"'I've lived in Memphis all my life and wouldn't take anything for my years of growing up here. Our family lived in the neighborhood by the Firestone Plant, my dad worked at the lumberyard, and my mom was a beautician. Everybody in the neighborhood knew each other back then. We didn't lock our doors, and we kept our windows open at night. We played outside with all the other children and didn't have to come inside till the streetlights came on at night. I remember our house was built up on blocks, and it sat so high that we could play under it and stay cool in the summertime. My uncles worked at Firestone, Humco, and Malone & Hyde. Jackson's Cookies was just down the street from our house. You could buy ten coconut cookies for a penny and oatmeal cookies for five cents. Oh, they smelled so good! We didn't just buy them one at a time. We bought them by the case. [*laughs* ] We did our shopping at Sears [Crosstown]. We'd get the sales papers and then we'd go, and the minute you walked in the door, you could smell the popcorn! I went to school at Manassas from the 1st grade to the 12th. Mr. Louis Hobson was our principal. He loved that school, and we loved him. Things have changed over the years, and a lot of those old landmarks are gone, but I still live in the same neighborhood. I love it here."
Syrethia Lane has a booth at the Cleveland Street Flea Market, 438 N. Cleveland. She is especially fond of creating macrame items.
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