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Streets And Streetcleaners Between the twenty story buildings on Riverside Drive and West End Avenue, 88th street was lined with five story brownstones - most of them single family homes The street in front of the houses was lined with sycamore trees protected by five foot high protectors made of vertical iron staves held together by horizontal iron bands The Way Things Used To Be - Stoop Ball Lucky Strike Green had come home from the War, as had Dubble Bubble gum and the pink Spaldeen — though at ten cents now instead of a nickel But there weren't many new cars yet, so there was still plenty of room for street games More On The Way Things Used To Be One day Barry Bogardus picked up a broken marble someone left lying on the street, went round the corner to West End and put it up against the curbstone "A hundred if you hit it The Way Things Used To Be, Part 2 Nobody set the day it started, but the Saturday after Halloween we dug last year's cigar box-full out of the bottom of a closet or ran up to Woolworth's and bought new ones at a nickel per red mesh bag of twenty plus a 'boulder' and raced over to 88th and West End for the opening of Marble Season We shot all morning, ran home, grabbed lunch and hustled back The Way Things Used To Be, Marble Season A new guy by the name of Barry Bogardus had moved into the neighborhood and he and his friend Kenny Nails would come round, hands in the pockets of their camel's hair overcoats, sneering at us and making fun of the way we looked or dressed They were especially critical of Cedric The Way Things Used To Be, Part 1 What started me writing was watching things disappear The flowers on the dining table disappeared fast; the rubber plant on the radiator cover, more slowly

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