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If you have memories to share, contact Sukie at Windy City Times, voicemail at (773) 871-7610. (The hustler bar he refers to was LA Connection, owned by Norm Hilton). the bar never really caught on and was sold to Norm, from the then-famous Saugatuck Lodge, and he opened it as basically a North Side 'New Flight' bar. The then famous Ceasar was my asssistant manager there. It was an alternative to the Loading Dock, more cocktail club atmosphere, neighborhood-style bar that featured a small restaurant in the back portion of the bar. 'Halsted's was opened after the success of the Loading Dock (Dick Dock) in the space of the now Kit Kat Club. She was a very popular and hardworking bartender for the back-room boys of the Loading Dock and has earned all the success she enjoys today.' 'But to close on a happier note, I am happy to see the news of former Loading Dock bar wench, Michelle Fire, who went on to fame and fortune with Big Chicks and now a new eatery venture. And I'm sure there are many other former employees that have passed. and a number of bartenders and music /video jocks whose faces are embedded in my memory, but my age has taken its toll on their names. (bartender at Loading Dock), Brant Larson (friend and bartender at Ozone), Chris 'Passionalla' Timmons (friend, roommate and VJ Sidetrack), Vern Mershon (friend, roommate and longtime Touche bartender), Rodney Scheel (friend, owner of Hotel Washington, Rods in Madison, Wisc.)
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Steve locale and are passed: Michael B., (DJ, Loading Dock), Michael K (bartender at every Chicago bar, including the Men's Room), Larry 'Chicago Molly' Berlandi (Bartender at Halsted's among his many stints), Terry (assistant manager at Loading Dock), Skip (assistant manager at Loading Dock), Jeff (bartender at Loading Dock), Tommie R. I know I'm going to start this list and forget some, but of the ones that were close personal friends, and/or worked for me at a Dr.
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'There are many faces that made my life in Chicago such a wonderful and full experience.
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Groups of friends, Gretta, Vern Mershon, Steve Allman, Jamie Kohn, myself, RJ, and others would go every summer up to Douglas Dunes in Saugatuck for a mini retreat and a week of putt-putt golf, firework displays and other non-city activities. The gang was either at Rod's in Madison or Douglas Dunes. I think he worked with the Chuck Renslow/Rodocker group, or Eddie Dugan, but somehow, I'm remembering Renslow because he and Gary Chichester, 'Gretta', were roommates and Gary worked for Renslow. A very sweet boy that grew up very quickly and sadly passed away so very young. He was a founding member of the Loading Dock softball team, loved all sports, especially college basketball, and became one of the customers' more popular bartenders. I believe he also filled in for us at the Loading Dock, on weekends. He found a partner shortly after starting his stint behind the bar, and was still working for Dr. I believe he had once studied in Jesuit college or seminary and his coming out was quite an event on top on his moving to Chicago and then working in a busy Chicago gay bar. he was a young, tall kid I hired at the Men's Room, I think from Kansas (no Dorothy puns here) or Nebraska. He was the only disc jockey I knew that had that type of musical magic over the 200 leathermen jammed on the Ozone dance floor dancing in unison like animals, instead of just wearing them. He could make a room full of leather-clad men, more suited for a night of intimate cruising, throw off their chaps and dance like contestants-in-waiting for Dance Fever. All I can say about Mark, or Turtle, as his friends called him, was when he was on, he was the best disc jockey of that time. 'Mark Hultmark was the DJ at Ozone and then for a time at Christopher Street I believe, or the bar incarnation after C-Street. This article shared 9293 times since Wed Sep 10, 2003