Places
Where the family lived
Every place the book names, with the people and stories attached to it.
- 11th Street in Moline
- 120 Erie Street
- 127 35th Street down by River Drive
- 127 35th Street, Moline, IllinoisIllinois
- 15th Street Hill
- 180 Beaver StreetCalifornia
- 180 Beaver Street, San Francisco
- 23rd Avenue
- 248 Day Street
- 2525 11th Avenue
- 2525 11th Avenue, Moline
- 257 Hampton Court
- 257 Hampton Court, Chicago
- 3209 39th Street, South Moline Township
- 32nd Avenue
- 32nd Avenue and 38th Street
- 333 Laurel Street
- 36th street and Blackhawk Road
- 373 Cumberland Street
- 38th Street and 32nd Avenue
- 39th StreetIllinois
- 39th Street neighborhood
- 39th Street ravine
- 39th Street, outskirts of Moline, Illinois
- 39th Street, P.J. Mersman’s Acres Addition, outskirts of Moline, Illinois
- 41st Street
- 4th Street Court, East Moline
- 511 East StreetMassachusetts
- 511 East Street, Dedham
- 55 Surf Street
- 55 Surf Street, Chicago
- 6th Street CourtIllinois
- 6th Street Court, East Moline, Illinois
- a distant farm
- A farm in Worthington, Minnesota
- a friend’s house
- a local art center
- A room around the corner from Ray Vogue, across from the Cathedral
- A&p
- A&P Store
- A&P Store, downtown Moline; family home
- Across 32nd Avenue from the Petersons
- Aculpolco
- Africa
- airport
- Alaska
- Albuquerque
- AmericaAmerica
- Amsterdam
- Anne Frank’s house and hideaway
- Apartment near Winsberg’s, Chicago
- Apple Barn
- Arctic Circle
- ArizonaArizona
- Arsenal
- Art Institute
- Astoria
- Astoria, IllinoisIllinois
- Astoria, Illinois to Newburg, North Dakota
- at home on a farm in St. Mathias Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
- At the narrator's home
- Atlanta
- Atlantic City
- Atlantic coast
- Augustana Book Concern
- Augustana Book Concern, Rock Island
- AustriaAustria
- Back Of The Yards
- back yard
- Back yard of the Moline house
- Barb’sIllinois
- Behind Carol's family's orchard
- Ben Franklin Store
- Ben Franklin Store in Janesville
- BerneSwitzerland
- Berne, Switzerland
- Bernie's Victorian house
- Bertie Davis’s apartment
- Bertie Davis’s nearby apartment
- big white house
- Big Woods
- big woods behind Swanson’s
- Bill and Iris’s downstairs kitchen
- Billy's strawberry patch
- Bimidji, MinnesotaMinnesota
- Black Hills
- Blackhawk Road
- Block and Kuhls
- Bloomington-Normal area
- boarding house
- Bob Retzlaff’s Ben Franklin StoreWisconsin
- Bob Retzlaff’s Ben Franklin Store, Madison, Wisconsin
- Bob's boutique
- Bob’s house
- Bob's house on the Rock RiverWisconsin
- Bob's house on the Rock River in Janesville, Wisconsin
- Bormann’sWisconsin
- Boston
- Boston area
- Boston CommonsUnited States
- Boston to Contentment, Massachusetts
- Boxcar in a ravine on 41st Street
- BrainerdMinnesota
- Brainerd, Bimidji, Worthington and Rochester, Minnesota
- Brainerd, MinnesotaMinnesota
- Britz’s barbed-wire fence
- Britz’s side
- Brown’s home
- Browning Field
- Browning Field and Wharton Field House
- Butler Brother’s Ben Franklin headquarters in Chicago
- CaliforniaCalifornia
- Calvary Lutheran Church
- Camp Mansur
- Camp Shabone
- Camp Shabone, Port Byron
- Camp Shebonie
- Campbell’s IslandIllinois
- Campbell’s Island Bridge
- CanadaCanada
- Cannes
- Caribbean
- Carol's former high school
- Carol's house
- Carolyn Reichenberg’s attic
- Carolyn Reichenberg’s yard
- CastroCalifornia
- Cathedral
- Charles River
- Charmettes
- Chicago
- Chicago, IllinoisIllinois
- Children’s Hospital
- Children’s Hospital, Chicago
- China
