{"product_id":"clarendon-hills-kid-9798987249222","title":"Clarendon Hills Kid","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn idyllic childhood examined from the viewpoint of a boy growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago during the 1950s and 60s. Clarendon Hills was part of the suburban boom that occurred in post-WWII America when the country was ascendent. The author looks at what shaped his life as the village was growing; the wealth distinctions, the transformation of a wild peat bog into a park, the teacher whose words he can still recall, the all-consuming love of baseball, his family's background, the characters and personalities present in daily life. Readers will go on a toboggan ride with a future criminal; find out about the prostitute rumor; re-live a bank robbery; sneak into the Hinsdale movie theater; visit Lucy's to buy some candy; re-live an era that will never again exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"During my youth, wealth competitiveness had not seemed to infect Clarendon Hills. Not yet. Unlike some towns, there was no proverbial \u003cem\u003ewrong\u003c\/em\u003e side of the tracks, although those on the south side, I have come to learn, believed themselves to be superior. Ha ha ha.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...a brief time when you could just enjoy life without too much social pressure to upscale your property and possessions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Growing up, I had no idea what secrets might be lurking within the modest homes of the community...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Girls dancing in socks always got the hormones raging.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Bain Communications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798987249222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Roger Day Bain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52259607511221,"sku":"9798987249222","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_171b7f66-d6cc-4ae5-beb8-f280370e11da.jpg?v=1771342444","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/clarendon-hills-kid-9798987249222","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}