Or is it Chicago's Bob Hartley building?One of the most popular television shows of the 1970s was The Bob Newhart Show. Newhart is a Chicago native, and in his self-named show, he played a Chicago psychologist named Bob Hartley.
Like my late father, Newhart was a graduate of St. Ignatius High School--then a nuts-and-bolts (and fists) all-male Jesuit school on the city's West Side. Now it's co-educational--and a fist-free zone.
Newhart was two years older than my dad--they didn't know each other. However, a longtime family friend, a year older than my father, did know the future professional funny man, and he described him as "a troublemaker." Back then, Newhart was an amateur funny man.
In the opening montage of The Bob Newhart Show, Hartley's reel-world home was shown--and it was this building at 5901 North Sheridan Road on the city's North Side.
I took this picture during my 14-mile run on Sunday, from Chicago's lakefront running path.
As they so often said on that show...
"Hi Bob!"
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Actually, no, it was this building's shorter twin immediately to the north, which doesn't have white stripes down the sides. Newhart was filmed walking across Thorndale Avenue from the grounds immediately adjacent to Emanuel Congregation, the Refrom Jewish temple on the lakefront north of these condos.
ReplyDeleteYes, the Bob Newhart apartment building is at 5901 N Sheridan Rd.
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