Longtime friends remember close-knit Urbana neighborhood
By Lynda Zimmer
Sunday August 3, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
Five of the original seven friends reminisced about growing up on The Hill while visiting last month at the home of Mary Taylor Thompson, seated in the middle. They are: front row, Patsy Boley Knight, left, and Phyllis Thompson Beckett, right, and back row, Naomi Slade Hahn, left, and Sharon Burgin Horney.
URBANA – They were labeled as from the wrong side of the tracks when they were growing up.
For a fact, they lived north and east of railroad tracks that separated their neighborhood from most of the rest of Urbana. Their six-block neighborhood faced East University Avenue between the National Guard Armory and Woodland, or Sanitary, Park.
News-Gazette Archive
The full story is available in our paid story archive.
Find this article at:
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/2008/08/03/longtime_friends_remember_close-knit_urbana_neighborhood
