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Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 11:35:28 PM
Hey Patricia, Welcome back, I need someone else to run interference with the no-names who are so negative and constantly insult anyone who posts on here.LOL Keep posting, we enjoy you.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS '50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 10:51:29 PM
Me again - Sorry. However, I have something very important I have to say, but forgot, thank goodness, because I hate negativity.
BUT, in opening my emails, there were approx. ten mails that were returned to me because of that "mail demon" or whatever it is called. However, it turns out I NEVER SENT THOSE EMAILS and apparently, that smut devil is still at it. Please don't open anything from me that looks or sounds strange. My computer has been disconnected for several days and incapable of doing anything - sitting in a box, with no connections.
There was TV coverage about this being done a week or so ago. My computer has been down for over a week because of a move, so anything you got with my email address for the past 7-8 days, DO NOT OPEN - my computer was closed down and not able to send anything during that time. And, incidently, I wish something could be done about these emails from foreigners looking for money.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS50)
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 10:29:11 PM
Hi Everyone - I have missed communicating with you and from what I have been through the past week or so, this is the first real pleasure I've had. I had many emails when I first got my computer up and running and the first one I opened was from Harvey - with the title "Why Me?" Needless to say, the photography and the flying peace doves with Jesus standing in the middle of a beautiful glowing white light alone was inspiring; however, the message was even more so. Thank you, Harvey.
Only a higher power could have made my move and everything connected with it go so smoothly. SO, my dear friends, what I am suggesting here is that a higher power inspired John to set up this website. It should NEVER, EVER, be abused with postings outside of the reason for its creation. This website is John's gift to his memories of oldchesterpa. Criticisms of life in oldChester, I would assume, are also a necessity - and personal attacks of what someone has contributed to life in oldchesterpa are also welcome - in my way of understanding the reason for John's website - but personal attacks, just to attack is harmful to everyone and especially this wonderful website.
Before I closed down my computer, I took a tally for about a week, and in a 24-hour period, there are between three hundred fifty and four hundred hits a day on this website. Possibly people who are just curious and never even heard of Chester, Pa. Take pride in your heritage and your friends and family and try to make the rest of the country aware that Chester was a not only a great place in which to grow up, but is a vital part of America's history. We know it, now show it.
I personally was attacked many, many times, but it was my humor that was being attacked and it was taken personally. Good grief, lighten up - no one said life is to be taken seriously at all times. However, I'm a big girl - and this move has proven how strong I am, physically too which shocked me. But without my sense of humor, which I pray I never lose even on my death bed, I could not go through life. A sour demeanour is not for me. I cannot write without injecting humor at some point. My humor has been mistaken for sarcasm. As I have explained before, most humor is directed at life in general, no one in particular. If we cannot laugh at our lives, each other, and most importantly ourselves, there would be no humor -ife would be as dull as catching flies. So, just remember, we are all friends, here, cut from the same cloth, same blue-collar working parents, family, same wonderful music, food, etc. If you weren't lucky enough to participate in these things, don't be bitter, enjoy the advantage you have right here on this board. There's always someone's name to pop up and give you good memories, or someone trying to find his ancesters. AND, it feels SO GOOD, to help someone with their search, finding long-lost friends, etc. It's a wonderful feeling. Don't let negative feelings give way to something wonderful that could happen to you - RIGHT NOW.
So, I hope my humor and stories are welcomed back and I do enjoy writing and communicating with you.
And, Florence, I told you you were funny - you're just starting to open up. Too bad you don't have a video of the antics of that monkey to send to "Funniest Animals". Love you Florence, you a great gal.
Name: Betty Ratliff Marth
Email: grambeme@aol.com
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 9:20:18 PM
George Ricci. Hello, Hello. How the heck are you????? I got an EMail from Mary Birkofer asking me if I knew your name..that you had logged onto this site. I get so excited when I hear a name from way back. You are my daughter, Monica Joan Marth's Godfather. Do you remember us. I remember how tiny she was. You would hold her entire head in one of your hands. We really lost touch with you and Joan when you guys divorced. Where did you go? Mary said she thinks you are in Florida. We went to Seattle. Please get in touch with me via EMail. We would love to hear from you. You were a special friend to us. We have a son , Chuck who lives in Datona Beach, Fl. Let's get in touch. Okay????????????????? Love, Betty
Name: Caroline
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 8:13:55 PM
WOW...John: Thanks for uploading all the new pictures today on the What's New section.
Thanks to all that have contributed these treasures to John so that we can all share the History of Oldchesterpa as we have not seen before. Again thanks...
Name: MICHAEL PRO
Email: DOK200@comcast.net
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 6:27:33 PM
HELLO GEORGE RICCI IF YOUR FATHER WAS CALLED THE "HAWK", WE WERE BOTH RAISED ON FRANKLIN ST. IN CHESTER. ABOUT 3 YRS AGO, MY WIFE AND I WERE STAYING @ PINE LAKES COUNTRY CLUB, N. FT. MYERS, FL AND WE WERE LOOKING AT HOMES FOR SALE THERE AND HAPPENED ON TO THIS ONE HOME AND WE WERE TALKING TO THE LADY ABOUT WHERE WE WERE FROM AND FOUND OUT THAT WE WERE BOTH FROM CHESTER. SHE SAID HER FIRST HUSBAND WAS GEORGE RICCI. WE STARTED REMINICING ABOUT PEOPLE WE KNEW IN CHESTER AND WAS WONDERING IF THIS WAS YOUR MOTHER WE WERE TALKING TO. IF SO, SMALL WORLD ISN'T IT.
Name: U.W.
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 4:47:12 PM
I saw in the death notices that
Mr. Jack Nilon (82 yrs.)died. I for one remember Mr. Nilon as a down to earth, nice man. To his family it was my pleasure to have known your Dad. It seems we never expect some of the people we have known to leave us and at what ever age it is to soon.
Many of you will remember when the Nilon Brothers catered the many small functions in our local area then later moved to bigger and better things. Many of us worked at the football games and concerts for them. I was lucky enough to work a football game one year where it was Army and Navy and Pres. John F. Kennedy was in the stands. Since I have been talking about boxers recently, Sonny Liston should ring a bell when you think of the Nilon Bros. My sympathy to Jack, Bob and the other Nilon family members and family friends.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 4:27:17 PM
I just remembered that when we had our capuchen monkey,she was 12 when she came to live with us and about 36 when she left. One night we were sitting in the kitchen eating and we heard a noise, couldn't quite make it out, but when I went down to feed her, she a large pack of hamburg, a steak and a pack of coffee buns down under her cage. My son forgot to lock her door and she came up stairs, opened the freezer in the dining room and helped herself
Name: U.W.
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 2:13:03 PM
Ed: Thanks, I knew Aggie was Zdun, could not remember if from the Zduns on 2nd or where. One nice lady to the kids coming up.
Saw Ed. G. wrote about another local boxer calling him Hollywood Handsome, thats what Aggies husband would have been called back in the day and from what the person wrote about seeing him in church recently with Aggie he is still a fine looking man.
I guess we all think people from our childhood will live on forever and remain the healthy people they were. Age has crept up on me and I didn't even see it coming.. I hope these creeky old joints don't reach the hands. Would hate not being able to drop a line or two on the NEWSSTAND occasionally. Or when a memory pops in.
Have a great week-end...and please if you go to the shore don't run over any box turtles. Remember them. How many of us took them home for pets....
Name: Tom CHS76
Email: t9257@yahoo.com
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 11:05:00 AM
I have this dream once in awhile. It's about the Chester West Little League. I rode by yesterday and it is now just a big pile of dirt. I remember playing a lot of tackle football there. The names that mainly come to mind are Danny Wojs QB, Bobby Harris running the ball like hell, he was quick as was Jolly Nolan. Both Danny and Bobby past away to young, but they are still friends of mine. Sam Siefert, Ronny Tarbutton, Joey Faulkner, Billy Hess, Joey Mersick, Jerry Crowley, Timmy and Tommy Ruger, just to name a few. We used to play the Garden's guys and most times they would beat us or we would just play amongst ourselves. I remember we used to play in the rain, the snow whatever weather there happened to be that day. We would go home covered in dirt and mud. You see Chester West wasn't only for little league. It was actually our football field after the summer.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 11:01:24 AM
I always worked at the banks in Chester for quite a while. I remember walking home one day, up Edgemont Ave to 12th and then up Providence to 15th. One day I was walking home, and a recent aquaintance, so I thought offered me a ride home, stupidly I accepted. I got in the car and he was driving along, and I looked at him and realized it wasn't who I thought it was at all. He said you don't know me do you and I said no. I was lucky he stopped the car and let me out. One night I drove my car down to the corner gas station to fill the gas tank, as I was leaving a man jumped on the back of my car, I gave him a ride for his money, he jumped off. fortunately I lived right up the street. How lucky can you get.Once when Iwas 16 yrs. old, I was walking home from the fire house, when I noticed a young man on the other side of the street, and all of a sudden he was beside me, trying to push me in a alley. Don't know how I got away from him, but my grandfather lived 3 houses away, and I got there, but I couldn't utter a sound. I had tried to scream but no noise came out. I spent the rest of the evening riding around in a police car looking for the culprit. The kids in my neiborhood seemed to know who it was and they went right to his front door. He wasn't one of our group. My old friends. Jim,Ron,Bob.Doris,Marie,Claire, and a few others. How lucky can you get.One night we were all playing baseball in Martin School yard, we were having quite a didcussion about something when all of sudden I felt this wet stuff on my face, well I hauled off and hit Junior Balink square accross the face, he was stunned, I thought he spit on me, but come to find out , it was a bird.
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 10:55:50 AM
to paul crowther;the reason no one comes after you is that you contribute to the info flow in a polite and informative manner many people get what they ask for,by acting as a comment cop,and just gossip,which is their right,but if they get razzed they resent it.i have not seen any one get roughed up if they offer information and not silly talk.
