D. Hoekstra portraits
Crabby Kim’s is a warm and shabby sports bar near the corner of North Western and Waveland avenues in Chicago.
It is the kind of place where the jukebox is muted when basketball games are on. Old Style Tall Boys are $3.
Owner Kim Kirchoff grew up in the neighborhood; he graduated from Bell School in 1964. The sorta Hemingway look alike admits to being crabby. But he hires happy female bartenders who wear skimpy bikinis. This place gives me goose bumps.
And it gives the women goose bumps.
I’ve driven by Crabby Kim’s thousands of times but have never been in the [...]
