No, I was watching the one posted here. My grandparents

Posted on: September 21, 2019 at 09:18:44 CT

lived in a brownstone duplex like many of those pictured. My aunt and her husband lived in the unit above. I can remember family get togethers and crowding around the Mr. Softee truck with my cousins in the afternoons and playing games with them on the sidewalk.

And I can remember a newspaper vendor calling out his wares as he pulled a wagon loaded with the Post-Dispatch down the street.

Looking up that address on Google maps and it's a lot of vacant lots with a few restored brownstones left on the block. About 2 blocks diagonal is a modern apartment complex which looks like shìt.

I recall times going to another neighborhood just like my grandparents' after they passed. My dad was a pretty good mechanic and worked at Sigma Chemical as an electrician and later as a housekeeping supervisor. He had employees in housekeeping, mostly black, who didn't have real good cars and it gave them problems getting to work reliably. He would work on their cars for them to help them out and I would tag along.