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Let's travel back in time and take a virtual "Walking Tour" of the Denison Avenue area.

Starting point: The Harvard-Denison Bridge

Just a few hundred feet from the western end of the bridge, we see a stairway leading down to Jennings Avenue. Descending to the street below, we now find ourselves in an industrial area with several factories visible, as well as railroad tracks crossing over Jennings. The tracks swing around the southern end of the bluff. Vegetation here is mostly scrub weeds, but if you follow the tracks back towards Big Creek, just about below Botany Avenue, you can pick blackberries and raspberries. The berry bushes are massive tangles and prickly to boot. Closer to the bluff the land is swampy and we've often been warned to watch out for quicksand. I'm not sure if that was just an old wives tale, or the truth, but water bubbles up in the stagnant ponds, so there id probably an active spring there saturating the sand.

Backtracking, we pass "Red Hill" on our left. That isn't it's official name, of course. That would be West 14th St. where it descends down to Jennings in a serpentine fashion, hugging the side of the bluff. Older maps show it's name as Foster St., which is what it was named prior to the sweeping changes of 1906 for all North/South streets. Anyway, is it called "Red Hill" because of the berries that would inevitably fall out of overfilled buckets and end up smashed on the road surface? Different generations probably had different names for the hill depending on what was most memorable about it for them.

At the intersection of the tracks and the hill, we have the choice of following West 14th St. to where it crosses Jennings. It's dirty and muddy here because of the dust tracked over the road by trucks pulling in and out of the unpaved parking lot of Zeleznik's Tavern on the southwest corner. When it rains though, this little section of the street always seems totally water covered.

Just ahead, on the northeast corner, is Zuzek's Steak House. So what if they served ground horse meat? Those are the tastiest hamburgers you can buy in the city. Just east of Zuzek's is Harshaw Chemical; the neighborhood's smelliest resident business. No, wait! That distinction probably should go to the various fat rendering companies. You can hardly ever forget the experience of following one of their dripping trucks which were making their way from the slaughter houses on West 65th St. Those trucks left an odiferous trail that probably called every fly from miles around.