Lou Decruss wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 02:46:22 -0800, "Bob Terwilliger"
> > wrote:
>
>> Lou wrote:
>>
>>> She grew up on the south side of Chicago
>>
>> Isn't that the baddest part of town?
>
> Yes. The near west side is nasty too. But the far west side and the
> north side are pretty darn nice places to live. When she started high
> school her parents moved to a near west suburb called Berwyn because
> there was so much race shit going on and the Catholic school was so
> expensive. We visited her grandmother a few weeks ago in the old
> hood. She doesn't go outside alone ever cuz she's old. I'm 6'3" 215#
> and I wouldn't outside there at night. The fast food joints <---(OB
> food) are the only buildings that look decent but even those all have
> bars on the windows.


Wow, the last time I was in Berwyn 30 - odd years ago it was still primarily
Old World Bungalow Belt, e.g. Czech (or "Bohack" in the vernacular). I
guess the mexi's have moved in and taken over...

Interestingly, Berwyn a whiles back had a publicity campaign urging peeps to
move there for the nice housing stock and the relatively low prices. They
even had a coupla billboards here in Gayville and advertised in a coupla of
the Chicago *** rags, boasting that Berwyn was a "progressive" kinda
place...

The place was an insular ******** even back in the day, can't imagine why
anyone would willingly move there now...


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Best
Greg