Pine Bluff Arkansas

Have you ever lived there? I want to talk to you as soon as possible. Please email me, or post here, and I will email you.

While information from someone who has visited there would be valuable, it wouldn't be able to provide the information I need at this time.

Thanks,
-Jennifer

That name struck a familar cord with me and I had to do some looking. That is what Bitty1 has listed as her city and state! Knew it looked familiar. :)

Hello,looking for me? lol.

I lived there as a child of 6-8 yrs old...........afraid that won't do you much good.

"eyes"

I lived there for about three months, way back in 1961. When I went back later and was going to drive by our place, I couldn't find it, learned it has probably been torn down. I found PB to be pleasant and unrushed then. There was a nice little park with swings and slides for the kids, and a bridge to a very small island in a small lake. We spent a lot of time there relaxing.

I remember that park, and bridge Aimee.........and me and my two sisters in our Easter dresses and hats!! Man.....that was years ago!!

"eyes"

Do you also have snapshots of you chasing the ducks, or being chased by them? My kids liked the little cabins with picnic tables inside. I had four kids then, all under school age!

My sister has the snapshots of us back then in 1957......I was in the 2nd grade.......same age as one of my little granddaughters!

"eyes"

Getting this thread back on topic .... I have contacted bitty, and will wait patiently for a response. Otherwise, I have made the decision I needed to for now regarding the area.

Thanks,
-Jennifer

WOW, Eyes and Aimee,you two lived here
in Pine Bluff. I bet the park you are
talking about is Oakland park,with the
ponds and ducks that you could feed
and they had a zoo at that time too.
Pine Bluff has grown a bit since then.
Do you remember what street or road either
of you lived on?

Bitty, I lived in an upstairs apartment in an old converted home, and there were four apartments altogether. I think it was on Cherry Street, and about half a block behind was a railroad track. I was on the very edge of the good part of residential. I don't remember a zoo at the park. It was mainly picnic facilities and playground things.

Aimee....I can't believe it!!1 I lived with my grandmother and her address was 210 Cherry Street. We were a half a block from the railroad track!! I went to Sixth Avenue Elementary School!! And yes, there was a zoo there in the park too!! My grandmother's house was demolished in 1979.


"eyes"

When I went there in 1974, I couldn't find the house, but things had changed a lot, and I wasn't sure of the address. It seems to me a street had been rerouted a little, and maybe it didn't go exactly past my house anymore? Some Jewish people who owned a jewelry store in town also owned the building where I lived. It was only a few months, and a traumatic period for me, so my memory is quite foggy. I do know the building was on a corner.

I'm trying to remember the house on the corner across the street from my grandmother's. There was a two story house at the corner of Main & Cherry,that Had an Oval Leaded glass door, and across from it was a tiny corner store, where my best friend Janet and her family resided in the rear........old mind here, trying to remember events of 45 yrs ago.........

"eyes"

Was Cherry street brick? It seems to me it was, at least part of it. There were some extremely high curbs, and I would have to lift my 18 month old daughter up to the sidewalk when we walked. Often, we walked to a store, and I think it was some chain like Piggly Wiggly or maybe Safeway, or A&P. I'm going to start a new thread so we can close this one we hijacked.