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Turning the Other Cheek
Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 10:42PM Margie Lawrence: Cover Artist
By Donald G. Evans
As Margie Lawrence circles Wrigley Field on her silver bike, people know her. She stops to flirt with the beer vendors assembled for a pre-game meeting inside the The Pen on the northeast corner of Clark and Waveland; she flags down the pedicab drivers to share gossip; she huddles with season bleacher ticket holders about possible extras; she pow wows with the ball hawks. She has stories about nights out with old Cubs and craziness at parties with the ground crew, and knows all the bleacher bums by their street names.
Margie Lawrence and Carmella Hartigan“The first time I went to the park in 1963, I was playing hooky from LeMoyne School with a friend from the neighborhood,” says Margie. “It was her idea. We got in for free and had a wonderful time. But my aunt was the principal of LeMoyne, so…”
Margie grew up at 531 West Addison, between Pine Grove and Lake Shore Drive, the daughter of an artist/school teacher mother and jewelry designer father. Rita worked in advertising before her marriage to Don, who started as a diamond setter on Jewelry Row then took his Goldsmith Ltd. design business to the Gold Coast.
