Aug 03 - Art Institute, Adler, Abe Lincoln & squirrels

Thursday, August 3, 1972 - Page 216
LOCATION: Chicago

(12:30 PM 8/4/1972)
Mrs. was going to go to school today so she drove me to the Art Institute. We started at 10:30, and arrived at the A.I. by 11:30 -- the traffic was not good -- State St. was being marched upon by thousands of little kids (Soozwol was one of the supervisors -- that's her job. You may recall that while working, a bowling ball was dropped on her toe -- that's her job). I ate lunch in the cafeteria there, and left at 2:00.

Art Institute of Chicago where my grandfather,
Charles Wilimovsky, taught many years ago

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum

It had been raining all day, and was still sprinkling while I walked to the Adler Planetarium. There is nothing but parks between the Institute and the Planetarium, so I spent some time playing with squirrels. I noticed one squirrel with a pecan that it buried at the grass's edge. I dug it up and fed it to three other squirrels.

Bronze sculpture of Lincoln by
Avard Fairbanks, 1956

I rested a while at the Lincoln statue -- I wasn't too energetic. The last two nights I've gotten to sleep at 3:00 A.M. and got up at 9 or 10. Anyway, I left the Planetarium by 6:30 -- the sky was sunny when I came out. All day had been very windy (the waves from the lake splashed well above the sidewalk), so the clouds were blown away. I took a different bus back -- it was to Jackson & Kedzie. I got back okay, tho it was a slightly different route.

My guide to Downtown Chicago in 1972

Marcus & Sue were the only ones home when I arrived -- I made 3 ham sandwiches and went upstairs. Larry, Ken & I played Mirror Mania (Larry brought it -- I won both games) -- and we & Mark & Sue watched the movie Ken took of his vacation. I was in the ones of Bethlehem, of course.

TOMORROW: Improving this journal