- Chocolate Shop
- Chocolate Shop, East Moline
- church Halloween party
- Clark Street
- Coal Town Road
- Coal Valley, IllinoisIllinois
- Coaltown Road
- Coliseum
- Colleen’s house
- ColoradoColorado
- Columbia River
- Community Center
- Congregational church in Roscoe, IllinoisIllinois
- Contentment, MassachusettsMassachusetts
- Contentment, Massachusetts; later Dedham, 511 East Street
- Cook CountyCook County
- Coolidge
- Coolidge Jr. High
- Coolidge Junior High
- Coolidge Junior High School
- Coolidge Rec
- Copenhagen
- Coral Springs, FloridaFlorida
- Cordova
- Cordova, IllinoisIllinois
- Cote de Zur
- Country route via 41st Street and Fredrickson’s grocery store
- County of Crow WingCrow Wing, Minnesota
- Coventry, VermontVermont
- Cozy Corner restaurant
- Cozy Corners
- Crete
- Crow Wing County, MinnesotaCrow Wing County, Minnesota
- Dad’s shed
- Dad's workshop
- Dairy Queen
- Dan and Bernal’s farm, St. Mathias County, Minnesota
- Dan and Olive’s home
- Dan Guild’s graveMinnesota
- Dan Guild’s grave, Minnesota
- Dan’s house
- Dan’s Radiator Shop
- Dan’s Radiator Shop, 506 Laurel StreetMinnesota
- Dan’s Radiator Shop, 506 Laurel Street, Brainerd, Minnesota
- Dan’s Radiator Shop, Brainerd, Minnesota
- Davenport
- Davenport, IowaIowa
- Dearborn, MichiganMichigan
- Dedham
- Dedham, MassachusettsMassachusetts
- Dee’s Beauty SalonIllinois
- Dee’s yard
- Deere’s
- DeKalb
- DenmarkDenmark
- Diana’s homeFlorida
- Diana’s home in Hollywood Florida
- Dirt road in front of the house
- Dover
- downtown Davenport
- downtown Moline
- Downtown store windows
- Dr. Scholl’s
- Draft board on LaSalle Street in the Loop
- DunsethNorth Dakota
- Dunseth, North DakotaNorth Dakota
- East Moline
- East Moline Ben Franklin store
- East Moline State Hospital
- Eileen Peterson’s house
- Elliott’s
- Elmhurst
- Elmhurst, IllinoisIllinois
- Essex, EnglandEngland
- Ethel's home
- Ethiopia
- Europe
- Fairbanks, AlaskaAlaska
- Fairbanks’ family home
- Fairbanks’ family home, Dedham
- Fales’ home
- Falk property
- Family home
- Family home's kitchen
- farm in North Dakota
- farm in St. Mathias, Minnesota
- Farmall plant
- Ferry’s house
- Ferry’s Woods
- Ferry’s Woods ravine
- Field next door
- Flandreau, South DakotaSouth Dakota
- Florence Britz’s home
- FloridaFlorida
- Florida Keys
- Floyd Guild’s Well
- Former outhouse site at the Guild residence
- Fort Leonard WoodMissouri
- Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
- Fort Ripley
- Fort Ripley, MinnesotaMinnesota
- Fort SillOklahoma
- Fort Sill, Oklahoma
- Fortieth Street
- France
- Franciscan Hospital
- Frank’s Pizza
- Frank’s PlaceMinnesota
- Frank’s Place, Wabedo Lake, about 5 miles from Longeville, Minnesota
- Fredrickson’s grocery store
- Fredrickson’s Market
- French Riviera
- Friend’s Circle
- Frogtown
- front yard
- Fry’s Woods
- Garden land south of the house
- Garden lot between our houses
- Garlic Press
- Garmisch
- Garmisch; King Ludwig’s castles; Denmark; Austria; Holland; Luxenbourg; Switzerland
- Geneseo
- Geneseo IllinoisIllinois
- Germantown, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
- GermanyGermany
- Germany and Denmark
- Germany; Homestead Air Force Base, Florida
- Germany; Japan
- Germany; Mainz
- Grade school
- Granada
- Granary on the inherited property
- Grand Avenue
- Grand Canyon
- Grand Teton Mountains
- Grand Traverse County, MichiganGrand Traverse County, Michigan
- Grandpa Dan Guild’s radiator repair shop
- Granville Avenue
- Greece
- Guild residence
- Haiti
- Halifax, EnglandEngland
