1950: This rare picture, most likely taken by our father, shows Charles's unsuccessful attempt to strangle Wendy in the living room of our home on Lafayette Avenue in Melrose Park. I was three years old at the time and showing signs of becoming a brat. Wendy appears to be sucking on a lollipop, most likely a butterscotch flavored lollipop from Galls Candies, a store near Fifth and Olney Streets, not far from the original Stetson Hat factory. Galls went out of business long, long ago. They made great lollipops and the best milk chocolate in the world.
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Wow was that good chocolate - and the lollipops weren't bad either. Daddy kept the sweets locked up in the closet in the TV room. I seem to remember that at some point when he was much older, Chuck figured out how to break into the locked shelf to get the goodies out!!! Is that really true? Wendy
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