Every once in a while I go through the photos and stuff that my mother left me after she died at the age of 80 in 1999.
This photo was taken in 1951 and the girl next to me is my late sister Martha. Mom has us wrapped up good for cold weather and even when I was a Marine my sister always looked out for me. We are on the front steps of 844 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and just several blocks away from Ebbets Field. We lived on the third floor and my mother always had me bundled up when the temperature dropped below 90. The building is still there - if you come down to the end of Linden Boulevard you're going to crash into it.
