After finding a boarding house room on the North Side, Campbell settled in to the City.
This was the World War era, and before the 20's. Women's Suffrage was on the march, there was labor unrest and Ragtime was the music of the day. Women still wore long skirts and had not yet bobbed their hair. Motor cars were just beginning to take over the streets, but horses were still everywhere. There was more yelling than Campbell was used to, and people weren't terribly polite.
Since it was the meatpacking capitol of the entire country, Campbell was amazed at the abundance of meat in butcher shops, restaurants and everywhere! Women wore smaller hats than he was used to and showed more of their legs on street cars. They also visibly chewed gum!
A culture shock it was for Campbell!
But, he was fascinated by it all. He noted right away that there were no family owned mills like his grandrfather's in Chicago. All the factories were huge. He had no idea where to apply for a job, and finally decided to apply at the largest mail order house in the world at that time - Sears Roebuck and Company. He had no sooner filled out an application when he was hired on the spot! He was given the job as head of the Accounting Dept, which surprised him, and he learned that his predecessor had "joined up".
He made some good friends, and it wasn't long before he began going to a dance hall where all the single men and women employees of Sears spent their time in their off hours. He learned to dance the "turkey trot" and other dances of the day.
It was there that he met Jeanette and fell totally in love for the first time in his life.
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