Oxford Village (across from the old Fels schoolyard) housed families in the military. Two blond, blue eyed girls i went to Fels Jr. High with (in the mid 60s) moved here from their outpost in the Phillipines. They were a geography lesson all their own. They were in the choir as i recall. They wore the same Weejun loafers and Villager dresses we did. One was named Lani. It was the farthest thing from low income in those days.

Northeast Village was on the east side of Roosevelt Blvd opposite to where Haldeman Ave. intersects it on the west side. I remember there was a street called Air Lane which started at Haldeman, ran perpendicular across the Boulevard, and curved south into Northeast Village on the east side. It all disappeared, including Air Lane, sometime in the sixties, I think.

I lived in the Northeast Village until it closed down. Went to the "Tin Castle" grade school across the street from my house then moved to the Northeast Village School through the woods for 5th grade. My mother said the houses were given to returning veterans if they were republicans, don't know if that's true or not.

My house was farther in but my girlfriend lived close to the Boulevard and could see the Yale and Town tower from her bedroom window so the Village was pretty big.