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8 years ago
Dunning1
101. Re: first car
I could never understand women being afraid of driving big cars. My mother was always afraid of driving our 1949 Chrysler or the 1965 Chrysler, said they were too big. My grandfather told me however, that my mother used to cruise around with his Pierce Arrow, no power steering, and manual transmission. Go figure.
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8 years ago
Dunning1
Ralph was a nice guy. I knew him from the old Festival Restaurant, we would wind up having dinner there quite often at the same time. He wanted to take me on a canoe trip with him sometime, but I didn't want to until I learned how to swim better. I finally did get a lifeguard certification (at age 47!) and felt confident enough to try it, as I was really nervous about a canoe trip. Unfortunate
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8 years ago
Dunning1
A couple of years ago, I picked up a pamphlet issued by the Red Cross, detailing the relief efforts involved in the 1920 Melrose Park Tornado. Evidently the tornado touched down in Melrose Park, then worked its way up north and east, and tore up most of Nottingham Avenue up to Irving Park Road. At Irving, it turned east, and took most of the second floor off of the building that is now Northwest
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