709 North Broadway

From fourth grade to 7th grade, I lived in this house in Cleveland, Oklahoma (population 2,000). It was located on the main drag through town. My two beautiful older sisters, Cheryl and Cindy, had many male admirers who would honk every time they passed our house, and my sisters would wave to them through the upstairs windows.



Here is the back of the house. We loved this huge sycamore tree. My brother Larry put a rope ladder up into the tree, and I would climb up there and lay on the branches and read a book.

This is the house that had a "fraidy hole" in the backyard (see my blog of July 14, 2009). This is also the house that the skunk sprayed inside the laundry room. And we also had a fire upstairs when I was in the 5th grade. Good times.