ate those bagels this morning. they are amazing indeed. there's a deli next door called fannie's which is also pretty good, except overpriced IMO. and the guy who works there/owns it has a terrible toupe.

Heh, drove by there yesterday and that deli is now gone. I still want to check out the Filipino and Korean cafes still next door to NYB&B.

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clocker bob, thanks for the caveat on the 11 bus.

dfg wrote:Heh, drove by there yesterday and that deli is now gone.

FANNIE'S IS GONE?!!!!

Mayfair wrote:

dfg wrote:Heh, drove by there yesterday and that deli is now gone.

FANNIE'S IS GONE?!!!!

Pretty sure that's what I saw yesterday. Sorry.