Growing up, I always heard older people talk about the place that used to be on this corner or that one, the bar they loved, the restaurant where they always had a table, where the maitre 'd knew them at first sight, whether they could recall the name was another matter.
You know, the police telling you that you can stand on this corner but not that one, or can walk down the street one direction but not the other.
Every two days his message changed; one board read, "Brief speech tomorrow at noon on this corner".
"You look today and you can't believe the mayhem that happened on this corner," said Lt. James Bush, 80, one of the first firefighters to arrive at the scene.
"Well, we know Hugh Grant does, and right here on this corner is where he got caught in his car with one," Ms. Camille said brightly.
Her other sons are heavy drinkers, fathered by a man who she said nearly killed her one night in a fit of rage, driving her from her home on this corner of the Navajo reservation to Provo, Utah, where she found solace in the Mormon Church.
I've lived on this corner for this many years.
"All my life I'm down here on this corner".
"And we had a burning car on this corner".
But the two groups have not always mingled peacefully, as shown by life on this corner.
