Beverly, good to see you on the list and hear of your memories of Decatur. Helen in Idaho > > From: Bcookiegma@cs.com > Date: 2004/01/16 Fri AM 10:59:02 PST > To: ILMACON-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ILMACON] Decatur parks, Lake and the Sears candy counter! > > I remember Fairview and the park beside Decatur Lake Beach as a child. > The parks were beautiful. We to them went often as a child. > We swam in Decatur Lake until the polio scare when they closed the Decatur > Lake Beach to swiming. > The Lake was still beautiful in the 1950s. > There was no air-conditioning there in the 1940s when I grew up there on 345 > N. 25th St. I went to Roach gradeschool. > We rode the buses for transportation then. Deatur was a very nice town in > those days. I remember as a child the Staley building with the colored lights > shining on the outside of top floors of it during World War II. > I remember I loved the big old Sears store with the candy counter. > Grandmother would take me there and buy me orange slices, coconut macaroons > and that those buterscotch flavored pecan pieces by the pound. > tow of my aunts worked there. Aunt Esther TRAYLOR was a seamstress there > early and for many years. She died last year. > Decatur was a nice place to grow up when I was a child in the 1940s. > My MARSH, SHERMAN and FRAZEE and other ancestors came to that area early. > Beverly (HIMES) BARGER now in Texas > > > ==== ILMACON Mailing List ==== > Visit the Macon County ILGenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmacon/ > >