MBS Years

April 5, 2004

We lived at 5823 Chester Avenue from 1948 until 1970. Recently, I drove through the old neighborhood and drove from Cobbs Creek Parkway up 59th Street to Chester and turned to drive past the old house. It wasn't there. I felt some breath run out of me

The crack in the sidewalk that always kept a puddle of rain, the low stone wall fronting the bit of lawn; these things as much as the structure of the house, they were gone. Still, the #13 ran by with the distinctive sound of the trolley on the track. And the oak trees planted across the street in the early 50's, that stood up, as saplings, to Hurricane Hazel, were strong, there, and now 18 inches in girth. The look eastward still has the Presbyterian Church, and MBS more distantly.