Travels with Selma and Roy: 2nd trip to Chicago 1939

My Second trip to Chicago July 1, 1939

Left home at 3:30 in a new Chevee, have 80 miles on speedometer so we can’t travel very fast. Daddy drove to Luverne, then Arlene drove there to Emmetsburg (112 miles) Arlene would have been 13 years old. Saw yucca plants blooming in the boulevards in Emmetsburg. “ Nite crawler” signs everywhere. Raspberry fields here too. Daddy drove from Emmetsburg to Nora Springs (100 miles) Then I drove to Dubuque where we crossed the toll bridge over the Mississippi R. (40c) (also good for return).

Corn looked better in Iowa than it does in Illinois. Lots of soy beans being grown. Pretty woodsy country between Dubuque and Freeport. Winding roads etc. Went within 4 mi of Blackhawk Battlefield. At Galena, Ill. Gen U.S. Grant’s birthplace. At Charles City, Ia. Dr Salisbury’s Lab. Got to Warrenville at 10:30. Had very little trouble finding it.

What a beautiful place Walfred and Iva have. Such a profusion of flowers and trees of every kind. And the nicest little home! A person could hardly believe that things could grow so fast in three years.

On Sunday we went to the Brookfield Zoo, had dinner along shady roadside, then to aquarium, then part of Field Museum. Then to Garfield conservatory where we saw lots of orchids, gloxinias, bunches of bananas on tree, pineapple, sensitive plants and oh so many different tropical plants.

Walfred and Iva's house in Warrenville, Illinois