Are we there yet? 2013: Old Friends & Old Memories......

September 17, 2014 This is another day without Otis, he's at the kennel!?! Tonight we are meeting up with Mike & Susan Freund. Both Mike & Lennie were Mac Tools Distributors, then District Managers, & they both made the switch(at different times) to Matco Tools, Lennie as a District Manager, then retiring as a Distributor, & Mike, is still a Distributor for Matco Tools in Libertyville, Illinois.Since we are not meeting up with Mike & Susan till about 6:00pm we have time to spare. We are going to visit Fort Sheridan where Lennie was stationed after his return from Vietnam. Course that's been 47 years, & Fort Sheridan is no longer a base, we just want to see what it looks like & what they've done to it!

Ft Sheridan main gate

It was nice just to be able to walk all over the grounds....

Lennie said some of it was still familiar to him, but mostly....not!

Officer housing now condos!

Now that looks familiar!

Lake Michigan, Base beach

Base Cemetery

Beyond this arch was WAC housing

This exhibit was not at Ft Sheridan, back in the day.....

but it was pretty interesting!

Here's looking at you!

To kill some more time we drove through the town of Park City where Lennie lived off base. A lot had changed since his military days, he did say the apartment buildings still looked the same. (We didn't take a picture!)

It's about time to catch up with Mike & Susan. Now....not only is Mike a Tool Man, he's also an old car buff. He has 5 old cars in his collection, Susan says he's done collecting!?! When Lennie called Mike to make plans, Mike chose this date, the 17th because there was a car show in Libertyville that night! We were pleasantly surprised when we pulled up & Mike's 31 Model A was out front of his house!