B-15C

The Buzz N-1 I had was faithful down to the Talon zipper, but it was also the first thing to break.  Would've much rather had perfect details with a functioning zipper.

I've had two Buzz N-1s and if I remember correctly, one (now sold) had a Conmar and the current one has a Talon.  There would have been other brands of zippers available to manufactures at the end of the war, but I suspect those two brands were the most commonly used.      

Looking good.  So many options for blue I had to wait until I wanted some in black before trying them out.  Don't know why I waited so long, 005's are my new favorite fit.

my offer still stands 250 shipped to asia

No thanks. I remember what shipping to asia costs in one direction-- it can't be much cheaper in the other.

Are they "seconds"?

Sorry,

Source: Alden Shop San Francisco.

I'm selling my brother's shoes for him and doing a poor job of it; just called to check.

I'll trade you my black White's Semi Dress for these.

No thanks, but those are pretty fancy.

No, they came from a local reseller in Ohio, but forgot to check sizing tips. Should've read the tips.

Final bump before ebay. $270 shipped in the US. I accept Paypal.

Edit: Back up.

Baby powder; it even works for running.

Bump for price drop.

For sale:

Alden 405s - Brand new with box, worn for sizing only; they didn't fit.

Size - US 9, true 9.5. Width is D, outersole is 12.5 inches.

Upper - Heavy, full grain brown waxhide leather.

Lining - Heavy, 100% cotton duck with leather facings at eyestays, back, and top.

Outsole - Oil resistant Neoprene, with interior tempered steel shank from heel to ball for maximum support.

$270 shipped in the US.

I accept paypal.

neg repped.

Eh, it's a Dave Chapelle bit about

BTW, I've only been to the Hema's Kitchen on Clark. Is the other one pretty good? Or are there more than 2?

There are just the two, but the one in Rogers Park is the original location. It's a little cheaper than the Clark one, but it's also the one that has to deal directly with competition from other Indian and Pakistani joints in the neighborhood. It has a weird little Galapagos effect for the folks who come in from the suburbs-- they walk right by clean and fancy looking joints right to it, probably sniffing out the homely authenticity. Unfortunately, this stops them from being the only white people around.

Or because it's really fucking good.

signed the lease for a studio right off the MORSE red line stop. living in rogers park has always appealed to me. spent some time cruising the neighborhood and decided to stop at a cozy little spot called taste of peru. the paella there is probably the best i've ever had.

That's a bit of a trip. Taste of Peru is one of three joints in RP I see a ton of people who come in from the suburbs to eat-- the others being Hema's Kitchen, Viet Bistro, the latter of which I still fail to see the appeal. The lounge area in VB looks cool, but the food ruins it for me. I love Vietnamese food, but their food and service was terrible the last two times I was there. This is also where I heard my two favorite restaurant conversations ever:

On my left: "I lived in Japan for three months, but I ate Subway sandwiches the whole time I was there."

On my right: "Do you remember that guy who was stalking me? He sure was a creep after I let him fuck me in the ass with his huge dick. Several times."

If you're in it for the food, you're still only a short walk from Devon.

wtf castle

what kind of injun lives in castle

it ain't even my joint. it's just where I b livin' at when I'm there.

Get it together, Grouch.

I live on Michigan when I'm over there. I hear Wicker Park's not bad, but I don't like it.

meh.

Michigan's a long street, but I'm guessing inside some place that looks like a castle.

Sufu is still 10% rich kids who dress like they're poor and 90% poor kids dressing like they're rich.

A monthly pass is $75 for the CTA. Rides are $2.00. :: CTA Fares

The people I know who work in Wicker Park live in Logan Square. Logan Square is a little like the old Wicker Park still, where it's gentrified but there's still some patches of actual human beings still hanging around. It's affordable, comparatively.

The fallback from Logan Square I hear most often is Ravenswood, which is inconvenient by mass transit, but still in the area. Good luck.

Edit: Almost missed the point.

My new favorite link:: Irving Park Demographics

It's not awful, but it's neither convenient nor safe. Irving Park is the division line between the semi-awful and the awful, but it's got a lot of flavor. When I lived next to Irving Park, I remember it as a line of demarcation for 'unsafe' Northside neighborhoods, which seem to become safe again around or just after Bryn Mawr.

Verdict: I'd pass, but look just to make sure. It's easy to see a few places in a day.

Moving to Chicago in May and will be scoping out some apartments in a week. Prob gonna look in Uptown, Ravenswood, or Edgewater (want cheaper and heat/water incl)

Would like some opinions on neighborhoods and curious about pricing for places in general

Before you get your heart set on any particular neighborhood, here are a few resources that have always helped me figure out where to live. I've lived here for too long, and only just renewed a lease for the first time.

