Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Northlake Author

NORTHLAKE, Ill. - June 8, 2015 - PRLog -- Northlake, by local author Edgar Gamboa Návar, boasts more than 200 vintage images and provides readers with a unique opportunity to reconnect with the history that shaped their community.

Incorporated on July 19, 1949, with a population of 3,000, Northlake’s name is derived from its two major thoroughfares: North Avenue and Lake Street. Prior to its founding, the area was best known for the Westward Ho Golf Club and Course, a premier golf course in the area. This land eventually became the site for Automatic Electric Company and Villa Scalabrini Home for the Aged (now called Villa Scalabrini Nursing and Rehabilitation Center), two symbols of Northlake’s post–World War II boom.

Many of the initial residents worked at a nearby defense plant as the nation was gripped by war. They had “shell homes” that needed work on the weekends to complete and they did their own carpentry, plumbing and wiring, truly representative of that hard-working generation. In many ways, Northlake’s motto, “City of Friendly People,” rings as true today as it did in decades past. In many other ways, Northlake’s motto should be “City of Hard-Working People.”

Highlights of Northlake include:

Farmland, Shell Homes, and a Golf Course
From Shell Homes to Incorporation
Northlake Days, Parades, and Floats
Religious Life
A Great Education
Moving Forward in Changing Times

Join the author for a signing:

Where:  Costco

8400 W North Ave., Melrose Park IL 60160

When:  Friday, June 12^th, 2015; 1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online. (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738590738/Northlake)

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town? Visit arcadiapublishing.com (http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/).

Northlake

by Edgar Gamboa Návar

Images of America series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: December 3, 2012