I will have photos later, but today my mom and I went to the house we lived in when I was 8-10 or so that is not far from here. My friend Jeff came along since he had worked on the house when Gary and his partner lived there. It is really beautiful now! It had been built in 1887, and the wife had a history of owners and etc going back to then.
We went through the basement, which had rather a rather low ceiling. I didn't recall it feeling that low, but then I remembered I was maybe a tad shorter when we lived there. ;)
Since this is Erie, we never make it to 6 degrees of separation. The husband had played in the orchestra at the Erie Playhouse in the 70's or so, when Dad was doing theatre. The wife went to school at St. Andrew's, which is across the street from where I am now. We knew a fair number of folks in common.
Somehow we got onto the subject of kids who had been childhood friends. I mentioned Sam Cohen, who was a very good friend in elementary school. My sister and I also were in student summer theatre in 1980 with his sister Lynne. My friend Jeff's ears perked up. "Sam Cohen? I was in a production of Pippin with him at Gannon." I told Jeff that I recalled that my family had gone to see that production, so I actually sort of met Jeff about a decade before I really got to know him. I forgot to tell Jeff that I realized I sort of had a crush on Sam when we were kids. I didn't realize it at the time, of course.
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