Showcase: South Side Blues - Lens Blog. CHICAGO — The places had names like Perv’s House, Pepper’s Hide Out and the Five Fingers Social Club.
Homes away from home where patrons dressed in their best, usually gold and mink, burning away the week’s problems in cigarette smoke, Crown Royal and the electric chords of guitars. For the photographer Michael Abramson, they were oases on Chicago’s rough-and-tumble South Side, where neon Schlitz signs beckoned from behind caged windows. One night in December 1974, Mr. Abramson, who was then 26 and had recently moved to the northern suburb of Evanston, ventured down to Pepper’s, a fieldstone exterior on a darkened block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, its hanging sign offering the night’s act and soul food.
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