MY FIRST BIKE

The trailer park we lived in was call Brosches Trailer Park, Mr. Brosches was not pleased with me. I was a tom boy, climbing trees and falling out of them. One day unconscious and he had to cut them down to keep me out! I remember the day I pointed my index finger into the face of aa little red headed girl named Susan. She bit my index finger to the bone..it bled along time and I carried that scar on my finger for along time...Mr. Brosches would repair sidewalks with wet cement...and after spending along time making it just perfect. He watched me, watch him and warning me, not to touch this wet cement...He threatened me if I did ...Well, the minute he turned his back, yep you guessed it..I walked right through it...It was just like that...if there was something I wanted to find out I did just that....I found out!! I ate earth worms...not because I was hungry but because they looked so good. Moist and tasty...I watched them crawl in and out and still can remember just what they taste like...Dirt, they taste like gritty dirt..I would suggest if you are planning on having one...don’t!!! You will be disappointed!!!..they look better than they taste.We always had so much fun at that trailer park...in the summer we played "Release" until midnight. There were so many kids and we all played together....my childhood was fun!! I remember when I learned to tie my shoes...I remember when I got my first bicycle the summer of my sixth birthday. My mother told me not to take my shoes and socks off, but of course, I did...When my father came from work, he whistled for me to come home and there I was no shoes and no socks...I knew I was in big trouble, but instead...guess what...he had a brand new blue and white bike with a little small red stripe....I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t even get in trouble for being in my bare feet!!!...We climbed cherry trees and ate cherries until our stomach ached. We slept out all night in my Dad’s panel truck....My father owned one of the first TV and Radio business in Dormont called Curry’s TV ...he repaired, sold TV’s...as well as installing radios in automobiles from all the car dealers on West Liberty Ave. Radios had to be a special order to be installed in new cars. They were not built in. My father would go down and install radios into the models made for special order.....back then the TV’s were 5" black and white and had condensers and tubes...
I remember my father losing his temper with his glasses on top of his head...when he would soder the resisters together and then the TV still wouldn’t work...I remember the smell of the soder coming off of the hot metal rod that came out of the sodering gun..When I was six years old my father would take me to work with him on Saturdays. One of my friends Evie Oliver’s dad had a lock smith business right behind my Dad’s business on West Liberty Ave. We both spent the day roam the stores in Dormont...Isleys, Woolworths, and we always went to the Saturday matinee movie. We sat in the balcony of the small theater, which still is standing, and threw juju beads down on people heads!! Oh those were the days!!!...