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Md. Street's Soul Hasn't Strayed Far From Roots
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They moved in about two years ago, paying $300,000 for a home that first sold for just under $10,000.
For them, Mason Street was "more affordable . . . by a stretch" than Arlington, where they had been renting, Lori said.
Their arrival has helped bring the street full circle.
Next door, a family from Brazil has two sons. Across the street, a couple from Ecuador has a young daughter. And next door to them, Jim Broeker and his wife, Jacqueline, have three children.
Broeker, who moved to the block by himself in 1985, said he has seen a big change. Back then, it was like a retirement community, he said. "There were no kids around."
"Now, all at once, it's exactly the opposite," he said.
Although their faces aren't all the same color, as before, "kids are everywhere again."
Probably, he said, it's a lot like Mason Street was when it was new.
Staff writers Michael T. Shepard and Lena H. Sun contributed to this report.
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