![]() ![]() Father could become so intent on what he was talking about that he could be absent-minded. Guenzel would have to climb under the car and insert a new one.įather stayed behind in the Blackstone Avenue house with a fellow member of his department, Clarence Parmenter, both of them having opted to teach for the summer quarter. Every ten miles or so the boiler would over-heat and blow the safety valve. The roads north along Sturgeon Bay were merely two ruts with grass growing between them. We drove up with the Guenzels, friends of my parents, in a glorious red Stanley Steamer. Wisconsin, to escape the heat of the Chicago summer. That summer our mother took us to Fish Creek, The next year we moved to a house on what was then Blackstone Avenue between 57 th and 58 th Streets. Pussy was in second grade in the elementary school while I was being a pest around the hotel. Emily Kimborough, in her book about growing up in Chicago, has an amusing description of us staying at the Del Prado Hotel-the Nitze family, their charming daughter Pussy, and their spoiled, objectionable brat of a son. I was three I had a friend who was four and much more grown up. I remember it as being a glorious place with high ceilings, sunny rooms, an enormous veranda with rocking chairs. We moved from Berkeley, California, to the Del Prado Hotel on 59th Street, on the lakeshore side of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks, in the fall of that year. ![]() In 1910 my father was asked by President Harper to join the faculty of the University of Chicago as head of the Department of Romance Languages and Nitze, class of 1923, recollections he wrote for that journal in 1985. HPHS President Alice Schlessinger, formerly editor of LAB NOTES, U-High'sJournal, has suggested that Society members might be interested in the recollections of Pan/ H. Do not pass go and do not collect $200.Autumn/Winter 2002 Volume 23, Number 4, Published by the Hyde Park Historical Society, WINTER 2001-2002 MY SCHOOL DAYS IN HYDE PARK It will not take the place of a Trinidad or LGC Serie R after a steak dinner but for a morning smoke or to smoke without having to sit down, this is it. If the veins were less prevalent, add 2-4 more points. As a mild morning smoke, I would have to put it in the low 90's. I would have to give this cigar an 88 overall. I hate that I have let 10+ years of cigar smoking go by without trying one until now. ![]() Sometimes when smoking the fuller bodied sticks, I get the tar/nicotine build up on my lips and tongue. The cigar was not at all spicy or sharp in any way. (I was drinking that, so it could have been the actual coffee I was having) I couldn't say if it had nutmeg or anything crazy. Sometimes I would get a sweet taste like coffee with cream and sugar. The smoke was not overpowering, so I guess it was mild in that respect. The ashes held out for about an inch before falling in my lap. The draw is just firm enough to let you know you are doing something. There were minimal soft spots found while giving it the Charmin squeeze. It is not old enough for the cellophane to turn yellow yet. I smoked my first one last night and I couldn't wait to get up this morning and have another with a strong cup of joe. was kind enough to send me some to try as a morning smoke. For some reason, I was ashamed to smoke a Mac. The cigar for people who don't smoke cigars, etc. I had read too much about Macs being very mild. Until last night, I had not smoked a Macanudo. ![]()
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