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Longtime College Park residents recall childhoods, businesses and neighborhood life
Summary
Several speakers described multi-generational ties to College Park: a speaker says their family has been in the neighborhood for 101 years, another said they’ve lived there 73 years, and others remembered neighborhood stores, games and communal parenting.
Speakers with decades of residence recounted daily life in College Park: childhood games, street play and local entrepreneurship. "I have lived in College Park for 73 years," said a longtime resident (S9), who described playing marbles, jump rope and road bicycles with neighborhood children and noted that parents often served as caregivers for other children.
Another speaker (S8) said their family has been part of the neighborhood for 101 years and described local small businesses, including a store four blocks from home run by the speaker’s father. The oral histories emphasized family networks, local entrepreneurship and a sustained sense of belonging that residents said still defines College Park.
