Index by: Story Name: The Green Line Fireworks in Covington Ice Skating on the Lagoon Main Street Methodist Church My Dad's Sledding Accident Some of My Best Memories Summer at Goebel Park Dinser Decoration Day Memories Main Character: Bryant, Betty (Schneider) Bender-Rigney, Kelly Dinser, Harold (Family) Main Street Methodist Church Green, Michael L. Haas, Ealie and Bertha Osborne, Carol (Griffith) Schneider, Walter

 

My father, Walter Schneider, managed the Kroger stores in West Covington and Ludlow in the 1940s. We lived on Elm street in Covington and on Saturday evenings (weather permitting) my brother and I would roller skate down Highway Ave in Covington to the Krogers that was at the corner of Highway and Altamont Ave. We would then ride home with Dad. My Mom Elsie Watkins Schneider was born and raised on Hooper Street in Ludlow and she met Dad at the Lagoon when the amusement park burned down.

When the great Ohio river flooded each year, the people on Hooper street would move their belongings onto the street behind them and wait for the water to recede. The firemen would hose the houses out and after just a few days, the residents would move back in. My cousin Joanie Miley and I walked down Hooper street in hip boots through the silt that remained. We thought it great fun. I'm sure the residents didn't agree with us, but, kids have a different slant on events.