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On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:48:22 -0400, Gogarty
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When in college in Washingon, DC, I drove an ice cream truck in summer in
Anacostia. Nobody bothered me, everybody paid, nobody stole from me.




Were you driving the special ice cream truck. They guy who was driving the
ice
cream truck in
my neighborhood, just outside of DC, when I was a kid was selling dope too.

I am talking 1950. What was dope? My biggest annoyance was to turn into a
block and see the Good Humor man disappearing around the corner at the other
end and all the children eating Good Humors. I can't even remember the name of
the ice cream company I worked for. My father made me put the truck in the
garage so the neaighbprs wouldn't see it. My biggest casualty was when my
younger brother helped himself to a popsicle and left the truck ice box door
open. That was more than sixty years ago.

Anacostia was a totally different place in the 50s and early 60s.
In the late 60s it became the combat zone it is today although some
parts are probably being gentrified and the criminals are being pushed
out into PG county..
My sister went to Anacostia high and lived in the 3300 block of C
street SE in the 50s. It was a pretty nice neighborhood in a working
class kind of way. I lived right off Benning Road for the first 12
years of my life. We had black people right behind us but they were
working class folks just like us.

It was the welfare state LBJ created that led to the downfall of that
area.

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