Exit Music (For a Blog Editor)

I thought for a moment about making the item just below this one my Unfair Park farewell — just a few drops of pigs blood, then adios. But, no, not when I’ve been saving this: Radiohead at the Music Hall at Fair Park on March 29, 1998. For those who…

For Sale: A Dozen Photos of the Mighty Mercantile National Bank In the 1940s

A couple of years back we virtually toured the Mercantile Bank Building as it looked following its 1958 redo, when Heritage Auctions made available 17 never-before-seen photos of R.L. Thornton’s skyscraper taken by legendary Chicago-based architectural-photo firm Hedrich Blessing. Those photos, offered in a single package initially guesstimated to be…