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In reply to the discussion: Howdy, Democratic Underground! [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)28. Hiya, CurtEastPoint! Yeah - Illinois, not Pennsylvania, Berwyn...
The jokes on me. I used to work at a camera store in downtown Chicago. One customer still haunts me decades later. Hed always come in near closing and ask to see all manner of lens caps for obsolete equipment. He never bought anything, but hed keep me busy long enough to miss my train. He looked like R. Crumb and we imagined he was from Berwyn. Now Im old and look like R. Crumb...
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Welcome. In my brief stint in Chicago 40 years ago 'Berwyn' was the punch line of...
CurtEastPoint
May 2019
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Welcome to DU. I was born in Berwyn many years ago. McNeal Memorial Hospital. n/t
rzemanfl
May 2019
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