Ahhh yes, the jungle Jim...good times...roller skates that fastened to your saddle shoes with clamps tightened with a skate key. A few times the clamps came loose and you tumbled on the sudewalk...more good times.
Wolfe was right!
I wouldn’t trade growing up there for anything, it was wonderful, but I’m happy my daughter is growing up in an environment more closely related to the way her father grew up than I did.
My grandparents moved to the west coast of Florida in 1973, I spent my first summer there in ‘74 and immediately knew I just didn’t belong in a big city. I was 22 when I left Brooklyn in ‘82, and the biggest city” I’ve lived in since was Dover, Delaware, and I moved from there 11 years ago! The Virginia county I now live in, just 2 hours south of Dover, has a population less than Dover had when I left!