Did You Attend Carleton Elementary?

[Tsomyak]

Dr. Small was my dentist as well. I sometimes saw one of his associates, the name Summers seems to come to mind, although I think there were a few others as well. My current dentist is AMAZED that some of the filling work done by him some 40 years ago is still holding up!

[gibran]

funny that you mentioned it..my last filling is just about to go...I remember the walk home after a filling ...not bad since it was only a block and half...

ok changing gears..which parks did you all play at growingup...my nearest was Rossiter...but mom would drive us all over Detriot to visit other neighbor hood gems.

[EMG]

funny that you mentioned it..my last filling is just about to go...I remember the walk home after a filling ...not bad since it was only a block and half...

ok changing gears..which parks did you all play at growingup...my nearest was Rossiter...but mom would drive us all over Detriot to visit other neighbor hood gems.

Obviously you're talking about Brookins park, located south of Grayton between Lakepoint and Rossiter. In my family we referred to it as "Lakepoint park" because my folks tended to refer to parks by the streets they were located on rather than the people after whom they were named. Brookins was the closest park to where I lived [[Nottingham north of Britain). Then another, that I liked even better because it was bigger and had more equipment, was "Lanark Park" [[Sasser) which was on Lanark north of Casino. I remember that they had a wooden train there, and I always used to like to climb up in the caboose [[because at that time, when I was a toddler, one of my favorite childhood books was "The Little Red Caboose.") Needless to say, my family would take me to these parks - I was way too young to go there alone.

On one very sad day, I remember we went to Sasser park only to find that the train/caboose had been burned...we presume by vandals. It never was restored. Assuming that that was a deliberate act of vandalism, it was my first childhood exposure to such a thing.

Another park I REALLY enjoyed being taken to was Balduck - both the wooded side west of Chandler Park Drive and the sledding hill side - and skating rink - on the east side. Mom took me skating there many times, and my grandfather would usually take me sledding. [[Mom skated, Grandpa didn't!) Now, remember the family naming convention I mentioned earlier - calling parks by the streets on which they were located. We always referred to Balduck Park as "Chandler Park" because it was on Chandler Park Drive. It wasn't until I was a little older that I found out there WAS a real "Chandler Park." In fact, my mother's childhood home was at the Parkside complex located at Chandler Park.

Sometimes my grandfather would also take me to the field at what was then Arthur school on McKinney and Harvard, where I would play on the swings - he'd also often take me sledding on the little hill that Britain made as it went down east towards McKinney. My grandfather would also often take me to Balduck or to the Heilman field in the spring for kite flying.

[EMG]

Dr. Small was my dentist as well. I sometimes saw one of his associates, the name Summers seems to come to mind, although I think there were a few others as well. My current dentist is AMAZED that some of the filling work done by him some 40 years ago is still holding up!

Yes, there was a Dr. Summers there but I don't remember him very well. Dr. Robert C. Small was actually my MOTHER'S dentist from back when SHE was a girl, and he also treated me very well for many years.

I didn't get very many cavities and really only had about 3 fillings in my whole chldhood, two of which I believe were done by Dr. Small. Alas, while the fillings all held up [[I've never had one fall out or anything), now, 40 years later, I recently was found to have the beginnings of a crack developing in one of those filled teeth and so had to get the first crown of my life. My current dentist told me that is a common thing to happen in teeth with old fillings.