What happened to Brush Park in 50s/60s?

[kklemmer]

Another that I haven't read yet is simply titled "Alfred Street" by Russell Jachne McLauchlin. Originally published in 1946. I found what must be a reprint on amazon for $35. Not sure I would pay that for what may be simply a memoir.

[VIktor77]

Another that I haven't read yet is simply titled "Alfred Street" by Russell Jachne McLauchlin. Originally published in 1946. I found what must be a reprint on amazon for $35. Not sure I would pay that for what may be simply a memoir.

Kklemmer, I have read both books. I know John Kossik, but his coverage of the Woodward East Project, while good, didn't answer all of my questions.

BTW I would recommend greatly the Alfred Street book. It is among my favourite books of its type. It is a unique look into what Brush Park was like in its heyday. Mclauchlin taught me so much of that era that I had never known and never would've found through research. Stories about the families, the workers in the neighborhood, etc. He mentions, for example, how an old German man cut the grass, stocked the furnaces, and shoveled the streets for all of Alfred Street [[who would've known they had that hired out!). It talks of a senile old Elisha Taylor, and one of Alfred Street's most charming residents, Thomas McGraw, whose home stood until the 90s and whose name to me would've just been an entry in a census page if not for Mclauchlin's book. And there's so much more. Plus Mclauchlin writes very elegantly. His decedents are among those I've written in search of photos of Brush Park [[along with the decedents of Ransom Gillis). Alas, nothing really came of it. We are in search of photos in order to finish our renderings of the houses of Alfred Street from John R to Brush. We've completed 6/13 houses.

Thank you for your continued help EastsideAl. May I ask how you came to possess all of this knowledge on Brush Park?