Lucy Biederman

Cameron Bell, 3, plays with a toy car along the edge of a sand box earlier this month at Bixler Park in Hyde Park.

Neighborhood playlot a fleeting wonderland of old toys, young faces, treasured moments

We could only spend the winter dreaming of the coming spring. “New” old toys would appear. Bixler would again fill with little kids, coming from blocks and miles and neighborhoods away to run and yell and be together.

By Lucy Biederman