The Changing Faces of the Hood -- Creighton Street

The Changing Face of the ‘Hood – Creighton Street

This picture shows the changing face of the ‘Hood and it is now under demolition at the corner of Creighton and Gerrish Streets once again. When I was taking the photos a passerby shouted to me and she said:

“I am glad to see that old place go.”

But she did not know who once lived there. At one time, it was a store, where as a child I bought penny candies such as “honeymoons” from Lew Newman.

She did not know that Mr. George Downey, and my cousins, grew up in the house next to where I was standing and it's boarded up now. So what does she know? So what does she feel?

I took my pictures and in the vernacular of the Hood:

“I left without sayin’ nothin’.”

But there was so much to say about life and living in the ghetto, home.


Well wishes,


F. Stanley Boyd.

For more on the place called home, see JR's Diary of Tales from the Hood on my other blog at:

http://wsogf.blogspot.com/2005/12/its-witchcraft-from-jrs-diary-of-da.html