Amputations On The Body Of Blazerville

And now, only because I stumbled across it yesterday whilst (hi Jon) searching for something else in my overwhelming collection of historical video recordings, we present this short salute to a former living member of the neighborhood, now deceased... the Terry/Carolyn house.

Referred to as such because of the fact that Terry and Carolyn were the only residents we ever knew that called the structure home. (Separate decades of course.) The house, and the one that replaced it on the same property, has probably always been better known as the house wot sat next to the sprawling estate of Bartholomew Woods.

For such a dramatic event as the elimination of a significant chunk of Blazerville, I was joined out on the street by a few long time inhabitants of the area; only one of which agreed to be interviewed. Don's mom pointed out for us that her home, and many of the others in the 'hood', were all basically identical and built by the same people at the same time. And - had she been able to - she would've liked to have saved one of the interior doors of the doomed shelter, for use in her own abode.

Her need for a new door was based on the fact that daughter Brenda (perhaps better known to viewers of this blog as Esther) had removed a special door from the house and taken it with her when she moved into her first marriage. Apparently Brenda is no less nostalgic than this writer and found it hard to part with the sentimental value the bedroom door of her childhood represented.