The green painted concrete was the walk way around the pool and we'd have our birthday parties at picnic tables right where the diagonal strip of brown grass is now. Back then there were more trees here also.. I remember, as a kid, going around all of the trees looking for the shedded skins of cicada larvae. The skins look like little monsters. Here's a pictaure...http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/photos/new_zealand/images/cicada%20shell.jpg