Long before it became a trendy urban oasis, Pat Abbott remembers a very different Inglewood.

“It was around 1962 and there were two really large homes on the street that were rooming houses — for my mom it used to be her evening entertainment,” said the longtime Inglewood resident and community volunteer, whose family moved into their home on the neighbourhood’s west end in 1916.

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