by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
My mother never fried or served green tomatoes in the McKay Street dining room when I grew up there. All tomatoes that entered the kitchen were red, ripe, and sliced for meals or peeled and canned in the basement then stored on cellar shelves for winter...
by Gerry Furgason | Nov 15, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Skating in the basement of the McKay Street home was mostly a rainy day or a winter exercise. The furnace was located beside the steps toward the front down there with the steps descending from the center of the house. Skating around the basement took careful counting...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 20, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Before the advent of the modern hot water heater, preparing for a bath began with boiling a teakettle full of water on our McKay Street cook stove. After the water was poured into the white bathtub in the small bathroom next to the kitchen, cold...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
Transportation in my early childhood years meant that you rode in a family car or truck, rode in a cab or on a bicycle, or rode in a Streetcar. Streetcar rides were few and I have only retained memories of two occasions from those days. One was of an...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
It was nighttime and my family was sitting in the living room of the small bungalow where we lived near our Poplar Level Road Grocery Store. Blackout shades were down as there was to be an air raid practice that evening. I recalled from the days living on...
by Gerry Furgason | Aug 19, 2023 | EARLY YEARS
When I was four years old, our family sold its two-story Preston Street store in Louisville, Kentucky, and purchased the small grocery on Poplar Level Road. We first lived in a one-story bungalow a short distance from the store. Fox’s Hardware was...
