photos of the trip

 Here is where Beagles learned to read, rite, and rithmatic, and home of the notorious denim debacle.

Here is what once was the Elsdon Methodist Church.  I enlarged it so that you can see the sign that says Chicago Ghanian SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) Church.  It didn't look like it was occupied, but it is well-kept and it has a presence on the web so I don't know.

And here is where proud Talman's once stood.  Now a 
Starbucks and LA Fitness.  What is this, the north side?

Klockner's flower shop.  The only thing I could find that was still there from the days of Beagles and Uncle Ken.

And the Colony Theater where one summer I watched Yul Brynner stalk the burning sands of the desert in air conditioning so comfortable that I could feel my toes tingle.

All in all the old hood looks good.  There are some vacant shops but the bungalow streets are neat as a pin the way I remember them from my days of riding my trike under the shade of tall trees.