Name: daynna collins
Email: daynnac@aol.com
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 3:13:59 AM
hi im writing to say hi i live in delaware now put family and roots tsill belong to chester im thinking back when i was younger a teenager when youth and action use give parties at the army. how there were alot of things for us to do. how when i was little growing up on 4th and yarnall street. how when it was heat waves my mother and my friends mothers would let us camp out out side and would bring the tv out side how when it rain we would put on our swim suits and me and all the kids from 4th street played in the rain. how we use to stay out side late in the summer. and how we kept the doors unlocked. i remember memory park had alittle creek howone side of the park was swamp land we made a club house there.i think about the good times often and my family friends
Name: Pat
Email:
Date: 5/31/2002
Time: 1:23:51 AM
I am sorry but I will apologize for all the names who constantly put down anonymous and no names. Some anonymous writers certainly have contributed to this site. UW is right up there on top.
Some of the people who have posted their names have been very rude and critical. If you don't like what they write, scroll on by. Accusations and criticism adds fuel to the fire. Not all postings by NAMED persons are about Chester then & now. Many are chatting back and forth on a one on one basis. Don't see to many no names criticizing them.
Lurking in the shadows? Must be watching too many mystery movies. The Shadow Knows!!
Name: babs
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 11:52:37 PM
To John Bullock; John please Don't get discouraged by all the negativity. I have been going back to the archives, to refresh my mind. This site is great, and I hope it stays on, It is fun, but there are always some people who have no one (obviously) who care care about them so they get on this site because they have no life! I think there is no one who will talk to them in person because, they are unintelligent and boring, besides! So, keep up the great work for all of us who care about the original reason for this site. I think most of us who visit this site check out all the links, occasionally. We don't care about anonymous, troublemaking , people who don"t even know how to spell their own names.
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 9:53:19 PM
Chester names, does anyone know of the Hellers from chester?
Name: Ed
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 9:50:16 PM
To UW. Fred Sammons wife Aggie live on fourth St. between Trainer and Clayton Street. Her Maiden name was Zdun.They still live in Brookhaven. Aggie is about 80 by now and not well.
Name: trish
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 8:17:51 PM
To : George Ricci, Hi, Jummy Dicave palyed ball with your Father
Name: keywestmike
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 7:42:19 PM
yo george ricci...i go up to wildwood every year and to brookhaven to see the folks, do ya ever go up there? do ya know ray walls jr.? talk to him every now and then, and i talk to beth from rubes on line often, thats also smuts cousin....later
Name: U.W.
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 5:34:02 PM
COMING SOON, A NEW UPDATE TO THE
WHAT'S NEW SECTION......PLEASE STAY TUNE...
WE KNOW IT WILL BE OF INTEREST....
THE COMINGS OF ATTRACTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
This page last updated 05/30/02 05:23 PM
THAT TELLS US THE NEW NEWS WILL BE UP AND READY SOON..THANK YOU JOHN FOR GIVING US A SNEAK PREVIEW THAT MORE GOODIES ARE ABOUT TO BE SEEN.
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 4:56:24 PM
Hey Jack REZ51, Try putting some blame on the no-names, you mention my name b/c I tell the truth & don't lurk in the shadows & post my name & contribute to this site, what do the no-names do, they lurk & strike whenever they get the chance & NEVER contribute to the site.
Tom, I e-mailed you with what I know so let J. Kersh know.
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 4:48:54 PM
FLORENCE, When will Patricia be up & running again, I miss her stories? I also enjoy your stories of the old days especially about your husband, some are very funny.
Name: Jack Mills CHS55
Email: flojac1429@hotmail.com
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 1:56:30 PM
Pidipat I gave your very nice Email about Dr. Luke to him today and he was very surprised about it especialy the handsome part. He said you were good friends with his wife Edna and to thank you for all the nice things you said.
Name: Sheree (Austin) McGowan
Email: Picabostow@hotmail.com
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 1:22:33 PM
To H.R.:
When did your Mom work at Speare's. My Grandmother worked there, here name was Florence (Pollock).
Sheree
Name: jack
Email: j.kersh@worldnet.att.net
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 11:11:44 AM
kate and jim, i was at the same party tom was at and seen mike and a bunch of old buddy's.i too, was wondering about what larry had past.let tom know and he will let me know. thanks!
geoge, good guess, but that's with an i .. e-mail me sometime..i visit fl. just about every year..
Name: GEORGE RICCI
Email: Rricciflat@aol.com
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 10:50:21 AM
hey, key west mike, got the e-mail, tried to call the number, joe smut is my cousin also, talk to you soon
Name: Tom CHS76
Email: t9257@yahoo.com
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 10:04:25 AM
Kate: Just attended a 25th wedding anniversery over the past weekend. Saw a bunch of old friends from Chester, I haven't seen in years. Mike was there. Email me and tell which Larry you are talking about. Thanks
Jim Mc: I haven't seen Ken or Gary in a while since my nephew moved to Michigan. How are they? Do you have their email addresses? If so email me.
Name: Jack Rez51
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 9:17:46 AM
It is unfortunate that the Childish Bickering has returned to the Guest Book. For awhile it was refreshing to have posts that met the purpose of John Bullock’s ‘Newsstand’. The ‘Guest Book’ is NOT a Chat Room, it is for Recollections as well as current news about Chester.
Those posters, Kate et al, who wish to Chat or Bicker should take it somewhere else.
Those of use who appreciate the opportunity to trade recollections and refresh memories on the ‘Guest Book’, are frankly Very TIRED of the Bull Shit.
Name: Caroline
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 7:52:06 AM
256 people have checked into the NEWSSTAND since 6:45 eastern time last night.
Its been a busy board, HOPE those that have visited did nore than check out the newsstand.
John has a wealth of information here. Just enter any part on the menu and you can spend hours getting a history lesson.
2 Terry P..I agree we are very lucky to have had this opportunity to reach back into history and all because of John...
Name: George (-P) Malick
Email: gpmalick@wideopenwest.com
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 12:49:21 AM
KATE: That last little vignette of mine was supposed to be funny, I didn't realize you didn't post that previous message until it was too late. I can see where it might seem callous to you or someone else, I certainly didn't intend it to be,,,,,George
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 12:12:40 AM
Cut the dramatics! Why should anyone on this board be criticize by you or anyone else to begin with? And you have certainly been critical at times. Is this the Kathleen web site? You saw fit to make unwarranted remarks to an earlier post which had nothing to do with you whatsoever. That's your definition of playing fair? Grow up girl. Are you afraid of the boogey man lurking in dark corners? To reiterate, cut the dramatics and get on on with your own postings and don't worry about what two other people were talking about that didn't concern you one iota. One didn't necessarily have to go to Chester schools to be a resident, and one can be of either gender to be a resident but that has has nothing to do with you personally.. So bug off.
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 11:29:52 PM
Paul, The creeps on here only irritate me when they don't play fair. I can play with the best but only when the rules are known. the no-names lurk in the shadows so they don't play fair & can't be critisized b/c we don't know who they are, if they are from Chester, if they are male or female, what school they went to, all the things that I have posted & is known about me the no-names don't share, so you are against an unknown, but they know who we are!!!! Get my point???/
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 11:00:24 PM
KATE... That hasn't happened to me yet. Don't really know what to say about it. I'd like to think that if it were of a negative nature or being argumentative people would know I didn't write it. The best thing to do is just ignore those who try and get your "goat". I know that many people read the "Newstand" on a regular basis. Some have e-mailed me and said they were hesitant about posting anything for fear they too would become a target. A sad state of affairs. I don't worry aboutit. Just stick my neck out and post whatever crosses my mind. [sometimes I'm sorry I did but OH WELL!
Name: Dr. George
Email: gpmalick@wideopenwest.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:53:06 PM
Kate: Take two aspirins and e-mail me in the morning..Dr. Feelgood
Name: Kathleen(Kate)
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:28:47 PM
Paul, Would you care if someone posted with your name on it .????
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:23:58 PM
I don't have any problem with anyone posting wanting to be unknown. Think it might be a little better if they just put unknown #1 #2 etc. Gets a little hard to follow sometimes.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:23:07 PM
The e-mail that was posted at 9;40p.m. was not posted by me. So, how do the rest of you feel about that, someone can use your name & post whatever?
Name: keywestmike
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 9:40:52 PM
yo george, did ya get the e-mail? the boys were talkin about ya when i waas up to chester last summer.....
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 9:40:39 PM
I appologize to all the people who I have offended especially to the ones who don't want their names known. I realize that I interferred when I shouldn't have. It's just one of those days. luci & desi have been getting on my nerves and I am taking it out on others.
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 8:09:20 PM
Florence, You crack me up!!!!
Pat, If your comment was directed at me, who do you think you are? You don't even post except to be negative! Are you minding your business ??? funny how that works, huh????
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 7:38:01 PM
This board is everyones business, nothing is private if you post, get a dictionary and look up harassment, you use words without knowing what they mean.
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 7:27:29 PM
Pat, Who are u talking to?
Name: george ricci
Email: Rricciflat@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 7:10:17 PM
guess who? why jack kershinsky how the hell are you, this is great
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:36:47 PM
funny---My capuchen monkey plucked my parrot clean.
Name: Terry Peters
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:35:45 PM
Kudos, John! Over the weekend I sat down and checked out some of the new listings you've been posting. This website is absolutely magnificent. There were so many new pictures and listings that I didn't realize had been added. You deserve a standing ovation for all the hundreds of hours you've invested in this site. I sure do appreciate it, and I'm certain others do too. Keep up the great work!
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:26:15 PM
I have no alias.And if you don't know it now, you will know it. Everyone gets old and boring at one time or another.. it gets harder and longer to try to remember things and what was fun for us is not for you.it was fun for me to belong to the Goodwill Ladie's auxillary and be in their minstrel, fun to go to the carnivals they had right across the street, fun to go to the housings, fun to go to the dances they had upstairs, fun to work the bingo's, fun for all.
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:23:31 PM
Just wanted to report that 18 Hoagies and 2 Cheesesteaks went from Laspada's to Ohio in the last couple of days. Seems those ex-Chesterites still have the craving!
Name: Caroline (C.)