- Hans Christian Andersen’s homeDenmark
- Harding College
- Harold Falk’s farm
- Harold Falk’s farm on St. Mathias Road
- Harvey’s Bar
- Hasty Tasty
- Hasty Tasty Restaurant
- Hasty Tasty Restaurant, 16th Street, Moline
- Hasty Tasty, Moline
- Hawaii
- Herman Nelson
- Herman Nelson Corporation
- Herman Nelson, downtown Moline
- Hershey, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
- Hershey, Pennsylvania to Astoria, Illinois
- Highland
- Highland area
- Highland Ben Franklin store
- Highland Movie Theatre
- Highland Movie Theatre on 23rd Avenue
- Highland Park Bowl and Wells Fargo Lounge
- Highland Theater
- Hiroshima, JapanJapan
- Holder’s corner
- HollandHolland
- Hollywood
- Hollywood, FloridaFlorida
- Homestead Air Force BaseFlorida
- hospital
- House in the woods in MinnesotaMinnesota
- house on 39th StreetIllinois
- House on the Rock River in Janesville, Wisconsin
- Hurley’s
- Hurley’s Beauty School
- Hurricane Motor Lodge
- Hurricane Motor Lodge, Marathon Key
- IllinoisIllinois
- Illinois Research HospitalIllinois
- Illinois Research Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
- Illinois State FairIllinois
- Illinois State Fair, Springfield
- Illinois State HospitalIllinois
- Illinois State University
- Illinois Wesleyan campus
- IndianaIndiana
- IngelheimGermany
- Ingelheim, Germany
- Inherited 160-acre property
- Iowa City
- Iowanna Dairy
- Iowanna Dairy, Davenport
- Ira, Cayuga County, New YorkCayuga County, New York
- Iris and Bill’s
- Iris and Bill’s apartment
- Iris and Bill's Ben Franklin store
- Iris and Bill’s house
- Iris and Bill’s house (during summers)
- Iris’ house
- Iris’s house
- Istanbul, TurkeyTurkey
- ItalyItaly
- Iwo Jima
- J. C. Penney’s basement
- J. C. Penny’s
- J.C. Penney Store in Moline
- Jackson Hole, WyomingWyoming
- Janesville
- Janesville, Wisconsin
- JapanJapan
- Jenny Swanson's house, across 32nd Avenue from the Petersons
- John Deere
- John Deere Credit Union
- John Deere Plow WorksIllinois
- John Deere Plow Works, Moline
- junk yard
- Kay Bee Clothing store
- Kay Bee Clothing store, Moline
- Kay Bee store
- Kenya
- Kewanee
- King Ludwig’s castles
- King’s Apple Orchard
- King’s Shopping Center
- Kinko’s, San Francisco
- Kinnikinnick RoadIllinois
- Kinnikinnick Road, Roscoe, Illinois
- kitchen
- Kitty Sheon’s
- Korea
- Kresge’s dime store
- Lagomarcino’s
- Lagomarcino’s, downtown Moline
- Lagos
- Lake on Gus Falk's family's property
- Lake Wabedo
- Lakeshore Drive
- Lakeshore Drive apartment
- Lakeshore Drive, Chicago
- Lancaster, PennsylvaniaPennsylvania
- Lancaster, South CarolinaSouth Carolina
- Land south of 3209 39th Street
- Lanoa’s store
- LaSalle Street
- Lawrence
- LeClaire Hotel
- LeClaire Hotel, downtown Moline
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- little four-room house on 39th Street
- Local county fair
- Local orphanage
- London
- Longeville, MinnesotaMinnesota
- Los Angeles
- Lutheran church
- LuxenbourgLuxenbourg
- Macomb, IllinoisIllinois
- Madison, Wisconsin
- MainzGermany
- Mainz American Community SchoolGermany
- Mainz, Germany
- Mainz, Germany; Denmark
- Mama Bosso’s
- Mama Bosso’s, downtown Moline
- Marathon Key
- Margie Britz’s house
- Margie’s house
- Marshall Field’s
- Mary Dumase’s house
- McDonalds
- McFarland’s empty lot
- McFarland’s front yard
- McFarland’s lot
- McFarland’s vacant lot
- McFarland’s yard
- McKinley grade school
- McKinley School
- Mediterranean
- Memri
- Methodist Church
- Mexico
- Miami
- Michigan Avenue
- Midwest
- Mikinos
