That coup that almost threw me out the door on Third & Fisher, foiled when Floyd reached over and pulled
me back in. The door flew open as we rounded the corner. Or... that could be Dolly & Bob's car,
visiting from Illinois.Notice the ivy. The house was at first covered with red siding. the front was an open
porch later turned into a sun porch. photo 1952

Obvious changes, under new ownership, 2014. You can see the deck in the back. The stairs to the front sunporch
are missing. The coal bin entry is still there. The coal company would dump a load right in the driveway and
we'd have to shovel it into the coal bin. That's how we heated in winter until we switched to oil.

Patty did a painting from the top photo. Grandma Moses. Papa's sister Thelma also took up painting.

I was always infatuated with this house on Craig, a block east of 415, same side of the street. Maybe it's the
sunken sun porch? Vogts lived in the house out of sight to the right and it was their mother (Duke or Margaret's) who
lived here. There was Ralph,  Ed and Bruce Voght, their kids. The house in the background was occupied for
awhile by Jim & Kay Swenor.  Then Art & Trudi Saari. Gus' home is across the street from that house.

Looking up (west) Craig Street from about in front of Gus' house, March 1992.
That tree in the distance always seemed huge to me, until I moved to Georgia
where the growing season is several months longer.

Nanny noted on the back that this was taken from  Hazel's driveway (though Hazel hadn't lived there in a
long time). Also mentioned LaBine's house next door. That's me in the middle. summer 1990.

on the back: "Snowed around May 12, 1967." There's a note to Dusty about how his car is stored and waiting for
him. Apparently when he was in the Marines in Vietnam.

1970. "Wilder and Robinson's house on the left - Hazel & Fran Longetine's house across the street." The Scout
is parked in the drive.

Labine's house. To the left a shovel is silhouetted against the door to our storage shed under the sunporch.
Before the deck was built obviously, October 1957.

1993, summer. This series was taken from the deck. This is Contois' house above. Dennis Contois told me that a developer
came on some unrelated business and noticed the hill behind Dennis, took an interest in that. Next thing ya know, Dennis says,
the guy bought up the land and built a house on it... on OUR hill.  below, shifting to the right,  SW, Peg and Clem LaRue's.
The houses beyond LaRue's were vacant lots when we were growing up. All so grown over you can't see the hills anymore.

Shifting back to center (south), Grace Mason's house (at one time the King family lived there but they moved
to Detroit. I met a guy in the army from Detroit named King. I asked if he was any relation. He said no but
the mom was his cub scout den mother. Funny, she was also mine). The house across the street was Pat and Linda
McLaughtlin's. In our yard you can see Papa's garden and the old chicken coop to the left with a lilac tree
behind it where also once grew rhubarb - which made great pies.

below, Clem & Peg LaRue's house to the right, the last house on Hampton street at the time, 1955, beyond being all vacant lots
and  hills, signs of farming at some point in the past - stones piled around apple trees. You can see what we called "the hills",
in later pictures as above, grown over so invisible. Those hills and wooded area were our grand playground. On the hill,
just left of Clem & Peg LaRue's house (in the trees there), you can see a ski jump. It was used for a number of years then abandoned.
My friends and I salvaged a good bit of the lumber for a shack in my backyard, extending the chicken coop into a clubhouse.

Apparently Nanny & Papa stored Eleanor (Papa's sister) and Oscar's car while they went to
Florida or wherever for the winter. This is dated 1979, in the backyard.


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