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Research has shown that this restaurant was flooded back in 1986. It was rebuilt but then it was destroyed by a fire on January 8, 1987. There is a park there now. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5EVBQ_gurnee-history-1947-the-rustic-manor
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Apparently Heidi was entering a Bozo's Circus contest. And the answer is Girl. Twice.
Gurnee, Ill. Home of the Flying Wave.
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I’ve been to Round Lake dozens of times as a kid. One time our town had our city picnic there. I had a painful moment playing hide and seek. I was barefoot and dan around a large tree to hide. Someone had dumped their charcoal at the base of the tree when they were done cooking. Severely burned the bottoms of both feet. Because it was the city picnic, all of the police and firemen were there and administered first aid.
I like the Ontario 2 phone exchange. My grandma’s was Gladstone 5.
Thepost card was probably old when it was purchased. Zipcodes were being used and the postmark is 1977. Phonetic phone exchanges were phased out with the advent of touch tone dialing.
In fact we bought our house in 1963 and while I still remember our number (562-0058) I don’t ever remember learning it as a phonetic. If it had one it was probably JO 2. Maybe Johnson 2? Joking 2?
JO is not listed in this reference, but then neither is GLadstone.
http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/Chicago%20Telephone%20Exchange%20Names%20and%20History.pdfBoth are listed here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names
