Everybody is Talking About...Favorite Childhood Memories
My Brother, Barry and I at Duxbury Beach 1959 The Beach, Parades and Hoodsies A recent visit to my cousin's home created an avalanche of childhood memories. We laughed ourselves silly, remembering our antics together and with our other cousins. As I reminisced, later, I realized that there are recurring themes in my memories. The beach, parades and Hoodsies all hold a prominent place in the slide show of my formative years. The beach was just three blocks from my home growing up. I swam before I could hardly walk! Some of my happiest times were playing in the sand at the L Street Bathhouse in South Boston. The Bathhouse was built thanks to James Michael Curley , Mayor of Boston, back in the day and was divided into three sections - the boys', men's and women's bathhouses. My mother, one of the first women life guards in Boston on a public beach, took us to the "L", as it was fondly called, almost every day in the summer. ...