NOTE: Since I am highlighting and pasting various sections of other of my 250 or so blog sites there will be duplication here and there. I will try to delete such, but I will not take a lot of time looking for duplicates as I have other things to do.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Saturday, November 01, 2014
Put up a message board for my old elementary school and high school. Seems no one uses it but it has some info on those schools.
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
1964 Orland Park Elementary School Graduates
49 Graduated and most went on to Carl Sandberg HS where our 49 disappeared into the 1,500 or so students at CSHA. I don't recall ever having a class with one of my old OPE grads the entire 4 years at CSHS. I only saw former grade school friends on the school bus and of course in Laguna Woods itself.
The night of the graduation ceremony my mother, step father and I had dinner at a local restaurant and for my graduation present I got a Timex watch. First watch I ever had.
Around 1956 or 1957, Orland Park, Ill.
For more info on my grade school and high school years go to:
http://orlandpark1960.freeforums.net/
Lower down this blog site you will find the Harris Family A narrative by my grandmother, Mable (Kelly) Hunter, typed and commented on by Beverly Elaine (Hunter) Anderson. Both now passed on, as are almost all of those mentioned herein.
2 poems are by B. E. Anderson and this was put together about 1974 and posted here in Feb. 2006 by C. Harris
2 poems are by B. E. Anderson and this was put together about 1974 and posted here in Feb. 2006 by C. Harris
1/28/14
World Ends! Film at 11
I had a 1 pm appt to get the cars oil changed, got 3 miles from home in this traffic and called to cancel the service until Thurs.
Whole outing, all six miles took nearly 3 hours start to finish, then couldn't get the car up the hill and into the garage, its now parked at the curb.
Whole outing, all six miles took nearly 3 hours start to finish, then couldn't get the car up the hill and into the garage, its now parked at the curb.
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The First home I remember
I remember playing under the porch with neighbor kids and getting extremely dirty and of course yelled at by my grandmother. My mother and I were here from about 1947 to 1952.
7234 S LAFAYETTE Ave CHICAGO, IL 60620
Beautiful & Unique total gut rehab brick 2-flat located in Greater Grand Crossing! with exterior/interior renovations new windows, tuckpointing, plumbing, heating, electrical, elegant lighting, soffits, arch interior wall designs, hardwood floors, exotic tile in bathrooms, jacuzzi tubs, 42in kitchen cabinets, appliances incuded, granite counter top, alarm system, enclosed porch. Too much to list! Close to Dan Ryan!
| Property Type: | Multi-Family (2-4 Unit), 2 Flat |
| County | Cook |
| Community | Greater Grand Crossing |
| MLS# | 07524958 see: |
Thursday, May 31, 2018
ANYBODY OLD ENOUGH TO RECALL ROAD TRIPS WHERE YOU SLEPT IN YOUR CAR?
My mother got this 1952 Plymouth and I recall several road trips to visit relations in Houston and Jasper, Arkansas, where we pulled over at dark and slept in the car until the next morning.
This was the early 50's and while there hotels in the cities for travelers, auto courts were just coming into play in mid-America and it was still a good few years before motels came on the scene.
It wasn't unusual on the outskirts of small or mid-sized cities to find a scattering of cars pulled over to the side of the major roads, travelers just saving $ by sleeping in their cars and going on with their trips the next day.
(Photo summer of 1952, Chicago, me at 6 and the 52 Plymouth.)
Lunch at local IHOP March 18, 2018
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11/23/17
3/15/17
No the car wasn't repoed it is at the Ford dealer for a fix on the electronic throttle which has a service bulletin out. No charge to me, just an annoyance for a day.
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Below, Lahr, then 'West' Germany.
Aug 1994, Below, Buffalo NY Downtown.
June 15, 1999 Below - While on a 2 week vacation to Cape Town South Africa I got a SA driver license, it was awallet sized item, like our own documents, the shown item was just the larger form they provided you.
6/13/99 Signal Hill, Cape Town, South Africa during 2 week vacation
Below 3 taken at rental unit, 303 Beach Road, Sea Point, Cape Town 8080
Photo Below: Steve Henry
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Sept 1994 - On vacation at home of friend out west.
9/94 at some amusement section of strip hotel
Below: Valetta, Malta
Above: Valetta Waterfront
Below: Sept 1995 Valetta, Malta, On Vacation
9/95 Valetta Harbor in background
Below: 11/16/96 London (Hammersmith bus station), UK
11/96 UK Visit - on train
7/94 Below: On a trip to Fla from Buffalo NY, Taken at Holiday Inn, Ft Lauderdale
During 7/94 I took photos of places in Fla that I had lived or stayed.
1st below is of my father's house at 3281 Boutwell Rd, Lake Worth Fla. He lived there until his death in the 1970's with his second wife Skeeter and step daughter. I first visited for 2 weeks in the summer of 1960 - later I visited many times as I lived in Florida also.
2nd is where I and wife Thelma lived at during my Junior year at Florida Atlantic Univ (Boca Raton) 310 S 3rd Ave in Lake Worth. Photo taken 9/94.
3rd below is 620 Allen Ave, Delray Bch where wife Thelma and I moved to after the 3rd St rental in Lake Worth. This was for a year+ during Senior Yr at FAU 1967-8, taken 9/94.
Below: Aug. 1994 Dining Room of rented condo - lived there 5 yrs and 2 months.
Below: 6/19/95 at condo putting away a newly purchased rechargeable lantern for hurricane season.
4/14/96 Below 1985 Chevy Astro Van, had it for years, originally bought in Oregon
4/14/96 Below: parking deck of shopping center.
Below: Jan 1996 at condo.
March 31, 1999, Kitchen of above rental condo
June 1995 condo
Below: Sept. 1999, 4 photos of me
2000/2002
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8/4/2004 - Backyard of home purchased in 2001. Still have the hat and the lawn furniture. The umbrella did get replaced.
Now and then I post and add photos to this blog, it is just for my own use and to document my life to a very limited extent.
Sunday, January 01, 2017
Always good to have something handy in case you need it.
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Sept 15, 2016 house at night:
8/12/16
9 months old - 2016 Ford Explorer XLT ($45,272) Have 5300 miles on it. Average about 18 miles a day. Would have been cheaper to just call a taxi than buy a car.
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5/18/16
house, backyard. Fence was replaced in 2018 with $3,000 new board fence.
12/26/15
Some new things for the end of 2015. A new 11 yr old house for 150,000 and a new 2016 Ford Explorer for 45,280, a Rolex GMT watch for a few bucks under $10,000.
11/30/15
Purchased this 2016 Ford Explorer Limited edition last Friday for $45,272 cash, and turned in the leased 2013 Escape that I had for 2 yrs 9 months.
The 'old' house is gone and it has been replaced by a 3 bedroom 2 bath house The lot is smaller as it the house, but it is all that I need for just myself.
Purchased it for about $150,000 cash and moved in Sept, 2015. The place is 11 years old. I have taken out a homestead and age exemption of the property, this should take effect and greatly reduce the $1,200 tax for the property, but not until next tax time, already paid the higher cost for this tax season.
Shown below is myself, in the small bedroom used as an office. That is one of 4 of my mothers paintings that I have in the house. I ended up coming out ahead on the sale of the house and put some $9,850 into a Rolex watch, and the car shown above. The house purchase came out of other funds not attributed to the home sale.
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3/22/15
Looking at old photos I came across this one from 1979 when I was 33 yrs old. The emblem on right side is for the American Society for Industrial Security.
8 Photos at 'old house' where I lived for 15 years:
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