Then Beatrice grew ill, and was catered to and cooed over daily by Bruce, his wife Tobin Mitchell, and their daughter Grace Littlefeather Elliott.Īt the reading of her will it was revealed Bea had given the bar to Tobin. The Ale House ambiance made an ideal outpost for Bruce Elliott, the left wing unemployed-by-choice gadfly and social spy.
PEPPERMINT LARRY SMILING MOVIE
Art was a movie fan so obsessed it was slightly alarming. The bar was owned in recent years by Beatrice Klug and her ex-husband Art Klug, who really did look like Paul Newman. license, so many of us walked down the street to continue. I returned to the North Avenue drinking scene on New Year's Eve 1966, opening night of the legendary O'Rourke's, two blocks directly west. I remember my first taste of dark Löwenbräu beer. I remember peanut shells on the floor and a projector grinding through 16mm prints of Charlie Chaplin shorts. I remember us walking down to Barbara's Bookstore to get our copies of the legendary New York Herald-Tribune Sunday edition.
It was early on a snowy Sunday afternoon. I was taken to the Ale House by Tom Devries, my fellow college editor from the Roosevelt Torch. That bar was destroyed by fire in the 1960s, the customers hosed off, and the Ale House moved directly across the street to its present location, where it has been named Chicago's Best Dive Bar by the Chicago Tribune. The first Chicago bar I drank in was the Old Town Ale House.
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