Thursday, April 02, 2009

Hazel, where have you gone?


This lovely burned out shell of a house at 2209 Pennsylvania in South Dallas is for sale for the fire sale price of $9,000. Since it's old, and once might have been cool, I looked it up in the newspapers archives to see who lived there. In 1942, it was the home of 11-year-old Hazel Reilly. That year, little Hazel won the Junior Fire Chief award from the city for pointing out 397 fire hazards in her neighborhood. Somewhere, Hazel is bowing her head in shame.