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:22:13 PM
Since 1:21 this afternoon the number of hits on this message board site has been 141.
Name: PAT
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:16:03 PM
Good, then don't read any no names and thus you have learned to mind your own business and keep you harassing comments to yourself.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 6:02:05 PM
Thanks Florence, I won't.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:56:10 PM
Hi Kate, I see what is going on. Just don't read it or pay any attention.
Name: C.
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:54:25 PM
Not to BURY any subjects, but that is just one memory I thought about after seeing the post of some that lost a friend.
As a child going to the cemetery was part of our lives, just as going shopping. There was little saddness involved, we went to keep my sisters grave and grandparents graves neat as you would your home. Sounds morbid, but it really was not. When our grandfather died he was buried from his home. I can remember my grandfather who had worked at Baldwins being buried in the mid 1940's and the house accomodated our large family. When my father died in 1960 he too was buried from his home. Recently when our Mother died we where not aware that even today you can be buried from home. I know so many had gone to family funerals from the home years ago, I was just wondering if anyone had gone to any in their home recently?
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:53:18 PM
Stay as you said,"irritated"! I have as much right on this site as you do. But for the last time kiddo Butt out. You can call me any name you want to if it makes you happy. Like George, Jack, Kate, Pete, Pat, Florence. Makes no difference. Kate means nothing too. Grow up! ps even tho you sign your name, your posts are boring.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:46:55 PM
Oh ya, I forgot to add, Craig said you could not pull him into your negative flow so I say I'm with him, argue with yourself.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:38:59 PM
Just who is minding whose business? this is a free site and anyone can post, so get a grip. I will not continue to waste space with the likes of you, a no-name.
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:28:10 PM
Well kid (goat?), it appears you never matured. Still wet behind the ears. Mind your own business in the future. When you do mature,if in fact you ever do, you will then know how to mind your own business and avoid making trouble.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 5:03:19 PM
You should of said the gall, being from Chester, how does anyone know where you are from? You lurk in the shadows, but John knows
who you are. Miss Arizona will join us later, thank you, & she can more than defend herself."The Kid"
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 4:58:37 PM
Well butt of of things that do not concern you. you seem to be the one who is criticizing. And it may be to JOHN!! you have to gall to tell others to be nice when you don't practice what you preach. you getting to sound like the one from arizona.
p.s. you know what you can do too!
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 4:42:11 PM
Hi Jimmy, Yes , I saw the obit about Larry. Pete, I know who U.W. is so that doesn't bother me. No-name, this board is for everyone so you know what you can do.......HA My e-mail name is the name of my pedigree dogs who are wonderful. Yes, I had disagreements with Pidipat & we are now friends, civil people disagree and work things out & stop being negative like you no-name, seek peace in your life & be kind for you never know who you are criticizing.Maybe even be John!!!!!!! OH ya a lot of people on here know me so "sorry, I am for real"
Name: Pete
Email:
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 4:33:24 PM
Kate you don't seem to have issues with UW who is not posting his or her own name. Is Kate your real name? How does anyone know? From reading the recent posts, I don't see where the no name person who was cooresponding back and forth with Craig Rainey said anything to him that was out of the way. From what I gather a misunderstanding took place and you are trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Trying to start trouble on this site again? Leave well enough alone when it doesn't concern you. Craig Rainey can handle things himself.
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 4:13:54 PM
Kate mind your own business. What was written between Craig and no name is not your concern. You felt left out of the conversations when you first came onboard criticizing pidi and all who disagreed with you. You couldn't fight them so you joined them. What a pushover.you are a BSA. if you know what I mean. You are a butt kisser.
So glad we irritate you because you irritate a lot of people too. a real comedian like your e-mail name.
Name: Mary Beth(Bondrowski)Gibbs
Email: mary-beth.gibbs@usa.dupont.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 4:06:49 PM
Name: jim mc kinney
Email: decardconn@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 3:54:49 PM
Kate I was with your brother Mike Kenny & Gary Webb Last week we had lunch. Im sure you heard about Larry What a shock he was a great guy
Name: Kate
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 3:13:05 PM
CRAIG, the no name persons who use this board are always irritating to me and always have the same answeres for anyone who doesn't care for thier anonymonty sp? You are not the first to be confronted "they" do it to everyone who challenges them. Some of us ignore them & don't post to often b/c of them. They need to stop lurking in the shadows.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 2:58:33 PM
Looking to find out something that Lee Bennington might know about the good will fire co.I am trying to remember the undertaker who burried my grandfather, Thomas R. Canavan. It seems to me the undertaker was either on 2oth st. or 221st.. I think he belonged to the goodwill, and I think his name was Spike Mollette????????/
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 2:22:22 PM
Craig,
I merely thought that Jeff used a professional name for boxing. Nothing intentional. Mia culpa. I just misunderstood.
I do understand your feelings but while you are at it, if you will go back and read your first response to my post, you came at me with a very negative response by asking if I was ashamed of knowing your Aunt. I never indicated in any way in my first posting that I was ashamed. I merely said I remember working with her. That remark you made was very negative and in a way, insulting. Your judgment was too quick and uncalled for.
Nothing more to say, except I wish you and yours the best of everything.
Peace!
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 1:43:05 PM
John B:
Took another walk thru Chester via your "Walking Tour" report. It is good to have the old pictures of a place some of us can remember in that particular time frame. Seems to me you added some new ones since my last visit.
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 1:34:43 PM
Peace and love to all the no names out there, and to the one that I had earlier referred to as the mysterious woman, you were the only no name that I was talking to.I wouldn't answer anymore of those type of question's, meaning personal one's referring to relatives and where they work If I don't know who I'm giving the Information to. Also I asked a question because I am Identifying myself and you are aware of who you are chatting with. It's a very big difference. Mr. Bullock meant for the guest book to be a friendly forum for past and present Chester residents to share information and talk about old and present times. I'm the wrong type of man to try to get intertwined in some kind of negative flow. Try that on someone who doesn't mind playing games. As far as Jeff Bruton and Willie Moore is concerned, how could you possibly think that they were one in the same when I clearly stated just that (JEFF BRUTON) and (WILLIE MOORE).
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 12:54:19 PM
Craig,
Are you sure it is a mystery woman and not a mystery man? (This doesn't require an answer.)
It is just food for thought.
Forgot to mention that anyone can post a ficticious name. So no name or ficticious one, who is to know!
Wouldn't doubt that it is happening here in many postings.
Peace!
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 12:37:50 PM
Craig, if you aren't going to answer any more questions, then why did you ask if it was Jeff or Willie? That required an answer.
In your previous post when you mentioned Jeff, or Willie, I understood it to mean that they were one and the same person.
Any way, it was Jeff.
No more questions will be asked.
Have a nice day.
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 11:05:56 AM
ooops: Westinghoue, GE and before that Ford Motor or the Ship yard..
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 11:04:05 AM
Didn't everyone work at Boeing at one time?
Name: Tom CHS76
Email: t9257@yahoo.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:50:00 AM
Debbie Dugan; Any relation to a Curtis Dugan who used to live on Pulaski Dr. in McCaffery Village?
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:38:15 AM
To no name: Yes my mom Helen and aunt Gloria Bruton both work at Boeing. Apparently posting a name does help alot in knowing who you're chatting with because it seems to have helped you have an idea that I have relatives at Boeing. Neither of them minded me posting this info to you, but I don't think I want to answer any more questions like that to a mystery woman. Oh, by the way Jeff Bruton and Willie Moore are two different people. Which one do you think it was that used to walk Mrs. Speares dog?
Name: Tom CHS76
Email: t9257@yahoo.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 10:18:46 AM
Speares brothers brings back a memory of an Easter when I was very young. My dad took me to Speares to get my first 3 peice suit. I remember we took the bus. We go in and the comes up and ask if he can help us. My father says "Yes, My son is looking for his first suit and it has to be custom made" (with a wink). So the guy measures me up, then he takes me over to this rack. He says these are the suits that were custom made today. So, I pick out this 3 peice black pin stripe but the legs were to long and had this zigzag cut on them. The guy says, "I'll tell you what we'll make you a new one just like this, but you'll have to come back in a couple days to pick it up. I just looked at my dad, he said that's the way they made custom suits you have to wait a few days. We went to pick up my new (custom) suit a week later and it fit perfect. I thought I was cool with my new OFF THE RACK custom suit. I had it the week before Easter. I tried it on almost everyday but I was forbidden to where it outside until Easter day. Then the bad luck struck. Four days before Easter my jaws blew up like a hampster and I felt so sick. The Dr. came to my house and said I had the mumps and said I should not go out for at least a week. I was so upset I cried, I wasn't going to get to wear my new off the rack custom made suit. Guess what Easter came and I put that suit on and snuck out of the house hampster jaws and all. I didn't feel to good the following days and only got yelled at a little bit because I was already sick. So, yes it was worth it.
That was a big laugh in the family when I got older about the off the rack custom made suit.
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 9:06:58 AM
Ok Ed G. heres another local story that would make a good read..
Time for something on the boxers of the area..again....scroll down to the following about Willie Moore and you can see where he spends some of his time for a one to one interview.
Craig Rainey Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com Date: 5/29/2002 Time: 12:46:31 AM
Name: jack
Email: j.kersh@worldnet.att.net
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 8:50:11 AM
hey george ricci, glad to see you enjoy this sight.you mentioned a few names that i remember. i didn't go to rez , but played ball for fisher tank. guess who!
Name: Floyd Murray
Email: gooddoc02@hotmail.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 7:39:41 AM
Hi Daynna - thanks for your post. Am very sorry about your grandfather. Your post goes to show that while some things in Chester have changed for the worse, some things most certainly haven't - there are still a lot of very good people in that city and I'm glad they were there to support you and your family after your grandfather's tragic death. It brought something back to me which I had almost forgotten about - I received a nice sympathy card from Mayor Bohannan-Sheppard after my Mother's death in 1992. I was both touched by this and a little startled as I had never met the lady and was never involved in Chester politics - my Dad was but I wasn't. The most surprising thing was that the card was delivered to the Folsom address on 9th Ave. where we were living then, as we had moved out of Chester three years earlier. It’s still a mystery to me, but it was a touching, kind and most appreciated gesture nonetheless.
