One More Trip Down Memory Lane... Or is that Shadowbrook Lane?

WOW! Its been like, 27 years since we lived here... It seems much smaller... hehe.... It was weird going back... everything seemed a little familiar, but as I was about 8 or so years old, my memory is a little fuzzy from back then... But, still, there were things I remembered, like the church where my cub scout meetings were held, the schools we attended (Brookside Elementary, Stacy and Milford Middle School East), the bank my parents used to go to where, when going through the drive through, the nice lady in the little booth would give my sister and I square lolipops... YUM! My favorite pizza place from when I was a kid is still there (Papa Gino's - they would let you behind the counter to make your own pizza's for your birthday... Very Cool to an 8 year old. Actually its a HUGE franchise all over the place here now), and there was this other restaurant called Pago Pago which is still there, too (See picture below)... Oh yeah, and the little corner market (Purchase Street Market - picture also below) down the street from Shadowbrook is still there... WOW... That was really my whole existance back then (remember, I was ages 7 - 9 when we lived there) I'm actually surprised I remembered as much as I did since I never got the opportunity to drive when living there.

This was the pool where we (Mom, Brenda and I) spent a lot of time with Lynn and her daughter Jen, and the Suddath kids (Kama, Mike, sometimes Louis) I hope I'm spelling these names right. Anyway, I had my first job here (a paper route - go figure)... I don't really remember liking it much, although, for a paper route, looking back, it wasn't all bad. Most of the time, you were inside since these were all apartment buildings. I would have taken pictures of the actual buildings, but I didn't want people calling the cops on me... Across from the office / pool that you see in this picture, was a little pond (now occupied by ducks) that used to freeze over in the winter that we used to "ice skate" on. I put that in quotes, because I don't really remember ME ever ice skating there with actual skates. I think Brenda and Jen did, I probably just pretended to skate (slip) around the pond. I have a pic of it below... Well, its getting late (2:31 am), and not only do I have to work in the morning, but I have to fly home (6 HOUR FLIGHT! YUCK!) tomorrow evening... Talk to ya all later! Hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane.. um.. Shadowbrook Lane... hehe!

Well, I'm trying to add the pictures noted above, but it isn't letting me... I'll have to try later... Until then...