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8. Cool, we grew up in same hoods so to speak

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 03:48 PM

Mar 4

We lived on 326 N Latrobe in Austin, not 1508 Lunt, which was the Rogers Park address. The Heartland Cafe was the neat place to eat in Rogers Park, run by 2 hippies and I waitressed there for a week once, but couldn't hack it as a waitress. The beach was the gem of Rogers Park and went swimming there all the time.

My father actually worked at The Community on Human Relations in Chicago and later for the Leadership Council on Metropolitan Open Communities, and they worked to integrate white only neighborhoods. My father would go through the process of applying somewhere where a black person had been turned away and then they would file a lawsuit for the black family or couple.

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Tree on Clarence Ave in Berwyn, Illinois on a rainy day [View all] Beringia Mar 3 OP

My family had a house just north of the Tasty Freeze mikeysnot Mar 3 #1

Cool, I pass by that place all the time, but I think it is closed now Beringia Mar 3 #3

Beautiful tree! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 3 #2

Thanks, it was the gorgeous mossy roots above ground that made my day Beringia Mar 3 #4

nice! i'm guessing those are cars from an older shot.....cool effect Gato Moteado Mar 4 #5

I didn't like how the cars ruined the picture, so I used Lunapic Beringia Mar 4 #6

yes i lived on erie street and austin blvd from the mid-60s until the mid-70s...... Gato Moteado Mar 4 #7

Cool, we grew up in same hoods so to speak Beringia Mar 4 #8

i knew the heartland well! Gato Moteado Mar 4 #10

I went to Sullivan High School on Bosworth in Rogers Park Beringia Mar 9 #11

it's not ringing a bell....but now i'm really curious.... Gato Moteado Mar 19 #12

Here is a pic of Tuesday Beringia Mar 19 #14

that is cool.... Gato Moteado Mar 19 #15

I was never was a fan of the Blues unfortunately Beringia Mar 4 #9

the blues changed my life.... Gato Moteado Mar 19 #13