Martha Braswell, our next door neighbor

I talk about Martha and Mac a lot but never have posted any pictures. I have none of Mac for he was always taking our picture. Martha was our next door neighbor on Cherry Street. She was older and never had any children. She was a retired music teacher from Cottery College and was working at Dr. Spencer's Optical shop on Cherry Street. When we moved to Cherry Street and met Martha she sort of "adopted" Marilyn and me. I guess she saw Mom and Dad with 6 kids and thought they would not miss a kid or two for short periods of time.

Martha was married to Maxwell Braswell, he either was an Attorney or a Banker, I can't remember. He lived and worked in Kansas City and traveled back and forth to Nevada. Martha aand "Mac" as we called him loved us! Martha would take us to Kansas City with her to visit Mac. We would hop on the Greyhound bus, she gave us experiences we would never had the opportunity if she had not taken us in.

Mac lived in an apartment in KC, on the East side around 35th street? Bill looked it up once in the Polk directory and we found the exact apartment. Since then I have lost the address. I was in the 1st/2nd grade Marilyn was 3rd/4th during this time. Martha and Mac bought us anything we wanted, clothes, toys, food. There was a picture of me holding a new Barbie Doll Mac had bought me on his front balcony, not sure where this picture is now?

They took us to The Plaza to Putsch's Cafeteria where outside was the Organ Grinder Man with his monkey who would walk up to us with a little tin cup to put money in, the Plaza Theatre (I remember the red carpet walk to our seats escorted by a gentleman dressed in a British solider-like uniform) the Zoo of course & baseballs games at the old KC stadium. They once tried to take us to Starlight but it was closed that night.

Oh the memories!