Neches and Orange Streets

As I recall it my mom and dad got a garage apartment on Neches Street when I was about 3 and then a duplex on Orange Street when I was four. While we were living in the garage apartment on Neches Street, the kids in the main house had a ride-in metal airplane with push pedals. I craved that toy.

I don’t have a photo of the Neches Street house or apartment.

My dad was working at the Magnolia Refinery – maybe two miles east of where we lived. I recall going with mom to pick him up after work and watching him come through the tunnel under the railroad tracks.

There was a medical clinic there that took care of our medical needs. This was 65 years ahead of Obamacare. Just across the tracks was the bathhouse where he showered at the end of the work day before coming home.