Ah yes; the good old-fashioned neighborhood street fight.
Back in the day when there were no lawsuits and few guns or knives, this is how grudges were handled.
I know, I had my share.
Stan Stapp, publisher of a small local paper shot this photo at North 42nd Street near Ashworth Avenue North. The back story appeared in Paul Dorpat's "Now & Then" column via the Pacific Northwest Magazine of The Seattle Times.
The fight took place two blocks from Lincoln High School in Wallingford, and Stapp published the photo and a summary of the incident in "The North Central Outlook".
Stapp wrote that Wallingford's juvenile officer Walter J. Hauan arrived and settled the dispute:
"Hauan's fatherly manner of approach has helped clear things up for thousands of local youth in the past."
4 comments:
I miss those days, too.
Charlie Reese, a syndicated columnist, once suggested that we should legalize dueling as a way of dealing with the loose talk, slander and lawsuits that plague modern society.
Sounds good to me.
DR, isn't that you throwing the left hook in the background?
I agree - those were probably the days.
Hmm.
1952?
That must be my Dad...
That's not a streetfight, that's a scene from Footloose. Gay as the day is long.
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