Health & Fitness
Kensington Then & Now - A personal Perspective
This is a short summary of growing up in Kensington and humble and thankful for the changes.
Growing up in Kensington in the fifties and early sixties the town was
quite smally, quiet with very few businesses that I remember. Citizen's
savings and loan was in the tiny wooden building where Macon Construction
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is now housed, Ed Elliott my barber had his shop in what is now one
of our antique stores. When mom and I came to town for business it was
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usually to pick up a few sundry items at Mr. Victor's store. They had
just about everything except hardware items like hammers, nails and saws.
Almost everything was available under his very watchful eye. If we
needed to pick up a prescription or other sundry items we would go to
the little drug store at the end of what is now the M&T Bank building. My favorite item from their store was atomic fire balls!
In the early fifties, where Continental, Hardware City and other stores
and restaurants are the Clude Beaty & Cole Bros. circus came to town.
Went there with my bother when I was about five years old and
beheld it with wide eyed wonder. In the late sixties or early senties,
I recall a laundramat where Hong Kong Restaurant is now located.
The bridge over the railroad tracks near Carlos Auto Service is, was
unpaved. The planks were fire proof treated timber and rumbled
when driving over them. I feel blessed to have lived in Kensington then
and humbled that I have now grown to live in this changing community of welcome, growth and many, many opportunities.