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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.

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