This post is one of a series of remembrances of various aspects of my childhood home – 1521 Ninth Street in the Fairview neighborhood of Altoona. My home, as detailed in RIP - 1521 Ninth Street, was converted into a handful of spaces in a parking lot last year.
Unlike a number of other properties in our Fairview ‘hood, 1521 Ninth Street didn’t feature a garage of any sort. So to accommodate the storage of the collection of George Carlin’s stuff that accumulated over time, a number of alternatives were employed.
These included storing stuff in the dead-end corner of the TV room (behind the Downstairs Powder Room), in the upstairs hallway (where we used to store extra furniture, mattresses, headboards, and the like), and in the tiny “back porch” (which was usually filled to the brim – almost to the point of decreased navigability).
