Transcript

Location: Jim Asfoor Trail, near Riverside North development (west of Copeland Ave.)

Tom Schwabenbauer: In that neighborhood on Hagar Street that I grew up on, there were some other families that had a lot of children. One of the big things that we used to do was, uh, the marsh down…down behind, uh—oh back then there was a bellscott, now I don’t know what you’d call it now, but, ah, the first railroad bridge—I don’t know if you’re familiar with that at all, but it’s—if you go to Copeland Avenue and then you go past the railroad tracks and then you go back in there—that was really just untamed area back then. And it was—it was our own playground. I mean, we had forts, really elaborate forts back there and we’d spend all day, um…trapping and, uh, we’d do some duck hunting and stuff like that too. But, uh…it was just, uh…it was really neat because it was like a wilderness. Um, it was, uh…we’d go there in the morning and we wouldn’t come back until, you know, night.