Dear Pat and Listers, Like you I also lived for a time on some street near Frankfort Ave. It was very close the the "Cabbage Patch," of Mrs. Wiggs fame. And it was a tough area. Fortunately we were able to move back to the Highlands where the schools were better and the kids wore shoes when they went to school. Tom the belwidered pat49726-genealogy@yahoo.com wrote: > Just returned from a four-day trip with no access to a computer, so had a lot of catching up to do. I've read every one of the "Bread, Milk and Fruit" emails, and they bring back many memories. > > I was born in Louisville, but my folks moved to Michigan when I was only six weeks old, so did not grow up there. However, we went to Louisville at least once, sometimes twice, every summer and stayed with an Aunt who lived on Story Avenue and Ohio Street. Also sometimes stayed with a great-aunt on Pope Street, just off Frankfort Avenue. I remember the Hilltop Theatre on Frankfort, and the firehall next door. My great-uncle worked there. When we stayed on Pope Street, sometimes I'd be given a nickel to get an ice-cream cone at Young's Drug Store on the corner. I'd get the cone, then stand at the curb and holler to my uncle, who was usually sitting outside playing checkers with another fireman, and he'd tell me when it was safe to cross the street. If I was lucky, there would be a slip of paper in the bottom of the cone for a free one! > > No one has mentioned Kukas (probably a corruption of the German "kuchen") that you could only get in Louisville. Every time we went down there we'd bring back those wonderful cakes. Can you still get them anywhere? > > Also, a favorite expression of my Mother's when we'd leave every light on in the house was, "This place is lit up like Levy's." I only found out what she meant a few years ago when I found a picture of Levy's Department Store with all the lights. > > And what about Mazzoni's fried oysters? I've been told you can still get those. > > I still have LOTS of relatives living in Louisville: THIRLWELL, FLODEN, YOUNGER, ERNST, KYSER, and lots of collateral ones. My JONES line seems to have died out down there. > >