Also, the dropped field to the right of the intersection of Tierney Street and Strawberry Hill, which was less than 4 minutes up the street from my front door, was known as "Jupp's Hole" according to Malcolm Hunt's "Names and Places of Old Norwalk". And the Tierney Street Deli (or whatever name it's known by today) was less than a 4 minute walk in the opposite direction from Tierney/Strawberry Hill.

In the first 5 years of my life I lived upstairs over the West Venezia Pizzeria on Cove Avenue until we moved to West Norwalk. My mother grew up on Bethel Street where I spent a significant amount of time since my grandmother lived there well into the 1980s, next door to the Burrs (who still live there, and who bought my grandmother's house) and my aunt, my uncle, and a bunch of cousins all lived on Lorena. I used to ice skate on the Mill Pond in the winter; and play on the banks in the summer. The Market Basket was our grocery store and my cousins and I would buy candy at Cove Variety. When I got older and moved into my own place, I used to do my laundry where Partners Cafe is today.