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Home » Archives for Mary Jo Clark

Author Archives: Mary Jo Clark

Posted inNews & Politics

West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark December 21, 2000August 19, 2021

I went down to Orlando in March of ’44, and in July we came home on furlough. We took the bus to Titusville, Florida, to get the train. I was […]

Posted inNews & Politics

West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark June 15, 2000August 19, 2021

The morning of my wedding, Catherine came over to help me get ready. She started putting my makeup on. I said, “Don’t put it so heavy.” She said, “Do you […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark July 22, 1999August 19, 2021

Pa always took Marge and me with him on a summer’s night when he went to get his pail of beer. One night he had to work overtime. We were […]

Posted inNews & Politics

West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark June 24, 1999August 19, 2021

One afternoon we sat on the front porch with the lady next door. The doctor went into our house with his little black bag, and this woman told us that […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark June 10, 1999August 19, 2021

When I was about five years old my mother was taking Marge and me to church. We were living on Tripp Avenue, where Rosemarie was born. My mother told us […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark May 27, 1999August 19, 2021

One day not too many years ago, I was at work and this man comes in. He walks right past the sign that says Authorized Personnel Only, and he walks […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark May 13, 1999August 19, 2021

Vince was scheduled to have a furlough in March 1943. So I called up the chancery office one day and asked if we could be married at mass during Lent. […]

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Westside Stories

by Mary Jo Clark April 22, 1999August 19, 2021

At Spiegel’s I worked in the legal department under Mr. Maloney, who was an attorney. He was a book man. I remember on my way up in the morning I […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark December 25, 1997August 20, 2021

The people who owned the building where we lived wanted our flat for their son. Now, apartments were very difficult to find in 1920. So my mother and father went […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark February 22, 1996August 20, 2021

My father always knew where to get it. There were many bootleggers around the neighborhood. One day a neighbor woman came running into our house and said, “Mrs. Ryan, I […]

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West Side Stories

by Mary Jo Clark January 18, 1996August 20, 2021

There were double-decker buses on Sacramento Boulevard in 1924, when I was ten. The big sport on Sunday afternoon was to ride up to the statue at Logan Square, which […]

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