The neighbors on Avery Street, part II.
1. This photo was taken on the Baldwin property at the corner of Avery Street and Inman drive. There were two large oak trees right on the street at the Stanley property, obviously no longer there. The large bare oak tree at 519 is about double the size as it was when we were there. The large bush in front of the Stanley side porch was certainly never there as well as the small bushes on the 525/519 property line. I do not know what the small red sign (?) on the Winnona Park side of the corner is all about. There was, again, a large oak tree on that corner. In the summertime, the ice cream man, known then as the "hunky" man, stopped his push cart right there. I really don't know how he got that thing back up the Avery Street hill. The mail boxes were always right outside the front door and not on the street.
2. The Baldwin house. They had three kids, Stanley, Bernice and Paul. Stanley played the xylophone and Bernice went to Georgia State and majored in music. Mr. Baldwin was a jeweler/watchmaker that went broke. They moved out to Tucker at about that same time.
3. The Cogbill house which was just to the right of the Baldwin house. Mrs. Cogbill was a widow and she had a son, whose name I have forgotten. I am simply amazed at how the English Ivy, Hedera helix, has apparently taken over the entire neighborhood. Just to the right of the Cogbill house was a vacant lot. I personally watched the house that is currently there go up. It was in the summer of either 1947 or 1948.
4. The Bright house. Now that was a wierd family! They always parked their car right in the middle of the back yard. One day, somehow it caught fire. The fire department came and put it out and there was a big neighborhood stink as to how the fire got started. They had a boy named Jimmy that was a homosexual, probably by the age of ten. Once that became common knowledge their house was ABSOLUTELY taboo. To the left of their house was the Cheney house and to the left of that house was the Sassnet house. Melanie was a classmate of mine out at Emory. To the left of that house was Bucher Drive. I remember when they cut it and put a solitary house on the right hand side as one looked west from Avery Street. For the longest time, Bucher Drive was a dirt road. I guess it has been paved by this time.
5. Another view of the Baldwin house looking more or less down Inman Drive. The fence in the back yard is new, at least new since 1955. I can remember that I was standing in front of the retaining wall in their back yard when I uttered my very first cuss word. It was the "S" word. I must have been all of six years old.
2. The Baldwin house. They had three kids, Stanley, Bernice and Paul. Stanley played the xylophone and Bernice went to Georgia State and majored in music. Mr. Baldwin was a jeweler/watchmaker that went broke. They moved out to Tucker at about that same time.
3. The Cogbill house which was just to the right of the Baldwin house. Mrs. Cogbill was a widow and she had a son, whose name I have forgotten. I am simply amazed at how the English Ivy, Hedera helix, has apparently taken over the entire neighborhood. Just to the right of the Cogbill house was a vacant lot. I personally watched the house that is currently there go up. It was in the summer of either 1947 or 1948.
4. The Bright house. Now that was a wierd family! They always parked their car right in the middle of the back yard. One day, somehow it caught fire. The fire department came and put it out and there was a big neighborhood stink as to how the fire got started. They had a boy named Jimmy that was a homosexual, probably by the age of ten. Once that became common knowledge their house was ABSOLUTELY taboo. To the left of their house was the Cheney house and to the left of that house was the Sassnet house. Melanie was a classmate of mine out at Emory. To the left of that house was Bucher Drive. I remember when they cut it and put a solitary house on the right hand side as one looked west from Avery Street. For the longest time, Bucher Drive was a dirt road. I guess it has been paved by this time.
5. Another view of the Baldwin house looking more or less down Inman Drive. The fence in the back yard is new, at least new since 1955. I can remember that I was standing in front of the retaining wall in their back yard when I uttered my very first cuss word. It was the "S" word. I must have been all of six years old.