Wednesday, July 11, 2018

BILL CHUCKMAN SITTING UP ON HID-A-BED IN THE PRISON PAJAMAS HE GOT AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT - I REMEMBER THOSE SO WELL BUT NOT OTHER DETAILS OF THIS VISIT - SURPRISED BILL WOULD STAY FOR CHRISTMAS ALONE BUT HE MAY WELL HAVE COME WITH MOM AND WAYNE AND WE HAD NO ROOM TO PUT THEM UP SO THEY WERE AT A MOTEL - NOT SURE OF LOCATION BUT I THINK IT IS THE HIGH-RISE APARTMENT ON JAMESON AVE SOUTH OF KING TORONTO WHERE WE LIVED NOT MANY MONTHS WHILE TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING MORE SUITABLE (WHICH WE DID AT SOME POINT ON MILLWOOD ROAD LEASIDE NEIGHBORHOOD) - WE WERE ORIENTED TO THE OLD-FASHIONED STYLE APARTMENTS OF CHICAGO, AND TORONTO HAD VERY FEW OF THEM (IT WAS THEN MAINLY PRIVATE HOMES PLUS SOME HIGH-RISES THAT OFTEN WERE UGLY AND EVEN SOULLESS (CERTAINLY TRUE OF JAMESON AVE, ALL OF IT FROM END-TO-END - MADE ME THINK OF IMAGES FROM THE SOVIET UNION) - IN LATER YEARS MANY LARGER OLD HOMES IN PARTS OF TORONTO WERE CONVERTED TO APARTMENTS, OFFERING MORE CHOICE - HIGH-RISE CONSTRUCTION EXPLODED LATER - DEC 25 1966 - A JOHN CHUCKMAN IMAGE

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