Growing Up in Elmwood

Accident 1962

This was an interesting evening. In the early morning hours for May 28, 1962 this is what our house looked like. Some young men were drag racing up W. Colvin St. - a direct result of being made one way - and lost control as they came around the curve at the creek bridge. My mother was ironing school clothes for the next day and heard the noise coming up the street. She headed for the front door when she remembered that in her haste she had left the iron down and returned to set it upright. As she returned to the front door and was about to open it, the car hit the house. If it had not been for the iron and the intervention of the Good Lord, she would have been on the front porch and probably under the car. At one in the morning there were firemen and policemen all over the house. The fireman had to shore up the front porch because the attic came over the upper porch and the weight could bring the whole front of the house down. A year later to almost the exact date, it happened again to the house directly across the street!