Southside Kid: Chicago Paperback L. Curt Erler

• Format: Paperback
• Author: L. Curt Erler
• ISBN10: 1419643525
• ISBN13: 9781419643521

Welcome to Chicagos Southside L. Curt Erler comes from a large, hardworking family and in his autobiography, Southside Kid; he pays homage to strong family values, a simpler time at the tail end of WWII. The author recalls his childhood growing up on Chicagos Southside. The family gathering around Moms Philco radio listening to Glenn Miller and Frankie Laine. Theres dancing and drag racing on the East Side. Its all here, baseball, movie matinees at the Avalon Theater, young love and Friday night dances with the St. Felicitas kids. Moving into the mid-50s youll find yourself surrounded by Rock and Roll and the sounds of Chicagos jazz joints. Music always played a big part in 'The Kids' life, and he provides an unparalleled written soundtrack that is bound to provoke happy memories. Southside Kids narrator is the only non-Catholic attending a Catholic school. Young Curt was fortunate and clever enough to make the best of this rather trying opportunity. He tells of his Yankee adventures in the South and a few altercations on Chicagos Southside streets. This book is a wonderful and wildly fun journey down a memory lane filled with laughter and high jinks that leaves its reader with a sense of longing. Everyone should have a childhood that is this much fun and a life that is this rich. In fact, for L. Curt Erler it isnt a life, it is a celebration and it is what makes this memoir alternately so touching and so hilarious.