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A Good Man to Know: A Semi-Documentary Fictional Memoir
A Good Man to Know A SemiDocumentary Fictional Memoir Author:Barry Gifford "My father ran an all-night liquor store on the corner of Chicago and Rush, next door to the Club Alabama where I used to watch the showgirls rehearse on Saturday afternoons. I often ate breakfast at the small lunch counter in the store, dunking doughnuts with the organ-grinder's monkey. Big red-headed Louise ran the counter and fed me milkshake... more »s while I waited for my dad. The place was a drop joint for stolen goods, dope, whatever somebody wanted to stash for awhile. The story was that you could get anything at the store day or night..."
Al Capone's brother would come into the store often, as well as movie star Dorothy Lamour, ex-middleweight champ Tony Zale, and whoever else was in town. We lived on Chestnut Street, next to the lake, in the Seneca Hotel, which was later described to me as containing "the lobby of the men with no last names.""« less