To say it was a different time is putting it lightly.
In the 1970s on Chicago’s South Side, revelers in their finest packed into nightclubs, dancing the night away to the soulful music of the era while knocking back a drink or three at now-extinct blues clubs like Perv’s House, Pepper’s Hideout and the High Chaparral.
No one captured the scene better than Chicago photographer Michael L. Abramson. What started as a simple student project during his time at the Illinois Institute of Technology ultimately earned him a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and catapulted him into a career as a prolific freelance photographer.
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