Looking for the Sandlot

[Detector]

I'm looking for the Sandlots of the old timers. That favorite vacant lot where you played baseball and football as a youngster.

For me growing up in Hollywood addition the local kids would all gather at the Wheelers front yard to play football. Although we played on a baseball team, Go Buffalo's, I don't remember ever having played baseball in the neighborhood.

How about you. Do you remember a location where you played or even watched others play?

[lBugsy]

during the fifties we played a lot of baseball on the Central School playground...Northeast corner. For football we played in the park in the 1300 block of Ave C. We spent a lot of time flying kites in the old cemetery in the 1500 block of Ave C. No home were there at that time.

[Detector]

Thanks lBugsy great info.

We spent a lot of time flying kites in the old cemetery in the 1500 block of Ave C. No home were there at that time.

Kinda creepy!

[K C Muffin]

Bugs, that's exactly where I played softball. I wasn't any good, but there was always a pick-up game at Central school. Then you probly remember Rollie May's Little Store, huh?

[kmdt1981]

I'm only 26 so I don't remember this, but my dad has told stories, wasn't there a little candy store down on Avenue C where you could buy all kinds of stuff for a penny??

[lBugsy]

Oh Boy...Rollie May's...He and his wife. I think I lived in that store. Then there was the Oak Street Grocery between 1st and 2nd on the same street and Ave D Grocery. Then there was a little grocery store at 1000 6th.
They used to be all over. I remember when the Rainbow Bread man would make deliveries and sometimes he would have the miniature loaves of bread he would give us kids.
Mom had a charge account at Rollie's but had to close it after we would buy all the neighborhood kids candy and pop.
Do you remember when they would have summer rec at Central School?
Ah...those were the days.
I sure wouldn't want to be a kid today.

[Detector]

Then there was a little grocery store at 1000 6th.

We used to slip down and buy candy from that store when I was going to school at Lincoln.

[TexKan]

We used to live round there too - actually lived in that little grey house just a block down on 5th. Can still remember my sister sneakin outta the house thru the window............. spent my lifes savings at that store!

[JayhawkMom]

My girlfriends folks either owned or ran the little grocery store on 6th.....

We'd go there for bologna sandwiches.....Yum

[JayhawkMom]

I remember when the place where the bed and breakfast is was a candy store.......stick candy of every flavor you could think of......