I grew up three blocks from the Granada, and I saw many classic movies there. I saw the movie Easy Rider there, which changed my life – good or bad? – both! One flew over the Cuuckoo’s Nest premiered there, and I saw Taj Mahal and a couple of other bands there. I wax poetically about the Granada in this prose poem I wrote about growing up in Rogers Park… http://www.sduros.com/Beaches.html
My understanding is that the Granada met its end because it was allowed to deteriorate by a known slumloard, and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski worked the ropes to get funding from Congress so that a seniors building could be constructed there. Lo, after the old Granada was torn donw, the senior housing failed and the building went to Loyola University, of which Rosty is an alum.
I grew up three blocks from the Granada, and I saw many classic movies there. I saw the movie Easy Rider there, which changed my life – good or bad? – both! One flew over the Cuuckoo’s Nest premiered there, and I saw Taj Mahal and a couple of other bands there. I wax poetically about the Granada in this prose poem I wrote about growing up in Rogers Park…
http://www.sduros.com/Beaches.html
My understanding is that the Granada met its end because it was allowed to deteriorate by a known slumloard, and Rep. Dan Rostenkowski worked the ropes to get funding from Congress so that a seniors building could be constructed there. Lo, after the old Granada was torn donw, the senior housing failed and the building went to Loyola University, of which Rosty is an alum.