Friday 8/23 – Thursday 8/29
24 SATURDAY Stanley Tigerman’s parking garage at 60 E. Lake is the only edifice featured in today’s A View From the Road tour designed by a “serious” architect–though the ten-story structure, modeled after a Rolls-Royce grille, certainly doesn’t look it. Other stops on the 50s-car-culture-inspired expedition include the Esquire Motel on Elston, the Superdawg hot dog stand, the original Ray Kroc McDonald’s in Des Plaines, and the Par-King Skill Golf miniature golf course in Morton Grove. The four-hour bus tour features docents in period costumes and leaves at 10:30 AM from the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s center at 224 S. Michigan; a $40 fee includes lunch. To make a reservation, call 312-922-3432, ext. 240.
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27 TUESDAY A 1978 episode of the Tomorrow Show, featuring a youthful Tom Snyder interviewing rock impresarios Kim Fowley and Bill Graham and teenage musicians Joan Jett and Paul Weller about “new wave rock music,” is one of the 10,000 TV shows, 50,000 hours of radio, 9,000 TV commercials, and 2,500 newscasts archived at the Museum of Broadcast Communications. For $3 a day visitors can watch their fill of 70s TV at one of 23 “study suites” that are open today (and every day except Sundays and holidays) from 10 to 4:30 at the museum, housed in the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. Admission is free; to find out what’s available call 312-629-6000 or log on to www.mbcnet.org.
