Dan O’Flaherty remembers the experience of growing up in Roseville and being able to walk wherever he needed – to school, to church, and to the park:

“Without crossing any streets I could walk to school, to two doctors, to a dentist, to a bar, and to a candy store named Ratner’s that sold egg creams. There was also H&B, a grocery store, on the same block as Ratner’s. If we were Presbyterian, we could go to church, too.

“A little bit further, we walked to church at Saint Rose on Gray Street. I got my tonsils out at Baby’s Hospital (between Sussex and Market on the east side of Roseville). And I walked to the library, too. We voted at Roseville Presbyterian and walked to Branch Brook Park.”