On Clarence an 26th. Spent a lot of my childhood there.

how are things in berwyn? i grew up on the west side of chicago in the austin neighborhood.

I opened the image in the Paint app and then I used the select feature to select the cars on either side of the tree. Then I went to Lunapic and changed the car photos into Art Picasso style. I love Lunapic for changing photos. Then I put the edited car photos back onto the image in Paint and saved it.

https://www3.lunapic.com/editor/?action=picasso

So you grew up in Austin, so did I. We lived in a big house at 1508 Lunt in Austin until it got too dangerous. I called it the war zone (it went from white to all black and I had to be driven to school and my brothers got beat up I think), and then we moved to Rogers Park. We lived in Austin around late 60s, early 70s.

I moved to Berwyn because lots of apartments and safe place. I know Berwyn was racist in the 60s too and our family used to make fun of Berwyn, as a dopey place to live.

I wanted to add that now I remember why Berwyn was funny, Swengoolie had a bit on the TV show that sang the name Berwyn

....like you, i had a front row seat for the phenomenon called white flight. it was weird to watch, but as a kid looking for more kids to play with, the changing of the neighborhood was good because most of the families on our block and the blocks around us had been older white folks with no kids my age and then younger black families moved in with kids who wanted to play baseball and football and whatever, just like i wanted. i went to st. lucy grammar school on lake street.

in the mid-70s we moved to norwood park and it was culture shock for me....it was a fairly affluent neighborhood that i later referred to as "the great white northwest side". most of the kids in my school there had never really known any black people....i don't even remember black people working at any of the businesses there until much later. i still wanted to play unorganized sports in the street and one thing i noticed was that a large percentage of the white kids in that hood played dirty and cheated.....i never experienced that with the kids on the west side. that, and some other things made me miss austin. the best part of norwood park, for me, was the close proximity to caldwell woods and the bike trails, as i have always been a nature and wildlife lover.

during high school (i went to lane tech) a lot of my friends lived in rogers park so i hung out there during most of my free time. i retained most of those friends through college and i went to loyola so i was in rogers park every day. i started going to biddy mulligan's from the time i was 18 and a senior at lane and spent many nights there until i left chicago in 1990, watching the greatest blues artists of our time play. buddy guy and luther allison were the first two artists i saw play there and i was hooked for life.

after college i moved to andersonville (foster and ravenswood) and in 1990 i moved to miami.

We lived on 326 N Latrobe in Austin, not 1508 Lunt, which was the Rogers Park address. The Heartland Cafe was the neat place to eat in Rogers Park, run by 2 hippies and I waitressed there for a week once, but couldn't hack it as a waitress. The beach was the gem of Rogers Park and went swimming there all the time.

My father actually worked at The Community on Human Relations in Chicago and later for the Leadership Council on Metropolitan Open Communities, and they worked to integrate white only neighborhoods. My father would go through the process of applying somewhere where a black person had been turned away and then they would file a lawsuit for the black family or couple.

Thanks for sharing

i went there in high school when it was a little place that took up just about 25% on the right side of what became that building. i know it's gone now, sadly. the bar in the new place had a great craft beer selection.

i graduated HS in '80. what high school did you go to?

Sorry for the late reply. I used to smoke pot before class sometimes and a chemistry teacher noticed it once. I graduated in 1978. I was best friends with Krissy Zelewsky, her name might ring a bell.