Name: daynna collins
Email: daynnac@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 4:19:27 AM
hi my name is daynna collins i am the granddaughter of the late john collins sr who was gun down by a drivebuy. he was gun down at our church seven and yarnall street. the name of the church is murrphy ame. and it happen on sept of 93 a week before his birthday. im writng to let everyone know how my family love chester and the suport that the city of chester gave me and my family in our time of need how all the minsters from chester got together and gave there suport to our family my grandfather was a good man and did a lot for the city of chester. in memory of my grandfather im writng this letter.
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 3:09:34 AM
By the way Craig, do you have any relatives that work or worked at Boeing Helicopters in Ridley Park?
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Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 1:24:09 AM
Hi Craig,
It's me again. No Name. Thanks for the input on Jeff (Willie Moore).
When I read about your Aunt, the name Jeff came into mind. You have put the puzzle pieces together. Thanks.
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/29/2002
Time: 12:46:31 AM
U.W. Willie Moore was a local boxer from Chester Pa. and I believe he did train some young fighters in his day. Mr. Willie Is always at our track meets (Chester Track Club). Mr. Willie also can be seen at many of the High school sporting events around Delaware County If it's a featured event, or one or both of the teams has a blue chip player. He attends almost every Chester High track, basketball, and football games. He's always been very supportive of youth events, and the Edgemont Diner Is probably his favorite eatery.
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 9:35:31 PM
Trish:
Betty's in Prospect Park is still there although now run by her son. Has a husky boys/girl section and really very nice cloths for the children. Betty died several within the last few years. A good lady. She must have worked into her 80's in her store.
Craig Rainey: Was Willie Moore a local boxer. Tell us about him. Now we have two aboard. Freddy Sammons and Willie Moore. They trained boxers in Leiperville if memory serves me well.
Name: GEORGE RICCI
Email: Rricciflat@aol.com
Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 9:21:06 PM
wow what a great site, i am living in hollywood fla, and seeing chester and all the rez people, the names are overwhelming, geteks, venaables,kathy hill,where is joe podgany? this is very refreshing and exciting, thanks george ricci 954-455-8733
Name: trish
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 8:44:48 PM
i forgot about the store next to Betty's in Prospect Park it was for Boys, a lot of my Son's clothes came from that store again thanks to my Mom and Dad
Name: Tammy Cerasaro
Email: tlcscooby@aol.com
Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 8:43:40 PM
HEY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS IS COOL THAT YOU HAVE THIS WEB SITE. I JUST WANTED TO SAY HI TO YOUR NEIGHBOR , DEBBIE DUGAN. I TRAVELED 120 MILES FOR A DICONSTANZA ITALIAN SUB AND IT WAS GOOOOOD! TAKE CARE. MISS YA
Name: trish
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 8:42:37 PM
spear's, what a great store, my Son was born in 1955 and all his clothes came from spear's, he was well dressed thanks to my Mom and Dad, thanks for the memory.........
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 5:13:44 PM
A correction and additions to the Weinberg list...
Mary Armstrong should be Mary Anthony and Sandy Serfoss, Betty Nelms and Connie Hood should be added.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 11:55:20 AM
Hi- I worked at Roger's when I was a sr. Mr.Prosser got me the job.A really nice person. While working in the store on a Sat., at lunche time this other girl and myself went over to John's hot dog store to buy lunch and bring it back to the lunch room. Well we barely started eating when about 5 manager's came running in. All they could smell were onions thru the whole store. We were never allowed to bring them in again.
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 11:45:55 AM
I thank you for the nice response to my question about my aunt Thelma Caine. However,you'd be surprised as to the amount of folks out here that very well may know you. I just have never really written back and forth to a person that was at least partially aware of who I am, while meanwhile I'm totally blank on even the slightest hint of who you are. I have a great imagination though, so I'm satisfied. I will answer your question about the man that used to walk Mrs. Speares dog who you think was named Jeff. My best guess is possibly Big Thelma's brother Jeff Bruton, or former pro boxer Willie Moore.
Name: hgc /pmc '59
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 10:23:53 AM
george ,we almost lost a truck fighting a field fire,the PHILA FIRE DEPT,would always respond with firefighters ,and want to send the guys into the fields with indian tanks and brooms even after we told them we almost lost a truck in the same field!(it was really gaulling because we could go to hydrant and refill our tank in minutes,not to mention having a back up truck with 500 more gallons on board.)looks like it was a mindset in paid dept. as well.
Name: George Malick
Email: gpmalick@wideopenwest.com
Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 9:57:12 AM
HGC: I never understood the theory behind the broom either, You could start more fires with them then you could put out if you weren't careful. I don't know if it was our "right of passage" or not, maybe it was just plain stupid. George
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 9:13:12 AM
george,your story about the brooms and the indian tanks,reminds me of my first FIRE CALL,we responded to a field fire,three of us on the truck and out came the brooms,beat,beat,beat and out went the fire.never understood why we didn't use the booster tank and booster hose to put out the fire,i guess it was a form of hazing.when i became a driver,we used the water on the truck,it was quicker,safer,and used the truck the way it was designed. i belong to a suburban company,but there was the same mind set."never use the water when we can use brooms""we got to teach these young guys how we always did it"
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 3:04:59 AM
Craig,
I just read you post regarding my not signing my name. I have written on this board on different occassions and never posted my name. I see no need for it after reading so many posts and not knowing any of the ones who write their names. I am sure that no one posting on this site knows me or even cares for that matter.
Definitly not ashamed of Thelma or any one else. I personally liked her and got along with her very well. Since I was young and didn't work there that long, not too many people would remember me. But I do remember a few.
Please be assured that I thought she was a great woman too and definitly not ashamed to have known her.
I apolgize if I made you think otherwise.
Please don't take my no name policy personally.
Peace and love to you and yours.
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 2:45:00 AM
To HR
You bet I can remember Mrs. Speare sitting on the landing watching everything and everyone. She didn't miss a trick. If you didn't approach a customer by saying, "May I help you?", she would let you know about it. She never liked losing a customer.
I recall being sent to Weinberg's and Rodgers for Comparison Shopping. (Checking their prices) Also personal shopping in any other store that carried similar merchandise was a NO NO.
I am glad you mentioned Mrs. Vane's name. Couldn't think of it. She was always so stylishly dressed. One of the Mazza girls also worked in her dept. Can't recall the names of the employees who worked on the lower level in the Childrens' dept.
I liked working in the warehouse ticketing merchandise because there, the eyes were not upon you constantly.
If I am not mistaken, Thelma was in charge of the warehouse allthough she occasionally would come into the store proper.
Holidays were so hectic. Everyone had to be out on the floor in any dept where one was needed.
Also remembered when they would have $1000 drawings by picking out a store's copy of a saleslip. I had written up a winner. Believe it or not, but Spencer's Stationary Store won with the saleslip I wrote up. Never got a Thank you from them. Lol
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Date: 5/28/2002
Time: 12:29:12 AM
Speare Bros. What memories ! Many of us worked there after school/college/summer vacations. I remember Nello, Harry Elfman, Mrs. Vane & Mrs Hibbert. My mother worked the jewelry & handbag counter at the foot of the stairs. I remember she worked with someone named Florence. Mrs Vane's girls worked upstairs in Better Dresses. I remember Mrs. Vane doing several of our weddings. Do you remember Mrs. Speare sitting at her desk on the stairway landing, watching everyone> I didn't get to the warehouse very often, so I don't recall Craig's aunt.
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 11:39:40 PM
Craig, trying to remember a very nice gentleman who worked at the Speare's store and also at the Speare's home. I think his first name was Jeff. Do you recall if your Aunt Thelma ever mentioned his name? I remember he sometimes walked Mrs. Speare's dog.
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 11:34:45 PM
I'm very happy that you knew my aunt. However, were you in some way ashamed to know her? I am only asking this question because you probably usually post your name, but now all of a sudden you don't want to associate your name with Big Thelma. I am a very peaceful man. I would have simply given you a very kind reply thats all. Mrs. Caine died about ten years ago and was such a wonderful woman. I hope you two had a good working relationship. I wouldn't mind meeting you also. I'm one of the track coaches for the Chester Track Club. Peace and love.
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 11:21:32 PM
Craig, I remember Thelma. She worked in the warehouse on Welsh Street across from the main store. I also worked there for a couple of years both in the warehouse and on the selling floor. She was a good hard worker. Glad you mentioned her name as I couldn't remember right off hand.
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 11:08:47 PM
I just wanted to mention that my aunt Mrs. Thelma Caine worked at Speare's for between 25 to 30 years. Mrs. Caine also worked at Mrs. Speares home for many years cooking that great soul food and other fine cuisines. Affectionately known as Big Thelma, and married to Mr.Tom Caine,my aunt was a very significant piece of the puzzle for Speare Brothers. I remember going to the store and the house when I was a very young child.
Name: Donna
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 9:33:54 PM
To Zacniewski: hi,sorry it took so long to get back to ya, but my dad is here with me right now and his name is Jack Lewis. When he went to St.Michael's he had Sr. Reginald in the 4th and 6th grades. You must be younger than my pop 'cos he says he had her in '46 and '48. He was also an altar boy and a choir boy. Dad wants to know do you know or remember Sr.Martha, Sr.Marie Da Voda, 7th grade teacher, the spelling is probaly wrong on her name, dad only lasted one day in her class, she told him she had been waiting for him and he walked out that day and transferred to Franklin School. do you remember Fr.Rush, Fr.O'Hara, and Fr.Dunion?
Name: FC CHS68
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 8:57:39 PM
TO JOHN ELLIS----The fire at CHS in 68 started at 4am in the morning and the person who started it has never been found.
Name: FC CHS68
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 8:36:39 PM
TO JUDY---The 12th st house and the one on Spruce st are still there.
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 8:34:00 PM
Trish...My father did work at Sun Ship at one time but mostly he worked at General Steel.
