Lafayette. Most of the memories are with the aided recall of photographs. Some of the
pictures seem to have been taken after church because we are dressed as if we had just come
from there. Mom is dressed in her classy brown suit that she had from 1947 until some time
in the 60's. Dad is dressed in a suit and tie. I have a snazzy coat that might be pink because in the black and white pictures it is light colored and, being a girl, that would be normal.
It is a matching outfit with a bonnet that covered my ears and tied in front, under my chin. Also, Barbara is in a few pictures and she is wearing the "little red jumper" that she had, as the saying goes, from ages 12 through 18. I'm not sure those dates are correct, but family lore indicates they are valid.
Reservoir Park covers a large square block, as I recall, and actually had a tower which, I assumed, held water. You were allowed to walk up the tower and my Dad and I did at least once. Some of the pictures were taken after my sister, Diane, was born. In those, I am wearing
a coat of some kind and Diane is wearing the light-colored toddler coat with the cute little
hat. My mother is still in the same light brown suit and Barbara is in the "little red jumper."
I don't remember there being a playground or anything else to do, except walking and
picture-taking. I supposed it was just a peaceful, green, stopping place on an early Sunday
afternoon.
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