I feel that it is important to preserve the history of our city and our community, and I hope you will join me. The building was an ice factory in its early days. I have now lived right next to Fireside for over two years and it is mind-blowing how much the neighborhood has changed. Surviving the Dust Bowl is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease even death for nearly a decade. The Fireside Bowl (or the Fireside) is a bowling alley and music venue established in the 1940s, located at 2648 W Fullerton Ave in Chicago, Illinois. This blog will serve as a basis for that community compiling archival materials and personal stories of individual adventures at the Fireside Bowl.
My goal is to create an online community of people like myself who attended punk shows at Fireside back when it was a dirty, loud, disgusting venue filled with hundreds of teens, completely shattering the legal capacity of 140 patrons. Bowlers dress up in colorful, wide-collared, flower-pattern clothing intended to resemble Disco style. The ultimate goal, however, is not to just make a documentary. Monday night at the Fireside Bowl (2648) W Fullerton Ave.) is Disco themed. From the first seed of an idea to the creative chaos of cramming 40-plus celebrities into a single recording studio, The Greatest Night in Pop, the new documentary from director Bao Nguyen (Be Water) chronicles every obstacle and behind-the-scenes story that led to the iconic song we all know and love. This blog is dedicated to a film I am currently developing about the famous Chicago punk-rock venue, The Fireside Bowl.Īs of right now I am putting together a demo/trailer for the film which will include music, photos, videos, and fliers. 122 reviews of Fireside Bowl 'I can kind of see why they stopped having all ages shows here-I mean sooner or later some 14-year-old kid was gonna OD in the bathroom and theyd probably have to shut the place down altogether-but I have to admit, I do miss it. My name is Nick Arvanitis and I am a documentary filmmaker from Chicago.