I don't have a list for Speare's. The Weinberg list is from my sister-in-law, Elaine and from my wife, Jean. They both worked there.
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 8:13:21 PM
Other Speare Bros employees were Mrs. Glatts, Rose Plaftkis in Dry Goods, (not sure of spelling) Nello Bigotti,in Men's, Mrs. Levy, relative to the other Levy's, worked in Jewelry.
Name: trish
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 8:09:23 PM
to : Harvey Martin did your father work at Sun Ship?
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 7:53:34 PM
Harvey, I will tell you sometimes I crack myself up. My aunt, Mrs Elizabeth Hollis worked in Speare's.I used to know others but I can't remember them. She also worked for Tollin's at one time, and Chester Cambridge Bank for quite a while
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 7:40:53 PM
Harvey
Do you have a list of Speare Bros. employees?
Dot Bender of Weinberg's, twin of Margarite Bender (who worked in Speares). Mrs. Hibbert, Mr George Levy, a wonderful man to work for and father of the two Levy Bros. Both attorneys, one of them Judge. Harry Elman, Mrs. Glass.
Can't think!
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 6:11:33 PM
People who used to work at Weinberg's...
Mary Arnett Sam Cramer Phil Pollack Joe Walsh Tony Dee Harry Blau Irv Gaev Jack Rappaport Bob Smith Gus Kaffes Alice Ballinger Helen Woolston Josephine Gomolka Mart Davis Elsie Davies Celeste Ross Kay Burns Joe Schneider Nancy Moore Anne Wright Ann Hamilton Fran Hefton Hank Armstrong Fran Speckhals Jean Martin Elaine Angradi Florence Stover Vinci DiNicolas Bette Harvey Peggy Starr Mickey Gear Mary Pazdalski Doris Simpson Anne Dougherty Mabel Morson Marion Hampton Gladys Hinde Elaine Hinde Mary Brown Mr. Mickles Charles Gruszka Mae Hewes Mrs. Albright Joanne Armstrong Kathy Wilson Dot Ferrari Betty Woods Maggie Lewis Dot Blakley Robert Hollis Elsie Wiegand Irene Gaudino Louise Lafferty Chet Rosiak Beryl Kobzur Isabel Dunn Helen Hubaj Mary Armstrong Shirley Gilpin Ethel Stevens Ethel Thomas Helen Sargent Evelyn Frampton Irv Belefsky Mr. Sherman Dot Bender Jim Kilgallen
Name: Betty-Jane Bennett(Feb1940)
Email: smith9697@aol.com
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 5:11:59 PM
George;
Thank you for the poem. It is a beautiful poem. We used to recite it on Memorial Day in school. A different student spoke each of the verses. The last verse was called "the answer" I believe it was at Lincoln School- that would be back in 1928 0r 1929.
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 5:02:15 PM
FLORENCE... Don't feel too bad. I was sent once when I was about 8yrs.old to a 5&10 for a TWO POUND CAN OF ELBOW GREASE!
Name: George
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 3:39:27 PM
In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead, short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved and now we lie In Flanders Fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe To you, from failing hands, we throw The Torch, be yours to hold it high. If you break faith with us, who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders Fields.
Colonel John McCrae
Name: Judy Ardine
Email: downeast@concentric.net
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 3:04:41 PM
My father, H Weston EYRE, grew up at 431 E Twelfth St in Chester, PA. Does this address still exist as a single family home?
My grandfather, Frank Nathan EYRE, grew up at 1141 Spruce Street in Chester, PA. Does this address still exist as a single family home?
John, LOVE this website. You and your "helpers" are doing a MARVELOUS job! Many heartfelt thanks.
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 12:54:17 PM
Florence...You crack me up!
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 11:20:49 AM
Yes I remember Weinberg's and Speare's. My Aunt worked in Speare's at one time. I fyou wanted to buy Nylon's, you would go to the counter and tell them size, then they would get several boxes off the shelf amd very carefully put their hand in one and show you the shades, 3 pair in a box, very nice. My father sent me one day to buy a LLoyd Needler and I went back in Speare's where they sold yard goods and asked for one. I should have gone to the newspaper stand.
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 10:41:09 AM
Hello everyone. There will be a Memorial Day parade today at 12 noon in Darby Pa. starting at 4th and Main proceeding to the Darby War Memorial Post where the judging will be done. Come on out and enjoy, and don't forget to take some time out to visit deceased love ones at their resting places. After all, that is what this day is really about. Peace and love.
Name: george ricci
Email: Rricciflat@aol.com
Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 9:33:48 AM
class of 71 at REZ
Name: ex-chesterite
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Date: 5/27/2002
Time: 8:07:03 AM
Yes Marie, I am getting that way too. I just read my earlier post and I am wondering how I mis-spelled words. I guess that is what happens with your eyesight/body/mind when you approach middle age.
Name: Geo
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 9:28:35 PM
FC: Thanks, wasn't sure of when it happened, just knew why, I was gone by then. Someday, if you're in a story telling mood, I'd like to know the when's and why's of the switch from volunteer to paid. All I heard was that there was some bad blood there for a while.
Name: FC CHS68
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 9:14:45 PM
TO GEORGE; The pull box fire alarms were removed in the 70s as you say to cut down on false alarms. The only reason the phone boxes were removed was because the city was having money troubles and decided to switch the fire and police dispatch to Media. That eliminated 1 or 2 jobs on dispatch and since the boxes went right to police HQs, they were no longer needed.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 9:08:08 PM
U
I remember him from Westinghouse and we all knew he was a boxer. They live in Brookhaven. They both are very friendly people. She smiles all the time. You are probably right about their ages but they certainly don't look it. Especially Fred. Guess he keeps active to stay fit. I say God Bless them both. And you too for adding his name to this site.
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 8:26:13 PM
They were always together as far back as I can remember . Have not seen Aggie for many years now. Trying to think of where she lived in the West End as a young woman. Did you know Freddy was a boxer way back when. Don't remember if he boxes in Leiperville or Hook. I'm trying to remember how old they would be. Maybe coming up on 80. Truely an amazing couple to still come to church together after so many years. If we all could grow old with our lifetime mates--that surely would be a Blessing. Ed Gebhart wrote about Fred not to long ago...(well at least in the last few years-time passes so fast these days) Ed if your reading this, time for another story about a special couple.
Fred and Aggie were always the best to this kid when ever they bumped into me. By the way this kid is now going over the hill at 60+.
Thank you for letting those of us who knew them years ago that they have been Blessed with a long life together.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 8:22:01 PM
What about Spears and Weinbergs stores?
Name: George
Email: gpmalick@wideopenwest.com
Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 8:15:25 PM
One hot summer day in 63, the vacant lot that ran from 4th to the railroad on booth caught fire and, as was typical, one engine from the Felton was dispatched. This was the summer that the age limit for membership was lowered in order to bolster the fading ranks of “runners”, so most of the fire fighters that showed up were young and pretty green.
Several of the guys picked up brooms from the rear of the pumper and one started to get the “Indian” tank set up. The Indian tank was a metal tank that held about 5 gallons of water that strapped onto your back and had a hose and nozzle attached, very much like garden sprayers that you pump the handle to get water pressure. Most of us went about the task of beating down the flames with the brooms and having the guy with the tank hit the hot spots pretty nonchalantly, none of us paid attention to the piles of railroad ties scattered all over the field. Without warning the fire spread to some of the railroad ties and the thick smoke that comes from the creosote began to spread. Still not overly concerned the guy with the tank went back to the pumper and switched from the Indian tank to the booster hose from the pumper. As he worked on the pile of burning railroad ties, one pile after another caught fire until the entire field was engulfed in blinding, super heated roar of flame and smoke that seemed to surround all of us.
Realizing that the situation was out of control, the driver radioed back to the Felton to “put a box” on it. This was firehouse jargon for having the police dispatcher activate the city fire alarm as if an actual fire alarm box had been pulled. This would bring the remainder of the fire apparatus from Felton and also the Franklin Fire Company and the 3 chiefs. This action would also notify other volunteer firefighters from Felton that had not heard the original three blasts from the horn that identified a local alarm.
As the other apparatus was responding, the fire took on new proportions and was now threatening the rear of several businesses that backed up to the field. By this time the fire encompassed more than a city block. What had started as a simple grass fire had now turned into a potential catastrophe. Each pumper that arrived at the scene was now hooking up to the fire hydrants for increased water pressure.
Now us young guys hadn’t received any training as yet, firefighting in Chester in those days was something that was learned by watching the more experienced guys. The really good ones were affectionately referred to as “smoke eaters” One item that everyone learned immediately however was that when the smoke got thick, there was usually air close to the ground, so you could get down low, on your hands and knees and breathe some cooler, fresher air. This bit of information came in quite handy as I was stuck in the middle of the field with a broom in my hand that had itself caught fire and engulfed in the most noxious dark brown smoke I had ever seen. I immediately abandoned the “torch” I was carrying and fell to my knees gasping for breath and seeking that layer of fresh air I assumed was at ground level. There wasn’t much there, but it was breathable.
Although I couldn’t see anything, I could hear the loud hum of the engines and some voices in the distance back on Booth Street so in my panic, I began crawling on my hands and knees, choking and seeking air. I had this terrible thought of being found dead of smoke inhalation in a field at 5th and Booth. As I crawled through the smoldering grass, the sounds became louder so I knew I was getting closer to safety. Finally, my hands felt what seemed to be a shoe, then a leg and as I grasped it tightly and began pulling myself up. The person whose leg I had found began shaking me off and yelling at me to let go. As I stood up, I realized I was in the midst of several firefighters that were having a drink of lemon aid at the Moya Juniors coffee wagon. The smoke that I had been so eager to escape was only about two feet off the ground and I had been crawling in two feet of smoke for almost a city block when all I had to do was stand up and walk to safety. After that, I was the butt of enough jokes that it would have made Jay Leno proud but one thing was for sure. I was now a “smoke eater”. And whose leg was I attempting to climb? Joe Landino, the then 1st Assistant fire chief.....George
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 7:32:23 PM
U
That must be Freddie Samon"s petite wife then. They are always together.
