South Shore Days 1940's & '50's

This is a personal memoir of good times in Chicago back in the days when candy bars and White Castles cost a mere 5 cents. Chicago is a “city of neighborhoods” whether you are talking about Chinatown Canaryville Bridgeport Beverly South Chicago Bronzeville Hyde Park Woodlawn or Englewood. This story takes place in the old South Shore neighborhood nestled on Lake Michigan between Jackson Park to the north and the booming steel mills to the south. My cousin Dr. Bruce Hannon of the University of Illinois used to say “Good people make a good place good” and South Shore was one of those places...