Our home on 58th Avenue S. was a Model Home. Three Bedrooms, 2 Baths.  The Lot sloped down to the road. The folks in our neighborhood were for the most part retired. Our two Daughters were the only children in our block. We had a screen porch put on the front of the house and a Florida Room on the back of the house. We did not have a/c but we did have a big floor fan that if positioned properly cooled all three bedrooms. In those days we did not have to close the house up at night so the doors were open 24/7.  Oh yes, the house was facing north so we had breeze if there was any keeping us quite comfortable.Â
After two years came a notice in the mail that the City was going to put in sidewalks in front of our house and from 4th to 9th Streets only on our side of the street.  This was going to cost. My neighbor complained to the City and they told her it was necessary so the children would have a sidewalk when walking to school.   She also called the Newspaper and they sent a reporter out to interview her. She told him I was the only one with Children in the block so he decided to interview me.  Â
He had many questions but I told him I was not so much upset that they put the sidewalks in even though my two Children were the only ones between 4th and 8th but they were not level and would be difficult for anyone to walk on them most of all the Children.  Â
I was quoted in the newspaper as "The Soft Spoken Mrs. L."
and my neighbor as the vociferous Mrs. H.  Soft Spoken or otherwise the sidewalks still stayed on a slant just in our block because all of the houses were built up on a bank.Â
I rode by the old house shortly before moving up to N.C. and I was happy to see it has been taken care of but those sidewalks are still slanted.
Hope all the sidewalks in your life are level.
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Love and prayers from here to there
