Three Valves wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:22 amWas that six lane road a gravel street then??bloke wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:29 pm
*All of the original quartet's (Mark's father and uncles) houses were within two blocks to 11/2 miles of my boyhood home, and notice the address of their music store (link below)...Our elementary school really was directly across the street, at 3950 Summer Avenue...
I remember the first time I ever crossed it (4 years old - with my 15-year-old sister...she took me to McDonald's, and I had JUST learned how to ride a bike) it was 6-lanes plus a turn lane, but was concrete (not yet ever having been paved over with asphalt) and the curbs were huge...probably a foot high. Today, the curbs are all but gone, as there are so many layers of asphalt over that original concrete base.
This was that same McDonald's in 1963 (about 3/4 mile east of that elementary school and the Blackwoods' store) - a few years after my first trip across Summer Avenue. (The McDonald's is still there today, but has been torn down and enlarged several times.)
