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efive commented about Sheridan Theatre on Jul 15, 2008 at 8:55 am

Charles— the nightclub across from where the Sheridan used to be is now called Nick’s Uptown. It’s really just a yuppie bar. It used to be a real shady dive bar in the early 1990s when I lived around there and the Sheridan/Palacio was boarded up and home to homeless squatters. The building where Nick’s Uptown is now opened as an automobile showroom in the 1920s. In the early 1990s, there was a Mexican grocery store just to the north at the corner of Cuyler. On the north side of Cuyler, there was a halfway house full of ex-offenders. The neighborhood certainly has changed a lot since the early 1990s.

efive
efive commented about Alameda Theatre on Jul 15, 2008 at 8:43 am

I remember this theater in a crumbling state in the fall of 1989, a few years before Wicker Park began its resurgence. I was barely able to determine that it had most recently been known as the Alameda Theater. I believe the theater may be visible in a couple of scenes from the 1983/84 movie “Bad Boys,” with Sean Penn. If it had been maintained better for only 10 more years or so, perhaps it could have evolved into a hip Wicker Park entertainment venue.