No. 355:  Smokey Joe's

Original Maxwell Street location, in 1968.
 

RETURN TO PHOTO

State Street annual September Mexican Independence Parade, 1977.  "Loop" elevated train tracks seen at left.
That area now Harold Washington Library and on right (north) is a small park.  "Re-development."

No more, Smokey's, State Street parades and gangster image of Chicago?

Smokey Joe's, State Street parade, Chicago, 1977, gangster image