Visits to Beloit WI, Madison WI and Rockford IL

My uncle Jay G Black opened his optometry practice in Loves Park IL about 1948. He moved the practice into the building shown below, and his son, Jay Charles Black continues the practice there. (Sorry that the pictures are fuzzy. Maybe this camera is worn out!)

 

Cousins J. Charles Black, above, and Rosy Eckhardt and husband Gene, below  joined us for lunch at the Swedish Inn in  Rockford

 

 

 

Here are the three cousins outside the restaurant. My tee shirt reads:

I am not 80

I am 79.9.

 

 

 

The statement then was true.

 

 

We parked the motor home at the Hanewalls farmstead near Beloit again this year.  Next to the granary is a great place to park.

 

   

Peter had this nice pond built in a low spot across the road from their home. It makes a very pleasant place to sit and  talk while the sun is going down.

 

 

 

Madison nostalgia tour

This is the home at 834 High Street in Madison where our little family lived until my father died in 1938. Info on the net says that is under 1000 square feet and has two bedrooms and one bathroom. I do not recall much about its interior.

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And this is the home in Madison where my aunt and uncle Lucy and Glenn Groesbeck lived from the late 1930s until the 1990s