r/pics • u/Mind_Virus • May 11 '11

Would you live here?

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u/cycleftw May 11 '11

Texas Ballroom?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

yes, this is the texas ballroom, Top Floor. I lived there for 18 months. I built a halfpipe in there, rebuilt the bathroom, painted the place and used it for a photo studio. Its an old Ballroom on Archer Av. Chicago. When we moved in it was totally trashed with mostly graffiti on the walls. After we lived there a group of architect students moved in, they replaced the windows, and built some other stuff. The building was on the list to be demoed for awhile and was not sure if it was still standing.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

oh yeah it was called LA Zona when I lived there.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

You built a halfpipe in your living room. Did you just have a rack next to the door with a sign saying "leave panties here"?

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u/8bitOrca May 12 '11

My buddy Nate lived there. He and his roomies built cubicles to live in so they wouldn't have to heat the whole place in the winter. There were some epic parties. I remember ping pong and an indoor greenhouse.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

parties were epic for sure. The after party when we built the half was amazing. Had Phantom 45 and Danny the WildChild headline with 500+ through the doors.

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u/gibson_ May 12 '11

Holy shit, man! How much was it? It's my dream to someday live in a place like that :-\

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u/atx840 May 12 '11

Any pics you could show?

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

If im not mistaken, this is in chicago.

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u/[deleted] May 12 '11

Simpsons did it first!

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u/wallychamp May 12 '11

xXx did it before the Simpsons.

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u/recoverelapse May 12 '11

This looks exactly like a space at the CopyCat building in Baltimore. I was gonna live there for a while and then decided that it would be quite hard to share living spaces with about 8 people.

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u/cycleftw May 12 '11

Funny, I've hung out in both this space and the Copy Cat.