Memories Of Growing Up In An Uptown Hotel In The 1930S And 40S

• Paige Wynne
• Diane Glick Berolzheimer

Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Diane Glick Berolzheimer, a child of 1930s and ’40s Chicago.

“We never had a car. We took public transportation. Streetcars or buses. My mother’s father had a school supply and candy store on Potomac Avenue, right off of Western, and I remember taking the Western Avenue streetcar there, or maybe it was Broadway.