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I liked this memoir it had a nice conversational tone and Mr Ridley is a positive person The Walker Theatre is my favorite building in Indianapolis and I am curious about the history of Indiana Avenue so I learned about that but also some other parts of an interesting life very different from my own 9781481070843
Thomas Howard Ridley Jr grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in Indianapolis Indiana just off of the famed Indiana Avenue The area was renowned for its rich history of jazz and jazz artists Wes Montgomery Larry Ridley Freddie Hubbard J.
From the avenuea memoir epub pdf J Johnson Dr David Baker and Jimmy Coe to name only a few are all from Indianapolis and could be found performing at the many jazz clubs on the Avenue Tom Ridley grew up in the middle of it all a happy resourceful young African American with a love of life and family In this memoir Mr Ridley now 90 years old and a riveting storyteller talks about the adventures of his childhood and young adulthood Through his simple yet wonderfully interesting narrative the reader is placed into the pre World War II life of a boy turned young man who joyously explores his neighborhood and drinks in all it has to offer Mr Ridley tells of a simpler time when boys made their own bicycles and rode them everywhere and young men spent hours dressing up to go stand on the corner by the famous Madame Walker Theatre hoping to catch the attention of the lovely young ladies strolling by Later they would crowd into packed music venues and cafes and listen and dance to the music of home grown jazz musicians who would later find national acclaim Mr Ridley went to school played hard and spent evenings and summers grabbing whatever job opportunities came his way The black population of this section of the city was segregated from white people and happily so Tom Ridley suffered no ill effects of living and working solely around his people and knew very little adversity from prejudice until he joined the Army and was sent to Georgia and Mississippi to train It was then that he learned just how differently his life could have been had he been born elsewhere Once in Europe serving in the war however he discovers some surprising things After the war is over he comes back home to Indiana to true adulthood and to a new life shaped by the rich cultural experiences initiated by having grown up on the Avenue From the AvenueA Memoir Life Experiences and Indiana Avenue History Told from the Perspective of One Who Was There
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