New Move – New Sites
If children can ever have “fun times” – it surely should be before the age of seven! This new move to north Saint Louis was exactly what I wanted. I was able to run to the “Bakery Store” for morning cinnamon rolls and wrote about the book mobile I discovered on the way. Another story I wrote about was the “scary” times walking to the “Drug Store” for hand packed ice cream for all of the family! Sure am glad that I paid attention to where we were walking and going in the long walks my mother took us on. Walking around the neighborhood has always been fun me, from the earliest days of going on walks, even now in my seventies, alone or with neighbors that also enjoy site-seeing walking.
During the early 1940’s – we, Americans were engaged in the “WAR” and there were times when the air-raid sirens, sounded and immediately all lighting in the house had to be turned off and the thick drapes had to be pulled tight shut – not a peep of light to penetrate – or else? One such evening there was someone banging at the front door, yelling to turn off light and pull drapes tight shut! We not only had everything off, but just to see what was going on outside, that night, we all went out and walked to the corner. There were some other neighbors out and some kids, too. So, right there in the middle of the street – no traffic – no lights anywhere – you could almost hear a pin drop, outside?
The weather was warm, so I started doing some somersaults, right there in the middle of the intersection. It was like I was on stage. And some of the kids joined in, each of us showing off what we could do! The “search lights” were all over the black skies, looking for enemy planes, and we kids were having fun down here on earth!
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