No Turning Back Now!
In the next section, I list
the main crew of folks making this happen. It was just providential--or maybe
I had more of a plan in the back of my head that I thought--but coming across Cris
Jarrell in looking for someone to upgrade my upstairs bathroom at my Elizabeth Avenue
house gave me a shoo-in to decide on a contractor.
I had a list of backup contractors to pursue if things broke down, but that never
happened.
There's a perverse association of "progress" with "demolition" that you have no
trouble understanding when it happens after things seem to have been at a standstill
FOREVER. But when you see the dust and exposed bricks and lave, you know the
train has pulled out of the station!
In the
pictures, you will notice the piece of original bathroom tile and the Fifties
wallpaper--this starts to make it really interesting. Not photographed is
the beam that Cris pointed out with "Deliver to Carolina Avenue" penciled on it,
a brass light switch plate with the original wallpaper hanger's signature and Tuffy's
old dog tag Carol found behind the kitchen cabinets.