Back in January 2019, I posted “Finding Waldo’s Shadier Side,” my attempt to talk about the period when Waldo south of 77th Street was outside the city limits. The city limit reached 77th by 1909, but it would be almost 40 years until that changed. My Waldo research included mentions of a lot of shadyContinue reading “The True(r) Story of Mary’s Place”
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Wide Spots in the Road: Watt’s Mill, New Santa Fe and Dodson
(originally published 5/9/19) History can be fickle when it comes to what is remembered and what is forgotten. When I wrote the book on Waldo’s history, I realized what a quirk of fate it was that the name Waldo should have survived when there were plenty of other places like Waldo, that didn’t. They allContinue reading “Wide Spots in the Road: Watt’s Mill, New Santa Fe and Dodson”
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