From ’37 to ’41 we lived at 8832 18th Ave. S.W. By the way, if whoever lives there now reads this, over by your north fence is there still a corner of concrete stuck out of the grass? If you dig it up you will find a wading pool.

We moved to 917 S.S. 102nd St. just before the war started. I went to Highland Park, Mt. View, White Center Heights and Mt. View again.

There’s now five houses in what was our front yard. We had a fish pond, several fruit trees, a bamboo clump, two pigs, several hundred chickens and a BIG garden that I hated working in. When I was six years old my mother sent me across the street carrying money to pay the water bill.

In the summer of ’46 we went on a car trip to Yellowstone Park and Butte Montana. Either just before we left, or the next December when we moved to Gatewood, I forget which, my mother sent me to the hardware store west across the street from Triangle Tavern to buy a skeleton key for $.10 or $.25 because WE DID NOT EVEN HAVE A KEY TO LOCK OUR HOUSE.

Now there’s an ARMED GUARD at the McLendon’s hardware store.

WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU PEOPLE DONE TO WHITE CENTER???

K.K.
West Seattle