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Last weekend’s frigid, snowy weather reminded me of the scene in the 1990 film “Home Alone” where Kate McCallister (Catherine O’Hara) is trapped in Scranton, Penn. on Christmas Eve.
Just when she considers selling her soul to “the devil himself” to get out of town, she’s rescued by a knight in a yellow satin jacket — Gus Polinski (John Candy) “Polka King of the Midwest.”
Candy wasn’t really a musician (though he did know his way around the clarinet), but most of the guys who portrayed his band, the Kenosha Kickers, were.
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Eddie Korosa was one of them. And since it’s National Polka Month, I asked him to tell me about that experience.
He said it all started with a phone call in early 1990 to his parents’ venue, the Baby Doll Polka Club, which was one of Chicago’s hottest spots on the South Side near Midway International Airport for the music genre until 2004.
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