My Bridgeport

My Bridgeport

“My Bridgeport,” is the newest publication by neighborhood writer John E. Aranza, the culmination of thirty years of Bridgeport articles offering a vivid look as we once were. He has witnessed a neighborhood changed from Mom and Pop grocery stores in almost every block to supermarkets. Streets with fruit peddlers on horse pulled wagons long-gone, their unrecognizable horse barns now garages. Grandmothers wearing babushkas as they walked into obscurity Savor scenes as you discover the author`s Bridgeport. John Aranza is a life-long writer, poet & resident of Chicago`s oldest and most storied neighborhoods for over 70 years. A De La Salle High School and De Paul University graduate, John has chronicled a lifetime of experiences and sensitivities to the little village atmosphere he keenly sensed and sought out . His focus especially on the overlooked, forgotten histories of the unheralded among us.