Living Lowell

age: July 8, 1972
born: Lowell, MA USA
neighborhood: downtown
speaks: English

Early Days:   Memories of Lowell

I want to tall about my childhood memory of Elliots. My whole family would cram ourselves into the car. My dad drove a yellow crysler at the time. You should have seen it! You would have thought it was a clown car. My family was seven. we usually had some neighborhood kids along. One time we even had our dog! Back then we never got out of the car.I wouldn’t have anyway. lowell was uglier and scarier then. my mother and father would get the order down. my dad would go in. He would come out a few minutes later with box of hot dogs french fries and tonics. My dad would call out “Who had this?” “Who had that?” We would answear me me. I did. there was always an impatient person amongst us. We would eat by the light of the street lamps amongst the trash and broken glass. Did I mention the clown car?

When I was older I was facinated with the pigeons. I would beg to get out of the car to feed the pigeons. What a treat that was!

I love to hear the stories the old timers tell. I took my first date to the Elliot. MY father took me and my brothers in 1940whatever. He made us share a drink. It is fun to think of your parents,grandparents aunts and uncles as small children and teenagers. My parents dating?! Grandparents as young couples?! Two hot dogs for a nickle?! So I have been told.