Nov 22, 1963--Where Were You?

Oh, I agree. But even Files critics say if he is a liar, he is an excellent liar, he knows too many details. Here is part of his confession, very interesting reading.

 

Here's more of Files's confession. Who knows if it's true? Very interesting though.

 

Did you go to Peck Elementary School there? I did. When JFK was shot, we had moved to St. Louis and I was in school when it was announced over the loudspeaker.

In each generation, it seems there is something horribly outstanding. For my parents, it was Pearl Harbor. For my generation, it was the JFK assassination. For the younger generation, it is 09/11..... :tear:

 

Wow! Yes, I went to Peck! That is the school I was attending that day. I lived just 2 streets over on Grove St. My Aunt Rachel lived on Elwood Ave.

What a small world, my Dad grew up in Glenwood.

What street did you live on? Did you go to the Baptist church on Florida Ave? I attended there a few times.

 

Wow, I lived on South Aycock. Tabernacle Baptist Church. We probably saw each other at school. Wasn't there a teacher by the name of Mrs. Bright? She used to sell us cookies at recess. I remember walking across a log that went over a creek in the woods by the school and I fell off into the creek and cried all the way home, lol.

PS: Sorry to derail your thread, Tom Butler OP. Maybe we should start a thread about old schools, at least we're in the history forum, lol.

 

I went to Peck for three years, 2nd grade 61-62, 3rd grade 62-63, and 4th grade 63-64, then we moved to Florida. My Dad grew up in Glenwood, my Mom grew up in Groometown, my brother and I still own a home together there.

My 2nd grade teacher was Mrs. Sharpe, 3rd grade was Mrs. Higgins, but I can't remember my 4th grade teachers name. I was in the 4th grade when Kennedy was assassinated.

I believe I remember the log you are talking about, it was behind the school, we used to play in the woods back there.

I can't remember the name of the Baptist church, but it was just a few blocks down the street from the school, we went there on occasion, but did not attend church regular.

I could tell you many stories of this time when I lived in this neighborhood, some very good, and some very bad. I will never forget living there.

What years did you attend Peck?

Edit- I remember Tabernacle now, I was a paper boy and used to get my papers there. I would fold them on the front porch of the church. It was by Oak St., I had friends that lived on Oak.

But that is not the church I attended, I attended the one on Florida down the street from the school. Do you remember that church?

 

I must be a few years older than you, when I went to Peck it was late 1950s. Wow. It is wild that we both lived in that neighborhood & went to the same grade school & remember the log in the woods. I remember there were crayfish in that creek.

Visited the old neighborhood, house, church, & school on the Internet the other day. Googled and went to the street view. You can stand in the middle of the street and look around 360 degrees. It was pretty neat. Try it, you might see your old house. Don't remember the church on Florida, sorry. I remember going to the 5 and dime not far from there. Was it a Woolworths or Kresges? Good times.

Sorry for the hijack, Tom Butler. Back on topic now. :flower:

 

Yes, sorry for the hijack, but this is interesting. I lived on Grove right where it intersected S. Aycock (we had the yellow/red blinking light), so we must have been close neighbors. There was a little mom and pop grocery store on the corner, I used to go in and charge to my Dad's account. If you took Grove over to Glenwood Ave. there were a bunch of small stores, I do remember a drug store there. I used to go there all the time.

I remember Trogden St., it was very steep, we used to strip bicycles and put wagon wheels on them, called them suicide bikes. We would ride these down Trogden.

You probably remember the Community Center? Used to spend lots of times there, used to walk up to the Coliseum a lot too, go ice skating, etc...

I'll have to try that Google and take a look at the old neighborhood.

 

I was a mere infant at that time, but I think I could feel my parents' shock.

 

Oh, good & thanks. We are on a roll here down memory lane. :flower:

I vaguely remember a blinking light. And you jarred my memory, I DO remember that little mom and pop grocery store on the corner. I used to take my allowance and go there to buy penny candy. I loved Neccos (5 cents a roll) and the penny candy lipsticks.

I would ride my bike down to the 5 & 10. You sure can't let your kid do that today!!

There were some other woods close by, too, or at least groves of trees that seemed like woods. My brother and a neighbor boy used to break soda bottles in the woods until one day my mom told them they could get 2 cents for each empty bottle they took back to the store. That gave them an attitude adjustment, lol.

 

Yes, there was a blinking yellow/red light at S. Aycock and Grove. The mom/pop store was right there. Behind the mom/pop store was an old abandoned house. It was quite large.

The only real woods I remember was behind the school, I used to go back there with friends. I do seem to remember a small creek back there.

There was a large creek about two blocks down from Peck on W. Florida St.. There used to be a large pipe that ran underground for several blocks, we would walk through. One day we got caught in there when there was a flash rain storm, my older brother got washed out the drain pipe into the creek. He could have drowned, but he grabbed a limb from a bush that hung out over the creek and pulled himself out.

We used to walk north to the Boy's Club, it was up near W. Lee St., then we would catch hold of the trains and ride uptown to the YMCA. Man, if our parents knew the crazy stuff we did they would have killed us.

I still have much family in Greensboro, my older brother lives there, many cousins, and my younger brothers kids. He's deceased. The last time I was back there was October last year when my Mom passed away. I love Greensboro, beautiful city.

 

Sorry about your mom. :tear: Thanks for sharing your memories. :flower:

 

Thank you, it was amazing to meet someone who grew up in the same neighborhood nearly 50 years later. :thumbsup: