This shot of "our" block of Magnolia is jam-packed with childhood memories. Arch St. starts off as a sidewalk at the lower left, between the Salvation Army collection structure and Probert's used car lot. There's "our" little post-mounted red and blue mail collection box, and next to that, the bench of the Greyhound bus stop, departure point for many a shopping expedition to The City. Across the street, Hil Probert is now a "Toyopet" dealer, the very first in the U.S. for the vehicles now known as Toyotas. That patch in the pavement running across the street between SLOW and PED seemed to have been there forever, and the white-topped two-tone 1953 Oldsmobile is about to cause the familiar whomp-whomp that echoed up the hill. Good-sized trucks hitting it actually rattled our windows. Vintage car buffs may recognize the dinky little station wagon ahead of it as a Crosley, several of which I remember seeing tooling around town.

Farther up the street, a white station wagon is parked in the driveway of a little white garage which, if you click here, you can see burning down in September 1968. The space is now a driveway down to the Lark Creek Shops parking lot. Perutz and Kodachrome slides by Paul Penna.