3750 LAKE SHORE DRIVE NEWSLETTER, NOVEMBER, 2020
ATTENTION PLEASE ALL WHO USE 3750 EXERCISE FACILITIES!
The Board has become aware of the fact that some shareholders are using the exercise facilities without making a reservation. Reservations must be made to ensure that you are not taking the space of someone who has reserved and is late for their exercise time. The website to use is: 3750 LSD Reservation Website or https://3750lakeshoredrive.simplybook.it/v2/#. All Zones must be reserved individually. If you wish to move from any exercise machine to the pool both areas must be reserved.
Even more important to note is that some shareholders have not been masking properly. Facemasks must cover your MOUTH AND NOSE while exercising and in any public area in the building. No exceptions. If you see someone who is improperly masked, please gently remind him or her to cover up.
EXERCISE RESERVATION AND MASKING RULES ARE A STATE REQUIREMENT. If these requests continue to be ignored, we will be forced to consider shutting down the facilities. At the very least people who abuse the rules will lose their exercise privileges. No one wants any of this to happen so please, please take care of yourself and your neighbors by adhering to the rules.
SOME GOOD NEWS…
3750 has passed the Life Safety Inspection. We do have to make some small corrections, but we expect the court case to be dismissed. Please note that no apartments were visited by the inspector because of COVID. Apartments may be spot checked by the city at any time. Also all fire doors, hardware and corridors in all apartments will be subject to periodic inspection by the building staff.
BASEMENT UPDATE
All storage items that were removed for the basement locker construction project have been returned. Basement electric work will continue, but it shouldn’t interfere with access. If the light doesn’t go on in your assigned storage unit please let Drago know asap. If after hours, notify the Lake Shore doorman.
HOLIDAY DECORATIONS
Please be sure to thank Vlad, Ivan, Elisa and Jerry Hocker when you see them. They worked hard to make the Garden Court and lobbies look beautiful.
Call for Christmas ornaments: If you have some ornaments that are in good shape that you’d like to get rid of please consider donating them to the building. Not everything can be used, and if not used, we will dispose of them for you. Notify Drago if you wish to donate ornaments.
GENTLE REMINDER: Trash is to be put out in bags that are tied or otherwise sealed. There will be a ton of trash during the holidays so let’s make the cleanup process easier for our hard working maintenance staff.
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS – Bill Cartwright and Bill Ankenbrandt 11C
How long have you lived at 3750?
About 5 years.
Where were you born and where did you grow up?
Bill A: Oakland, CA, Long Island, Southern Indiana, Illinois
Bill C: Pawtucket, RI, RI and Illinois
What was your favorite vacation?
Bill A: Catalonia
Bill C: LaMamounia, Marrakesh
Where would you like to go that you have never been?
Bill A: Ireland, Russia
Bill C: Russia, Fiji
Which talent would you most like to have?
Bill A: Speak as many languages as I can
Bill C: Speak multiple languages
(No – we did not discuss this. Both came up with the same answer)
What is your most treasured possession?
Bill A: Wedding ring
Bill C: Wedding ring
(Again – came up with the same answer independently)
What city would you most like to live in if you didn’t live in Chicago?
Bill A: Paris
Bill C: Paris
(Same independent answer again)
Who is the most famous person, either living or dead, you’d like to meet?
Bill A: Ernest Hemingway
Bill C: Winston Churchill
Who is the most famous person you have ever met?
Bill A: Lori Lightfoot
Bill C: Joey Ramone
What was your favorite concert?
Bill A: “Hair” – the musical
Bill C: Violent Femmes at Tut’s
What was your favorite book? Your favorite fictional character?
Bill A: “Anna Karenina” – Constantin Dmitrich Levin
Bill C: “The Columbian Exchange” – Homer Price
Who are your favorite authors?
Bill A: Hemingway, Tolstoy, Genet, Mishima, Picketty, de Tocqueville, Cormac McCarthy
Bill C: Barbara Tuchman
What is your favorite Chicago theater, if any? (Goodman, Steppenwolf, Steep, etc.)
Bill A: Steppenwolf
Bill C: Prefer opera
What is your favorite restaurant in Chicago? Anywhere?
Bill A: Yoshi’s; La Table d’Hote d’Hugo Desnoyer a Paris (16th)
Bill C: Anteprima, La Cabana in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires
What is your most memorable meal – anytime, any place?
Bill A: Kathia’s Gallo Pinto in Costa Rica
Bill C: Dinner at Louis XIII, Paris
If you had to eat one food for the rest of your life what would that be?
Bill A: Italian
Bill C: Italian or Chinese
What is your guilty TV pleasure?
Bill A: Narco dramas made in Colombia
Bill C: The new “Lost in Space”
What have you binge watched, if anything:?
Bill A: “Breaking Bad”, “The Wire”
Bill C: NA
What is your classic film favorite?
Bill A: Les Enfants du Paradis
Bill C: Planet of the Apes
Do you have a contrarian position about something that almost everybody likes? (movie, play, book, etc.)
Bill A: Paolo Coelho – Yuck!
Bill C: Some types of jazz
What character or attribute in others do you most admire?
Bill A: Courage
Bill C: Intelligence and Bravery
What profession other than your own would you most like to try?
Bill A: Outlaw country singer
Bill C: Diplomat
Thick or thin? 🙂
Bill A: Thick
Bill C: Thin
Have a safe, healthy and Happy Thanksgiving!
