TOP OF THE STAIRS
It was a new place in a new town, and we were 13. We lived with our father in an apartment in a house at the top of a public stairway.
We'd watch the Coho ferry arrive and depart for Victoria, British Columbia, sometimes while fishing from a pier. It was a new chapter, but a short one.
Eight months after arriving in Port Angeles we were on a Greyhound bus to Burbank to live with our mother. The summer after that, we were back in Port Angeles in an apartment over Mel's Street Shop, which was the social center of town. We'd open the windows and watch the people below come and go all day. Good times!
This drawing is from a photograph I took from the top of the stairs in 1961. Mel's Street Shop is the white building, second from left.
Looking across the Straight of Juan de Fuca to Victoria, British Columbia, from the top of the stairs.
