mentioned that there were people that would pick vegetables and fruits and things and then they'd come to like your father's market and some to your dad and sell them to you know some to some of the other markets around there. And there was a lot of grocery stores or markets in that in the north side back when you're growing up and where you are.

Absolutely. And the one that I'm talking to is talking about with just 16 before you go over the river and you go into Medary there. Some area right there you end. Grow with vegetables and stuff and then ride his bike into the north side in a big basket from Pebble the stuff two small grocery stores and some of the bars and the Vogue and Oni's restaurant that he's way back through they get their stuff. And I was just again part of that simple life of the north side.

So Oni's was actually attached to the word the vogue right. And that was the find out that was fine dining.

Back in the day as much as you can get from one to the other inside but you could get into Oni's or just into the vogue on the roadside so that the Bridgeview plaza area when that popped up what used to be there prior to that it used to be Wilkerson's sand pit a very large sand pit. And it was filmed by dredging out the Shaku Bay which is the river outside. See the river used to be you see all river came down each channel. But they had to have sand to fill and developing the Shopko center there with all the sand pits that were around.

We've talked about a couple of them that you brought up is that where the kids like you and your brothers and sister used to play baseball or was there other places to play baseball. Actually we played ours in the alley behind the bombers.

By her house here. There's a softball.

We play softball hard. All but. Two the street and I mention the what used to be a hotel there cross that street and off to home base was at my neighbor's garage and the telephone pole over there was first base and a second base was dug out there and third base hey it was another natural part of the parking area. And we believe there are that kind of of a perpetual game going near all summer long. Did you guys use baseball gloves and bats and real balls or did you end up using what was going in there in balls but mostly not the last. Few gloves that show up but you weren't really that needed.

And so you ever had a homerun.

I don't know. Probably did at one time or another.

Cause you could do it over one of the Alongi either one of the people who lived with St you could hit it over his shack on the back of it where he kept his and neck gets to be playable and that could be a homerun because first base was here and he said he was quite a character he would you work on the railroad and he had a boat on a pushcart and he would push it down to the river and fish all day and come back and pull it back at night.

Yeah.

Fish and you don't see that nowadays. I mean people people got there. Well I don't know if you watched any of the the bass masters when they were here with their you know hundred thousand dollar boats and their electronics and there that's going to find the fish for you. Not like casting all the time and real and in new ones.

You know yeah I know they're real good from my own history of living there please.

And you know there's somebody told me there is a pontoon boat and some dock around here with 2 400 horse on it. Wow. Yeah that's what they said. Well because I used to have a 21 foot pontoon boat with a 50 horse Mercury with it's called the Big Foot bottom. So I think it's more power to push the boat and I'd pull over water skiers and everything with it but I can't. Well we were only broke sons bought. On Father's Day and we saw a couple of these boats going 60 miles pontoons 60 miles an hour down the river.

You know they're not enjoying it. You got to enjoy that go slow it just take it all in.

When we still have that pontoon boat with my son's office was up there in the building on the river there and the L.H.I building up and wife and I we take we just like to go out for a little boat ride during the day and we get down here and park the boat. Just let it sit in the middle of the river. Comparators office. I'm on the phone. The. We're having a good time when you don't go with us.

Except that it is just fun job.

How many times did he take you up on it once. How many kids you have. I count three. Are they all musical candy. Oh. In fact.

One of the most fun things we did as a family is my wife is that crazy principal. My wife playing the organ and the four of us singing songs in four part harmony and they were older by this time of course but we used to do it. We've got a CD called The Temte singers or something I've kept with the title is that we did and right. So music was really a part of our life. I was with a guy with a little parlor organ pump organ and I said Yes I have a picture. Of growing up on George Street and we win those little ones. Or anything you know and a picture of my mother sitting playing and the four of us kids and my sister's youngest couldn't have been over eight or nine so me. My oldest brother. 13 or 14 and reaching Christmas music in four part harmony and my father of them went to out and let them come the people that lived in the neighborhood that they could come and he would set up a little manger scene and my brothers we all day and proper bathrobes with scrapes on them you know the Manjari. My sister always had to be Mary she hated that and we put on the little show singing some carols and my mother playing a little organ and the people come in and just love them. But that was part of that. There was nothing that unusual or dramatic. It was part of that simpler people still getting together and enjoying each other.

Do you miss the simple times.

Oh yes. Try to try to maintain it as much as I care.

But it's there's too much hectic going on around you to really say it's the simple times and I'm getting older so I'm going to be 40 years old this year. Celebrating the 40 anniversary of 40.