He was called to drive west on Lawrence Avenue in 1955 to photograph the bodies of three boys-John and Anton Schuessler and Robert Peterson-discovered in a forest preserve.

"I had never seen a sight like that before," he said. "You had three young boys lying there, not side by side but like somebody placed them there. It was gruesome, but I got over it."

The joyous moment-although short-came four years later when the White Sox took on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. "There was a sense of celebration because no Chicago team had made it to the series in 14 years," Arvidson said. "The Sox won the first game, but then things just fell apart."

Arvidson took up photography when he got a job working for the Associated Press while still in high school. "I told my mom, I loved being downtown," he said. From there, he moved to the Sun-Times darkroom and to the street. He retired to Arizona. He lived there one year and 22 days, but returned to Chicago.

"I didn't care for it too much," he said.