Previously, I wrote of the huge Winona hill. Actually, it is not all that big and the street is not
nearly as long. At the top of the hill, where Mike Shannon used the kick foot balls down the
street and kids would run and take them back to him, the Shannon house is not nearly as big
and imposing as I remembered. I cannot remember his sisters name, but we used to see them
at the bus stop on Lindenwood. Sharon, I think was only a few years older than I was. I
wonder what she is doing now?
The long and steep driveway that I remember was either not all that steep and long, or later
residents regraded it. It appeared that the current driveway is made of some substance other
than the white cement one we had.
The street is much more narrow than I remember. And the houses are much closer than
I thought. In truth, it is just a normal city street, a little longer than some, a little more
on an incline, but still not as spectacular as remembered 50 years ago.
The houses on Tholozan also seem to be much closer than I remembered, and the street
more narrow. Instead of stained glass on the upper portion of the front window, there is
now clear glass with criss-crossed lead pane dividers. The little, rounded-on-top window
in the front door has regular glass in it. Even when we lived there, the "6552" stained
glass window had to be replaced with just regular stained glass. Dad had to look around
a lot until he found a company that would replace it at all, forget the "6552." He finally
found "St. Louis Ornamental Iron and Window" to do the job.
I couldn''t remember which of the two houses up the street belonged to the Garagiola's
but one of them had a "for sale" sign on the front lawn. The house of the lady who worked
at Scruggs-Vandervort and Barney, still has the white-washed brick effect, and the multiple
white pane dividers. The Scheller house and the Candy house look the same, but so close, as
did the house to the west. The family was named Noonan. Originally, it was just Mr. &
Mrs. Noonan who lived there and when they both passed away, one of nephews and his wife
moved in.About once a week, Mrs. Noonan would go downtown by bus. She always wore sensible high-heeled shoes and a pair of gloves, usually white.
We didn't have time to look at Lafayette or Shaw Place, Spring or Detony Streets, maybe
next trip.
The Shannons also had Kathy, who used to babysit occasionallly for us (for Brian?), and Carol, who was a year older than I.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there was ever stained glass above the LR window on Tholozan. You'll have to come up with an old photo if you want to convince me! And last, how can you remember the name of the Iron company, but not remember Mrs. Noonan. Remember, she used to go downtown about every week, by bus, and get dressed up in a suit and hat. I think she used to work downtown in the days before we moved there. There were 2 young men that would come & go there, nephews, I think.