Love your old man “back in my day” impressions and how you said “Good times” after some funny memories
@glooperscooper
10 ай бұрын
Bob does it too
@leslieedwards7329
10 ай бұрын
We need a brother intro video! I just imagine another Matteo 😂
@unknowngemelo
10 ай бұрын
100% agree😁
@MrVidau
10 ай бұрын
Yesm we wanna meet the brother!
@ohboilien
10 ай бұрын
Yessss
@linaw298
10 ай бұрын
and also cousin Brian
@Marvelous0ne
10 ай бұрын
With his recreating his famous comment “If anybody rules, it’s Annie Lennox!”
@jakekennedy13
8 ай бұрын
This was such a trip down memory lane, I have all the same recollections of this strip from my late teens/early 20s. Thank you!
@Commodore_Jones
10 ай бұрын
Omg! Memory lane for me too!! The amount of guys I banged & pulled between 7 Eleven, Roscoe, sidetracked, minibar, Scarlet and of course Streamworks is enough to make up a village 😂😂😂 also love me some Henry! Such a talented soul & piano man!
@mentonerodominicano
10 ай бұрын
The way that street is lit on fire on the weekends is so magical to me, specially during Market Days. Generally, my last stop has been Fantasy, because of the latin music.
@braggarmybrat
10 ай бұрын
I live in Chicago and started to go out in 1992 to all the bars and baths in Boystown. I lost my virginity in the bathroom of Sidetracks and never looked back. Great times. Thanks for the great walk down memory lane! Young gays couldn't afford to live anywhere else because the only jobs we could get were low-end shop jobs (remember that the only places that we could afford were dumps, which is what the place was back then.) The Gayborhood changed when the queers, artists, and creative types improved the area so much that the straights moved in, made it trendy, and ruined the place. We were wayyy priced out of our own homes. I cried because Boystown now has a fake Hollywood feel that's had its soul sucked out: it is just a cash cow for investors and Chicago millionaires.
@CK77460
10 ай бұрын
Oh no! I'm so sad to hear that about Boystown! I lived there around 2005-2006 and I loved it there. That is such a shame.
@Corbomite_Meatballs
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, after my most recent trip to B'town a few weeks ago I'm sort of over how "hetero beige" the entire area has become. It's really sad to see this in a lot of the major gay cities in the U.S. and Canada.
@IDiggPattyMayonnaise
10 ай бұрын
Those same Chicago millionaires/yuppies have moved into my neighborhood in Milwaukee. No one can afford to live here now
@Sassysongstress
10 ай бұрын
U are so RIGHT HONEY...
@Dimi374
10 ай бұрын
@@IDiggPattyMayonnaiseYes!! The yuppies ughhhh😱
@Christopher.W
10 ай бұрын
Welcome home, Matteo! We love you!
@sharizarrd
10 ай бұрын
I could listen to you reminiscing/story telling for days. Looking forward to seeing you in Vancouver next month! :)
@spenserbower1178
10 ай бұрын
Clark and Halsted intersection is where drag queens and cubs fans meet
@seanreidy1420
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tour of memories! I lived in Uptown Chicago all through the 90's till 2003. Loved Chicago, great town to be gay. Is Big Chicks still around? We are now on the Jersey Shore. We just went to see you at Carnegie Hall. Great Show! My partner never agree's to go out anymore, but he agreed to drive an hour into the city to see you - so thank you very much for a great evening.
@jaredlash5002
10 ай бұрын
Punkin Donuts forever! Also, that Taco Burrito place was right next to Cupid's Treasures, if I remember correctly.
@CK77460
10 ай бұрын
yes you're right, it was called Cupids Treasures, I lived right at the corner there at Cornelia and Halsted. I loved Taco Burrito Palace! It was cheap and had great food.
@CortexNewsService
10 ай бұрын
I remember that Dunkin Donuts. People called it "Punkin' Donuts"
@TheSethwardpyatt
10 ай бұрын
Oof! Bringing back so many memories. I can't believe Lucky Horseshoe is still there, and also I just heard that Berlin is now closed!!