Name: Marie CHS65
Email: Rere628@aol.com
Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 5:10:12 PM
U - Do rent the movie - it is one of my all time favorites. Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci along with Ray Liotta did an excellent job with the parts they played - I can watch it over and over again.
Ex-Chesterite - Thanks - it's funny the way I remember some things that no one else does and then there are days I can't remember what I had for lunch the day before - :)
Name: lynnND65
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 4:28:39 PM
does anybody know where margie green is. how bout linda price. or james blythe or bucky greiner.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 1:29:51 PM
Memorial Day is a day when we all get together and celebrate how lucky we have bee.We remember GRAndmom and Grandpop, mom and dad, sisters and brothers. My youngest brother and sister are with mom and dad. My mommom and poppop are in the Middletown Church Plots. To remember all. Today in the drug store, a younger man came over to my husband and shook his hand and thanked for his service in World War . My husband always wears his hat, which tells what unit he was in.He even shook my hand.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 12:25:55 PM
Yes Aggie his wife is of slight built.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 12:03:28 PM
Freddie has retained his good looks. And his built is pretty good too.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 12:00:58 PM
I am not sure if the woman with Freddie is Angie. She is a tiny woman, slightly built. If that's her, then she must be doing fine also. Thank God.
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 10:39:59 AM
Is Aggie S. well? Fred was a good looking man in his youth, I assume he is now. Nice people, real nice people. They make the Chesters Best of list.
Name: ex-chesterite
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Date: 5/26/2002
Time: 7:13:10 AM
Yes, Marie, good call. I still get a kick out of how Tommy decribes why he need a knife to finish off the deer. U.W., yes, it is the movie Raging Bull. Raging Bull was voted best movie for the entire decade of 1980 by the American Film Institute. Graet movie, no less.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:58:28 PM
he still is looking good.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:55:02 PM
Freddie Samons in Our Lady of Charity Church every Sunday. Great guy. Ex Westinghouse employee.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:35:53 PM
Marie: Even with you discreption it still escapes my memory. Guess I will rent it and jog some brain cells. Thanks
Name: Marie CHS65
Email: Rere628@aol.com
Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:18:44 PM
Ex-Chesterite - the painting is of a man with white hair and beard and two dogs - one black, one white facing away from each other. Great movie.
Name: Marie CHS65
Email: Rere628@aol.com
Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:16:07 PM
Ex-Chesterite - the painting is of a man with a gray beard and gray hair and two dogs - one white, one black.
Loved that movie - great actors!
Name: George
Email: geomalick@netscape.net
Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 10:04:42 PM
Paul, your remembrance of Memorial Days gone by hit home with me. I too remember the family outing in the Woody my Dad had. Our relatives are all buried at Immaculate Heart. Most are gone now and another tradition fades away. Since my time in the Army however, Memorial Day has taken on a new meaning. I had a short tour in the "Old Guard" and served at way too many military funerals. Our new tradition is too attend the services at Fort Logan National cemetary in Denver each year. One of the best speaches I heard was by a Chaplain at the "Wall" in Arlington. "Let's not mourn their deaths but rather celebrate their lives, for they gave up all their tomorrow's so we could have today" So drive careful and "celebrate" Memorial Day. George
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 9:25:39 PM
Locally I can remember a picture of Freddy Samons in his trunks, arms in preperation for a KO...
Name: Ed
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 9:22:00 PM
I rember the Carolina Inn well. My sister was a waitress there. My girls grew up with Kenny Jones's girls. I t was a nice place to hang out. They had a old fashioned soda fountain there. Trucks from down south would stop there, the drivers would shower, eat, take a nap , and get back on the road.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 9:14:01 PM
I'm not gonna run out and rent the movie, that would be cheating...I know its buried somewhere in one of my minds closets....
You mean the Boxer.....(Raging Bull) Don't you.
Name: ex-chesterite
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 8:15:15 PM
I'll give you a hint, they were facing opposite directions. If you are the movie buff I think you are, then you should know. Goodfellas, Raging Bull, they were some good flicks. Raging Bull was my favorite.
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 12:55:00 PM
Memorial Day brings back many memories... It was the day our Family crowded into our Dad's 1934 Ford and went to the Mt. Hope Cemetery. My Grandfather,my Baby sister Eva,and many other relatives are buried there. Flowers were always put on my Sister's grave My Dad used to coast down the hill when we were leaving to start the car. He liked to save the battery. There were many sections of Mt. Hope that were unfilled. Sadly,not today. Both my Grandmothers,and my Uncle have since been laid to rest here. A great saddness is that my Dad is there now,buried next to my Sister. There is a space there for my Mother who will be there someday. When I was young I never gave a thought to what would be someday. Every time I visit Chester I make a trip to Mt. Hope. Just a silent walk around brings an unexplainable peace of mind. It also makes me more aware of my own mortality and reminds me to try in some way to make my life and all I come in contact with a little better. Well,at least I'll try.
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:46:18 AM
John: You have really been a busy person. Can see your not getting the old BBQ out yet. With your newest updates on the WHAT's NEW section and I noticed you've added another link to your menu,Holidays & Special Events...I don't have much time to post on the NEWSSTAND, your updates keep me reading and remembering instead.
Have a safe week-end..
Name: Jack Rez51
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 11:07:35 AM
Memorial Day Weekend . . . I have two memories of this holiday. One during WWII as a child watching a parade in Lawncroft Cemetery with soldiers, WWI Vets, a marching band, Taps being blown and rifle volleys being fired as a salute.
And secondly, as a teenager at Village Green pool on the official opening day of the summer season. With a choice of sand or grass to place the towel and great hambrgers and hot dogs up in the snack bar pavilion. No SPF30 sun tan lotion to use back then, just basting in a mixture of iodine and baby oil produced an even tan then.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk2fast.net
Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 10:56:33 AM
H.C. In the daily Times today, Burglars broke a window to get into the Carolina Inn, fourth and Booth sts., and stole $315.00. Owned by Kenneth and John Jones.
50 yrs. ago.
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/25/2002
Time: 8:28:28 AM
The scene I can remember, they had just made a hit and came to Tommy's mothers house for dinner. She was there painting when they came in. I know it was a religious painting I keep wanting to say the Jesus but ..... I remember thinking how true to life, "family is not business" ..business is business, a hit was business. Religion was their way.
Name: ex-chesterite
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Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 11:24:58 PM
Ok, good observation about Tommy's mother. Now, what was the painting of, do you remember?
Name: Stephanie
Email: turtle_surf@yahoo.com
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 11:09:09 PM
I am enjoying my "look" through Chester. I am working on my family history and have found so much here in just a few hours. I even purchased the Chester and Vicinity book!
Wondering if anyone is searching these families as well?
Minshall, Clayton, Powell, Showalter, Hurford, Dixon (Dixson), Crosby, Mason, Fairlamb, Brown (Browne), and Stone
Name: H.C.
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Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 10:41:05 PM
Truck traffic,Does anyone remember the Carolina Inn ? I think that was the name at 4th & booth St.?
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 7:47:56 PM
Mr. Ellis, I think you meant to say that Chester should be proud of all the volunteers that it has had over the years. florence
Name: John Ellis (CHS 57)
Email: JoJe1907@msn.com
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 6:55:51 PM
I remember the CHS fire very well, at the time I was captain of the Hanley Hose,and living in Garden City. I don't remember what was going on at the firehouse the night before,but I didn't get home until around midnight and the alarm for the fire came in about 1a.m. I can remember coming over the hill on Chestnut Pkwy and seeing the flames in the air.It was very cold that night and many volinteers went to the hospital with frost bite.When daylight came we saw many of the hoses frozen in water coming from the bldg,and many steel I beems melted and twisted.Many volinteers lost work the next day and I personally did not get home until around midnight the next day.Chester can be proud of all the volinteers they had in those days.
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 6:21:36 PM
In the file Tommy's mother was played by Catherine Scorsese (I believe she died) the picture that she was holding in the movie was said to have been painted by Nicholas Pileggi's Mother. I find that an interesting piece of trivia from the "Goodfellas".
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 4:42:50 PM
HEY GEORGE... Look forward to hearing those stories. Please post them here for all to read!
Name: ex-chesterite
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Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 3:13:15 PM
To Ann, Dominick Pileggi is related to Nicholas Pileggi, the author of Goodfellas. Oh yes, Skinsman, The Eagles trained at Albright College before they started to train At Widener.
Name: Lou Collachi
Email: louis,collachi@peterson.af.mil
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 1:57:54 PM
I was a safety at Franklin school. Was on 3rd and Franklin with a female crossing gaurd.
Name: lou
Email: louis.collachi@peterson.af.mil
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 1:55:47 PM
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Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 11:45:46 AM
George, great story about Fr. Kletotka, he scared me to death.
Name: George
Email: gpmalick@netscape.net
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 1:34:32 AM
Paul: The old Gamewell fire boxes were replaced in the late 60's I understand with "phone" boxes to help eliminate the high number of false alarms. They didn't work out either and were eventually removed. John has a page dedicated to the alarm box numbers and locations in the fire department section. Being a member of the Felton Fire Co, I have a few funny stories to relate, maybe another time. George
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 11:20:23 PM
I was referring To CHS. Kate
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 11:17:19 PM
I know 1968 was a bad time in our History, I was living in Dover & drove up to Claymont every week-end with my first born & being young I think was frightning to see the Military with guns on every corner while driving North. And what was in the local paper about how the fire was started? Some of us remember & we know the real story.
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:52:13 PM
Correction: it was Gloria Evers, that contributed the pictures after the fire. Sorry Gloria I saw Jacks name under yours and mistakenly gave him your credits.
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:49:39 PM
The Fire Alarm Pull Boxes...Do they still have them in Chester? It used to be that whatever location the box was pulled from would set a series of blasts from the horns. These could be heard all over the City. The sequence of the horn sounding[sort of Morse Code] would let you know where the Fire was. My Dad,on many occasions would say " Quiet". He was counting the horn. He would know most of the locations immediately. If he didn't he'd take a card from his wallet and then tell us where the fire was.
