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The ponds in West Hyattsville, by the Riverfront Townhomes, under a hot and humid sky.
The rain has made the vegetation even greener today.
Ran an errand today and took some photos with my iPhone along the way!
Townhomes are getting close to being finished on the exteriors. Supposedly the project will be completed this Summer. Here's the developer's web page for the Happy Holler Townhomes: www.connollydevelopment.com/happyholler
N. Central Street
Knoxville, Tennessee
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
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HWW! Seen from my living room today.
Taken from a balcony on the 34th floor of our condo's Sky Lounge.
HWW! One of three sky shots tonight. Explored on April 30, 2025
HWW!
Baseball fields at the right, Fellowship Baptist Church at the rear left.
At the rear right is West Kenwood Gardens (nobody who lives there calls it that). These townhomes, built by Chicago Dwellings Association in 1956, replaced turn of the last century buildings that, during the Depression, had fallen into disrepair. The original plan was to sell them to whites, but they were leaving Fuller Park as fast as they could call the moving van.
What to do? Someone at Chicago Dwellings had what must have been a revolutionary idea at the time.This was the first time in Chicago history that black families could get proper mortgages instead of buying homes on contract at ridiculously high interest rates.
Home Federal Savings provided the mortgages, and they were rewarded tenfold -- We all had savings accounts with them, even after they merged with Talman Federal Savings to become Talman Home and then Cole Taylor after that.
Unfortunately, the very Republican Chicago Tribune came out foursquare against the idea. Back then, the residential real estate market depended, to a much greater extent than now, on white people being frightened into selling their properties at rock-bottom prices, and black people buying those same properties at a huge premium. Building homes for Negroes, as we were known back then, that they could buy with mortgages just like white people did? Socialism, which, at the time, was the slippery slope to Communism. So it was the last time Chicago Dwellings did anything like this.
But, no matter. West Kenwood Gardens was our Levittown, our Park Forest, our Lakewood, CA. And it still is.
Hopscotch, anyone?
Looking through Manuela's window art 4:48 PM, you can see that there is no more ice in the Marina. It is 13 C but the grass is not yet green.
