Franklinton

As I think I mentioned before, I grew up in "the projects" at the west side of the Rich/Main street bridge. I was looking through some recent pictures of the neighborhood and it appears that the bridge is closed and the "projects" or Riverside Bradley as it was most recently called no longer exists. The B & T metal factory on Town & Mcdowell and all of the houses that were there have been torn down. My grandparents lived on Town & Mcdowell. All of my friends lived within a two block radius of Sullivant, Rich and Town streets, crossed by Walnut, Lucas and Cherry drive. We were all "outside kids". No matter the weather, we were always running around the river bank playing cowboys or playing "kick the can"  on Walnut street behind the B&T metals company. I didn't realize it at the time but in retrospect we were all "poor to lower income". The reason I didn't know it is because we were not fashion concious and didn't care what anyone else thought because we were all in the same boat. No gangs, no crime, no racial problems. I enjoyed growing up there. My friends were the Maier's, Miller's, Taylor's, Tucker's, Cahill's and many more.

We also played outside most of the time.  These days I have noticed many times when we are  in neighborhoods where there are  a lot of houses, there are very seldom any kids outside playing.  I guess it's because of all the video games and technology we have today.  One of my fondest memories is of getting a transister radio for Christmas one year.  It had head phones and I really thought I was something! It sure is a different world we live in today!

It's the same here where I live. There's a couple of kids that play outside but for the most part you never see them playing outside. It's a sad commentary on the the world that we now live in. Kids walk around  looking at their I phones and I pads and seem oblivious about what's going on around them. I'm glad I got to live through the best part of our history and enjoy the 40's and 50's. Those days are gone forever.

Good Morning! How was your week-end?  I had a very productive week-end.  Got lots of work done, and even took time to go see a movie. That's something I don't do very often, but I really  enjoyed it!  It's really cold outside today, but I think tomorrow it's supposed to be colder!  Well take care and have a good week.