“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.
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.