Winter has returned to Denver, with low temperatures forecast to be in the 10 below zero range tonight. And it is not just Denver that is dealing with the snow and cold. Chicago is having a hard winter too, and has had far more below zero temperatures than here. Of course, hard winters are nothing new in Chicago. As I recall, we actually took a perverse kind of pride in how bad the weather was. "Guess how cold it is now?" was always a fun question to ask, unless you happened to work outside. In any case, winter was no match for our Pontiac Catalina, which my mother is posing in front of in the photograph above, taken in front of our house in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Brainerd during the winter of 1960. It was as close to a tank as you could get back then, back before gun rights advocates started lobbying for our constitutional right to drive actual tanks. But I digress. Back to my original point - it's cold!
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