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leoklein
Leo Robert Klein
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Born in Chicago, left for twenty years (Paris, Rome, Berlin, NYC), came back. Leo is a writer, designer & librarian living in Chicago.
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leoklein · 5 days ago
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May 1st Parade (Chicago)
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leoklein · 8 months ago
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Out for a really nice walk! The streets are full of colorful trees. So pretty!
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leoklein · 8 months ago
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Looking over this week's literary purchases (from Salvation Army) while chomping down on lunch at Taco Bell. Life is beautiful -- at least on Friday afternoons …😀 !!!
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leoklein · 11 months ago
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Hoo baby! Purdy-Purdy Flowers (on Sheridan near Grace)!
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leoklein · 1 year ago
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Chicago Blues Festival - Day 3. Hung out at the Pritzker Pavilion. Great music! Set ended with Buddy Guy.
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leoklein · 1 year ago
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Book Bargain (History) Yesterday's purchases from Salv. Army -- couldn't resist and only cost a couple bucks! (One cost $2 and the other $3…)
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leoklein · 1 year ago
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End of Year / Beginning of Year Get-together
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Had a great time with old friends celebrating end of one year and the beginning of another. Happy New Year!
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leoklein · 2 years ago
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Proceeds from the ALA Conference -- enjoyed it the whole week!  So much to grab (books, bags, paraphernalia of all kinds)!  After a couple years of No-Can-Do, we're back in the good times...
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leoklein · 2 years ago
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Today's fortune (drying off after being washed) -- found while wandering the streets of Chicago...
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leoklein · 9 years ago
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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Worked here while I was going to UIC in the late 70s.  10th fl. (I think) -- Credit Dept
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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Granada Theater: Uncle Elmer used to work here as an usher.
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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The Pickle Barrel -- totally remember it but wasn't there one in Old Town?  (My memory sucks.)
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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Hancock Building -- they had to stop construction and start again from the beginning at a certain point.
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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My uncles Ernest Klein and Gen. Julius Klein lived here in the Sixties.
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leoklein · 13 years ago
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For some reason -- maybe to see if I still had an email account with NYU -- I moseyed on over to NYU's email page for maybe the first time in years. Miraculously, I could still log in and more miraculously still, they had switched over to Gmail and had included some really ancient emails from me going back to the mid-to-late 90's.
Here's a gem from 1997 telling the Grad Adviser from NYU's History Dept. that I was dumping him in favor of the far more attractive "Multimedia" Program at NYU's 'Interactive Telecommunications Program" (ITP):
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