Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody in the neighborhood is asked about Michael Reese, whose name is carved in bold stone above the main entrance, he has a hard time answering. "A German immigrant who made his fortune in California real estate," is the accepted version. The cynical have more colorful addenda. Reese (ne Ries) was a peddler who went to California in the wake of the Forty-Niners and, some say, made himself a stake by rolling gold-laden drunks as a sideline...
Coast that old Reese had known: murder and rape, stabbings and gang brawls were the order of any night. The hospital declined with the neighborhood...
...books for pasting up stamps, helps with local advertising and promotion, opens a convenient premium store. To cover the cost of the plan (2% to 3% of the yearly gross), a retailer must boost sales an average of about 20%. For the merchant who is first in his neighborhood with stamps, this is usually easy. But as each of his competitors buys a rival stamp plan in self-defense, the advantage wears off. Then the old standards of price and quality return, and the merchants are right back where they started -except that they are stuck with paying...
...story begins in a police station in a pleasant upper-middle-class suburb. Half a dozen teen-agers are hauled in for questioning, among them a boy (James Dean) who has just moved into the neighborhood. He is drunk. Why? He does not know. He only knows that his mother wears the pants in the family. "She eats my father alive, and he takes it. How can a guy grow up in a circus like that? They are tearing me apart...
...pranks and scrapes of the four little Fitzgeralds could be cut up into two-reelers for Our Gang comedies. One of the funniest has the brothers hooking their grandmother's wig with a fishing line to prove to the neighborhood small fry that she has been scalped by the Indians. The final episode in the book is funny, pathetic and brave. On his dying day Papa put on his boots and Mama would not let the attending doctor take them off because Papa always "wanted to die with his boots on." It's things like that that give...