Our Savannah

From Ardsley Park to Twickenham and Beyond

Polly Powers Stramm

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781625842909
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Many colorful threads make up the fabric of the more than one hundred neighborhoods in and around beautiful Savannah, Georgia. And hardly anyone can weave stories about those areas more poignantly than longtime journalist and native Savannahian Polly Powers Stramm. A University of Georgia graduate, Polly has been writing about the city's residents for three decades and has selected a handful of her favorite newspaper columns for this book. Also included are never-before-published interviews with local residents who recount memorable childhood experiences in areas such as Ardsley Park, Twickenham, Fellwood Homes, Gordonston, and dozens of other neighborhoods. This unforgettable journey through Savannah takes readers to mom and pop stores of days gone by, to old movie theatres on Broughton Street, to the beaches on Tybee Island and nearly every stop in between. This truly is heartwarming local history at its best.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction and Acknowledgements
• The Sugar Refinery: Could Life Have Been Any Sweeter?
• Savannah’s Movie Theatres: Some Long Gone While Others Remain Treasures
• Highway 17: Howdy’s, Camp Juanita’s and Other Colorful Spots
• Fellwood Homes: Warm Memories and Lifelong Friends
• The Places We Shopped: Broughton, Crossroads and So Much More
• Downtown: Santa Claus, Daddy Grace and Friends
• Sold on Forsyth Park and Union Station: A Personal Note from Polly
• East Savannah: Avondale, Savannah Gardens and Twickenham
• Gordonston: Kinzie Avenue Memories Are Vivid for Longtime Savannahian
• Collinsville/Live Oak: Everything You Could Want in a Neighborhood
• Always a Savannah Connection: A Personal Note from Polly
• Baldwin Park: Floating Cars and Clergy in Underwear
• Baldwin Park to Ardsley Park: Vegetable Ladies and the Knot Hole Club
• Ardsley Park I: Lifelong Friends Remember Fun-Filled Days from the 1960s
• Ardsley Park II: Neighborhood Brawls and Ballgames
• Remembering Our Backdoor Neighbors: A Personal Note from Polly
• Ardsley Park III: Preacher’s Kid Confesses to Washington Avenue Hooliganism
• Ardsley Park IV: Playing Sports and Delivering Newspapers
• Nathaniel Greene Villas: Sitting on the Stoops Enjoying Family
• Unforgettable Restaurants: The Triple X and Johnny Harris, to Name a Couple
• South of Columbus Drive (SOCO) I: Christmas Tree Forts and Sycamore Ball Battles
• Lanes Were Enchanting, Magical Places: A Personal Note from Polly
• SOCO II: Debbie Slotin Favale Thinks of Family and “Ev,” Her Other Mother
• Parkside: Memories of Daffin Park and Folks Helping One Another
• Parkside II: A Boy’s Bus Ride to Adventure
• Life on a Double Dirt Road and Two Dead Ends: That’s East 55th and Hickory Streets
• South Gardens: Alphabet Streets and Toady Frog Houses
• Fairway Oaks: Knitting, Cooking and Entertaining Friends
• Dr. Pete’s Is Tribute to Dr. Dad: A Personal Note from Polly
• Greenview: Treehouses, Lemonade Stands and Sam the Dog
• Bonna Bella: Foxholes, Rope Swings and Seaboard Sadie
• Isle of Hope: Wymberley Home Was a Haven for Animals
• Sandfly’s Peanut Man Shells Out Wisdom and Love: A Personal Note from Polly
• Hunter Teen Town: Where Coke Was Poured in a Glass
• Halcyon Bluff: Card Games, Fiddler Crabs and Butterfly Nets
• Caring Mothers Who Went Above and Beyond: A Personal Note from Polly
• Montgomery: Horses, Pigeons and Family Memories
• Windsor Forest: Crawdads, Bullfrogs and Country Living
• Whitemarsh Island: A Saltwater Swimming Pool but No Pelicans
• Turner’s Rock—Originally a Land Grant from the English Crown: A Personal Note from Polly
• Tybee Island: “The Beach” Was One Big Neighborhood for Year-round Resident