Greetings from Jeff Curry!

I just stumbled across the Woodsdale Kids blog. Unbelieveable. Who dreamed this one up? I haven’t seen all those names in decades. I got lost for a couple hours reading just half of those stories. Just amazing. I lived on the 100 block of Maple Ave back then… closer up your way, around Tommy Emch and Andy Bates and Richard Hamm and Augie Bankie and Debbie Frizell. Barbara Taylor’s house was pin high with us, straight out our back door in fact. I’m the same age as Kim and Charlie and Colin and Eddie P. My dad & Kim’s dad made up the whole radiology dept at OVGH. You might remember my older brother Larry. Anyway as a 6 or 7 year old I couldn’t venture down as far as that busy corner where the Liebolds and Butlers and Swarts and Quinns lived which seemed like a whole ‘nother world back then. I only went that far when I walked to Woodsdale School where I would meet up with Kim and we would head down the alley behind his house, not just because it was shorter but because we were petrified by a Great Dane named Duke, perched up on one of those real high front porches a couple doors past Johnny Rogers’ house, kind of like those kids who were all afraid of the giant dog in that Sandlot movie. Then a couple years after the Swarts moved over to Orchard Rd we moved over that way too. I kind of have to chime in with whoever said that that’s not really Woodsdale over there because it just didn’t seem quite the same to me either. Crossing Bethany Pike was sort of like crossing a river or something. Anyway I haven’t been in Woodsdale for a real long time. But you never know, I might just have to come see the place again someday. Oglebay Park alone is a good enough excuse.
Take care,
Jeff Curry
102 Maple Avenue
Phone #: Woodsdale304