anyone remember M.C. Mages across from the old Rock N. Roll McDonalds?


btw: the burger at the American Girl Store is fkn fabulous.

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@audioidkid

I went into that Mages store several times over the years.

His son was involved with the original Irving's in Wilmette. That was positioned to be a big deal with several locations (they used to advertise at Bulls games to the Highland Park sweater club) and just flamed out massively and only the original is left as of a couple of years ago.

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I think my dentist was in that building when I lived in Chicago, does that sound possible?

Unless it was recently, I think the sporting goods store (it later became part of Sportmart, RIP) had the whole building. But I don't remember if there was another building between Mages and the flophouse motel at Ohio and LaSalle.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

I just remember that I walked through that American Girl store to get to the elevator to go to my dentist. It was a fucking nightmare.

I have an American Girl story:

viewtopic.php?f=168&t=107910&p=2778681&hilit=American+Girl#p2778681

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think there was an office building just to the south.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Rebecca Rubin had great hair. A lot of gentiles purchased her.

when i went back to visit like 2017 i went there and asked where the theater was. security guy was like we haven't had a theater in here for like 20 years.

too bad. i use to go down there and catch movies.

Maybe we have the same dentist...I was just there yesterday.

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The dolls have last names too?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Morie Mages was the best when I was a kid. They had cool displays so you'd want to walk the different departments just to see them. They had this indoor skiing contraption where you could test out skis before you bought. My dad used to take me there for gym shoes and they always seemed to have a promotion where you got a free poster with a purchase.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Was Morrie Mages where the Stretch Run OTB went in or is that a block over? I just remember all the celebrity handprints. I assume they're still there.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

SW corner of Ontario and LaSalle.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

MORRIE MAGES WAS YOUR STORE FOR SPORTS

FOR SKI'S..MORRIE MAGES, AND TENNIS MORRIE MAGES...

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As a kid I always dreamt of going in there with a shopping basket and hitting every floor.

I shudder to think how much I spent in there with my sons. I doubt any visit there was less than an hour.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

M.C. Mages is where my dad used to take me to buy a new baseball glove. Always a Mizuno.

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I still have my baseball bat from sophomore year.

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@audioidkid

I remember that vaguely. I was working part time at Foorlocker in Gurnee Mills from about 93-95. They got some of the new shoes up there but it was mostly unloading crap in the back for really low prices. The full time guys would let me use their 40% off discount to buy new stuff so not a lot of reason to go down too often. It’s not like today where they have so much limited edition stuff. I just designed my own custom Air Force One shoes online late this fall and they delivered to my front door for not much more than a regular nice pair of shoes. I thought that was really cool.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

That T-Bone line of apparel Is quite extensive!

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Target gonna replace Macy's. Classy.

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Are there any high-end department stores left that could fill the space? Maybe they should turn into condos. Target would be a horrible fit.

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At least the rioters will have somewhere to aim with their bricks.

Don’t the people on the board that live between there and Wrigley need a Target?

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There is a Target on Clark and Belmont. And a Target on School and Ashland. And on Clark and Schubert

And State & Madison. And in the South Loop. And not far from Navy Pier on Illinois

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Their liberal “ payment optional” policy has been a huge hit down there .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Our Target was remodeled and it sucks. There are huge spaces where you need none there is no space in aisles and it's like products are blobbed around the store and it seems like they have less stuff. I understand the concept of making it to fit the neighborhood but it fails to do that too. Any target I stop into should be easy to navigate and almost the same. So dumb to change it.

Sounds like they are open, but now operating differently.

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