Welcome from N CA! Was born in Lake Forest, ca. 30 miles North of Chicago.
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haunted', yes, the Park Ridge Pipe Shop became a sort of community center for counter-culture kids and lost its pipe smoking base. It was just too much about something else. By that time I was long gone to college/Navy/grad school, etc. A funny note for Chicagoans: Heard an interview on NPR with a musician/woman who went to New Trier in Winnetka, which has quite a haughty reputation in the area, but the interviewer had never heard of it and couldn't pronounce it! I only know it because my mom went there. I sure didn't.
At least 50 years ago, New Trier had a national reputation as a top notch academic HS. Some decent athletics, too.
Not to wallow in Chicagoland nostalgia, but University of Chicago -- I did't go there either -- was founded early in the 20th Century and puffed up such a reputation on its campus that it sort of claimed itself as the improvement on all the mistakes of the Ivy League. My maternal grandpa was among one of the early law school grads there. I've run into some grads who were still aglow with the superiority of it all and could barely speak to us commoners without condescension. I guess it's a good way to launch successful young careers, but people ought to grow wiser with age. At some point you ought to know your electrician knows a lot that you don't.
jam', my dad went to Lake Forest College after freshman year at Carlton College when the depression hit. He took a year off to work in Chicago as an office boy, then went back to school at Lake Forest working a lot of side jobs. Back then, any college degree was a good entree if you could find work, especially after WWII. He used his office job as a way into a long career when he got back from the Pacific and his being skipper of a minesweeper. His older brother started as an A student at U. Mich, but never got back to college, went right to work. If there was every a guy who deserved an engineering degree, but Uncle Dick did pretty well for himself.
My mom, who went to New Trier, appeared in a silent movie with Charlton Heston when he was a student there too, Pier Gynt, with the musical suite as the soundtrack. Heston commanded the screen even then, and my mom played one of several singing muses. My mom could have tried for an acting or singing career, but I doubt I would be here if she had. She always sang, soprano, and was good.
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