@Dravasky
16 күн бұрын
Very sad about Berlin 😢
@aintnolittlegirl9322
10 ай бұрын
One of my dearest friends (now deceased) lived on Halsted across from the Whole Foods. I was visiting and he took me to Sidetrack. So I'm walking around looking for the dance floor because what gay bar doesn't have a dance floor. I asked him where it was and he told me there wasn't one. I was shocked to my core!
@cristinamarierosado10
10 ай бұрын
“ how are they having so much fun?” “ OHHHHHH their on drugzzzzz “ I’m dead 😂🤣😂🤣
@begenes
10 ай бұрын
This was so much fun to watch!
@chicagobuck
10 ай бұрын
So many memories flooding back! Thank you for the tour. It's amazing how much has changed and how much is still the same
@delibakerytravel
10 ай бұрын
Thanks For The Fabulous Memories. I Lived In Columbus, But I Spent Many Weekends In Boys Town. Sadly My Hotel Of Choice Was Steamworks 😋 And Man Country Bathouses. Now That Was 30 Plus Years Ago.😢😢
@mikee1891
10 ай бұрын
Great breakdown of boys town and the changes in the neighborhood.I’m older & straight but Chicago Diner has always been my go-to restaurant (they catered our wedding!). As a 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ally I’ve spent good times with friends in nearly every bar mentioned. The Lucky Horseshoe was probably the most “traumatic” for ME - trying to navigate over to my friends through a crowded club with male dancers’ junk gyrating at face level 😂 Super nice folks in that neighborhood and in the community in general.
@HarvestMoon2049
10 ай бұрын
You've had a fun, vibrant "youth". I'm happy for you!❤
@gsatlanta
10 ай бұрын
OMFG, what a treat seeing my old neighborhood. I lived at Melrose and Broadway for 20 years. Fun to compare notes w/ Mateo on all the various points of interest he mentions.
@dianavandusen4502
10 ай бұрын
This was amazing.....reminds me of my 20s on Halsted. Great times!
@PygmyHippo-dt9yt
10 ай бұрын
More of these please.
@unmellowyellow
10 ай бұрын
Boystown! It will always be Boystown to me. Would kill for a Clark dog right now 😂😂😂 I used to drive my friend there to get a bunch of weed ( I of course was paid in weed 🥸😎). I also got my best overalls ever at Belmont and Clark 🤗
@yifengliu6704
10 ай бұрын
So nice to have someone tell us what's going on in Chicago back in the 60s!
@cuucnsbfl9913
8 ай бұрын
Joe Says: Um... I think you mean the 00s... Matteo is about 40 (?) So he was just a little 10-year-old kid [like a Baby Yoda] 30 years ago when I was a young man living in Boys' Town with my significant other...
@larrybohl4380
10 ай бұрын
Straight white guy here, but this is my neighborhood and love seeing it from your pov. I would get a peek into this world from time to time with my gay friends.
@Ylurple
10 ай бұрын
literally just a tour of my neighborhood lol, i could've been walking around somewhere in this video
@eyechartny
10 ай бұрын
I have fond memories of my only real trip to Chicago (not just passing through O'Hare). I was playing at the National Scrabble Championship in the late 90's, and a group of us gay players hit the town. We saw 'Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" where I fell in love with Sean Hayes, we went to a German restaurant where we coined our group name "Rack of Lambda", we went to several bars including Sidetracks where I met a Bravo reality show contestant (it was the design show with Jonathan Adler as one of the judges). No memories of IML weekends, or just not your scene? And as a fellow Great Lakes-er, it's definitely PAHP and not soda. Can't wait to see you in Buffalo next year!
@adityanemlekar
10 ай бұрын
OMG! I lived not too far from there in Lincoln Park! Good memories!
@bigvig209
9 ай бұрын
Matteo, very impressed with just how buff you are these days!
@SweetDonny
10 ай бұрын
love this, im from Dallas Texas, been to this beautiful city 3 times and went to Club Spin and had a LOVELY TIME!!
