I lived in North Lawrence as a child from 1941 until 1948. Mr. Lan Demory cut my hair. He had a barber shop on the south side in the five hundred block of Locust. Old men used to come in and talk about Quantrill's raid; who hid where and what they did. Be

I lived in North Lawrence as a child from 1941 until 1948. Mr. Lan Demory cut my hair. He had a barber shop on the south side in the five hundred block of Locust Street. Old men used to come in and talk about Quantrill's raid; who hid where and what they did. Beyond the Doppler noise of the fans, every now and then the red inter-urban street car would pass by making its way down Locust Street on the way to Kansas City. In those days, Walnut, Ash and part of Elm Streets were dirt roads. Dicker's was our main store it was on the southwest corner of seventh and Locust, directly across Seventh Street was an old gas station with gravity fed pumps. There were two pumps one with ethyl gasoline and one without. Station manager had to manually pump the gasoline up into two large calibrated glass cylinder containers from underground tanks. As gas flowed by gravity the attendant would watch the glass containers to see how much gasoline flowed into the gas tanks of customer's vehicles. Few people had cars so there were not that many customers. On the northeast corner of Seventh and Walnut, Mr. Baker used to plant corn each year, it is now a park.