Soon to be gone in Chicago is the Cabrini Green Projects Building, seen during the opening credits to the 70s TV show “Good Times.”
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Reminds me of Candyman
*shudder*
Actually the majority of the buildings are already gone and have been for a while. This is the last of them. The Green homes were the huge hulking massive white towers, and the Cabrini homes were initially rowhouses (which are still standing and being rehabilitated) and later the “red” buildings which were actually much more prominent in “Good Times.” I think the family actually lived in a “red” building, but I can’t be 100% certain.
In any case… they’re almost completely gone now, and they started tearing them down as far back as 1995. What a history they have had.
Technically didn’t they live in a sound studio in Los Angeles?
But yes, most of the red brick buildings are gone. This one was the last of the complex, that didn’t have the red bricks.
Here’s the building at 33 seconds into the intro. I remember moving to Chicago in 1995 and getting excited when I drove past the building. Good Times!
***Good Times
We’ve sat and watched Charlies Angel’s
Rise from the ashes and come back to life,
This summer we will see “Bewitched” go under
The cinematic knife,
A few summer’s ago the nation witnessed the Brady’s reunite,
But we have yet to see the original
Urban comedy get its second wind,
You know the show with Kid “Uh-Dynomite!”
If the sitcom “Good Times” had a reunion,
I swear that I’d be doin’,
A three-sixty right in front of the tv set,
Cause I know that it would be slamming, I bet!
J.J. would still be chasing women but now he’d
be balding and gray with a huge pot gut,
Thelma would have a house full of children with her
ex-pro football playing husband
Keith and he’d be kickin’ her butt!!
Michael would be somewhere fighting the power!
Flo and Wilona would be pushing up daisies or
Picking out flowers,
Penny would be all grown up and trying to make
it in the big time,
Bookman would still be a janitor or somewhere
committing crimes,
Lenny the hustler whose favorite line was “If he don’t
have it then there ain’t any”
Would be selling bootleg CD’s and DVD’s
out of his fur coat,
Sweet Daddy would still be cut throat!
Twenty-years later the Evans’ family would
still be living together in a Section 8 house
somewhere on the south side of Chi-town.
Their Alderman or ?balderman? would be in another ward somewhere living on thedown!
But you know those Evans’ would still be living together
All under one roof,
Nah, second thought I think that I’d better
let go of the thought of a reunion and settle
for a Mad TV spoof.
Doreen- whats up with the poetry!?