Luis Casals: Dentista, Wicker Park, Chicago
While I was waiting for my sushi I saw this dentist’s office about 2 doors down from Blue Fin on North Ave. The mounted fish and the artwork remind me of something I’d see at home in Smalltown, WI, and not in a busy intersection of a trendy neighborhood in Chicago.
7 responses so far ↓
1 mabowden // Oct 28, 2004 at 7:24 am
Oh it does remind me of “backhome” too ! The tile floor, panel walls, cheap chairs and irratic unrelated arranged wall decorations. Homesick? Actually our’s is much improved.
2 James // Oct 28, 2004 at 10:24 am
Yes! Isn’t this place so crazy? It really is the land that time forgot. It looks like it should be a set for a quirky movie.
3 jsarah78 // Oct 28, 2004 at 10:50 am
quirky movie? What you may not realize that the people who own that office probably have been there before it got “trendy” as Rachelle puts it. They are probably struggling so hard to keep there office there as the place has gotten so yuppified! Increasing taxes if they own…higher rent if they don’t. So they probably can’t afford new furniture. But I bet you any money that they offer dental services at a much more decent price (not ripping off your insurance company or you for that matter).
4 Kelly // Oct 28, 2004 at 3:16 pm
i have admired this often and was happy to see this post. I love the chairs and I bet the “dentista” could get a pretty penny for them on ebay.
5 Nan // Oct 28, 2004 at 7:45 pm
Nice. I would hope that “back home” is now more updated than this. Yikes!
6 ChrisM // Oct 29, 2004 at 12:03 pm
jsarah78 you go girl!
I’ll tell you I was once “poor” as a college student in the early 80’s but at least in Albany NY’s low rent districts I and fellow students and the working poor and the not working down and out etc could find shelter reasonably priced for us (if one didnt mind certain negative aspects of life in such neighborhoods). Those days seem over with now it seems.
On a bit more upbeat note that dentist’s office lloks cool and retro to me!
7 ChrisM // Oct 29, 2004 at 12:19 pm
A bit more on last post I dont mean to have animosity to those of better means who move into an urban neighborhood such as Wicker Park previously populated by mostly poor people. I just wish the housing stock for the less affluent were expanding and not contracting as it is. With my views I guess I should move to Madison!
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