@Sassysongstress
10 ай бұрын
Oh honey i used to go to Spin or Coctail on Thursday nights to watch Will and Grace! That was over 20 years ago! P.S. Free Locker rental at Steamworks if its your BIRTHDAY! 😂😂😂Ive heard from my gay husbands! 😂😂😂😂Also you probably know that Hydrate was the MANHOLE!😂😂😂
@brodog1884
10 ай бұрын
I love going to sidetrack, but hate the brain freezes I get from drinking the slushees, I will never learn. 😂
@OutOfMarbles127
10 ай бұрын
I remember some of that info from Matteo´s old podcast. I really hope it´s coming back someday
@doesntmatter6361
10 ай бұрын
The guy in the beginning ate that up.
@Dravasky
16 күн бұрын
Halloween in boys town was the place to be! The BEST!!
@thaumatomane
10 ай бұрын
Why is that street so wide? That's insane, its like the size if a small town 😅
@dblissmn
10 ай бұрын
It's wide-ish but certainly not as wide as it looks in the video. The wide angle exaggerates it. Just enough for one traffic lane in each direction, parking on both sides and a bike lane both ways, not enough for a protected bike lane though.
@oConshien
10 ай бұрын
Educational, historical
@tombroen3
10 ай бұрын
My experience of the gay village in Toronto as a youngin also makes so much more sense now that I realize that everyone was on drugs except me
@Fytoqui
10 ай бұрын
In classic Midwestern Grandma style (especially with the finger pointing/hand jestures) you share with this generation some good "member-berries". Makes me 😊
@jordantaylor6774
10 ай бұрын
the lambs want to hear you sing mine again.
@elizabethallen4353
10 ай бұрын
DSW! I lived in Boystown in the 90s. Love that store!
@jazzyflorida3757
10 ай бұрын
❤ Boystown lived there on Clark & Diversey 2003 to 2013 Lucky Horseshoe still open! thanks for the memories. Sidetracks, then cocktail, Roscoe’s, and my favorite hydrate! Then the after hours that was a cowboy bar before 2am. Oh and the Latin club! On Thursdays CIRCUIT
@jaredleemease
10 ай бұрын
Thank you Matteo. 😎
@MegaMayday16
10 ай бұрын
that pedestrian crossover in the back gives me anxiety
@wanderingfool27
10 ай бұрын
B, what were you selling before?!😂
@MatthewL1973
10 ай бұрын
I still miss the marquee at Manhole now Hydrate. Good times. 😈🤣
@MarcAndre1
10 ай бұрын
Prior to the restaurant halsted's was Voltaire was a restaurant bar and Cabaret you mentioned the Taco Burrito Palace right next door to that used to be Little Jims you also didn't mention the cell block Bobby loves or the North End are any of them left?
@minkminky
10 ай бұрын
(i lived there for a lot of years! you are bringing back some memories. Melrose diner was my home.)
@sergonthetube
10 ай бұрын
Legit 😢😢 RIP taco burrito king 💚
@Disnyhaunt
10 ай бұрын
Moving back to Chicago in a week!!!!!
@LuciferStrange
9 ай бұрын
I watched this thinking, is this what schizophrenia is like? Lol! Matteo is too funny. I would have loved to have gone with him to a club.
@wormcake_
10 ай бұрын
and a No Meth to you too sir!
@hermeticbear
10 ай бұрын
I remember going to Hydrate and getting the worst treatment of my life from the staff and bartenders. Never been treated like that at any gay bar before, and I live in LA.
@GeminiAmbience
10 ай бұрын
I remember Spin!
@whywouldyoucare
10 ай бұрын
oooh luuukeee....itsa mattheo die farke yiuu :PPPPP
@desireemoreno4787
10 ай бұрын
Mateo if you go to the bad friends tour I will loss my shit
@_loaf0
10 ай бұрын
I thought blue man group was exclusive to my area too xD
@aprilkurtz1589
10 ай бұрын
Is Big Chicks still there? It was a mixed bar back in the day, in the early 80's. Gay, straight, whatever. Good place to hang out for a weirdo like me, LOL! The best punk club ever was on Halsted...LaMere Vipere. It mysteriously burned down, too! A Sam's Liquors was put up in it's place, and might be there still. Loved the tamales guys! The band I was in used to perform at Halsted Street Days. I had a hell of a great time in Boy's Town and I'm straight, but eccentric. I always felt accepted there. Is the Manhole still there?
