Softailrider, my cousins grew up on Littlefield, on the corner of Chippewa. And a good friend growing up lived on Snowden, off of Pembroke. We all went to Presentation of our Lady, on Meyers. Ahh, the memories! I lived on Robson, which was the other side of "the ditch" or James Couzens. But because of my school, I knew lots of people on the other side of the expressway. We moved out in 1968, right after the riots. It was a great place to grow up. I live in Troy now, and my kids were raised in the burbs. They both live in Chicago now, right smack in the city and love it. Walking to the store and taking public transportatio, all the things we took for granted, and my kids never experienced until they were adults. As kids, my sister and I would walk to the stores on Greenfield and Seven Mile [[my dad would say "don't walk in the alleys, and of course we would), took the bus to the libraries, especially the big one downtown, took the bus to friend's houses or rode our bikes, took the bus to Northland, best shopping center EVER, my sister worked at the movie theater on Shaefer, went to the West Side Drive in with our parents and Kiddy Land [[I'm old). Later on, worked for Church's Lumber, and they bought the land there for a lumber yard. There was nothing like growing up on the West Side, have nothing but great memories. I wish the city was like Chicago where it's safe to live and have all the stores and great restaurants to walk to. Speaking of restaurants, anyone remember Salerno's, the Italian place on Seven Mile? I miss so many places, Ricelli candies being one of them. sigh.... I'm going to be going thru old pictures now! I spent the last two years of high school in the suburbs and hated it.
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