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  1. ChiTownScion

    Democracy

    There is a part of me that buys into that mentality, but having married an Army brat who, literally, "grew up around the world," I have been reminded regularly for the last three decades how limited my 4th generation Chicagoan perspective can be. Thus, we plan on pulling up stakes in a few and...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Old gas stations

    I had a toy one as a kid. It was a great prop for mooching coins from adults: I'd offer to return their money, and not wanting to look like pikers, they'd smile and say, "Naw, keep it."
  3. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    American Plan resorts. When I was a kid there were still a number of them in northern Wisconsin. You'd pay a flat per- person per- week rate and receive three full meals a day with your accommodation. I was in a men and boys choir of some renown as a kid, and the choir director would rent out...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Old gas stations

    Answering my own question, after further research... evidently, yes. The two look amazingly similar.
  5. ChiTownScion

    Old gas stations

    I remember Gold Bell... there was a "Gold Bond," too?
  7. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    ".... so poor that I [or he, or she, or they] can't afford a pot to piss in, a window to throw it through, or a friend to catch it.."
  8. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Information. What city, please?" "Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Residence. Name of 'Lincoln,' common spelling. First initial, 'A.' " 5 seconds later.. "I'm sorry. I have no such listing." "I don't understand. He gave a Gettysburg Address...." - Old bit we did at least a hundred time as kids.
  9. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    First law office I ever worked at was in the Unity Building, 127 North Dearborn, Chicago and it had a bank of the old bird cages. If I worked a late night and wanted to leave, the doorman would have to lock up, take the elevator to my floor, and then take me down. The operators were men who had...
  10. ChiTownScion

    BATTER UP!

    I was less than thrilled about taxpayers subsidizing the Cell. Or the McCaskey Family Playpen, for that matter. Them: "If you don't spend the millions to buy us a new stadium, we'll move somewhere else!!" Me: "Dosvedonya. And don't let the door hit ya on the way out!"
  11. ChiTownScion

    Leornian ealdspræc Saxonum-Anglisc

    Latin was my high school default language: I was enrolled in it automatically. I could have- perhaps SHOULD have- opted for German, but I fell for the old "if you're gonna be a lawyer you should know Latin" line. German would have been more useful, and French... well, not knowing it when I was...
  13. ChiTownScion

    BATTER UP!

    I favor the Cubs, but I'm not tribal about it. I usually go to the Cell to see a game with Red Sox Nation Chicago when Boston's in town. They're usually pretty friendly affairs: many of us have friends who support the South Side Team and bring them along. I enjoy the friendly banter and buying...
  14. ChiTownScion

    BATTER UP!

    If the quality of baseball at either is mediocre, my rule of thumb is, Wrigley has the prettier girls, and Comiskey/ the Cell/ That South Side Place has better food.
  15. ChiTownScion

    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I suppose (like a lot of Loungers) I was wired differently than most kids. I can recall how ridiculous I felt it was at the time when, at age 7, we moved from the city of Chicago and moved to a (then) all white suburb. "You'll be a lot happier there. More kids to play with, and lots of parks...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I hated- hated- being a kid. And I didn't care for being around other children because.. well, they acted like damn children. I preferred being around adults when they were talking about the Depression or the War: far more interesting than listening to whiny little pests. Most adults who got to...
  17. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    2016 may have been the year that the Cubs finally went all the way, but you can't beat those years when Durocher was manager in terms of pure entertainment.
  19. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    From what you've said about some of the episodes involving your mom in the past (turning the ex's motorcycle into scrap metal, and cussing out the snow plow driver immediately come to mind) I pity- PITY- any fool who'd ever try to take advantage of her. Although, I will add, I'd pay premium for...
  20. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But that does raise the issue of misplaced homonyms on social media. You're/your, it's/its, they're/there/their... vey iz mir !!
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Start by teaching that it's brakes we slam on. But.. you knew that and you were just trying to bait me, right?
  22. ChiTownScion

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    Quite enjoyed the film. We saw it with friends of ours, ex-pat Brits, and as always it was interesting to get their perspective on it. The lady we were with had spoken to her mother that morning and her mum (in her 90's now) told of seeing the trains packed with BEF troops who had been...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Your TOP Cagney movie . . .?

    A good friend and I always used Cagney as a model in making up a dialogue for his wife, who does her best to tolerate it. The words are ours, not his:

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