@CK77460
10 ай бұрын
The manhole is called Hydrate now, it changed around 2003-2004ish if I remember correctly.
@aprilkurtz1589
10 ай бұрын
@@CK77460 Thanks! It's been a while since I've been down to Boy's Town, obviously. I used to go to the Sunday "Drag" races at Berlin. We often played at a club called The Avalon, which was at the SW corner of Belmont and Sheffield. It was a festive neighborhood!
@dblissmn
10 ай бұрын
Still there but this video stops at probably two miles south of Big Chicks which is right where Uptown turns into Edgewater. Manhole became Hydrate about 2000 or so and it went from being the strip's debaucherous sleaze bar to being a place that was more LA than LA. The attitude had finally started to abate by the last time I set foot in there about a decade ago.
@aprilkurtz1589
10 ай бұрын
@@dblissmn Thanks for the info! I appreciate it! With a name like Hydrate, I figured it was probably more LA than LA. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
@Forgan_Mreeman
8 ай бұрын
I also love memberberries
@lindybones
8 ай бұрын
Man you're making me miss home... First bartending job was at Exit. RIP... You familiar?
@luckeeleeyeo
10 ай бұрын
I recently chatted with someone who had "No Meth" on their online profile. I wonder if it was inspired by that sign.
@maryrnbsn5114
10 ай бұрын
It's not Jewel it's "the Jewels" lol
@shirleyackerman-bethel1073
10 ай бұрын
Is little Jim’s still there, my GBFF worked there, beautiful man named Blayne Edward’s who was the front bartender who passed away from AIDS
@AnimeLover-ct6fz
10 ай бұрын
Gurl, that hair cut......
@hieuhuynh3084
10 ай бұрын
Was it not cold in Chicago at the time of recording this?
@briansieve
10 ай бұрын
I bounced at Spin in 2001. Steamworks had 2 hour gym passes. I worked out there. Melrose was the best. Nookies was meh.
@briansieve
10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the memories
@Corbomite_Meatballs
10 ай бұрын
If that 7-11 ever shuts down, you may as well turn out the lights on the entire area and have everyone move somewhere else.
@Templetonko
10 ай бұрын
You dating a man who ate/loved Dominos while living in Chicago, surrounded by amazing pizza, is one of the most terrifying things you've ever said!
@indierock110
10 ай бұрын
Haha this is so accurate! It's a thing 😅we always end up ordering Dominos for late night pizza lol. My ex was like Matteo's and loved it, it's all he ever wanted to order pizza wise
@Ylurple
10 ай бұрын
hey i mean it's cheaper
@cesnav7593
10 ай бұрын
Cheap $$$ pizzas
@collinsje5
9 ай бұрын
gag
@LLrox823
10 ай бұрын
As a female, I loved walking through Boys Town getting shouted out by gay men giving me compliments. 😂
@NN-re7cy
10 ай бұрын
Same, I lived in Uptown, so I always walked through Boystown. Whenever a guy was like, "You are gorgeous, honey!" It would literally make my day. 😂
@abloom94
10 ай бұрын
The guy doing the talking hand in the beginning is too funny
@mnels5214
10 ай бұрын
Lol I had to go back, almost missed that.
@Syren90...Aka9
10 ай бұрын
Yep.
@crystalmethany6286
10 ай бұрын
Lmao I love Matteo but damn was that hilarious, I would’ve went home after that😂
@chichiemeh7619
10 ай бұрын
😅😅@@mnels5214😂
@Ronnie2787
8 ай бұрын
I had to rewatch that like 3 times 😂.
@N0V4K5
10 ай бұрын
How is this not titled Mateo’s Memory LANE?!
