Dear George & Listers, Talk about memories! I was looking at just a few pictures, when I should have been doing other things & got a pleasant surprise. Among the great pictures to take me back to my childhood years were 2 special ones. The Picture titled "Train Crossing at Walnut St. looking toward 6th Ave." Many a day I passed that spot. If you look at the left where you see just a part of a store next to the drug store, you see what I remember to be Clark's Confectionary Store. Joe Clark was the owner. We called him Clarkie. They sold some food items, and you could pick up milk & bread in there. They had big can's with clear tops that held cookies of different types in divided sections & you could buy what you wanted from them. They also had them with Pretzels & when they opened the can you could smell the "lye" in them & the flavor aroma was really great too. Another can held Potato Chips & you took a brown paper bag to put in what you wanted. Candy bars, ice-cream (remember the push-ups), sodas & sundies and of course the cigars, tobacco & cigarettes were there. In the back of the store all the magazines were displayed & that's where we bought all our "comic books" at a whopping 10 cents. I must have spent a lot of my allowance for chores on just about every kind of them. Wish I had them today! There were "punch boards" that you, men for the most part, took chances on for prizes. Some of them were boxes of candy, which they carried for sale. Whitman's was one of them. Other items were perfume, clocks, & I think money too. The other picture I really noticed was the one marked Walnut St. RR crossing between 6th & 7th. The wall affair on the left side is the one I ran in to with a bike because a woman was walking on it & I didn't want to hit her, nor did I want to fall off the wall. Between 7th St. (where I lived), and down to that spot, we used to do 2 very dangerous things. One was walk the rails to see how far we could go before falling off & the other was to run the planks, skipping one each time, if possible, as fast as we could go. On the right you will see the Tony's Fruit Market. That sure was a busy place. He'd be so jovial & laughing all the time. We did all our shopping for fruits & vegetables there & I'd buy an apple in there on the way to school sometimes. On the side of the building he'd have the Christmas Trees stacked for the holiday & I remember my dad & I hauling a big one home one year. It must have been over 12 feet tall. We had high ceilings and used a ladder for trimming the top part. Thanks for bringing back fond memories George. Regards, Ellen (ETHS) email: ellen@b-n-s.com Visit my web site: http://www.geocities.com/ellenj3