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Is this Grammy and Hazel? Somehow, it doesn't look like her - but maybe that's cuz her hair's scrunched forward by the scarf. Besides, this lady's smiling. But I like the 'warmth' here - between a mother and her daughter.Grandpa lists this as being State Street. Based on a photo yet to come, I'll go out on a limb and call this the "Ice House Bridge". Wherever that was.
Some cool houses in the background. Alas, I have no idea in which direction they are from State Street. And there are no leaves on the trees, so this was taken in winter.
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We're looking north-northeast here at the mountain from the old State street bridge just east of the Catholic Church. The houses in the background are on Franklin Street, the row houses on the left just west of N 5th St. The creek here was dammed and used to harvest ice which was stored in a barn to the east, the ice house, in sawdust to preserve it as long as possible for delivery to use in ice boxes. mick.......
(Sighs). Ice houses are before my time, belonging to another era, long-gone. I am old enough to remember milk being delivered directly to our door. We had a little "milk box" where the milkman put the bottles. And in the dead of winter, the milk would freeze and pop the milk cap.
My son of course thinks we had to fend off the pteradactyls while retrieving the bottles of milk.
Yes, this is Grammy & Hazel, on the Ice House Bridge. That row of houses to the left of Grammy is where we lived from about 1938 to 1944, in the one on the extreme right, #511 Franklin St. That's where we lived when Ellen was born. I liked that neighborhood. Lots of kids to play with, and when a flood took out a bridge, there was no through traffic and we could play in the street. Janet
I think pterodactyls actually lived under this bridge.
Janet
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