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Habs....Kielbasa is so wonderful, and sounds so yummy the way you describe it...

One last Polish story....

When my brother died, in 1981, me and BigDom and the boys, were by that time, living near Ft. Bragg N.C....actually BigDom was in Germany at the time, but me and boys were in NC...so me and the boys went back to Chicago for my brothers funeral, and since it was just three weeks before Christmas, we decided to stay in Chicago, help mom and dad through this time, and we could spend Christmas with them...

Now Michael was very much into collecting comic books and baseball and football cards....since we were in Chicago, he figured that we could find some big stores for him to shop in for his collections....we found a really big store listed in the phone book, somewhere on the south side of Chicago...I was not familiar at all with the south side, having been raised on the Northwest Side, and married life was with BigDom on the far North side...

But I figured it would be an adventure to scout out the South Side...so off we went...this sporting store was in a fairly busy, large shopping district, so there were many stores around....

Since I was so unfamiliar with the South side, I wrote down the street names where we were parked....that should have been the first clue that we were definately in a Polish area, because one of the streets was called 'Pope John Paul' street....

As we walked past all the stores, I noticed that all signs of advertisement were in two languages, English and Polish...and when we found the sports store, the salepersons spoke both English and Polish, as evidenced by they talking to many customers in Polish...

Both of my boys were quite amused at hearing fluent Polish being spoken...being around a military base, they were used to hearing German, and Vietnamese, and Japanese, and Spanish being spoken...but Polish speaking, was a new experience for them...

I have not been back to Chicago since 1981...more than 20yrs....so I dont know what the situation on these neighborhoods is at the present time, dont know if these areas have changed much, or if they still remain the same...

hi cookie
I got such a kick out of all your polish posts

I am back from swimming and the mall
I dont dare count how many pocketbooks I bought
(a red one and buncha others)
they had irresistable sale
also I bought a red wallet
the lady in pocketbook counter was appalled
she said ''why are you buying a red pocketbook
you bought a red one last time''
I said ''I considered a red pocketbook last time, but I wound up with the blue one''
she said ''is your husband gonna come in and scold me when he sees what you did''
I said ''he wont know about it, I'll put the bag in the back seat
and scurry into the house with it''
Love, Palo

hi bushie
I agree, the poles are wonderful people
when I was kid my dad used to say
nyc has more italians than rome, more jews than in jerusalem, more irish than in dublin
I believe you bout the polish population in chicago
Love, Palo

hooray
Billy who is head of all the pools, told me and Bill today at pool
tucson city council just reconsidered
instead of raising price at pool 4 times what it was
they are only gonna double it