HousingMaps is a craigslist/google maps mashup, but it gets the job done.

http://www.housingmaps.com/

Anything I can't find here, I usually check the

Reader Apartment Search:

http://classifieds.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Results?subsection=oid%3A122

When I have a definite address or intersection to check, I run it through Chicago Crime:

http://www.chicagocrime.org/

Chicago Crime is an amazing site that breaks down all the demographics for you about local crime, classified by time, date, and type (violent, non-violent, property crime, theft, etc) in a similar google maps mashup. It's a clean no-nonsense page that helped me steer clear of a few places I might not have had the better sense to not take, had I checked the places out in person. It's a helpful filter.

Unfortunately, it does not list crimes against fashion or taste. This is how I wound up in Wicker Park.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the guys who made Chicago Crime made Every Block which aggregates all the local news for a zip code, all sales, crimes, posts, things for sale, etc. It's pretty impressive, and I have no idea how they make money.

I used to check:

http://www.tastypopsicle.com/maps/cta.asp for a map of El stops, so I could figure out whether or not places really were "steps from the El." Now that google maps has their own trip planner and station locations, it's really only helpful for being distinctly marked.

My take on Edgewater, Uptown, and Ravenswood:

These are inconvenient locations if you need quick access to downtown. They are all decent places to live, despite what you might here, but it's nothing that fact-checking and seeing the neighborhood for yourself wouldn't catch. If you aren't around to find places, Chicago Apartment Finders offers a local service where you can arrange a pickup and a whirlwind tour of apartments, if you're around for a limited amount of time. They have a few private listings, but I remember going in and basically being shown craigslist-- it's free so you get what you pay for. I've had some friends who have had good experiences with them, so your mileage may vary (well, free for you-- landlords pay their finders fee.) So before this turns into another ad spot too, Edgewater is host to a ton of communities, and has the best cheap (price not quality) Indian food in the city, and were it not for the stupid distance between there and downtown, I would probably still live there.

Either way, good luck. Summer is when everyone moves here, so reserve a truck early and move yourself.

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I've eaten at the Joy Yee's in Evanston. Food was ok, they gave a lot of it for the price, but they were not in the customer service game.

I've eaten at Oysy. it was good, and I will also second that it's not too expensive.

Should there be another thread about beer places? I'd like to get some recommendations of good places to go to get decent beer on tap. I know about Hopleaf, it's pretty good, but that's about it. Any rec's would be appreciated.

If you're going down the beer snob road the other Chicago place you're missing is The Map Room, which probably gets more respect than Hopleaf. A friend told me to go to Duke of Perth on Clark and I was not disappointed; the owner is a fan of good beer and the food is not bad, but naturally pub fare right down to the green peas. Beyond beer-snobbery, this city has so many bars you can be incredibly particular and niched to death.

Oysy is good for being in the loop-- that place is a desert when it comes to good things to eat. There are more convincing joints as far as authenticity goes further north, and if I want to eat trendy Japanese I can just go to Agami on Broadway. I always hesitate to recommend anything ethnic as "authentic" if I'm not from the culture, so I will refrain from making that mistake again here.

Any place with a good English breakfast? (a stretch as 'ethnic' I know, but bear with me...)

I don't know about authentic, but the places I know expats go for English/Irish fare in Chicago are The Globe and Ginger's Ale House-- the former more resembling a dining establishment, but I know that both do a breakfast, the globe's being all day, not sure about Ginger's breakfast hours.

a quick scan of lth tells me others like: Irish Oak and Atlantic Bar & Grill

Damn this thread is making me hungry.

i second the Joy Yee's dubiousness. i went there once and had some kind of multi-tiered bamboo steamer with rice and shrimp and the shrimp were my far the worst shrimp i have ever had. they were not only flavorless but rubbery, which is inexcusable.

i have not tried the bubble teas so i cannot comment.

good chinese can be had at Moon Palace, 216 W. Cermak in Chinatown (you can walk from the Chinatown Red Line stop).

Joy Yees in Chinatown also now sports segrigated seating, which made everyone I was there with feel uncomfortable-- chinese in the front of the house, and dirty westerners in the back. On the upside though, all the chairs look like something out of Voltron. I haven't been to the University Campus Joy Yees since August so I can't comment. Moon Palace is a secret though. Shh.

Ethiopian Diamond is great, and also probably the biggest restaurant on that several mile stretch of Broadway-- they're huge inside. If you like sweet stuff, they make an amazing honey brew that is probably traditionally Ethiopian, but the girl I was there with fell in love with. Of the three Ethiopian restaurants on Broadway, two remain, and they're both awesome-- the other one is next to Cheetah Gym, and is way more intimate. You can expect to spend ~$60 on dinner for two at E. Diamond.

