LOL- I do have some memories of when I was in grade school and before.

We were playing “JACKS” on the front porch of our house on North Main Street-

Eldred, Pa.

I only remember one child who was there, but vaguely – there were others.

The conversation came up about “LASSIE,” which we all watched weekly!

I googled “LASSIE” and it ran from 1953 to 1973.

George Cleveland, who played “GRAMPS” for four years –

Died of a Heart Attack July 15th, 1957!

We discussed that while playing “JACKS”!

I would have been eight years old then!

I also remember having a CORN COB pipe.

I do not know where I got it –

But we had a very big red barn-garage in the back yard –

That the railroad tracks ran directly behind it!

It seemed so close that the barn would shake when a train came by.

My father would park his car inside on the wooden planks on the first floor.

There was a door directly in front of the car that opened out, and I would stand there and watch the train as it whizzed by!

To the right as you first entered –

Was a stairway to the second floor where my older brother had installed a basketball hoop!

Under those stairs open to view –

Was a old horse-drawn sleigh.

Black and one seat for two people.

I never knew who had this or why it was there.

I often wonder what became of it.

It most likely was from the 1800s.

Upstairs – the huge room with a wooden floor and the basketball hoop-

Was an open window –

I could stand there and look down the tracks toward the town and see the Whitehawk beef company.

Also, the rear of the Slavins Furniture store and all the neighbors’ houses to that store.

I remember taking cornsilk – dried out –

And putting it in that corncob pipe!

Lighting it and puffing away and blowing the smoke out that window.

I did not inhale – just puffed on that pipe.

That didn’t happen all that often, but just the thought of doing it and getting away –

Well, it was part of my growing up!

I think it was right around the time that I spoke of “LASSIE”!

LOL – just some humor!

I also remember “BLUE BERRY HILL”!

That is what we called the hill with the large TV ANTENAE directly across the street from our front porch.

That ANTENAE was huge – sitting on top of that hill.

I believe it is for a reception for the town for TV.

We used to walk down to Slavins Furniture store and ask if they had any cardboard boxes we could have.

North Main Street of Eldred.PA –

Had a large group of young kids when I was growing up.

We all played together.

Back then, the cardboard had wax on it.

We would break the boxes down that the stoves – refrigerators came shipped in.

You would sit down, grab the front, and bend it back toward you!

Then someone would push you, and down the hill you would go.

The hay-like grass was about a foot high –

And that waxed cardboard made it slick –

And you would slide down that hill, going faster and faster.

Holding the front of the cardboard back toward you –

Gave you some protection in running over bushes that had thorns on them.

If it was going too fast – I just bailed out!

Watching “LASSIE” and sliding down the hill on cardboard-

Was part of my youth growing up!

The other thing before I got my bicycle –

Was going up tos sawmill!

It was just three houses up from my home.

Later in my early teens –

My father bought a membership at Smethport-

My younger brother and I would go with him-

We would start off first, and then he and his friends played behind us!

Back to the Sawmill.

They had a huge sawdust pile-

And we would go there and dig a hole or tunnel in it.
They would come out and chase us away, saying it could collapse.

Looking back now –

It was dangerous!

After a while, they told our parents, and we stopped doing it!

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APPLE TREES!

To the right of our driveway –

On the neighbor’s lawn –

A huge APPLE TREE!

At the beginning of the driveway on the left as you turn in –

A smaller APPLE TREE!

Directly in the backyard, to the left of the red barn – an APPLE TREE!

Four houses down the street –

Two more APPLE TREES!

These trees were not only good eating apples –

Some are so tart, and others are juicy yellow ones!

BUT THEY WERE NEIGHBORHOOD AMUNITION TREES FOR APPLE WAR FARE!

Also good for chucking at rail cars as they came by on the tracks!

My early years growing up in my neighborhood of North Mani Street in Eldred, Pa.

This is but a few memories of REMEMBER WHEN!

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