As a youngster back in the 1970s, my grandfather worked at James A Kinney & Sons @ the corner of Norris & Howard. I remember quite vividly going with him to Kelly's Korner to get cheap sneakers and going with him into the barber shop under the El that had cut his hair for 40 years. He would go there even though he had moved from the neighborhood to West Oak Lane in the mid 1950. My biggest memory of the area were the vast factories dotting the landscape, and seeing many of the buildings being abandoned even then.