{"product_id":"clarendon-hills-kid","title":"Clarendon Hills Kid","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn idyllic childhood examined from the viewpoint of a boy growing up in the western suburbs of Chicago during the 1950s and 60s. Clarendon Hills was part of the suburban boom that occurred in post-WWII America when the country was ascendent. The author looks at what shaped his life as the village was growing; the wealth distinctions, the transformation of a wild peat bog into a park, the teacher whose words he can still recall, the all-consuming love of baseball, his family's background, the characters and personalities present in daily life. Readers will go on a toboggan ride with a future criminal; find out about the prostitute rumor; re-live a bank robbery; sneak into the Hinsdale movie theater; visit Lucy's to buy some candy; re-live an era that will never again exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"During my youth, wealth competitiveness had not seemed to infect Clarendon Hills. Not yet. Unlike some towns, there was no proverbial \u003cem\u003ewrong\u003c\/em\u003e side of the tracks, although those on the south side, I have come to learn, believed themselves to be superior. Ha ha ha.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...a brief time when you could just enjoy life without too much social pressure to upscale your property and possessions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Growing up, I had no idea what secrets might be lurking within the modest homes of the community...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Girls dancing in socks always got the hormones raging.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roger Bain Communications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51981667500263,"sku":"9798987249222","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_130f6134-bde4-4898-bca6-cfe9bfcf1073.jpg?v=1776216712","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/clarendon-hills-kid","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}