The Grateful Dead had a place there, too.

I am pretty sure that houses in SF do not get torn down. So, the Jefferson Airplane house AND the Grateful Dead house should still be standing.

Once upon a time:

The Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane and Santana played all night at The Fillmore.

It is the dawn and breakfast gets served right there at The Fillmore after the concert is over.

'One man ... Valiant... Insuperable'

Your description of Bobby Fischer

is the most transparent crystallization

In Oak Park , Illinois there is a WHOLE BLOCK of Frank Lloyd Wright houses.

Too much. Way beyond amazing.

They tell you in the brochures not to disturb the people who live there. Who gets to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house?

Thank you for reminding me of Mike McClure. I need to rediscover his great writings.

And how did Frank Lloyd Wright end up in Marin County? His building there can bee seen from the 101 Highway. The first time I saw it from that road, I nearly wrecked my car.

<Well you explain
his posts to me then ??
Hard isn't it? Lol!>

After giving it some thought...

You any good at chess <Lamont> ??

'Bubble, bubble, toil & trouble...'

I put you on Ridicule.

The Latin word <cunus> means 'nest'.

OK... Fischer...

If Bobby walked slowly he literally lurched from side to side going forward.

But if he walked rapidly, as w/ his entourage of 6-8 buddies after playing for the U.S. Championship, his stride was longer & faster & straighter as he
always kept ahead of them just before they dove into the subway to go to Brooklyn.

He wd. always walk w/ his hands jammed into his pants pockets, always smiling as he kept up a breathless commentary on the night's game, while stragglers wd/ be running, & hal-running, pumping their hands trying to keep up to his walking.

I followed, half-running, his to the subway many times, listening to them kibitz abt/games while scampering toward the subway - kibitzing in a string of algebraic positions.

Not a few passersby thought this group of men were very odd, as they turnee their heads in puzzlement.

His friend Zuckerman was usually the closest in the pack. Bernard Zuckerman's parents wanted their Bernie to get out from under bobby's influence & get a job & settle down, Bobby once told us.

On stage, the players for the US Championship looked as tho' they were going to the movies. Evans favored a navy-blue sweater w/ reindeer across the front & back, which he wore days in a row. Evans was hardly seen clean shaven. Bobby looked like a glossy Ralph Lauren ad.

Bobby always wore a 3-piece suit, tie, polished shoes. I remember the custom suits running from light tan to chocolate...I don't have a memory of black/gray suits.

Although the painter of 'Nude Descending a Staircase' w/ his beret was usually in the front row following Bobby's game, I never saw them greet each other.

Because he lost the French Championship
by one game, Marcel Duchamp became a painter.

Just as Jas/Joyce came in second in an all Ireland contest for best tenor: he became a writer. The winner ??
Famed tenor John McCormick.

Who could blame him for wanting to move on, after he gave up basically his entire life for 30+ years to study chess?

When I began playing in tournaments, I followed Fischer's lead: suit, tie and polished shoes. I never took off my jacket and played in my shirt-sleeves. I was a paid professional and I meant to look that way.

I did this in over 100 tournaments, matches and team events. I was usually the best-dressed player in my tournaments.

Even when I played correspondence chess, I sat down to study my moves in black slacks, white dress shirt and shoes. I always had great respect for the game.

The last Swiss tournament I played in, I played in aloha shirts. Never again, says I.