Skokie

The reason we moved to the Midwest right after we were married was because Denny took a job writing for Sears at their headquarters on the West Side of Chicago.

To get to his job in the morning from our apartment on Louise Avenue in Skokie required rides on two buses and three trains. It took him an hour and a half.

One of those trains was the Skokie Swift - neat name, right? - which we visited today. It was still moving right along even though Denny has been gone for 45 years.

After Denny moved into the Sears Tower his commute was cut to just an hour. Nice.

We checked out our Louise Avenue apartment, where we lived for two years, and then headed over to our Knox Avenue place which we called home for the next three years.

Today was a good walk down memory lane and a reminder of where these 50 years all began.

P.S. We passed by the Sears store where we did much of our shopping.

It was closed down.

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