Added by Donna Saso Love on 12/31/1969
I grew up on Clausen Avenue, being born in 1945 and living there until about 1957. Though I have not returned, it will always be ?home.? I have many fond memories?the pet parade, ice skating at Spring Rock Park, putting on neighborhood talent shows, the seven-year locust plague, watching the old trains go by from my upstairs bedroom window--but the highlight of my young life was the 1955 flash flood.
I vividly remember walking to the show in LaGrange and coming out to find a deluge. Now any thinking person would have attempted to either wait for their parents to pick them up or find a safe way home. But this was the day before cell phones and being an adventurous 10-year old who loved the sudden down pours, I decided to walk home?taking the route down Burlington Avenue. I had the time of my life. I remember walking in water up to my waist, watching bits of wood float by as water swirled around me as I lingered along the way. When I finally reached home I was greeted by a very worried grandmother who said my parents were out looking for me. When my parents came home not too long afterwards, I couldn?t understand why they were so concerned as I was scolded for not waiting for them. Now that I?m a mother of four and grandmother of five?I completely understand. But it will always be one of my fondest memories
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