Comments on: February 1, 1968

By: Karl Rudolf

Karl Rudolf — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:06:00 +0000

Dad was the only person who drank falstaff from the Polish Club. They would special order him a few cases of it every week. I`ts not to bad when you get 3 or 4 down

By: Letter #16 – February 7, 1968 | letters to larry

Letter #16 – February 7, 1968 | letters to larry — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:39:24 +0000

[...] From Tresa “The neighborhood where we grew up was referred to as the “Polish Acre” as a lot of the [...]

By: Tresa

Tresa — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:02:00 +0000

Zag, I agree, Falstaff was horrible beer, but when you’re 13 years old and you get to split a can or two with your mom on a special occasion, it’s not that bad. Better yet, remember the Polish picnics? Lots of free Falstaff for us underage drinkers! I doubt any of us turned our noses up at it back then.

By: zag

zag — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:39:00 +0000

saw about this in the church bulletin. had to check it out. brings back a lot of memories . i grew up down the street from the club on forest terrace and was good friends with karl. actually considered myself friends wiyh the entire Rudolf family. seems like i spent a lot of time over there . perception of time changes as we get older so i dont really know exactly. anyway, good to see all these familiar names, especially larry, who i also considered a good friend. thanks for the website it is nice. p.s. falstaff is horrible beer [ my opinion]]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:24:00 +0000

I still have PNA life insurance! Just paid my yearly premium recently.

I remember that park next to it. Whenever grandma would babysit us she would take us over there. It was an old park that would be condemned nowadays because of the rusty slides and whatnot.

By: Tresa Hale

Tresa Hale — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:26:00 +0000

The neighborhood where we grew up was referred to as the “Polish Acre” as a lot of the Polish immigrants congregated there years before. The Polish Club actually had members and was affiliated with the Polish National Alliance in Chicago. Daddy was the treasurer, and he was in charge of getting all the members life insurance through the PNA. Daddy may have even helped build the place. Back in it’s heyday it hosted lots of parties for it’s members, and bands and dances for the public all the time. There used to be a park next to it for the kids, and on the weekends they would mark off the basketball court and the teenagers would dance to popular music. The adults, and us kids that were too little, would stand around the sides and watch. It was just like “American Bandstand”. Daddy had a spot at the kitchen table in our house where he would keep an eye on the clubs “comings and goings” and he bartended there for some time. And yes, it was his hangout where many a night he staggered home in the wee hours of the morningafter a night of drinking Falstaff!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:32:00 +0000

Seems like Charlie loved that Polish Club!

By: Tresa Hale

Tresa Hale — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:21:00 +0000

I don’t blame Grandma for wanting a letter. Now-a-days we have so much technology what with skype, email, facebook, cell phones (with free long-distance), text messaging. All she had was an occasional phone call which was probably kept short because of the cost, and … letters. To have a child do what he was doing, so far away from home, she just wanted to know that he was okay, that he was eating, making friends, and later when he was in Vietnam … alive. But in Larry’s defense, I’m sure he was busy and tired in his boot camp.

And Daddy, scold you for “getting lost” and not getting Karl to basketball practice!

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:00 +0000

I’m surprised she uses the term “sign off” when saying goodbye. I thought that was created during the mid 90′s with the ICQ, PowWow, and AOL instant messaging craze, but apparently the term came along much earlier than that.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:49:00 +0000

Amelia sure does want some letters FROM Larry. She pretty much mentions that in every paragraph. I have never been to boot camp so I have no idea how much time there is for letter writing.