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Classic Hollywood Park

Guest post by Alan Myer I grew up in a one-bedroom apartment at 5550 N. Spaulding, third floor, with my four-years-younger sister Barbara (Bunnie), from 1942 until 1956. I attended Peterson School from kindergarten under graduation in 1953, then Von Steuben High School in 1957.  Chuckie Bosworth lived on the second floor, and Cary Katznelson […]

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A few things

In a previous post I recalled Chicago Daily News (and Sun-Times) columnist Sydney J. Harris and my fondness his weekly columns titled “Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things.” I’d like to close out 2011 with a post in a similar vein, without elaborating on the fact that now we all learn things “While […]

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Meet some Regular Fellas

Social athletic clubs like the Regular Fellas had all but disappeared by the time I started my freshman year at Von Steuben High School in the fall of 1970. Many of us, especially if you were the oldest child in the family like I was, had no idea these clubs had once made up a […]

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Peterson class of 1947

They went to Peterson

A week ago I reviewed Hollywood Park, a novel that takes place in a Chicago neighborhood during the Depression. The author, Martin Marcus, and I grew up in that neighborhood during different times, so I asked Marty to share some of his memories. He gave me this recent photograph of his friends from Peterson Elementary […]

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