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gstoneberg:

--- Quote from: paulsemp on January 17, 2012, 07:06:07 pm --- in warrenville by blackwell forest preserve. it is off mack rd. look under dupage co website.

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I tried to reply before and it somehow didn't make it.  We lived in Warrenville from 1978-1994 and I fished at Blackwell probably 3 times a week through some of that time.  Wonderful memories from there.  Doesn't look at all the same now.  I took up archery in that time frame and shot out behind work at the corner of Naperville Rd and Warrenville Rd.  It was AT&T Bell Labs then, not sure what it is now.  I saw some of the largest whitetail bucks I've seen in person in the forest preserves there (where they were safe for the most part).  I built my first longbow there in 1993 (it was an f-word bow) and missed my first deer with traditional tackle in 1994, just before we moved to Nebraska.  Very good memories.  Our youngest daughter and I went to countless 3D shoots around the Chicagoland area.  Very good times.  Back then it was a great place for an archery minded person to be.

That girl I shot with will turn 30 this summer and just gave us our 5th granddaughter yesterday.  Life is good. ;D

George

paulsemp:
hey George, AT&T Bell Labs is now lucent technology. I thought I heard of a huge layoff about 10 years ago. Unless someone else is in there now I do not think much happens around there. I live about 5 miles from there!

gstoneberg:
Yea, I was in Omaha when we turned into Lucent, then our division became Avaya in a spin-off, next I was incented to retire at the big Avaya employee exit of 2000, worked as a contractor for 10 years and now am working directly again for a company called Commscope.  All more or less the same job and most of it for the same boss.  I think Lucent had a tougher time of it than we did with more severe cuts.  In it's day we had the Indian Hill main building there at the corner, and Indian Hill West, South and Court off to the west there.  Over 6000 R&D employees in the hey-day.  I'll bet there's not 500 there now.  Very sad.  We lived in the Thornwild town house complex just east of the intersection of 59 and 56 for the first 7 years of our time there and in old Warrenville on Rogers Street not far from Bower Elementary for the rest.  I've been only been back a couple times since we left in 94.  Nostalgia...  My younger brother just moved back to Sugar Grove.  If I head that way again I'll try and look you up.

George

paulsemp:
don't forget to bring a bow and some arrows!

Starfire:
So I take it nothing has formed in the Chicago area?

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