4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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0:00.0 | So these are the names of people that have passed away. |
0:08.0 | This is my grandmother name right here. |
0:10.0 | Leola Lockett. |
0:12.0 | Right there. |
0:14.0 | Oh, Leola Lockett. What a beautiful name. |
0:16.0 | Yes, ma'am. |
0:18.0 | It's a beautiful lady. She used to keep me on her, put me on her bosom and shake me and rock me to sleep and stuff. |
0:26.8 | People who lived, or still live, in Altdale Gardens, have been painting the names of lost loved ones on this memorial wall for years. |
0:35.7 | Hundreds and hundreds of names, in no particular order, hand-printed |
0:40.4 | across a long expanse of yellow-painted brick. This young man doesn't want to give his name, |
0:45.9 | but he's sure glad this wall is here. It sits in the covered breezeway of what was once a bustling |
0:51.7 | commercial plaza. Some of the bricks are pockmarked, some of the paint is peeling. |
0:56.9 | Above, a strip of white plaster hosts more names, all neatly alphabetized. |
1:02.2 | And then my grandfather, he passed some times later. |
1:06.7 | He in the yellow part. |
1:08.6 | Let me see if I could find some of my friend's names up here, too. |
1:12.5 | Yeah, I'm looking for him. |
1:14.7 | But these are the people who's raised up out here who was part of the community. |
1:24.1 | I miss them all. |
1:28.0 | I miss them all. I miss them all. |
1:30.0 | It's a reaction so many have when they look at names of former friends, family, and neighbors, old feelings, old stories. |
1:39.2 | This wall has seen so much. |
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