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Memory lane? “Hey, do you want to drive into Webster and see your old house?” my friend Anne suggested. So, this afternoon, we did. We started with Daddy’s house, 469 Algonquin Place, the one we built when I was in junior high school. It’s looking good—loved, nicely landscaped, quite nice. My room was the dormer on the right. Directly below is the living room, and the window there is where the Christmas tree was. The we drove a block and a half to 424 Yorkshire Place, where Granny rented rooms (large bedroom, bath, and kitchen privileges) during the long years she taught high school English between my grandfather’s death in 1947 and her retirement in the early 60s. 1015 Kuhlman Lane is the house my parents bought when I was almost five, so I could attend the Webster Groves schools. Living room, kitchen, dining room, two bedrooms and a bath. Old piano in the basement, unfinished (and hot) attic up a flight of stairs from the dining room. That’s where I got Poppy (my dog, when I was in kindergarten) … where I got my bunkbeds, from which I fell and cracked open my chin … where I walked to Lockwood School every day … where we got the Reluctant Draggin’, our first trailer. Lockwood School, on Newport, is now The College School, a private school. They’ve put some additions on it, but it’s still recognizable. Lockwood is where I played in kindergarten … was allowed to learn to read in 1st grade (Dick, Jane, and Sally) … started Brownies in second. Where I learned “Martian numbers” (different bases) from a new teacher in 6th grade and was recommended for honors math in junior high. And finally, we drove by Granny’s little house on Tulip, which she bought when she retired from teaching. She got Gretel, a nasty little Affenpinscher, and began to travel the way she’d always wanted to. What a fun afternoon! |
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