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 Post subject: Bob Newhart's commute
PostPosted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 11:02 pm 
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https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160907/edgewater/bob-newharts-bizarre-commute-home-edgewater-took-him-way-out-of-his-way

EDGEWATER — As city commutes go, Bob Hartley might have had the strangest.

Hartley — a fictional psychologist who was played by award-winning comedian Bob Newhart on his show set in Chicago from 1972-78 — walked across multiple Downtown bridges in opposite directions before ultimately heading to Evanston. He then got off the "L" and walked 6.5 miles back to an Edgewater condo building, where he purportedly lived on the show.

The bizarre commute was supposedly a daily commute for the character made famous by Newhart, an Oak Park native who turned 87 Monday.

And he didn't seem to mind.

His journey, according to the opening sequence of the "Bob Newhart" show, begins at what is now the Charles Schwab building at 430 N. Michigan Ave., where after a flash of the show's title, Newhart begins heading north.

Curiously, the next shot shows Newhart a block south, at the other end of the DuSable (Michigan Avenue) Bridge, walking north toward the office he just left.

From there, he appears to be heading west toward another bridge along the Chicago River, before another shot of him walking (apparently) south across another bridge.

Newhart is then seen rounding a corner walking east before an overhead shot shows him jaunting south along the walking portion of the Wabash Avenue Bridge.

At this point, any reasonable Chicagoan might think Newhart is lost. But he presses on.

Once he presumably reaches Downtown from heading south on Wabash, Newhart jumps an elevated train in the Loop, possibly the State/Lake stop.

Though when he boards the train it appears to be headed north, it takes a southbound trajectory after Newhart sits down to read the paper.

That train is then seen heading north across the Wells Street Bridge, which holds the Brown and Purple lines.

For whatever reason, Newhart is seen departing the former Isabella Street station in Evanston (which closed the year after the opening sequence was filmed). He clearly exits a train headed south from northern Evanston.

After an already long and pointless trek, Newhart apparently has no problem taking an extra two hours to walk the 6.5 miles from the Evanston station to his home in the Thorndale Beach Condominiums in Edgewater.

Newhart might opt for a car service today.

Or, like most of us, would probably just have hopped the Red Line at Grand Avenue and taken it straight to Thorndale Avenue, about two blocks from his home.

Whatever the fictional psychologist's reason was for the hourslong hike, "The Bob Newhart Show" was a Chicago favorite that has become a piece of classic city history.

At Navy Pier, a statue of Newhart's character sits next to a couch, and at Loyola University in Rogers Park, the Newhart Family Theater is stationed within the Mundelein Center for Fine and Performing Arts.

Newhart is a 1952 graduate of the university's business school.

https://youtu.be/V-PLEhiOeVA

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I wondered where some of those locales were.
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44 damn years ago. 44. Damn. Years.


44

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Telegram Sam wrote:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160907/edgewater/bob-newharts-bizarre-commute-home-edgewater-took-him-way-out-of-his-way

EDGEWATER — As city commutes go, Bob Hartley might have had the strangest.

Hartley — a fictional psychologist who was played by award-winning comedian Bob Newhart on his show set in Chicago from 1972-78 — walked across multiple Downtown bridges in opposite directions before ultimately heading to Evanston. He then got off the "L" and walked 6.5 miles back to an Edgewater condo building, where he purportedly lived on the show.

The bizarre commute was supposedly a daily commute for the character made famous by Newhart, an Oak Park native who turned 87 Monday.

And he didn't seem to mind.

His journey, according to the opening sequence of the "Bob Newhart" show, begins at what is now the Charles Schwab building at 430 N. Michigan Ave., where after a flash of the show's title, Newhart begins heading north.

Curiously, the next shot shows Newhart a block south, at the other end of the DuSable (Michigan Avenue) Bridge, walking north toward the office he just left.

From there, he appears to be heading west toward another bridge along the Chicago River, before another shot of him walking (apparently) south across another bridge.

Newhart is then seen rounding a corner walking east before an overhead shot shows him jaunting south along the walking portion of the Wabash Avenue Bridge.

At this point, any reasonable Chicagoan might think Newhart is lost. But he presses on.

Once he presumably reaches Downtown from heading south on Wabash, Newhart jumps an elevated train in the Loop, possibly the State/Lake stop.

Though when he boards the train it appears to be headed north, it takes a southbound trajectory after Newhart sits down to read the paper.

That train is then seen heading north across the Wells Street Bridge, which holds the Brown and Purple lines.

For whatever reason, Newhart is seen departing the former Isabella Street station in Evanston (which closed the year after the opening sequence was filmed). He clearly exits a train headed south from northern Evanston.

After an already long and pointless trek, Newhart apparently has no problem taking an extra two hours to walk the 6.5 miles from the Evanston station to his home in the Thorndale Beach Condominiums in Edgewater.

Newhart might opt for a car service today.

Or, like most of us, would probably just have hopped the Red Line at Grand Avenue and taken it straight to Thorndale Avenue, about two blocks from his home.

Whatever the fictional psychologist's reason was for the hourslong hike, "The Bob Newhart Show" was a Chicago favorite that has become a piece of classic city history.

At Navy Pier, a statue of Newhart's character sits next to a couch, and at Loyola University in Rogers Park, the Newhart Family Theater is stationed within the Mundelein Center for Fine and Performing Arts.

Newhart is a 1952 graduate of the university's business school.

https://youtu.be/V-PLEhiOeVA


and you know where he went to high school Sam

Geniuses can often be absent minded, which explains all this

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Darkside wrote:
44 damn years ago. 44. Damn. Years.


44

And his TV wife still looks hot.....in the show, I mean.

Man, she's hot, as I said above.

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I liked his 2nd show better but they were both pretty good.

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I, too, liked Newhart better than The Bob Newhart Show, but that may have had more to do with the former being much more accessible in reruns. I think Nick at Nite had both for a while, but I grew up watching more Newhart. I liked the scumbag who ran the diner but got written out. He'd be problematic today.

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QUEENS — Now here's a cab you might not want to ride in.

Television aficionados surely remember the hit sitcom "Taxi," which starred a pre-Always Sunny Danny DeVito, a pre-Who's-the-Boss Tony Danza, and a pre-death Andy Kaufman in the wacky tales of the Sunshine Taxi Company. Only in New York.

But what viewers may not remember is that the title sequence, which featured looped footage of a taxicab crossing a bridge, ran out of footage before the opening credits finished, causing it to go back to the beginning and start over. Why producers didn't simply slow the footage down to match the length of the credits, we'll never know. As a result, this magic taxicab abruptly goes back several hundred feet to re-enact its cross-borough journey. Maybe we were supposed to believe we got into whatever Reverend Jim was into. Not having to teleport backwards is probably why people today prefer Uber.

This wouldn't be the first time a Tri-State vehicle broke laws of time and space. The critically acclaimed "The Sopranos" features Tony Soprano not only taking a circuitous route from New York to North Caldwell, but seems to drift between fall and winter.

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Whatever the fictional psychologist's reason was for the hourslong hike,

Like many things in TV shows or movies, the reason is that it was designed to portray what the creators of the show thought what would look more interesting on TV as opposed to what the commute would actually entail.

I would imagine the author knows that, but it doesn't sound like it.
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Not as bad as the "driving back to NYC" scene in When Harry Met Sally. Nothing like leaving the U of C campus via North LSD.

Ferris Bueller's driving scenes were bad too

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