On the hunt for the presidency, Jeb Bush adopts a 'caveman' diet

Reuters ^ | April 22, 2015 | Steve Holland

[Grampa Dave]

If you have a local farmers market and a vendor doesn’t allow samples, go to the next vendor.

Most are glad to give out samples.

[esoxmagnum]

I can remember when Pulaski still had cobblestone under the bridge just a few blocks south of Iriving, and they wouldn’t pave it because the highway bridge was too low.

I grew up on the 3700 N Block of Leavitt, a couple blocks from Bens.

For 40 years we would go to Christmas mass there because my sister lived on Bell, but we stopped going out that way when she passed away a few years ago.

We sold the 2 flat we had (our parents gave it to us as a wedding gift), after my dad died in 76 for $72,000 bucks and moved further west, it was the great white flight they called it.

We recently looked up the property, and it is assessed at 2.1 million dollars.... Wrigleyville and all that.

Yeah, we were idiots I guess, but we didn’t want to raise our kids in Chicago, but maybe knowing now how gentrified that area would have become.

I remember you couldn’t walk down Roscoe without a serious confrontation, now Roscoe Village is the gay mecca of Chicago, and the property values are extreme.

So, I guess I have to give that to the gays, they do bring up the property values in the big cities for some reason... I never thought about it, why or how, but, all the seedy dangerous areas that have gone gay, are now worth some money in Chicago. Whodathunkit

On the note of Bens, a guy who graduated one year later than I did, but they never would give his name, some years ago donated some 12 million bucks I think my wife said to St. Bens on his death, anonymously.

The only thing they released was his graduation year. I always wondered if it was someone I knew or not.

But, I’m getting all soft, if you’re from that area, I can go on and on about Riverview and growing up in that area. Was the greatest time in my life, just before getting drafted. I reckon that age group is the best time of most folks life.

I drive through every couple years and don’t even recognize the area any more. But I did notice that Hero Subs was still on the corner of Addison and Western across from Lane! That place was there when I was a kid!

J&F Foods was on Leavitt and Addison, Jeff and Frank were the owners, I was friends with Franks kid Al, and he died around 2000, out in Vegas.

[Boogieman]

“I can remember when Pulaski still had cobblestone under the bridge just a few blocks south of Iriving, and they wouldn’t pave it because the highway bridge was too low.”

Yeah I remember that too, but I always heard it was because that was a right of way owned by Metra so the City couldn’t pave over it and Metra wouldn’t spend the money. I think it finally got fixed up when they redid the expressway overpass there.

I’m younger than you but my uncle went to Ben’s too, maybe around the same time as you, that would have been back in the 60s I think. A couple people from my work went there in the 70s too. My mom went to Alvernia.

[esoxmagnum]

well, that could be why it wasn’t paved, I really have no real inside knowledge, that was Rostenkowski’s district, so I kind of figured it had something to do with him and Old Man Dailey squaring off or some such stuff as was common in the day to be honest.

but, yeah, what you say makes sense.

I left bens in 8th grade, and graduated from Lane class of 66. It was an all boys school then, I still laugh about some of the goofy stuff that went on there.

My oldest brother was in the first graduating class of St. Bens, he died in Korea. I have his “yearbook” which is a newsprint sort of thing stuffed away somewhere.