My family moved from the area of Springfield Ohio to Flint Michigan. Well, the Flint Michigan area. My dad had a job in Flint and we moved to a town just north of Flint called Clio. I was three years old, so I don't remember moving there. We lived upstairs of an old farmhouse, two blocks behind downtown Clio. I have few memories of the place. I do remember walking with my mother to a train station that was converted into a laundromat. It was two blocks from our house and it seemed like we spent a fair amount of time there. I do remember coming back from grocery shopping and my Mom turned on a stove burner while she and my dad unloaded the car. Dave pulled over a chair and climbed up on the stove. I pulled him off before he got to the burner. There was a nice older woman who lived downstairs. Her name was Mrs. Bus and she was our landlady. I recall her watching Dave and I play in the yard. My Mom would take us and walk around downtown. We would walk into a pharmacy which had a soda fountain, candy and warm nuts. She would buy a small package of nuts for us to eat as we walked around town. One image has stuck in mind for years. It was beautiful summer day and we walked downtown to the Pharmacy. aWe bought a bag of nuts we walked through a park. It seemed like the most beautiful place I had ever seen. There was a stream, bridges and large trees. The grass was perfectly manicured. At least this is the way I remembered it all. I revisited the park many years later and it really did match my memory. A picture of the park below. It was September 1965 and I started kindergarten in Clio. We moved the following month to the north part of Flint.
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March 2021
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