Before My Best Friend became a Suburbanite
Before my best friend in high school became a suburbanite, he actually lived in the city in the blue-collar community of South Deering; not too far from where I was living. He lived with his parents, his older brother and younger sister in a single-family dwelling that was next door to a steakhouse. Both places were within two blocks of an odoriferous steel plant that had long since been shut down. His Vietnam vet father worked as a refrigerator repairman before buying a fast food franchise in the suburbs. Across the busy Torrence Avenue from his house and the steakhouse was the Hispanic neighborhood of Trumbull Park. And unlike on his side of Torrence Avenue, Trumbull Park served as a great place for him and his siblings to play. Within the boundaries of that neighborhood, was a park by the same name. Within that park was a pool. And on a hot day when my buddy would watch his friends fawn over and gawk the swimsuit-clad, hippy, busty and big-bottomed Latinas parade around the pool; he would say to himself:"I don't get it!" Needless to say, he was probably happy that the success of his father's business enabled his family to move to the suburbs; where he could meet girls that were more…his speed.
This is Mujer 1 in the color climax of the series entitled It's All in The Bag. I often imagined that THIS is what I would see if I was hanging out around the pool at Trumbull Park.
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