The fountains at Garfield Park hold fond memories. If you haven't visisted the Sunken Gardens - you should. Not sure if they are lighting them up at night like they used to. My dad used to drive and park in front of the entrance steps that went down into them. The fountains would be lighted up and change colors from lights mounted underneath the water. They were beautiful. They have the entire garden surrounded by iron fencing now and there isn't a street in front of them now that you can drive through. I found a secret stairway behind the gardens built into the hillside and I used to cut across the park using them. Funny how much I traveled along when I was a child - I would never have allowed mine to travel these areas now. No longer safe for children to be alone. Sad. Hated to see the old swimming pool get torn out. Chilly memories of using the old bath house before entering where they made you shower in COLD water first before you could swim. I'm putting a photo of Roselyn's Bakery that used to be downtown on the corner of Washington / Pennsylvania. I don't think there are ANY left now. If I'm wrong - please let me know where one is. I used to live in a brownstone building at the corner of McCarthy / Pennsylvania when I was a toddler. They were the only brownstones (there were two side-by-side) in that immediate area. There was a Wake-Up gas station next door on the actual corner. There was another Wake-Up station on Shelby Street across from Greiner's Subs. Funny how I miss Sap's Bakery - which I now know wasn't really a bakery. They shipped their goods in from another location. They were close to Troy Avenue / Allen. Would love to get comments from anyone that also lived in the area. Is Madison Flower Shop still next to Manuel High School? Any class of '73 reading this? What about Needler's Ice Cream drive-in? I used to work there as a teenager as a carhop. Went to the Bobby Sherman concert at Clowes hall - the summer of 1970. Main memory there is being knocked over a chair when the guards were pushing us back and the ones behind me were pushing forward. Got a ticket for jaywalking the first day of high school. Amazing memories of B & W Rootbeer stand at Shelby / Hannah. Turned into a car lot later. The photos below - 1) fountain at Garfield Park. 2) Postcard of Garfield Park - probaby when it was Southern Riding Park. It was renamed Garfield Park after President Garfield's assassination. As mentioned before - photo 3) Roselyn Bakery downtown (1960s). 
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