When we moved from Johnston to Greenville in 1957, we first lived in a house on Dixie Avenue in a now-historic district that looks much the same now as it did then. When driving through, I get strong sensations of riding my bicycle along the streets and roller skating a downhill sidewalk.
The best house I lived in there was at 28 Blythewood Drive. It was on a street that separated my grandfather's street from the street that borders Bob Jones University! (BJU has bought up tons of neighborhood land over the past 30 years. At the time I lived there, BJU was a closed campus.
This is our house on Blythewood (the tree in the front yard was planted in the early 1960s after we moved in and my mom had the yard landscaped. Two scrubby pines were removed, shrubs were planted and a couple of trees,too. I never saw them get much taller than 12 feet. But that was 42 years ago!!!