Stony Island Avenue

Hold a stone aisle profile.

Mixed between Malcolm X and Seth when I go wild He didn't tell us what Stony Island was.

The Source wasn't talking about Stony Island.

But when I came here in '99, I saw Old Style.

I was like, "I gotta have that beer."

Hey, thanks for having me as always.

If I had to take us on the opposite side of the city, the first one that jumped out in my head is like Calumet Heights, like around 87th and Stony Island.

Like the rink is down there, just a set of pies.

I get you some of the best garlic wings in the city.

Mm-hmm.

They are currently at 6900 South, uh, Stony Island with The Book Joint.

Okay.

They share that space on the corner.

He was.

He was saving his money to start his own business, and we don't know exactly what his plans were, but he must have thought once or twice about a certain opportunity about five blocks away from his barber shop, the McDonald's franchise at 6560 South Stony Island Avenue.

This wasn't one of those gleaming suburban McDonald's.

It was pretty rundown at the time.

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, and when people in Chicago heard the news, they took to the streets.

In the days following the murder, there were protests and violence in some of the Black neighborhoods in Chicago, not on Herman Petty's street, but tensions around the city were very, very high.

It was around this time that the white owner of the Stony Island McDonald's essentially abandoned the restaurant, walked away.

He told McDonald's executives that he would like to sell the franchise, and Herman Petty, the barber and the bus driver, saw his chance.

So that makes you want to work a little extra harder for the next person.

I had a client on Stony Island, Brownstone, no insulation in the walls.

And she expressed every night I got to put on full clothes to go to the bathroom and everything else.

But she didn't want the holes drilled in her wall.

headquarters.

77 in Stony Island, I forgot.

Right, right, on the south side of Chicago.

South side.

Right, right, right.

I might be wrong, but it's on Stony Island, I do remember that.

Right,

so a very strong influence in the African American community.