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Monday Diversion: Cubs Fans By Day, Punks By Night

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Oct 19, 2009 8:00PM

Check out this pretty fantastic look from Opening Day 1984 (airing on - we think - the old show Eye on Chicago) at the two very different crowds that frequented the Cubby Bear at the time, a time when Cubs games were always during the day, the punks came out at night, and no one had yet to utter the phrase "Dave Matthews Band."