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Fine art and architecture on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago between Irving and Bryn Mawr.

Roadside Art Online: Apache Motel, Chicago

Back in 1978 or so I wrote a college term paper about the increasing level of despair apparent in Frank Capra’s movies, through It’s a Wonderful Life. I revised it a bit for this Web site in 1995 or so, taking into account the film’s rise to holiday classic status in the intervening years. It’s sort of gratifying to see many of my same points made in the New York Times, though without the film history elements. At least I don’t feel quite so lonely in my crankdom:

This angle on It's A Wonderful Life is old news at Interesting Ideas

A quest for the authentic is likely to turn up nothing so real as the hunger that inspired it.

Signs and sights from Pulaski Road. This mosaic sign is one of the best. I’ve never seen another one like it.