THE RETURN OF THE 'KELVIN KID'...

Today was a milestone of sorts for me in a strange kind of way.  I'd been jaunting (no, not like The TOMORROW PEOPLE before you ask, more like The YESTERDAY MAN) around my home town, photographing three nascent building sites in areas connected to my childhood - before they change beyond all recognition.

One was just across the road from where I resided in 1964/'65, and, on a whim, I chapped the door of my old house.  I explained to the fella who answered that I'd once lived there, and asked if he'd do me a favour by taking a photo or two of the view from my old bedroom window.  He invited me in to take them myself, and that's how I found myself in the home I'd once inhabited, for the first time in 50 years.

This was the house I was staying in when TV CENTURY 21 first came out, and got my second MARX TOYS YOGI BEAR on a scooter for my 6th or 7th birthday.  I think I may have got my Marx YOGI & HUCK ramp walker in this house also - though it could've been the previous one (unsure).  Having now been back in this former residence, all my associated memories seem much more vivid and not quite so long ago.

I think I'll dig out some TV21s later and re-read them, occasionally glancing at the photos you're now looking at, and - well - just remember how things used to be.