Histories
stories of the past and present
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Roscoe Davis and his wife, Estella, moved to their house on E. 103rd Street in 1919. According to the census records, they were one of the first Black families in the neighborhood now known as Union-Miles. In 1920, E. 103rd Street near Harvard Avenue was working class. The family’s neighbors were laborers, carpenters, and store…
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“On Saturdays during the school year, a short, periwinkle blue bus would pick kids up in front of the Dairy Queen on Harvard and ferry us to a roller skating rink like the Blue Goose or Seven Bells-both outside of Lee-Harvard but a popular destination for the younger set. My small self would skate to…
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Southeast Side Stories 