Spending my childhood in a suburb of a large city in the 1960s was a wonderful way to grow up. My brothers and sisters and I had the benefits of a small neighborhood, where we were free to roam all over, and the thrills of the large city were only a car or bus ride away.
We moved to the Village of Hamburg, N.Y., from the Village of Blasdell, N.Y., in 1961.blocks away, and with only one car in the family, walking to school and back home was a daily thing.