@scootergiltner8184
10 ай бұрын
Being a little older, and having grown up a few blocks south of where you started your tour……Where the DSW currently is, in the old building on the second floor was a gay bar called Windy City. It was a triangle bar and the windows went around the triangle point. It made for greats views out on the streets. On the back part of the building was a fun gay dance bar called Club LaRay. Before Spin was a gay bar called Foxy’s owned by a couple of guys who ran Medusa’s. Sidetrack started out as a single storefront that I first went to as a twenty year in 1983. Show tunes was on Thursdays, I think, and we would sit on cases of beer that were stored along the wall. Before Hydrate, there was Manhole, before Manhole, it was Christopher street, and before Christopher Street, it was a quilt shop that I took quilting lessons at in 1975 as a twelve year old. Ha! The storefront that was the dance floor at Manhole was the quilt shop and I could not help but laugh when years later I would be there on underwear night dancing in my undies and all the shenanigans that were taking place in that space. That whole block they tore down with the Mexican dive was the best. Not only the Mexican dive place that was just fun for the entertainment value at 2am, but the old school Little Jim’s on the corner and then the Ram bookstore. The double storefront sex shop further down the block also went with them. Was good to see Las Mananitas on the corner survived the wrecking ball. Change happens and I am just happy I was there in the beginning and have had so much fun with friends throughout. Still do. Santa Speedo Run at Sidetrack in a couple of weeks…..Love your realness, Matteo! 😊
@ashleyy6329
10 ай бұрын
"i've only been in steamworks once"mhm.. sure jan lol
@davidrhee9160
10 ай бұрын
Here’s how old I am: I remember walking down Boystown and all the gay establishments blacked out their windows so no one could see inside. I was so scared. Walking down now, you see huge bay windows which are removed during the summer so people can sit on barstools to look out at sidewalk traffic. We’ve come a loooong way!
@melsyoutube
10 ай бұрын
you’re such a great storyteller
@spenserbower1178
10 ай бұрын
When I first walked by taco burrito palace and saw it demolished I almost fell to my knees and cried. A tragedy
@novelero03
10 ай бұрын
Make that two! 😢
@mten37128
10 ай бұрын
It's been a few years since I've lived in Chicago and honestly it was the only thing in the video that got an audible gasp. RIP
@DavidDavid888
9 ай бұрын
Me too!!!! It was the perfect end to a Sunday Funday.
@c3ntralproductions
6 ай бұрын
Omg Fr 😢
@jj6282
10 ай бұрын
I was at your performance at Market Days...phenomenal experience for the audience. I'm glad it was for you as well! I especially loved your song about Chicago and wonder if it's available anywhere other than my memory
@robertschwartz4810
10 ай бұрын
It's great to see Matteo back home in Chicago, and the tour of his old stomping grounds. For people who don't know Chicago, there are other gay friendly neighborhoods, too, such as Andersonville and Rogers Park.
@LoveToday8
10 ай бұрын
Andersonville has more going for it, it's much more lively. Rogers Park is where you live, Andersonville is where you dine, shop, and socialize. I say this as someone who lives in RP.
@marcuscole4394
9 ай бұрын
@@LoveToday8 I think Jarvis Square is kind of cool in Rogers Park.
@novelero03
10 ай бұрын
Gosh you really made me travel through my own memory lane Matteo. A lot of those bars, I remember just before I was about to begin going to the bars, Hydrate used to be Manhole and it closed, I remember going to Hydrate when it just began with my fake ID 😆 Great times! And Scarlet, don’t even get me started 🤣 and if you went further north, you also have Charlie’s and Circuit (it’s now called fantasy but I still call it by its former name). Oh the memories, such great times! Thank you for this video Matteo! ❤️
@ONE-ADAM-TWELVE
10 ай бұрын
I was wondering what happened to Manhole... those were the days!
@novelero03
10 ай бұрын
@@ONE-ADAM-TWELVE I missed out on going there. I vaguely remember that they tried reopening it at another location but I think they closed down again.
@mantahurrah7400
10 ай бұрын
I didn’t know about the Manhole-Hydrate connection. I feel cheated, somehow.
@scottsilverman5584
10 ай бұрын
Tour phone’s off the hook but you re not x you tube
@Scooter4Ever
10 ай бұрын
Going out in Chicago used to be so much fun. Friday was Manhole (now Hydrate), Saturday was Circuit (now Fantasy I think) and Sunday was Crobar (now called something else). Manhole and the original Crobar both had a gritty/seedy feel to them and we loved it. Hydrate is totally different and Crobar changed significantly when they made it more like the Miami location. Sidetracks is still popular but the 30+ crowd now hangs out in Andersonville. I haven't been in Boystown for years. Not sure if I could deal with it now.
