Ok gang ...call me crazy, but I think I know where this picture was taken...On Mason Place between Lafayette Street and Cochran Street. It seemed clearer when I darkened the picture.
It seems direct sunlight is shining from the South or Southwest on the front of buildings behind the guys and on the guys' faces...so the sun was behind the person looking North who took this picture.
Only one interior street in the project would take you straight to the front door of an apartment when you walked North on it -- Mason Place. My place was the only apartment's front door in all of Roseland Homes that Mason place led to walking North. And this trio was standing on the Mason Place sidewalk facing South ... in early-afternoon according to the shadows. Alma, Janice and Dwayne Neroes' place would be to the guys' right.
Sooooo.... if I'm right, the downstairs place behind these guys was my home at 3517 Lafayette Street (since 1953). The home above it was where Miss BTW of 1962 Jackie Jackson and her family lived!
-- The place to Stanley's left is where Mr. Robinson lived, a great-spirited blind gentleman who looked and talked like Ray Charles. My mother had my brother and I take Mr. Robinson food several times a week for a long time before he passed away. (When I was about 11 years old I actually found him expired on one of those visits to feed him.)
Man, who'd have thought all of this remembered would show up in that one great picture?
Take all the snapshots you can, friends! ... you never know what fine memories they might preserve and recall!!
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