FitzGerald’s is in the mood to celebrate. Might be the 40th anniversary of the March day the FitzGerald family bought the old Deer Lodge on Roosevelt Road. Might be a thank you party for the regulars over those four decades.
Or, as the famously for sale music club acknowledges in a post on its website, it might be a “tip of the hat to the future.”
In any case, it is a party on Wednesday, March 4. It’s free. Doors open at 5 p.m. in the Sidebar and tent. The club opens at 6 p.m. There’s music, food and drink. And there will be plenty of looking back over 40 iconic years.
On the big screen in the big tent will be a slide show of more than 1,000 pictures ranging from what longtime Oak Park resident Bill FitzGerald calls the “hammer and nail days” of the renovation in 1980, to all the great musicians who have made the stage. And there will be clips from the five major movies which have filmed there, too.
Whether you’ve been to FitzGerald’s 100 times or plan to make this night your first, the club is located at 6615 Roosevelt Rd. in Berwyn.
