The Old Neighborhood

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The Old Neighborhood
The Old Neighborhood

Taken in 2010.

In the 1950s I lived here in the Campello section of Brockton, Massachusetts. This is looking down Calmar Street toward Main. Where the red sign is now there used to be a larger one in black -- "London Clothing" -- on a much larger building, the London Clothing factory. (It burned down 40 or 50 years ago.)

In the 50s the bricked-over windows beside the drain pipe on that warehouse were glass, painted over in dark green and covered by a steel mesh. Using that mesh and other drain pipes, we could climb up on its roof. My friend Bobby liked to bring water-filled balloons up there and drop them on people walking by on Main Street. (A juvenile delinquent? Actually he did spend some time in a reform school.)

The driveway in the foreground (unpaved then) -- which I could look down on from our third-floor porch -- could only hold a single car. Not a problem, though, because in the five years I lived there only one of the six families in that three-decker (families that were always moving in and out) owned a car, and that for only a brief time. That house, like the factory, eventually burned down.

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Taken on: August 13, 2010
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Camera: Nikon D5000, f/6.3, 1/20 sec, 30mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D5000
Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure Time: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Focal Length: 30mm
ISO: 400
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Not Defined
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 18.0 (Macintosh)
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