Name: Caroline
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:47:38 PM
Kate: CHS burned down Jan. 1968. In the CHS section of OLDCHESTERPA -Jack Chambers was kind enough to contribute pictures taken the day after the fire.
Although I did not go to CHS my sister did and I can remember how the news of the fire shook everyone. I wonder what thoughts went through former students of CHS when they heard that their School was burning down.
Name: FC CHS68
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:29:04 PM
US 13 which is Chester pike,Morton Ave,9th st,Highland Ave,4th st,Post rd,Phila Pike and then Gov Printz Blvd In Del.
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:17:20 PM
Yes Paul, you are right Us13 was 9th St which went all the way down thru Wilm.I remember coming thru Wilm.Del when the National guards were on every corner after riots in1968 with rifles, it was part of the 60's that changed us forever.What year was CHS burned down, think it was close to that turbulent time.?
Name: George
Email: gpmalick@netscape.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:11:00 PM
Caroline: In typing the story about my encounter with Msgr.Klekotka, I said my knees were buckling, I was being kind, I didn't want to use the P or S word in my description..but you get the idea,,,George
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 9:55:38 PM
Lee: I am so glad someone else remembered the pavilion at Dewey. The bandstand was earlier than my time but I am sure others will remember now that you have reminded us. Please keep bring the Chester memories to the board. I would have loved going to listen and dancing on the grass.
Paul: Msgr Klekotka was a big stern looking man and he was strict. So George was really amazingly calm during his experience. I would have been shaking to where my knees would sound like drums. I remember going to the rectory and asking him if I could make my First Communion at Rez with most of the CCD kids from Dewey. He sat in "that" chair and I nearly crumbled.
Hal: Most fathers really didn't tell their children all that much about the workings of their jobs in those days. Thats probably why it was never mentioned.
Sterling: Enjoyed the read about your time in Chester. A different time than mine so a post that I found of interest.
Name: trish
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 9:43:08 PM
Anyone remember the talent show they had at the MAC THEATRE, i think it was tuesday or thursday night...
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 9:03:57 PM
GEORGE.. Your story was great! Speaking of pull boxes.. When I was about 10,a friend and I were playing follow the leader. We were on Highland Ave. near Township Line Rd. I was leadind,jumped up to touch the box. My friend did the same. All of a sudden there was a screeching of brakes. A Police car stopped in the middle of the road. The Officer jumped out and came running towards us. I know how you felt George. He asked our names, etc. He thought we were trying to pull the box. He ended up driving us home. He told our Parents what were trying to do. We weren't,but whatcha gonna do?
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 8:53:50 PM
Kate.... I'm referring to the 40's&50's. This was even before the Conchester Hwy. was built. When it opened it took some of the traffic from 9th. St. and the other routes. I,m not saying that the traffic at 10th.& Highland was all that heavy. Certainly 9th. & Highland was. If I remember correctly 9th. St. was [probably still is] U.S. RTE 13. This was a main North-South artery.
Name: babs
Email: barraehatch@aol.com
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 8:50:25 PM
Your saga about the fire- alarm was great. keep em' coming
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 6:56:46 PM
hgs/pmc
A sentence from the book called Chester. No city has a greater reasonfor being satisfied with what God has given it than Chester. Its natural facilities are unsurpassed by any other place. Then, too, as the oldest town in Pennsylvania,Chester can justly lay claim to importanr incidents in history, the early introduction of manufacture, and in doing its part toward the making and preservation of the nation.florence
Name: Kate
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 6:26:17 PM
I think not......George.
Name: George
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 6:13:04 PM
Kate: Like my brother told me, "You missed it" G
Name: FlorenceCHS50
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 5:49:54 PM
Does anyone remember when The Banana Splits from childrens Sat. tv came to Chester Park to see the fans. Does anyone remember when their was a circus in Chester Park. It had to be 69 or70's. I remember it well because my ten year old son brought home the largest elephant t------- I ever saw, it was as big as a basketball. He was always an animal lover. That's the first time he didn't bring home the animal. Welcome Sterling and you found a friend right away. I found a friend I hadn't see in 50 yrs.
Name: Kate
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 4:51:24 PM
George, I too was a safety at Rez, 10th& Highland around 1960 & I do not remember any heavy traffic I also caught the bus same spot for 4 years to N.D.1961-65& never saw heavy traffic, maybe it was down further on Highland
Name: Shirley Powell CHS 73
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 4:01:29 PM
TO: Sterling Morse....at last, a familiar name from my class! I liked your message. And let me add, one of the nicest things about my youth was having you for a classmate. Do you remember me?
Name: Sterling Morse
Email: sterlingmorse@cs.com
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 12:57:26 PM
As a young person growing up in the Bennett Homes, I enjoyed the sense of community that existed through the mid sixties. The housing authority was on site, providing each tenant with grass seeds, aluminum trash cans. It was a very neat and enjoyable place to live. I remember seeing celebrities come through like, Sally Starr, Wee Willie Weber, even Little Richard. Remember the big parade Chester gave for its very own Ethel Waters. Also, one of the highlights of my youth was to be selected to sing second tenor with the reknown Mixed Chorus of Douglass Jr. High, under the direction of Louise Barnes Johnson.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 12:05:38 PM
Harvey, you must know pretty much everything . This is really weird,The Middletown Presbyterian Church , the two hundredth anniversary of the church was celebrated on Sept. 11th and 12th, 1920.A little booklet in the back of my Chester book must have been left in there by former owner. florence
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 11:54:03 AM
One other thing, trying to spell MONSIGNOR KLEKOTKA, destroyed my spell checker. G
Name: George
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 11:52:20 AM
UW and Paul: Prior to I-95, Chester in it's hay day had as much traffic on certain streets as I've ever seen anywhere. 2nd street was loaded with truck traffic and 4th St was kind of a by-pass for those that knew. 9th & Highland was a mad house,especially at lunch hour, we had four safety's plus the crossing guard stopping traffic in all directions when school (REZ) let out. 4th & Highland and 4th & Hayes had the same problem when St Hedwigs let out. I am sure you remember 10th & Highland being the same way. G
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 10:24:56 AM
Florence
This is from Lou Warfel's History...Ethel (Waters) was only 13 when she reluctantly married Merritt Purnsley who worked at the Penna. Steel Casting Co. He was an abusive and unfaithful husband. They lived on Banana Ave. near Fulton Street. On the other side of Fulton was a place called Longbottom's Gut. Purnsley had a girl friend there.
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Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 9:10:48 AM
Geo: Thats a great story. Msgr Klekotka was a big impressive figure wasn't he.
Paul: During early 40's and early 50's second street was very busy as was Highland avenue up to 4th that I remember. Living on second we had troop trains during the War, after the War then again during the Korean War. Trucks used 2nd Street as the direct route from Philly to Delaware and south.
But we still had to keep our front porches free from dirt every Saturday morning. Then the street curbs and sidewalk. The good old days.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 8:53:22 AM
George, that's a great story.
75 years ago today, James Coleman of 345 Banana Ave. was crowned marble champion in Chester. Where in the world is Banana Ave.? florence
Name: George -P, Malick
Email: gpmalick@wideopenwest.com
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 12:38:06 AM
The stories of the heralded safety patrol made me think of an incident that happened in the spring of ‘58. I was a safety at REZ and was in charge of the “line” that went down Highland Ave from 9th St to 6th St. After we dispersed the kids at the corner to go their separate ways, I would continue on, past St Hedwig’s to my home at 4th & Ward.
One afternoon, Officer Lloyd Gorman in his white Ford police cruiser saw me walking in front of St Hedwig’s Church with my White safety belt on and stopped to ask my name and where I lived. I told him and he realized that my Dad was a friend of his and he proceeded to give me a “special” assignment.
It seems that almost every afternoon around 4 o’clock, someone would pull the fire alarm at 4th & Hayes right in front of St Hedwigs Church. Officer Gorman figured it was a student at St. Hedwigs and he asked me if I would hide around the corner in the alley along side of the Church rectory and keep my eye on the fire alarm box to see if I could catch the culprit that was pulling the alarm.
Several days went by and every afternoon I would spend 45 minutes hiding and watching the box. Finally one day, I looked at my watch and it was slightly after 4PM so I decided to walk home. As soon as I left the alley and headed up Hayes to 4th, Msgr Klekotka came running out of the rectory and grabbed me. Now he just knew that I was the one that was pulling the alarm and began a very intense interrogation which had me buckling at the knees. When I explained to him what I was doing there, he became even more perturbed at the thought that 1. If I was telling the truth, why would Officer Gorman pick a kid from REZ and 2. why wouldn’t he tell the good Monsignor what he was up to. He took my name, address and phone number and told me he was going to check out my story and began walking me up to the corner. As we were talking in front of the church, a boy a few years younger than I was coming down the street from Highland Ave. with a baseball bat in one hand and his glove in the other. As he walked he was hitting each street sign and pole with is bat, Neither of us paid that much attention to him as I was more concerned with just getting out of there. That was until he hit the utility pole in front of the church with the fire box on it. When he hit the pole with his bat, all hell broke loose, first the fire horn at Felton started, then the two pumpers and ladder truck racing down 3rd St. followed by the full contingent from Franklin. Needless to say, I was off the hook with the good Monsignor and got a good pat on the back from Officer Gorman. The next morning, the city electrician replaced the defective fire box with one that had to “pulled”....George
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS50)
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 11:12:25 PM
PAUL - Yes, what years are you talking about? I was on the Rez safety squad in 1946, and not all that much traffic. We kids crossed 10th and Highland without any trouble at all, except poor Nancy Doyle, who was struck down one day (I was either emailed or someone posted here that she survived nicely and has grown into a lovely lady with children - thank the dear Lord.) But the only thing I didn't like about it was that darn, heavy belt across my shoulders and waist. Also, in 1946, unless I'm wrong, I don't think there were that many cars on the road.
