Another clue to the date of the photo is the absence of my b

Another clue to the date of the photo is the absence of my bicycle from view. My bike was my workhorse as I delivered the Enterprise in the morning and the Journal in the afternoons. It typically lived adjacent to the front door. However, by ‘60 I was a licensed driver and riding a bike was way too plebeian. Between the house and the garage was the ‘breezeway’. A neat place that we used in several different ways. We ate there off and on. There was a ‘day bed’ there at one point where I relaxed between bouts of chasing the mower around the yard. I recall using my chemistry set in the breezeway. Behind the house was the ‘woods’ - a great place to play, shoot bb guns, build forts, pick dewberries, kill snakes and execute general mischief. There were no fences between the neighboring houses, so the extended backyard was a communal play area for the passel of kids living along the street. We lived near the Thomas family most of my growing up years. First in the same house and then nearby. They bought a house when I was about 5 years old – 5105 Idylwood. We were living there when my brother, Terry Gene, was born on 7 June, 1952 – I always remember his birthday as one day past D-day.