Howdy, Democratic Underground!

[Kid Berwyn]

60. Hiya, Beringia!

Thank you for the kind welcome! Berwyn’s a great town with a most interesting history.

My handle comes from meeting a person my colleagues and I imagined was from Berwyn. We worked at a camera store in the Loop. About once a week, always near closing time, this guy would come in and ask for a Leica 35 Summicron lens cap, used and in mint condition, or similar thing we might have and would need to rummage for in a disorderly drawer in the now darkened store. In the process, one of us would be kept late. Once I found what he wanted. He didn’t buy it, either. Back then, he looked like an R. Crumb self portrait wasting my time while my train sped northwest without me. Now, 45 years later, I look and feel like an R. Crumb self portrait. People may think, I hope when I’m in Chicago, that I’m from Berwyn.

https://www.berwyn-il.gov/?q=about_berwyn