Those were the days

I received a Christmas gift of memories as I read [“Activism, Music Intersect in Leimert Park,” Dec. 25]. I attended 39th Street Elementary School (renamed Sutro Avenue Elementary) and Audubon Junior High; sold the Los Angeles Herald Express on Santa Barbara Avenue (renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard); and can recall the days when jack rabbits abounded in the vacant lots later known as Baldwin Hills.

The Leimert Theater offered fine films, but the place to take a chick in the nifty ‘50s was the Baldwin Theater. The in crowd guys would purchase their suede jackets and blue suede shoes at the Broadway or May Co., and I thought I was Mr. Cool when I got a job delivering prescriptions on my bike for B and G Drugs on Santa Barbara Avenue for a whole buck an hour!

EDDIE CRESS

Sylmar

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