Elder Frank Curts Book

[Sam]

I remember when some houses/buildings got torn down on Hopple Street to make room for the express way.

I remember a family named Belver living above a store on the same side as the Church. The Dad's name was Earl. They had three daughters. One was named Vivian and one was named Ramona. Next door to the church was a store that we just referred to as Jack's because an elderly couple, Jack and Rose, lived in the back rooms and ran that store. There was a vacant theater across the street from the church. On the same side of Colerain as the church there was a restaurant named Lucians (I think). There was a storefront church down the street from the church at 2930. It was some kind of Baptist church and the sidewalk would be crowded with people standing outside the church smoking and talking before and after service. I think there was also an ice cream store or a pizza place a little farther down the street. For several months I lived in a second floor apartment of a house on Sidney Street a couple blocks behind the church. And from 1957 until 1966 I worked at a place called OPW at the corner of Marshall and Colerain.