Pouring rain or even the rare snowstorm never kept us from our appointed duties. Before moving to Greenwood, we lived with my Grandmother on a quiet tree-lined street in the Wallingford District, a couple of miles west of the University of Washington. My entertainment then was comic books and Saturday afternoon movies. It was mostly westerns in those days. It's a shame that there are so few vacant lots available for today's kids to transform into virtual playworlds.
Imagination is a wondrous tool which is too often restrained by today's techno-toys.
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear . . . Radio was the gateway that opened a thousand different worlds in the mind. Afternoons there were the exploits of Dick Tracy, Superman, Terry and the Pirates, and Tom Mix . Later in the evening it was Tarzan and The long Ranger . Saturday morning was Let's Pretend and Buster Brown's Gang .