- Milan
- Milan drive-in
- Minneapolis
- MinnesotaMinnesota
- Minnesota to Moline
- MinotNorth Dakota
- Mississippi
- Mississippi River
- MissouriMissouri
- MolineIllinois
- Moline candy factoryIllinois
- Moline Daily Dispatch
- Moline Dispatch
- Moline High
- Moline High School
- Moline house
- Moline Public HospitalIllinois
- Moline Public Hospital, Moline, Illinois
- Moline Public Hospital’s Nursing School
- Moline Senior High School
- Moline Swimming Pool
- Moline, IllinoisIllinois
- Mommy’s bedroom
- Montreal
- Mouse RiverNorth Dakota
- Mrs. Holder’s house
- Mrs. Rohrer’s house
- Museum of Art and Science
- near Astoria, IllinoisIllinois
- Near the Fales’ home
- Near the family's strawberry patch; the doctor's office
- New England
- New Guinea
- new house in the country
- New YorkNew York
- New York Store
- NewburgNorth Dakota
- Newburg, North DakotaNorth Dakota
- Normal
- Normal, IllinoisIllinois
- North DakotaNorth Dakota
- North Dakota by the Mouse River
- North Miami Beach Hospital
- North PortFlorida
- North Port, FloridaFlorida
- North Side
- North Side apartment
- North Side apartment shared with Sig Eckberg
- North Side apartment, Chicago
- Northern CanadaCanada
- Northern Illinois University
- Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
- NorwayNorway
- Nursery school
- Nursing homes
- OdenseDenmark
- OhioOhio
- Old farm
- Old farm with Dan and Olive
- old farmhouse
- old homestead
- old-time ice cream parlor
- On Lake Enterprise
- One-Ways
- Orchard
- Orion
- Oscar Peterson’s
- Oshkosh, WisconsinWisconsin
- our yard
- out west
- Outside the grocery store
- Overseas for two years
- P.J. Mersman’s Acres AdditionIllinois
- P.J. Mersman’s Acres Addition, outskirts of Moline, Illinois
- Pacific
- Pacific coast
- Paris
- Paris and Cannes
- Penn State
- Penney’s
- Penny’s
- Peter’s bakery
- Peterson’s house
- Phil Vinar’s Furniture Store
- Philadelphia
- PhilippinesPhilippines
- Pike’s PeakColorado
- Port Byron
- Powder Puff Beauty Salon
- Powder Puff Beauty Salon, 23rd Avenue, Moline
- probably to New York
- Puerto Rico
- PX restaurant
- Quad-City
- Ray Vogue
- Ray Vogue Schools
- Ray Vogue, Chicago
- Ray's cave hideout
- Rec” center at Moline High
- Reichenberg’s back yard
- Reichenberg’s garden
- Reichenberg’s house
- Reichenberg’s well
- Reno
- rented farm in St. Mathias, Minnesota
- Rhine River ValleyGermany
- Rhodes
- Rijksmuseum
- River Drive
- River Drive house
- Riverside CemeteryIllinois
- Riverside Cemetery in Moline, IllinoisIllinois
- Riverside Cemetery, Moline, Illinois
- Riverside Park
- Riverside Park ice skating pond
- Riverview Amusement Park
- Robert Allerton ParkIllinois
- Robert Allerton Park, Urbana, Illinois
- RochesterMinnesota
- Rock County Bank
- Rock Island
- Rock Island Arsenal
- Rock Island County Fair
- Rock Island courthouse
- Rock Island jailhouse
- Rock River
- Rockton, IllinoisIllinois
- Roger, Gano, and Stevie Smith’s house
- Roosevelt Elementary School
- Roosevelt grade school
- Roosevelt Grade School, Moline
- Roosevelt school
- Roselle’s ice cream store
- Roselles
- Roselles, 23rd Avenue
- Round Lake
- Rural Route #2
- Ruth and Tom Johnson’s
- Saint Louis, MissouriMissouri
- Salt Lake City
- Sam’s Market
- San Bernardino
- San FranciscoCalifornia
- San Francisco Airport
- San Francisco Bay
- San Torini
- Sandwich, IllinoisIllinois
- Sausalito
- Savannah, IllinoisIllinois
- Schlegal’s Drug Store
- Schmidt Beauty Supply
- Schmidt Beauty Supply, downtown Moline
- school gymnasium
- ScotlandScotland
- Semri
