Or rather, Disney World. To be fair, I don't know if my aunt got it right, though she was no fool. And my objections to the sale of the property had nothing to do with a financial crystal ball. It was just that it was called a ranch, and like most little girls, I really liked horses.
A cuppla points from this evening's interwebs searching where I learnt sumpin.
1. Ogden Avenue was part of the original and famous Route 66 - it begins in Chicago then goes through Cicero, Berwyn, then ~OUTT through Downers Grove and Naperville. (see map below where Ogden Avenue is shown in red as Hwy 34 in 1989). Back before there were those interstate highways on the map.
2. For the first time tonight, I wondered how my paternal grandfather gott the nickname Jiggs. My dad never told me and I never axed him. Butt I think I found ~OUTT why he had the nickname. When I DuckDuckGo'ed for 'Jiggs nickname' one of the first results was a comic strip named Bringing Up Father that ran for 87 years, from January 12, 1913, to May 28, 2000. This cartoon is about a married couple, Maggie and Jiggs. Maggie is a social climber and always trying to elevate the status of the fambly and Jiggs is just content to be one of the guys and eschews culture and fanciness.
My guess is that my grandfather gott the name Jiggs because, like the Jiggs in the cartoon, he was married to a go-getter who was always trying to 'improve' him and he was likely just a simple farmer/fireman with no aspirations to act above his pay grade. Of all the photos I have of him, in only two does he wear a button-down shirt - in his official firehouse photo when he was made captain, and in a suit with The Sergeant standing next to him in the front yard, maybe after church (The Sergeant was nott very religious butt she was a 'good Catholic' and always went to church on Sunday - and took Jiggs). She, like Maggie of the cartoon, was the dominant one of the pair, and Jiggs was the fun-loving, just-wants-to-be-left-alone henpecked husband who puts up with some of his wife's demands, butt only the minimal amount to avoid getting put in the doghouse. All the other photos of Jiggs show him wearing a 'wife beater' style sleeveless T-shirt, usually working on something mechanical. My dad had told me that Jiggs was quite the jokester and was a laidback kinda guy. Once he bottled his own beer and evidently made some error and the caps blew off the bottles late one night after a cuppla/few days of ongoing fermentation and made a huge mess in the house - a Jigg's special that no doubt did nott endear him to The Sergeant.
My best guess is that he gott the nickname "Jiggs" because of his 'striver' social-climber, politically-savvy, probably demanding (hell, I nicknamed her The Sergeant) wife, like Maggie in the Bringing Up Father comic strip.
That may have been in and around Orlando subs. My Mom's Dad retired there in the early 60's and I used to hang over the edge in his viaduct annoying gaters or cros, whatever they were. Lucky I still have my hands.
His property is almost certainly part of Disneyland.
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