A real estate broker neighbor gave me a letter that included old photographs and information on our immediate neighborhood. It was written by Betty Junge, who was born in 1927 in what is now his house on the 100 block of 10th Street NE.

Mrs. Junge described our neighborhood back in the 1930s and ’40s and said this building was once a Sanitary Grocery store, which was later changed to a Safeway (what a surprise that was!). As explained in another picture of this building, before I knew more of its history, this then became the Silver Supermarket, which was subsequently abandoned and fell into severe disrepair, frequented by drug dealers. It was restored and converted to a private home while we were in Turkey, 2003-2006.

It was interesting for me to learn that there were five stores within a block of our house in the 1930s – you’d never guess that now as they have long been private homes.

Sitting round the ‘campfire’ at District Wharf, posted earlier