"The Hill", Fierorama 2015, #2 - a photo on Flickriver

"The Hill", Fierorama 2015, #2

            I never paid any attention to it before. But believe me, when you're on a bicycle, it's Mt. Everest, both coming down and going up.

It was a breeze going down. Fortunately, I didn't have to go back up; a fellow club member, Christian Sass, who used to be the art director for the club magazine, Fiero Focus, drove me to the Geneva station in his minivan (gotta love those Stow-n-Go seats). When we missed the last train back to Chicago, he drove me all the way home.

Turns out, he had worked on the south side of Chicago in the past, and once we got to my house, he wanted to know where he could get a "gym shoe", which, as it turns out, is a sandwich that is strictly a south side black thing. (In case I didn't mention it, Chris is most decidedly not black).

So we drove up to the greasy spoon fast food place on the corner, and he asked a couple of green-Wal-Mart-vested young ladies standing outside if there was anyplace around where he could get one. Up to then, I thought he was giving me the business, but they knew exactly what he was talking about, and gave us an address on 47th St. near King Dr. Did I mention that this was 11:30 on a Sunday night? Well, now I have.

We drove over there and parked on the street, and he went in. Folks, that was the longest 15 minutes of my life. Most people on the street at that hour were getting off the #47 and #3 buses coming home from their night shift jobs, but then there were the local  -- denizens, let's call them. And they were walking in the street a little too close to the unlocked driver's side door, which I immediately locked, along with all the other doors.

But when Chris got back, we chowed down, and this south side black man had his very first gym shoe, which consists of piles of lamb and Italian beef, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, onions and gyro sauce on a French bread bun. A submarine on steroids.

A black guy from the south side finding out about black cuisine from a white guy. Hey, it happens. Thanks, Chris.

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Taken in: United States / Illinois / St. Charles (show map)

Taken on: September 13, 2015

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Sets appears in: • Bicycle Album • Fierorama 2015 more » • Around Chicago « less

Groups appears in: • Fiero Pilots • Yahoo! Fiero Group Photos more » • Everything GM « less

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