Nostalgia 373
By Godfrey Chin
During 2003, I encouraged the Guy-Aspora to record ‘the street where they lived’ in Guyana. Here is my current Nostalgia, written for the GFA Orlando’s Anniversary Dance Brochure at which Dave Martins & The Tradewinds were the featured entertainment.
At eight years of age, our family moved to 337 Murray St around 1945 – the northern side next to the corner tower house at Cummings St, where Henry Gomes, the chief pressman of Argosy lived with his huge family. He brought home every major magazine from Life to Man’sWorld, and my exposure to reading and literature began. His house was a virtual library, a treasury from which life’s nuggets were mined.
