{"id":98,"date":"1934-06-03T01:39:33","date_gmt":"1934-06-03T07:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/?p=98"},"modified":"2012-06-03T08:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T14:29:31","slug":"june-4-1934-life-in-chicago-storm-clouds-brewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/june-4-1934-life-in-chicago-storm-clouds-brewing\/","title":{"rendered":"June 3, 1934 – Life in Chicago (Storm Clouds Brewing?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 3rd, 1934<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear ones,<\/p>\n

It is already 4 days since I wrote you last. Time goes so very fast a sign that I am having a good time. <\/p>\n

It is really very nice here.<\/p>\n

I get along very well with both of them [Aunt Henny and Uncle Julius Seckbach<\/em>] and can play mediator once in a while. Not often necessary. <\/p>\n

Every evening the 3 of us take a walk along the lake in the park. For 2 days it was awfully hot and I was glad to stay in the apartment. Not much happened in the meantime.

\"Walking<\/a>

Trudel walking past the World's Fair.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Yesterday we went window shopping. One dress or hat shop next to the other. People put much more importance on clothing than in Germany. <\/p>\n

The table cloths I brought along were very much liked and welcome, the candies and cookies are almost gone. Please send me the recipe for the cookies soon. <\/p>\n

So far I have not contacted anyone here. They are broges<\/em>* [upset] with Alfred Hamburger since Xmas because of some business affair. Last nite we went to a movie. Now, Sunday afternoon we are going to go for a walk. I do not know where. <\/p>\n

The newest sport here is riding bicycles. That is something for me. Tomorrow Aunt Henny and I are planning to go swimming early. I take a shower every day. That is great. <\/p>\n

Gas, electric, hot water and heat are included in the rent which is pretty high. This apt. 2 rooms, kitchen and bath cost weekly $25.00. On the other hand clothing and food is very reasonable. Especially fresh fruit which is eaten at any time of the day is very cheap. In Germany I did not used to eat as much fruit in a month as I do here in 1 day. I like especially pineapple.<\/p>\n

Love,
\nTrudel<\/p>\n

\"Lakefront\"<\/a>

Lake Front on a Summer Day, 1934<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

*Trudel wrote “proches,” a French word for “near” in her hand written corrections to a typescript of these letters. However, “broges,” which is is Yiddish for mad or “upset” fits the context. Proches makes no sense in this context.<\/em>
\nShortlink: http:\/\/wp.me\/p1yA95-1A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 3rd, 1934 Dear ones, It is already 4 days since I wrote you last. Time goes so very fast a sign that I am having a good time. It is really very nice here. I get along very well with both of them [Aunt Henny and Uncle Julius Seckbach] and can play mediator once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3,5],"tags":[54,414,55,50,45,56],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","category-family","category-immigrant-experience","tag-bicycle","tag-chicago","tag-cookies","tag-lake-michigan","tag-movies","tag-swimming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Trudel-headshot-on-a-sunny-day.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1yA95-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}