Sterling K. Brown

It was a golf course.

My high school football coach told me this about my neighborhood.

He's like, you know, your neighborhood was a golf course.

And then they cleared the golf course.

They made residential neighborhood.

And it was a lot of Jewish families that moved in because it was lower income housing in a great school district.

Ladue School District was very good.

And then as a lot of the Jewish families aged up, the older people, the parents stayed, the kids moved out.

But then a lot of black families moved in.

Yes.

So you had a lot of older Jewish people and a lot of young black families in this neighborhood together.

I remember a substitute teacher, Mrs. Wiebelman, lived right down the street from me.

My first crush was Elizabeth Shervitz.

Yeah.

Yeah, Elizabeth Shervitz, not black, Shervitz.

The Shervitz gave it away.

But then it was the Browns and the Scots and the Smiths and the Herds.

And it was this wonderful place to grow up where you rode your bikes everywhere.

It felt like stranger things.

We'd have these full neighborhood water gun fights where you have super soakers just like blasting people.