I can't ever get enough Ba Le, and find myself totally willing to cross town in the middle of winter to get Chinese pork or that veggies/fried noodles sandwich. Never got into the head cheese, but their french bread is my favorite in the city. Up the street at Patisserie P they make an amazing array of French pastries and Chinese pork buns-- kept in separate glass cases, so your carmel drizzled finger length cakes need never share space with street food. There are a couple tables in there, so theoretically you could sit down and eat a couple pastries with a cup of coffee, but I've never seen anyone do it. Argyle has at least 1/2 of my favorite Asian food in the city, but winter makes me extra partial to Pho. 888 makes my favorite right now-- I don't know what they're doing to the broth but it's so much better than anyone else's on the block.

Sun Wah never disappoints if you go in for that stack-of-barbequed-meats thing-- a friend told me that she once got chicken that was too pink for her on the inside, but I've never had anything from them that was less than perfectly cooked. If you check the wall after you go in, there are some pretty exotic specials depending on what they've got.

Wish I could remember the names of the good Korean BBQ joints in the city-- you almost have to have a car to get to them, but they're both open late, and one stokes wood fires all night. I'm just being too lazy this morning to look them up.

Anyone have any recs for Cuban sandwiches? I'm kind of getting a craving...

Renegade Craft Fare is today, so Wicker Park brunch and then to Pulaski Park Auditorum.

EDIT:

How could I have forgotten the entire stretch of Devon Ave. in Roger's Park?

My favs:

Hema's Kitchen - Devon favorite that serves the best Indian food.

King Sweets - Samosas for a couple bucks, lunch for under $5.

Hyderabad House - Indo-Pak is what the sign says, some of the most beaautiful and delicious food I had while living there. Consistently amazing for incredibly cheap. I've never not been the only white guy in there, and they're open incredibly late.

And remember he only got half of the shipment in, the other half hasn't arived yet so there ill still be a wait time for most people.

This breaks my heart.

This is an excellent jacket and photograph. I can't quite remember the Japanese vintage jacket site that posted their whole stock in similar style, except none of their stock was quite this nice. Anyone?

intrested in one of those watches, do you have to provide the time-piece yourself tho?

Same for a custom watchband, with a slightly different style. I'm sure he can accomidate a leather strap if he can make a custom fit baseball mitt. It's very handsome.

If you want to tone down the flamboyance, I like the Junghans by Max Bill:

Did you see the OOP chronoscope in the same dial design? It's just subtle enough.

Edit: Also, Junghans is the name of the manufacturer.

for excellent Thai food try Jitlada on N. Halsted in Boystown, near the Addison Red Line stop. cheap cheap cheap. and good good good. i recommend the roasted duck and pineapple curry and spicy crazy noodle with beef. all their curries are delicious. the "spicy" stuff is really spicy.

PS i think the reason people keep recommending Wicker Park stores is because that's where all the edgiest stores are, not any kind of one-sided neighborhood-ness. might be some places on Division, which is not too far from WP, but i'm not so familiar with that area so i'm not sure. Untitled on N. Clark is pretty sad, in my humble opinion. OK for jeans. 5th floor of Bloomingdale's on Michigan is out of this world.

I used to live near Jitlada and went there constantly, until I found a huge cockroach in my curry. They were open late, decent enough, and damn it, I had to go all the way to Jim's Rice & Noodle to get good curry. (They still do the best in the city.)

To be honest, there's a hell of a lot to eat in this city, and if you're willing to even take a cursory glance at lthforums.com , you can find anything you're looking for. The only thing sufu specific I can think of are the good places to eat by where you're shopping.

People say Wicker Park because that's where the shopping and nightlife for a particular scene are. It has Hejfina, Jake, gamma player, and other well known boutiques that stock the brands people talk about on superfuture, as well as being excellent stores to browse. The best part about these places is that they don't put out a look-but-don't-touch vibe, which makes for a really pleasant shopping experience. Places that people like to eat here are Bongo Room, Milk & Honey (on the sufu track) and sometimes Earwax. Marshall McGearty's is the smoking lounge owned by Philip Morris, and it's pretty cool inside; remember that Chicago is now 90% non-smoking. Most of the places on Milwaukee Ave. (one of the main streets in WP) do a brunch of some kind on sundays that's worth checking out.

Overall for food, I can't stress lthforums.com enough. They can tell you what and where to eat everywhere in this city, and they're always spot on.

Cheers.

Trickers in size UK 9 for £ 70: Stow Boot/Brogue from the factory.

Would buy them if I hadn't already for twice as much.

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