There are/were/might still be some apartments upper floor and small oyster shell alley from Leopard to lonely railroad tracks behind it. This is Cages Hardware corner of Leopard & Lester. So you had to go up long set of stairs to get to apartments. As kids we would go up and down stairs, and one day looked in a window to see a couple doing something, not sure what, but went and got other kids. So now looked like Little Rascals looking in window watching this couple go at it. We were all jostling for position (ha ha guy inside was too but in different manner!) but they never saw us, despite the creaking wooden stairs under all our weight. Hell even dog Bootsy came up stairs.

There was no garage to park cars, had to park them on Leopard or alley. A few apartments faced what at one time was US Post Office on west, then KZFM radio station hub. Some other apartments faced Lester street and Bill Farrell furniture, and no stairs that I recall to those so not sure how the people got up and down to those, but other side, stairs side of building. At some date, Cages Hardware moved, the place subdivided, and another storefront was put on lower right facing Noes Cafe across street, and the stairs gone. So guess whoever turned the apartments up there into more storage.

Photo #1. Cages Hardware on Leopard at Lester on right side of building, the stairs to upper apartments in 1960s long gone, and appears small business on bottom closed. Hell, everyting on Leopard closed down, boards in windows too.

Photo #2. Lester street facing Cages show windows still there from old apartments, which eventually I would guess ran people off, including the naked couple we saw in 1966, hope they put clothes on first, but looks like upper area more storage for some AC Heating company. On far right is remains of Noe's Cafe, Mario's Barber shop and Coca Cola compound on Leopard.