Robert Taylor Homes Mickey Cobras 53rd and State ‘The Hole’
1. Henry Sistrunk, 27, sitting barechested in “The Hole. ” on the back of his left shoulder is a replication of “The Hole,” in the form of a tatoo, done by his brother Sam Lewis.
2. Angela Smith, 25, asked the driver who was taking her belonging to storage if she could ride with him. This is the day in which she moved out.
3. Katie Sistrunk, 45, with her son Henry, 27, behind her, got off the moving trunk, after she and Henry retrieved something. Katie moved out on this day.
4. Angela Smith (on the right), 25, got help from her cousin, who stood next to her, on this day in which they packed all the boxes, to put her belongings in storarge.
5. Lenzie Jones, 62, standing, walked past his daughter and grandson as they read a book. Mary B. Christian, 25, read the Pinocchio story to her son Jhonell, 6.
6. Mary read the Pinocchio story to her son Jhonell.
7. Mattie Davie, 35, in her new section 8 apartment.
8. School children, residents of Robert Taylor Homes stopped to use public phones on their way home from school.
9. Lenzie Jones, 62, and his daughter Mary B. Christian, 27, in a tense moment, in the apartment Lenzie wants Mary to vacate.
(not selected in the photo edit-ETHEL PARNELL 26, ASLEEP. SHE IS A HEROIN ADDICT AND HAS BEEN WITHOUT SLEEP FOR 5 DAYS ACCORDING TO MARY. MARY SAID SHE WAS SLEEP LESS UP TO NOW BECAUSE SHE HADN’T SATISFIED HER HEROIN HABIT, UNTIL MARY WAS ABLE TO SHARE SOME WITH ETHEL LAST NIGHT 6-6-98. MARY SAID THAT ETHEL “HAS BEEN ASLEEP FOR 24 HOURS.”)
(not selected in the edit-AT MATTIE DAVIS’S NEW SECTION 8 APARTMENT WITH HER KIDS, HER COUSIN DIONNE DAVIS AND HER SISTER NINA MANACHER, 44.)
10. Lenzie Jones, 62, walked past what is left of “The Hole,” which is under demolition. Lenzie use to live there. He was on his way to Mary Terrell Public School to pickup his grandsons.
11. A man was shouting out warnings to his colleagues in the drug trade, such as “bubble on the lane,” as the illicit business seemed to intensify as one of the buildings