Tuesday, September 27, 2016

2120 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE

Yesterday while my car was being serviced, I had time to take a hike in Chicago. I set out with one specific spot that I wanted to visit: 2120 South Michigan Avenue.  Sharp-eyed readers of this blog may recognize this as the title of a Rolling Stones song, which it is. It is also the address of the legendary CHESS RECORDS recording studio. 
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Chicago Landmark Plaque which adorns the building at 2120 South Michigan Avenue

CHICAGO LANDMARK, 2120 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE


CHICAGO LANDMARK, 2120 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE

from wikipedia...
Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues. Over time it expanded into soul musicgospel music, early rock and roll, and occasional jazz and comedy recordings, released on the Chess, Checker, Argo, and Cadet labels. The Chess catalogue is currently owned by Universal Music Group and managed by Geffen Records.
Founded and run by Polish immigrant brothers Leonard and Phil Chess, the company produced and released many singles and albums regarded as central to the rock music canon. The musician and critic Cub Koda described Chess as "America's greatest blues label."
Chess was based at several different locations on the south side of Chicago, initially at two different locations on South Cottage Grove Ave. The most famous location was 2120 S. Michigan Avenue from around 1956 to 1965, immortalized by British rock group the Rolling Stones in "2120 South Michigan Avenue", an instrumental recorded there during the group's first U.S. tour in 1964. The Stones recorded at Chess Studios on two more occasions. The building is now the home of Willie Dixon's Blues Heaven Foundation. In the mid-1960s, Chess re-located to a much larger building, at 320 E. 21st St., the label's final Chicago home.

On their first US tour in 1964, the Rolling Stones made a pilgrimage to Chicago. “2120 South Michigan Avenue was hallowed ground,” writes Keith Richards in his 2010 autobiography. “There in the perfect sound studio, in the room where everything we’d listened to was made…we recorded fourteen tracks in two days. One of them was… ‘It’s All Over Now,’ our first number one hit.”
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THE ROLLING STONES are scheduled to release a new studio CD of  all BLUES COVERS in December of 2016.  



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Before I arrived at 2120 South Michigan Avenue, I enjoyed the view from  Adler Planetarium.  I couldn't decide whether I liked the picture with me wearing sunglasses or not wearing sunglasses - so I posted them both.

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Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
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Sodium
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Sugar
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Roundy's - Maple & Brown Sugar Oatmeal 480 96 8 16 1,040 16

480 96 8 16 1,040 16
L U N C H
Glacea Lemonade Vitamin Water Zero 0 8 0 0 0 0
Apple - Apple Gala, Med (2) 160 44 0 0 0 34
Organic Date Pieces w/oat flower 240 60 0 2 20 44
SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE CHIPS 200 29 11 3 0 23
Oki Sushi - Spicy Tuna Maki, 0.91 roll 300 30 12 15 191 1
Pulp-free Coconut Water, 16 ounces 100 28 0 0 120 22

1,000 199 23 20 331 124
D I N N E R
Gyro 650 43 41 27 1,297 5

650 43 41 27 1,297 5
S N A C K S
Nestle - Dark Chocolate Chips 350 40 25 0 0 30
Quaker Salt Free Gluten Free Rice Cake 490 98 0 14 0 0
Oreos - Oreos, 6 cookies 320 50 14 2 280 28

1,160 188 39 16 280 58
Totals 3,290 526 111 79 2,948 203
Your Daily Goal 7,444 930 248 373 2,300 279
Remaining 4,154 404 137 294 -648 76
Calories
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Carbs
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Fat
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Protein
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Sodium
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Sugar
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*You've earned 5,514 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 167.7 lbs in 5 weeks     
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       Your Exercise Diary for:


Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
25 MILE URBAN HIKE
315 5,175
Ic_i N/A 339

   
Daily Total / Goal 316 / 30 5,514 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 316 / 210 5,514 / 4,130
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Chess Records
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Parent companyUniversal Music Group
Founded1950
FounderLeonard Chess
Phil Chess
Defunct1975
StatusInactive
Distributor(s)Geffen Records
GenreVarious
Country of originUnited States

Chicago, Illinois
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