I was in the 3rd & 4th grade when the Baltimore Colts won the 1958 and 1959 Championship. I thought that's what teams did every year. Then in the middle of the 4th grade right before Christmas my dad quit his job as a welder at Bendix Radio in Baltimore and we moved to St. Petersburg, florida. What a change. I went from a brand new school with air conditioning, a huge playground and a couple thousand students.
In St. Pete my elementary school only had 1 class of each grade 1 thru 6. The building was about 100 years old, no A/C and wood floors and all the windows were open everyday. Our playground was completely asphalt, besides kickball and tetherball, 4 square become mine and many others favorite sport. It's 4 boxes painted on the ground and you bounce a ball one time to any square until someone misses. We got so good, we played only using our feet. In the 6th grade I was one of only 2 Fire Marshalls, so one day a month me the other guy would mess around all day while we were checking fire extinguishers and exit lights, which took 10 minutes.
If anybody knows anything about big department stores, or Webb City. It was a department store in St. Pete that started as pharmacy by Doc Webb in the 1920's. By the 60's it was 4 buildings. The main building was 4 stories, with a cafeteria in the basement, it had a huge grocery store, a 120 seat lunch counter, a barber shop with 40 barbers, a beauty salon, there the trading posts which I use to buy gas for 19 cents a gallon and sporting goods, fishing and automotive. There was also Boat City and Furniture City, which was 7 stories. They were Walmart before Walmart but even bigger, this is a Webb City 35 cent haircut, I've got my Fire Marshall Belt.
If you ever go looking for the Old Webb City, they closed in the 80's and it was at 9th St. and 1st Ave South, not far from where Tropicana Field is now.