[aposiopetic]

Thanks for your reply. The storefront is in the background photo at https://iwantromanian.com/about-us/. Interestingly, in the same era, the early 80s, I drove through the South Side on the way to a high-school chum's wedding. It seemed depressed, but not gratuitously dangerous.

[Dr. Sivana]

My place didn’t have much in the way of signage. It sort of seemed like those who wanted what they had got word where to go (from a synagogue? We used Yellow Pages.)

South Side is a large area, and there’s a lot of difference where I was (Hyde Park and close to Kenwood) and farther south along the shore (Stony Island), and heading west of Cottage Grove. Hyde Park is much worse than I remember it.