Liz and I took a drive this past weekend to the land of 10% sales tax and $3.15 gas, that would be Chicago and Cook County.
Saturday, we got to play with some traffic jams on the Northwest Tollway and Kennedy, but then got to Liz's old neighborhood where the school she went to from Kindergarten to 8th grade, Our Lady of Grace, was celebrating its 100th anniversary. Hard to believe a school that old could be in that good of shape.
Liz actually remembered every room she had in those years and was able to get pictures of all but one. Every little nook and cranny had a story and she can remember them all.
Sad to see the class sizes now. When she was there, they had 40-50 kids in each room and 120 in her 8th grade graduating class in 1965. Now, the Class of 2010 will have a total of 12. That sure doesn't bode well for the school's future.
Back in Liz's time, most students were Polish or German. Now, most are Hispanic.
We then stopped at the apartment building, now condos, where she lived the whole time.
Went to the Super 8 in Morton Grove after unsuccessfully looking for the Buffalo Wild Wings in Northbrook, but we did see where they were building a new one.
They had a dinner dance at Chateau Ritz in Des Plaines where she got to meet and talk with lots of her Class of 65.
As an 8th grade Class of 1965, I graduated from Winston Park Junior High School in Palatine, Illinois. --RoadDog
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