All these years later, and nobody hates Illinois Nazis?
Eons ago, I went to high school with a guy who had a fake ID listing 1060 W Addison as his home address.
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Well…almost. Madison to Roosevelt is 1200 numbers for a mile. Roosevelt to Cermak is 1000 numbers for a mile. Cermak to 31st is 900 numbers for a mile, and then it finally gets back on the normal 800-to-the-mile system.
after he left office Reagan bought a new house. They changed the street number from 666 to 667.
Not area code; prefix. Back in the day it was the ‘exchange’ – a building where the nice ladies would wait to connect your call with a plugboard.
I watched some documentary of a school concert about to be canceled because the auditorium they’d booked became unavailable. One of the parents mentioned she had a friend who managed a theater that might be available; maybe he’d let them use it, even for free. “Yes!” she told the group after checking, and gave the address: 881 Seventh Avenue.
The group was impressed their friend’s connection got them a venue in midtown Manhattan! But more impressed when they arrived to set up: 881 Seventh Avenue is Carnegie Hall.
Most places like theaters,arenas,etc. can be rented out for the right place. The Who played the Met Opera house in NYC after Tommy came out. Some opera fans were not happy about that.
For what it’s worth, I’m not a particularly big sports fan, and I don’t know the official address of the Browns’ stadium, but if you told me an address at smallnumber W. Erieside, I’d know that that was the stadium. Though that’s made a fair bit easier by the fact that there’s not much else on Erieside, and I think the stadium is literally the only thing on W. Erieside.
The Indians’ stadium is a bit more difficult, since it’s in a more crowded area: I don’t know which street the official address is on, there are things on the other side of the street, and I think the odd-even convention might be different on the east and west sides of the river. But I could at least tell you that smallnumber W. Carnegie is very close to the stadium, and almost certainly not a residence (and largenumber W. Carnegie is nonsensical).
As long as the zombie’s been revived…
I think for the movie, we can also assume that Jake would expect his brother to use a fake address, and if his rap sheet has already told us that he favors well-known landmarks for addresses, it would be trivially easy for Jake to figure out that 1060 W. Addison is Wrigley Field.
I have a memory of sitting in a bar, chatting with the locals, during a ball game in the summer. I think it was Wrigley field, and the bar was close enough to the field to hear the roar of the crowd through the open air (windows were all open) while the game itself was displayed on large TVs everywhere.
The bar was right across the street from the ball park, and I think you might have even had a good view of the top of the stadium from the roof of the bar, but I don’t think you could see the game from that angle.
Does this sound like the Wrigley field neighborhood? This was from roughly 10 - 12 years ago. (I used to travel a lot for business, and to Chicago at least once or twice a year.)
Absolutely. There are several bars that could fit your description.
Although they’ve done a lot of “corporatization” of the area the last few years, so there’s a good chance a bar from 10-12 years ago is long gone.
Similarly, in Chicago, all E/W addresses north of North Ave are going to be West something because of how Lake Michigan curves in. So if someone says they’re at 1000** East **Irving Park Rd, they’re in the middle of Lake Michigan.
In SLC you can live at the intersection of 1200 and 1200. Have no idea why.
I really think people are getting hung up on Wrigley’s “official” address. Both because that’s not the point in the movie, and I would argue 1060 W Addison isn’t the official address.
The point in the movie isn’t that a person familiar with Chicago would know that piece of trivia. It’s that if someone gave any of the following as their home address, with minimal thought I (or most Chicagoans, certainly most local Cubs fans) would realize, ‘That’s Wrigley Field’:
3600-3660 N Sheffield (last digit even)
1001-1059 W Waveland (last digit odd)
1000-1060 W Addison (last digit even)
3601-3659 N Clark (last digit odd)
In Chicago the official address of a residence is determined specifically by the location of the main entrance. If you’re a big business, you can post and publish pretty much any of the addresses relevant to your frontage. In this case, 1060 W Addison refers to the box office, while I would argue the SE corner (called Entrance D at the time) was the “main” entrance. So I suspect the city actually views Wrigley’s official address as either 1000 W Addison or 3600 N Sheffield—which aren’t as good a fake address, because corner residences in that area usually don’t have their entrance that close to the corner—they’d more likely be 3602, or 3604.
The trivia that is widely known:
Addison is 3600 N
Sheffield is 1000 W
Wrigley’s borders are Addison, Clark, Waveland, and Sheffield
I hope I’m not giving away my secret identity but I lived for a while in Oakland in a house at what my friend called “the non-existent intersection of 22nd St. and 22nd Ave.” (The even-numbered avenues do not extend into Highland Terrace.)
This makes sense, as the box office is on the far west end of the block, and most Chicago addresses don’t go beyond 60 for their last two digits (other than diagonal streets) before rolling over to the next “hundred” up.
667: The Neighbor of the Beast
The address of Montreal’s Bell Centre (arena) is 1909 Avenue des Canadiens. The number “1909” signifies the founding year of the hockey team.
However - it’s an odd number on the even-numbered side of the street, and it doesn’t correspond to the city-wide numbering grid (it should be numbered about 1270). The supermarket and Starbucks across the street are numbered correctly (1275 and 1265).