Neighborhoods: Englewood

[billy]

billy, there's a Cuban bakery on Dean Road at Beach, that also makes sandwiches - is that the one?

This was on Emerson. Maybe they moved.

[Bativac]

Did you happen to go to Burrell's day care? 

You weren't asking me -- but I went to Burrell's in the early to mid 80s (1984 I think, maybe a year or two after that). I have vague memories of a big playground with lots of fun, dangerous, old-fashioned equipment. Even a broken-down old schoolbus we were allowed to play in. I remember watching Inspector Gadget cartoons in the mornings... good times.

[riverside planner]

Did you happen to go to Burrell's day care? 

You weren't asking me -- but I went to Burrell's in the early to mid 80s (1984 I think, maybe a year or two after that). I have vague memories of a big playground with lots of fun, dangerous, old-fashioned equipment. Even a broken-down old schoolbus we were allowed to play in. I remember watching Inspector Gadget cartoons in the mornings... good times.

I went there during the late 70s and early 80s.  Yes, I remember the playground being huge and having lots of equipment that would NEVER be allowed today!  Summers were the best though because they had a day camp off of Tiger Hole Road with horses, a pool and a stocked pond.  I can only imagine the waivers and insurance forms that would be required for that these days!

[roninvirginia]

When I was 3 we lived on the corner of Mimosa and Abby Lane, my dad said he paid $8,000 for the house. In 1953 we moved to Mayfair Village on Beach Blvd. Don't remember much about that place except for the playground in the middle. We moved to Copper Circle East in 1955, the year I started school at Spring Park. The very next year, Englewood Elementary opened and I was there until the middle of the sixth grade when we moved to Avondale. That was a traumatic move that took me a long time to get over.

As children we played in the "woods" where the Lincoln-Mercury dealership was later built. It was uncleared land that offered ample opportunities for adventuresome boys to spend their energy and time wandering about, building forts, looking for "stuff" and just generally doing what young boys do. We were gone from breakfast till dinner, with a break for lunch. Our parents never worried about what we were doing...... those were the days.

[Bativac]

I went there during the late 70s and early 80s.  Yes, I remember the playground being huge and having lots of equipment that would NEVER be allowed today!  Summers were the best though because they had a day camp off of Tiger Hole Road with horses, a pool and a stocked pond.  I can only imagine the waivers and insurance forms that would be required for that these days!

Camp Chippewa! Back when we were allowed to run around dressed as politically incorrect Indians... And I remember five-minute-long horseback rides in a big circle. Good times. Good times.

[David]

Did you happen to go to Burrell's day care? 

No, but actually it's good that you asked that, I had to look that daycare center up. Turns out I do have a slight case of childhood amnesia. I went to a place off Spring GLEN road, not Spring Park. I always mixed those two up!