Saturday, June 17, 2023
We lived on the third floor apartment facing the alley in the 600 West Block of Wrightwood in one of Mike Supera's buildings in Chicago. When we first met he worked in a paper mill as a laborer and painted, and I went to school and worked as a architectural draftsman. I met his brother and his parents once when they came to visit Balazs in Chicgo.
We were room mates, shared girlfriends and remained good friends untill the end of 1966. In early 1967 I went off to the war and came back in December. We moved to different duplex apartment located at 815 west Bell Plain and lived there untill Balazs decided to move to the West Coast, where he lived in LA and later in Hawai.
Balazs came to visit me and my family in Itasca, IL about 2006 or 2007 and brought me one of his Eye of Muse books.
Balazs and I did not always agree with his conservative political views, so we did not speak about politics often, but he did once tell me that he was diagnosed with cancer, but did not want people to know about it.
I was very sadened to hear that he had passed away in January of 2022, as I had very fond memories of my friend..
