Joanne 1944
Maybe. Maybe
not. The dress certainly is a
beautiful little blue dress. I do wonder
where the rocking chair went; it’s a beauty,too. Google Earth took me right over there yesterday
morning, to 4214 West 21st, in Cleveland. The closed in front porch where the rocking
chair rocked and Grandpa Rolf’s W.E. Rolf, Watchmaker hung in the window, has
been restored to an open porch. It appears
to have the same garage as housed his shop.
The road is still
paved with bricks, although the horse drawn milk wagon isn’t using them
now. Brick pavement seems such a time
consuming undertaking………
Just back from a side venture into brick road paving, which
may be making a comeback. Jane Street Clayworks says a brick road lasts
fifty years, as does concrete, but does not have concrete’s pothole
problems. Asphalt needs resurfaced every
fifteen years. And, only specific
failing bricks need to be replaced.
Learn something every day!
Our neighbor has lived here all his life, up on the corner
of the main street. Actually, it is many
years past “main,” having been replaced by a freeway bearing its old route
number. When Skip was a boy the road was
brick. The sub-road still is brick, we
could see it when the asphalt was ground up and re-laid last year. Skip says on really, really hot summer days,
when it had been ninety plus several days in a row, he and his grandmother sat
on the front porch and watched bricks shoot up out of the road. Occasionally they shot a radiator. Our town historian doesn’t really believe
that, but I do.
What an adorable little girl you were.
ReplyDeleteYou were a cutie then and you're a cutie now!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had a pattern for the little dress ....... I remember rocking chairs. I loved to rock as a child, I still do!
ReplyDeleteI wish you had that pattern, too, cuz you are some sewer.
DeleteWhat a precious child you were! Curls! I wish you had that rocker, too! I love the description of your street. It was as if you were right there, with all the memories!
ReplyDeleteHow nice that the house is still there! I checked out the house where I lived in California until I was 5. The quiet tree-lined residential street was gone and replaced by a wide treeless thoroughfare lined by adobe-style apartment buildings.
ReplyDeleteI remember wearing those little dresses when I was little. Now I don't even own a dress!
What an adorable, priceless video. I am so envious of your childhood memories all captured on film. Nothing can compare!
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