@Ylurple
10 ай бұрын
wasn't manhole on belmont/halsted, and is now jackhammer?
@Corbomite_Meatballs
10 ай бұрын
To me it seems too gentrified and almost like how a corporation would imagine a gay neighborhood anymore. A lot of the cheesy, kitschy stores etc. have been paved over for yet another Walgreen's and a Whole Foods. Example - the building Matteo was standing alongside at the end of the video is brand new, and the rents are around $4-6k for a 2 bedroom...which if you can pay that in the area good for you I suppose?
@raatrani38
10 ай бұрын
Do people still go to Roscoe’s for Drag Race performances? I remember the line going all the way down the street with everyone waiting in the cold to Meet the Queens, lol.
@Scooter4Ever
10 ай бұрын
@@raatrani38 I believe they are. I live in Andersonville and don’t get down to Boystown often. There is a belief that you leave boystown before midnight
@Scooter4Ever
10 ай бұрын
@@Corbomite_Meatballs agree to some extent. While Whole Foods on Halsted is a sign of gentrification, it wasn’t met with same resistance as Warby Parker and Taco Bell received when the recently announced they were coming to Andersonville. Boystown definitely has lost several independent stores & restaurants but they haven’t been replaced by anything. Mini-chain Furious Spoon took over the former Spin space but it’s closed now. Boystown is not seeing the level of openings you’re seeing
@mlonderg
10 ай бұрын
Lakeview Jewel! I lived in the rat palace apartment building right next to the loading dock. No need for an alarm clock, the semi truck backup alarms did the job. Moment of silence for the closed Treasure Island grocery store down the road.
@cuucnsbfl9913
8 ай бұрын
Joe Says: YES! Treasure Island! I shopped there! When my significant other rented our apartment a block or two away, on a little street only one block long, called Elaine Place (which had fabulous Found-Object Art Sculptures at each end of it - made from old car-parts, etc. - we lived by the Giraffe!) - My partner always said that he felt self-conscious walking into the Treasure Island Grocery store because he knew that many patrons wouldn't set foot in there wihout looking Fabulous (like they were on a Blind Date!) [I told him, "Maybe They ARE!"]
@CK77460
10 ай бұрын
I lived across the street from Hydrate in 2003 - 2004, at the corner of Cornelia and Halsted! although Hydrate was called the Man Hole first and then it got remodeled and then became Hydrate. I remember Hydrate had little water misters attached to the awning (hence Hydrate) so it was really nice on hot days. The building I lived in was on the corner across the street and there was a shop literally called Gay Mart on the first floor of my building. It had all kinds of knick knacks and things, I loved living in that neighborhood! There was a shop called Batteries Not Included across the street from the Chicago Diner. I can totally vouch for Taco Burrito Palace, it had the best food, honestly, I ate there a lot. Sidetracks had these alcoholic slushie machines behind the bar and they were so good. The neighborhood looks so different now, I barely recognize it but I definitely recognized the 7-Eleven! lol Matteo was not wrong about that 7-Eleven, it has seen ALOT! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
@Corbomite_Meatballs
10 ай бұрын
Gay Mart was awesome! I was so damn sad when I saw that it had closed.
@starryeyedprincess101
10 ай бұрын
Sidetrack still has the slushy machines! I went a couple weeks ago and the cherry one is my fave.
@drfox8323
10 ай бұрын
I know that building! I lived on Belmont 2002-2007, but I’ll never forget my conservative parents driving me around to look at apartments and me laughing so hard on the inside when we got to your old building. They didn’t say anything, but eyebrows were definitely raised at the sight of The Man Hole and Gay Mart.
@wvusciguy
10 ай бұрын
It makes me feel better that I was not the only one that didn’t realize everyone else was on drugs.
@amethystmistarts5532
10 ай бұрын
You brought back a lot of fond memories of the mid-late 80's for me! I remember being among the handful of straight women at Berlin's on Wednesday's "Drag Race" nights. It was such a blast to be a young art student in Chicago back then. I haven't been back to Chicago in at least 25+years, so it's kind of sad to see Boystown looking kind of generic with new buildings and box stores.