- Semri or Memri drive-ins
- Shinner’s Meat Market
- sidewalk
- Silvis
- Sioux Line RailroadNorth Dakota
- Small house on Harold Falk’s farm on St. Mathias Road
- Soul Bowl
- Soul Bowl in Silvis
- South America
- South FloridaFlorida
- South Moline Township
- South Pacific
- South side of Chicago
- Sowerby
- Sowerby, England to Boston
- Sowerby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Halifax, EnglandEngland
- SpringfieldIllinois
- St. Anthony’s Hospital
- St. Mathias County, MinnesotaSt. Mathias County, Minnesota
- St. Mathias Road
- St. Mathias Township
- St. Mathias Township, Crow Wing County, MinnesotaCrow Wing County, Minnesota
- St. Mathias Township; property south of Brainerd and east of Fort Ripley
- St. Mathias, MinnesotaCrow Wing, Minnesota
- St. Mathias, Minnesota, County of Crow Wing; alternatively Fort Ripley, Minnesota
- St. Paul Church
- Stardust Carnival
- Starved Rock Park
- State Fair
- State Farm Insurance
- storefront windows
- Summer cottage in WisconsinWisconsin
- Swanson’s
- SwitzerlandSwitzerland
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Tasty Treat drive-in
- Tasty Treat drive-in, 36th street and Blackhawk Road, Rock Island
- Tasty Treat root beer stand
- Tasty Treat root beer stand on Blackhawk Road
- TennesseeTennessee
- Thailand
- the airport
- The boy’s room
- The farm Gypsy came from
- The Frys' small dairy farm
- The Frys' small dairy farm at 38th Street and 32nd Avenue
- The Guild residence
- The Hasty Tasty
- The Johnsons' side yard
- The Ledges
- The Little Mermaid statue
- The Loop
- the McFarlands
- the McFarlands' house
- the MuseumDenmark
- The Netherlands
- The New York Store
- The New York Store, downtown Moline
- the pastor’s home
- the Peterson’s chimney
- The Pits
- The Plantation restaurant
- The Play House
- The Quad Cities
- The shack down at the Hancocks
- the street in front of 3209
- The Sunshine StoreIllinois
- The Sunshine Store, Astoria, Illinois
- The woods
- Tivoli Gardens
- Tom and Ruth Johnson’s house
- Tom Johnson’s brick well
- Troy, KansasKansas
- Troy, North CarolinaNorth Carolina
- Turner Lodge
- Turner’s Club
- Turner’s Hall
- Turnstyle discount store
- Turtle Mountains
- U.sU.S.
- U.S. Postal Station
- U.S. Postal Station in Schlegal’s Drug Store in Highland
- Uganda
- Uncle Clarence’s farmMinnesota
- United StatesUnited States
- Universal Studios
- University of Chicago
- University of Illinois
- University of Kansas
- University of Kansas, Lawrence
- Urbana, IllinoisIllinois
- Vergain’s 38th Street house
- Versailles
- Villa Park
- Virginia’s garden
- Wabedo LakeMinnesota
- Walla Walla, WashingtonWashington
- War Surplus Store
- Water works
- Watertown, IllinoisIllinois
- Wesleyan
- West
- West Riding of Yorkshire
- West VirginiaWest Virginia
- Western Illinois UniversityIllinois
- Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
- Wharton Field House
- White Eagle 4-H Camp
- White Water, MichiganMichigan
- Whitey’s ice cream store
- Wicks N Sticks
- Williamsburg, Grand Transverse County, MichiganGrand Transverse County, Michigan
- Winsberg’s
- Winsberg’s, Chicago
- WisconsinWisconsin
- Wisconsin borderWisconsin
- With Carol and her Mom after the 1972 divorce
- With Mom after the 1972 divorce
- With Orville Prescott and his wife
- woods
- Woods behind Swanson’s, along the creek toward Coaltown Road
- woods behind the Swanson’s house
- WorthingtonMinnesota
- Worthington, MinnesotaMinnesota
- Yellowstone Park
- Yorks, EnglandYorks, England
- Yucatan Peninsula
- Ywca