Early Discoveries in the Living Quarters by the Saint-Jeanne d’Arc Church
Lowell of my youth was a fantasy land of Disneyland proportions, at least, for me as I first wandered with my parents through the attractive but modest, middle-class, suburban streets of Pawtucketville, where fairly successful Lowell wage earners and some captains of industry enjoyed the fruits of their labors. Here, one might also find successful, small shop owners, ma and pa business owners or the homes of a land developer and/or a building contractor. Even a up-and-coming lawyer might grace these premises with a young family of wife and several children.
Unknown to me at the time, however, was that this benign early start living among upwardly mobile families – socioeconomic issues interested me even as a kid – might not last long as the world puzzled over the sobering aspirations that Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini professed to expound upon.
one of the larger upper middle-class
near the river
that housed quite a few, two and three story residential houses complete with lawns and trees plus an occasional retail establishment such as the quaint, Franco-American variety store at the corner of Moody and White Streets, long before Moody Street became University Boulevard.
Also, I seem to recall that Moody St. had also adopted the name of Textile Avenue. But in the 1950s when I attended the university called the Lowell Technological Institute, LTI, AKA Lowell Tech
and alleys in and around the Eglise jeanne d’Arc neighborhood