• Rainbo Lounge

      "I serve a wide variety of alcohol and create a meeting place for most Wicker Park scenesters."

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      • bradley
      • Posted
      • what elegance - magnetic photobooth
        alienated camaraderie
        exorcised spirits
        haunting memories
      • Jennifer
      • Posted
      • I am a Chicago ex-pat and when I saw the familiar red letters spelling themselves out with the missing 'g,' a little yank at my heartstring was felt.
        Actually, I think that was heartburn, but it reminds me of the good ole' days of the mid-90's spent at Rainbo. I'm glad it's still "the" place to go for hip Liquor Park scenesters.
      • jennifer
      • Posted
      • Un lugar divino para un pequeo
        pescado borracho en una charca grande.
      • Michelle
      • Posted
      • rainbo is a good place to go if you want
        to run into all of your ex's and a dozen of
        their ex's
      • Posted
      • as of late kurt's been really into playing a lot of
        doom metal

        this is highly encouraged and appreciated
      • 5KVLDT
      • Posted
      • There's a lovely eulogy in a copy of
        _Your Flesh_ from 1994, for a former
        Rainbo dude who died very young of
        cancer -- that made quite an impression
        on me.
        I'm glad the Rainbo can
        survive the changes in the neighborhood.
        Same with the Alliance bakery -- now
        that place fucking rocks.
        Anyway.
        It's not the bar's fault that the crowd
        changed. And, in case nobody gets that
        far down reading the testimonials, I am
        re-posting this:


        Jonathan, Wednesday, December 24, 2003:

        I go looking for the old Rainbo, Frankie
        Machine's blood-bucket Rainbo, where the
        only hook-up a frostbit West-Sider could
        find was a morphine spoon and a Polish
        whore named 'Silky.'

      • Posted
      • One time, you were so generous
        with the boilermakers, you made
        me puke in the urinal while I was
        peeing.

        But it's okay, you held my hair back
        and I didn't spill a drop.
      • Andrew
      • Posted
      • Could you put some cots out on the
        floor when you close so I can wake up
        and just keep on drinking? This "last-
        call" bullshit that I hear everynight is
        starting to get old. Get back to me,
        okay? Thanks.
      • Rachel
      • Posted
      • oh my god! happy birthday! i will bring you many
        presents (what size do you where in button-
        downs?) on this great day of joy (sure beats JC's
        b-day)!
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