loganent

Hi just got back from vacation and noticed the question that you asked and it is yes, lived in the pink house next to balls store.

skedaddle. scram, and its late and I am about to skedaddle. and sleep tight and dont let the bedbugs bite. so long! I am getting long in the face and sleepy eyed,

Now that brings back memories.! had a lot of fun down there, like most, collecting fossels for Miss, Fairs fifth grade class. Remember her from the Olive Ave School? There was a farm behind where the school is now. last people to live there was the Langs I believe, there was also an old boarded up house about where the swings are now, it burnt in the late 60's. We spent many a summer day playing war games down on the flat between Highland Street and the tunnel with Creg L. John F. Blain H. to name a few. My older brother's shoe fell off and set on a ledge that no one could get to along the upper highwall near the tunnel, and I will always remember Ball's store where we got a dreamsicle or as many peices of penny candy as we could with returning popbottles. all this when summers seemed to last forever.

WHen the building Across the tracks burnt, it was Pauls Bar and grill. the address was 303 west long. it burnt in Jan,1977. It was arson and the owner of the sewing machine repair shop next to pauls went to jail over it. Edners was originally behind pauls (before my time) and Sam Shing's Laundry (i think thats how its spelled) was about 2 shops down. there was also a little game room along Franklin street in that area back in the mid to late 60s just a little place with a cpl of pinball machines in it, cost a dime back then. does anyone remember when Slim Himes owned the building where Acme is in pic? he bought elderberries and and princess pine in the back.