@stepps511
10 ай бұрын
I love you, Matteo! You are a natural in front of the camera and could do Gayborhood Travelogues! (If you could manage that between gigs!) Thanks!
@BillPritchard
10 ай бұрын
OH MY WORD Matteo! What a marvelous walk down memory "Lane" pal. I just know that we were in the same rooms at the same time. (I knew and adored your brother!) I enjoyed this video of #Boystown (It will always be called that!) and all the stories; many of which I can relate to. If I had to pick one moment to praise, it would be the mention of TBP (what my friends and I called #TacoBurritoPalace) You could go in there any time and in any condition and they would remember you and understand you. EVERY TIME! May it (and now sadly, #Berlin😭) rest in peace! You make all of us former Chicagoians very proud pal! ❌⭕❌⭕
@bluebutterflyofdoom
10 ай бұрын
Is The Alley on Clark and Belmont still there? My friends and I shopped there in high school.
@marybethmurray5268
10 ай бұрын
No, unfortunately. Loved that place
@dorianhorton6805
10 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that any of this exists at all, with the way they have gentrified north Halsted street. Go Chicago!:-(
@dyoder614
10 ай бұрын
I lived on Barry on the other side of the intersection behind where the Blockbuster used to be at the same time! I too thought Jewel was too far and I shopped at the Walgreens across the street. CVS was too far away because that 3 way intersection took too long to cross. I also ate Mac & cheese all the time.
@brandontylerburt
10 ай бұрын
I was recovering from a rough breakup when my friends and I took a trip to Chicago. It was best trip ever; I loved it. People there are reasonably friendly but not fake-friendly the way people are in my city and some parts of the West Coast. In Chicago, people can spot artifice a mile away, and they cheerfully and efficiently deflated any residual pretentiousness I arrived with. One night I ended up at Steamworks, which was the cleanest and best-equipped bathhouse I had ever been to. Great people; great city!
@AltoKitty
10 ай бұрын
That was so much fun. I used to roam those streets a lot in the early 2000s. I don’t get out that way as much now. I have so many of the same memories. I loved Nookies! And I was also oblivious to drugs going on everywhere while sipping my vodka sodas. Also I read some bad news today, Berlin just announced it’s closing! So sad.
@starryeyedprincess101
10 ай бұрын
I went to the Nookies on Wells and the food is great !!
@steveb1164
10 ай бұрын
Man, it's sure changed since I left Chicago in 1998. I always went to the Horseshoe & showtune night at SideTrack. I once won the lipsynch contest at Roscoe's, too.
@user-tt5xj5ib1e
10 ай бұрын
Matteo needs to do a travel series, this was a really fun and interesting video :) 😍😃😍
@legionnairelynot6293
10 ай бұрын
Moved to Chicago in late 99 and lived in BSpend oystown 5 years. The closet is still there - my favorite after hours bar in Chicago. Big Chicks is still in Uptown - but they closed out the dance floor recently - so sad Berlin just announced it's closure earlier this week - met many friend there Sidetrack - Show tunes were on Sunday at one point. I remember going there after I ran the 2000 Chicago Marathon Splash - oh those shower shows Lucky Horseshoe - one of the only gay strip bars left Nookies - met a fun couple of guys there one IML weekend.
@RRandomnessm
10 ай бұрын
I love stories these I turned 21 hieght of the pandemic so I don’t have any clubbing memories 😭😭
@Tony-InLosAngeles
10 ай бұрын
You have time, and really there’s a lot of unnecessary drama I was a bartender in a club here in LA
@kenburns8721
10 ай бұрын
It's serving... Domino's! --my new insult! 💚
@michaellepureza6231
10 ай бұрын
Oh to go down memory lane…didn’t realise we coexisted back then in Boystown. Love your comedy! Now my husband and I live in Connecticut since 2006. Thanks for the memories.
@zzizahacallar
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for the tour. I ❤ Chicago. I had a lot of fun when I went last year for the first time.
@ajagoff
10 ай бұрын
I don't even know why Domino's exists in Chicago. There's a great pizza joint on every other block that blows Domino's out of the water.
@dblissmn
10 ай бұрын
There's not enough room in Minneapolis for all the Midwesterners with missing taste buds -- some of them have to come to Chicago!
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