Comments on: Con news: Knuckles no more

by: Jeff Lorenz

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:05:07 +0000

This is wrong! Check out this link:

http://www.ohare.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/entertainment/lounges/index.jsp

They remodeled the entire hotel. The bar is called Red Bar, and looks way more interesting than the picture posted above.

by: Torsten Adair

Tue, 08 May 2007 04:02:27 +0000

Missed out on Fister’s my one time in Chicago because of an old college flame. Worth It.
So, when will someone cut out the middle man and hold a con in a bar? Should be a pub, so we have food. No selling of anything which isn’t photocopied. no autographs except for sketches on placemats or bodyart. Fans show adoration by buying their favorites drinks and food. Cover charge for fans, dress code and hygiene enforced. Should be held in a regular place so that closing time is not a problem. Or after party at a diner, around 6 AM.

by: Pat Loika

Mon, 07 May 2007 23:21:35 +0000

Wow.

I’ll miss that place. Lots of great memories and friendships were born there.

by: Scott Dercks

Mon, 07 May 2007 22:20:17 +0000

Actually, the last couple of years I’ve spent my drunk time in the lobby which was much less expensive, less smoky, and much more fun although procuring our first table at Knuckles will always be one of my greatest con memories.
and How’s is going Sean? You should come up with with some kind of drinking game based on Countdown for the Wisconsin crew.

by: Sean McKeever

Mon, 07 May 2007 22:08:29 +0000

Whoops, that link snafu was my bad. I had both of the hotel websites up and got confused between the two.

But, yeah, end of an era. A drunken, crazy era. I think I first met Heidi in person in that bar, back in…’93? ‘94?

by: Sean Dulaney

Mon, 07 May 2007 18:56:37 +0000

Hold the phone! Looks like good news and bad news.

The good news is you have a bar at the wrong hotel. That’s the new bar at the Rosemont Hyatt. The habitrail connected home of Knuckles is the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. (I knew that window towards the back was bugging me.)

The bad news is Knuckles isn’t listed there either. Instead it has the new “Red Bar.”

http://ohare.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/entertainment/lounges/index.jsp

Looks like the steak place you passed going into Knuckle didn’t survive the remodel either.

by: Sean Dulaney

Mon, 07 May 2007 18:16:05 +0000

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Oh well…at least we have memories.

Lou Ferigno making a rent-a-cop working the door wet himself.
The bar manager raising hell with the Digital Webbing group after we brought Giordano’s pizza with us so we could eat as we drank.

Actually I think those are the only two I can mention without violating non-disclosure agreements.

by: David Macho

Mon, 07 May 2007 16:13:42 +0000

Yet another reason to not go this year. Most of the fun in that con was in the evenings, at Knuckles… Oh well, SD, back we go!

by: Chris Neseman

Mon, 07 May 2007 16:06:00 +0000

It’s a sad sad day.

I can already hear the old school con goers telling stories to the new generations about slap fights, puking in planter boxes and that one time Frank Miller showed up at four in the morning to hang out and chat with the last of the drunken masses.

good times… good times.

by: Tom Stillwell

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:56:33 +0000

We shall claim the River Terrace Lounge as our own!!!

Knuckles lives on! In our hearts! In our minds! In our nether regions!

You can close down Knuckles but you can’t close down our need for comic related drunken frivolity!!!

FREEEEEDDDDDOMMMMMM!!!