....Remember the skating parties that St. Pat's used to have at the rink on Payne Avenue?
....And Lucille used to skate with us?
....the Little Flower Novenas in October?
....Uncle Tom trying to get everybody to be still for photos?
....the cemetary bench that used to be at our house and is now in Houston?
....how Doris become Dede, 2 Davids became DaDa, William became Bumpy?
....going up in the attic at Anna's and discovering stuff? like Grampa's Spanish American War Flag?
....Great Uncle Humphrey living in the house at 5th and Wallace?
....Aunt Hannah also living on E. 5th, then having to move in with Anna?
....Mike Mulligan with his boisterous personality?
....Picnics at the 'schoolhouse' in North East? (owned by Lucy, Mary, and Anita, I think)
....Picnics at Turners Farm? our food all prepped at home and taken there. Kegs of beer and planters peanuts in the shell?
....Italian food at Hectors (?) on Liberty Street
....Sleepovers?
....East Erie Turners? Special dinners there...Elsie Campbell playing the piano?
....Lucille and Tom Dancing? Betty and Willie dancing?
....The basketball games at the Cauley when we were in grade school?
....The mysterious 3rd floor of St. Pat's school?
....The sunken gym at St. Pat's? While I was there, it was converted to a lunch room. The nuns patrolled us from the top of the railing.
....Sledding on Frontier hill?
....Taking Nolan's ferry service to the peninsula?
....Betty TRYING to teach me how to dive and then giving up?
....Chestnut pool? taking your sandwich and a bottle of pop with you?
As more lovely, but useless thought ramble through my head, I am going to add to this. This is a work in progress!!
CROTTY 15 - Click below for slide show
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Nine days each September! The novena started at 4PM and school was over at 3 something. So we had to wait at the school - and look outside at the nice sunny warm day.
As Dayday got older, mom was always saying "His name is not Dayday - it's David". This was a hard habit to break.
The old schoolhouse is on Gay Road near Northeast. It seemed like every year on the 4th of July there was a picnic there. Pat, Harry, Tommy and I loved to play in the barn across the road.
The sunken gym had a couple of other uses. I remember sitting on the floor down there (the area back underneath), with my knees pulled up, and my head tucked down. At the time I had no idea why we were doing this. I later found out it was to help protect us from an atomic bomb.
The other use of the gym was something the nuns called a cakewalk. They'd play a record and when they stopped the music, a nun would lower a pointer stick, and whoever was at the stick won. It still doesn't make much sense.
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