Augie/C.K.'s reunion: cheers, hugs, tears

Cary and Linda. Photos for Windy City Times by Ed Negron
Photos for Windy City Times by Ed Negron
Photos for Windy City Times by Ed Negron
Augie and Linda. Photo for Windy City Times by Ed Negron
Bobbie and Pickles. Photo for Windy City Times by Ed Negron
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Augie & Cary held their first-ever reunion May 12 at the L26 Restaurant and Lounge in the Chicago South Loop Hotel. The girls flew in from as far away as Las Veges to—as someone yelled out from the crowded room—”as close as the South South” to relive, if only for one night, the days of Augie & C.K.’s, a lesbian bar that flourished in Chicago during the 1970s and ’80s.

If seeing the more-than-600-photo slide show streaming on a screen of old friends didn’t take you down memory lane, the music definitely did. The night also served as a fundraiser for the Lesbian Community Care Project (LCCP). Text and photos by Ed Negron.

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