Glover Street, My History

Glover Street runs from Atlanta Street to Fairground Street.  At one time it was low income residential section with some family with outhouses and odd shaped houses (add ons).  Now, there is only one residential house.  Most of the houses on this street had a profound influence on me.  I lived on Manget Street, a street perpendicular to Glover Street and the western Border of Larry Bell Park.

As soon as you enter Glover Street from Atlanta Street on the left is a fine little restaurant that was one a small house .  It has a BBQ leaning with a wide variety. 

Texaco Distributor.  I am not sure what kind of petroleum distributor it is now, it was a Texaco Distributor.   We used to sit on the bench in front of Miss Julie’s Store and with our flips (slingshots) shoot at the petroleum tanks in the yard of the Texaco place.  We would shoot and a few seconds we heard a “clank!” of rock hitting metal.

Glover Machine Works.  Behind the Texaco Distributor was a patch of woods, then there was a long brick wall.  On the other side of the brick wall was Glover Machine Works, which was on Butler Street (which would be Atlanta Street).  My father worked there before he became a policemen and his father worked there until he retired.

One of the things they manufactured was train engines. There was one behind the brick wall behind their building that I used to play on by myself on Sundays when it was closed.  That engine is now on display across the tracks from the Marietta Welcome Center and Marietta History Museum.  When I played on it, it was burnt orange (rust)

Glover Street post to be continued-