Some of the soldiers, including Robert Beyerle, bought lots. And a working-class neighborhood, home to bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers and electricians, grew up there during the Depression. A few tobacco warehouses located in the area, drawing laborers to the community. This is supposedly where the prostitutes and hangers-on of the Camp settled at the close of the War. The community, annexed by Louisville in 1950, was close-knit, thanks to large families who settled, married among each other and stayed.
People remember good, simple times.
Allgeier, the mother of 12, including Fourth Ward Alderman Cyril Allgeier, would hand hot slices slathered with homemade butter out the door to a waiting throng, Betty Horton said. And many of the old names, like Allgeier and Beyerle, are still there. The character Daisy Fay is from Louisville. Nearly 2,000 foreign-born draftees took the oath under a tree on Lee Street. The so-called Naturalization tree was cut to a stump more than 20 years ago.