The Beatniks

i was a kid when the beatniks were big in my neighborhood. we lived by the university of chicago, and i always associated the one with the other. it was a world that intrigued me. even though i never hung around with them. i felt a kinship with them. my eye had immediately captured their fascination with black clothes. they were hip. a whole lot hipper than what we've got today. it's funny, how in real estate they say the 3 most important things about a house is location, location, location. it's true. if i had never grown up in hyde park when i did, i would've missed the beatnik movement as it was happening. a lot of what i knew about them, however, mostly came from my imagination. and dobie gillis, of course.