"I would like for no more histories to be lost" “I think that one of the things that we’ve lost is our history of neighborhoods. It’s hard to build a city’s history, or a state’s history, or a country’s history without history from the people. One of the things that I really wished had happened years ago was for someone to do an oral history of this neighborhood, because just 5 or 10 years ago there were people who had lived here all their lives, and they were in their 80’s. What a rich heritage that would be, that they had seen this neighborhood from basically when it began and when it moved through difficult times. It’s too bad that those kinds of histories are lost. So I would like for no more histories to be lost”
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"They love the park" “I work at St. Margret’s Day Care Ministry over on Kaley Street. We aren’t from this neighborhood; it was such a nice day we decided to bring the kids over to the park. They love the park.”
"It gives the neighborhood a small town feel" “We’ve lived in this house for 19 years. We have great neighbors. Because we live right next to Riley, we get front row seats to the Riley High School Homecoming Parade every year too. It’s really cool because it goes right in front of the house and none of the other high schools do it. It gives the neighborhood a small town feel. We also used to do this neighborhood Christmas Candle Walk. They don’t do it so much anymore, but people would put candles in their windows or on their porches, there would be carolers, and we would just walk around the neighborhood. It was really nice, we always loved doing that, but again people don’t do it anymore. Oh! Here’s something funny about this area. If you try to do any yard work you'll be constantly hitting bricks! This area used to be where Studebaker would dump all of their construction waste. All of the bricks that line our front yard we found when we were trying to plant trees in the back.”
"They call me the Cat Man" “I’ve lived in a big white house over on Bendix for about 7 years now. They call me the Cat Man. When I moved in, there were all these cats hanging around the house and I just started taking care of them. They brought their friends over and now I have 40 cats. They all live outside; if they didn’t I wouldn’t have any furniture left, no nothin’. I built a Cataminium for them, and a Catateria next to the Cataminium. I take care of them.”
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July 2018
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