I too have been wondering about the obits on the Delcotimes website. What's going on? It's funny, how as you age, first you read all the marriages, then the births, then the divorces, and last, the obits. That's of course, when the paper was much smaller and they published all those things. Today, crime and advertisements take up most of the news - oh, forgot sports - an entire 8 pages devoted to sports.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 11:05:31 PM
Paul, I don't think so.......
Name: Tom "Mop" Morrison
Email: tmorr42@aol.com
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 11:00:29 PM
Buck Bychkowski taught Donnie Dodds everything? I dont think so. I believe Buck taught Willie Lebus everything, Donnie was taught by......God. He was unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 9:45:12 PM
Paul, what years are you talking about?
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 9:25:46 PM
Kate... It sure was. I only looked after the crossings going north and south on the west side of Highland Ave. I guess anyone crossing any other way got run over! There was also a uniformed City Patrolman at 9th. & Highland. This was a very busy intersection. There was no I-95 then. All traffic going South used either 2nd,3rd.,4th.or 9th. Traffic was bumper to bumper lots.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 9:15:48 PM
Paul, Where were you a safety? 10th & Highland? that was Rez territory.
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 8:56:34 PM
I was also a "Safety" while attending Clayton School. My "Post" was at 10th.& Highland. Sure was proud of that white belt. Had to clean it every day. Used Ajax and a brush.
Name: ZACNIEWSKI
Email: zac@dfn.com
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 8:09:06 PM
DONNA YOU MENTIONED YOUR DAD AND SR.REGINALD FROM ST.MIKE'S I REMEMBER SR. REGINALD VERY WELL THINK SHE TAUGHT 6TH GRADE SHE WAS A VERY NICE SWEET TEACHER NEVER REALLY GETTING MAD AT ANY THING. AS I THINK BACK YOU MIGHT SAY SHE HAD THE PATIENCE OF A OYSTER. BY THE WAY WHAT WAS YOUR DAD'S NAME I WAS CLASS OF 55. EMAIL ME.
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 7:42:23 PM
Florence, Thank you so much but I think it might be in tomorrows, I'll e-mail you tom, o.k.Kate
Name: U.W.
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 7:37:59 PM
Jymie Carol Inmon:
During the CW prisoners were held at Fort Mudd now known as Fort Mifflin. They were held in bombproofs. Hope this will help you.
www.fortmifflin.org
FIRSTS FOR CHESTER SO FAR:
FIRST Court House in the Country FIRST Safety Patrol Squad in the Country FIRST Hoagie in the Country
Thanks Hal for sending John the information on your Dad.
Name: florenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 7:14:03 PM
Kate, I have a Daily Times. Perhaps I could help you. florence
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 6:53:21 PM
Thanks Paul, I only wish I didn't have to check but a relative has passed.....
Name: A. Harold Showalter
Email: Hshowalter@pa.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 5:36:50 PM
I was a Safety at Wheterill School & at Smedley Jr. High. My father Addison H. Showalter never told me that he had started the safety program while principal at Dewey-Mann school
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 4:47:39 PM
To Kate.... For some reason there haven't been any obituaries in the on-line version of the Delco-Times for the last week or so. I e-mailed them to ask if maybe no-one died. They said they have nothing to do with the on-line version,but they felt is was a temp. problem. Hope so.
Name: Lee Dewey '41
Email: RLBenni@netscape.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 4:40:04 PM
To Caroline: I was a member of the Safety Patrol in the late '30's, early '40's. I believe I was a member of the FIRST safety patrol, but I'm not certain. I know that we were told that we were part of an important experiment and we were given a lot of words of encouragement. The safety patrol belt was a badge of honor. We wore it to classes. My corner was at Fourth and Jeffery Sts, right by the West End Library. It was not unusual to look up and see Mr. Showalter watching from the library steps. At the end of the first year we got a special certificate of recognition.
The pavilion you mentioned was behind Dewey School, on the Fourth and Yarnall side of the grounds. When it was first built, it served as a bandshell for some great concerts by the city band and the Army bands. People brought pillows and sat on the lawn under the trees and enjoyed music on summer nights. Thanks for stirring up those memories, Caroline.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 4:11:39 PM
Pat, I believe the Pat I am referring to was married to Lorretta. My husband knew most all of the pat's florence
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 4:07:18 PM
Thanks T. N., it was a big help.
Name: T. Nicolaides CHS 54
Email: tnicolaides@fast.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 3:51:12 PM
Kate....Try www.delcotimes.com Tom N
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 3:44:52 PM
Could someone please give me a link to the obituaries in the local Chester paper, thanks Kate
Name: Jymie Carol Inmon
Email: jymdandy@netscape.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 3:25:33 PM
My gr-gr-grandfather, George Bryant Ford, served with the Confederacy in the War Between the States. He was captured at or near Petersburg [Weldon Railroad] & eventually was sent to a prison camp. In one of his letters, he mentioned that he was imprisoned "near Chester, Pennsylvania." I have seen that the military institute was used for wounded soldiers, but I have found nothing about a POW camp. Does anyone have any information about this?
Name: Pat
Email: PatIrish26@aol.com
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 3:24:56 PM
This message is in response to FlorenceCH50 dated May 21. I am the daughter of one of Pat Strain's who worked at Dalton's. You do know all the men in the Strain family were called PAT regardless of their first name. Which Pat Strain do you mean.
Name: Kate (ND65)
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 2:21:14 PM
Paula, I too never missed a dance at St. James in the 60's. Did you see Patti Labelle the night the Bluebells were at the Milmont firehall? Also there were dances in Norwood where I saw Dion & the Belmonts & Del Shannon(now deceased). And what about the acts that used to appear at Sun Center, anyone remember those? Patricia, Thanks for including me in with the Grand Dames & yes I am 15 years younger than some of you but whose counting!!!!
Name: Paula
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 1:53:25 PM
I was a regular at those St. James dances and Holy Cross dances all thru high school from '61-'64. I only missed when I was sick and my Mom would make me stay home (what a bummer!). I really loved to dance back then and what a great way to meet guys. Also, went to the dances at Milmont Park fire house where they had bands and then later went to the YMCA near the old Chester High School. Great fun back then!
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 12:16:13 PM
hgc/pmc-That is quite interesting. I hope that everything gets better for the fish and birds. They must be accoplishing something.
On August 3rd.1681, Deputy Governor William Markham, representing Penn, established the seat of the Colonial Government of Pennsylvania at Chester.
Name: hgc /pmc '59
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 9:28:29 AM
florence chs /50 great article in news journal on osprey's mentions water quality in delaware river at http://www.delawareonline.com
Name: hgc /pmc '59
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 8:55:08 AM
Pete E and I were in the Corps of Cadets at P.M.C.,I know him from there and contacts with him at his restaurant,I believe he still comes in periodically for his business/franchise, I know he lives in Delaware.the City of Chester had maps of the city dept of streets ,610/447/7740 call after 9 a.m. they may still have them.However I/95 has carved a "grand canyon east" right through sun village.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 8:41:09 AM
Pat, this easterner goes to bed at 8:30pm. Kate, that's what my son is always telling me. Harvey, I love it. This is a great site. memories. I used to go to the bowling alley on 5th.st. with my grandfather and the only thing I remember well is the hamburger's they made there.
Name: U.W.
Email:
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 7:55:10 AM
Jim M, Zoll C:
Did the class of '54 Dewey go to the Hawaiian Cottage over in NJ for the prom? Seems to me I remember some class going there. Maybe it was CHS that year
The Safety patrol even had inspections and rules you had to abide by at Dewey.
Anyone: How did the class of 52's big 50 reunion go? That would be a great picture.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 12:03:44 AM
Hi Kay Beldecos - don't you recognize my name. You were always one of my favorite people. Last time I saw you was in 1980 and you were working for a bank.
You were, I think, one year ahead of me in school, and I always thought the world of you.
Name: Kaye Beldecos Koines
Email: yaya6x@aol.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 11:59:15 PM
I truly have enjoyed this web page.
I was especially interested in know if Mayor Pileggi is related to Ann Pileggi who graduated in 1949.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS '50)
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 11:28:34 PM
There he goes again. Harvey, I am afraid to go to a site with "leech - sticky baby" What can you be up to now? I'll go there tho', just because you posted it.
I had to leave for a short while, but I was wondering again what the "Grand Dames" of the board are talking about - I enjoy their company. Only Kate is the "Kid" in the crowd - she's at least a century and one-half younger, I think - correct me if I'm wrong. So, Kate, I dub you "The Kid". I didn't mean to infer that you are as old as we three - but, if everything turns out OK, you'll have as much fun as we do 15 years from now. Nice to have you as part of us.
So, has everyone back east gone to bed?
Name: chs'55
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 10:56:30 PM
to:hgc/pmc59 Yes, Pete E. was a classmate of mine from Jefferis elementary thru CHS. I see him every 5 yrs at our class reunions. Are you a classmate too?
Does anyone know if there is a map available of Sun Hill & Sun Village?
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 10:14:11 PM
http://leech.dk/stickybaby/stickybaby.htm
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 9:56:15 PM
It's so good to see RC, Florence, Kate, Caroline on the board at once, so I have to join in. We old dames have a lot in common (he-he). I agree with the genes' theory, and I got so sick reading all the new theories on what's good and what's bad; I stopped reading about them and now feel much better. Stress will kill you, that's the truth. I have diabetes, but the only time my glucose reading is high is when I'm stressed - so - what does that tell you. The generation before us did (and still do) live long lives, despite all the fat consumption. The mother of one of my friends just passed away and she was 109!!! Now, what do you know about scrapple? Is that or bad stuff for ya'.
Talking about the safety patrol sure brought back memories. I was lieutenant on our safety squad and I'll never forget one day when the class was walking in a quiet (no talking allowed) straight line back to class, a bird left a message on the forehead of one of the boys. With my fun-loving nature, anything for a laugh, I saw it and wouldn't let him try to get rid of it. Everyone laughed - no harm done - but I think of that time often because the boy was Jack Ryan and he was the first in our class to pass away - he was only in his 20's and very much liked. So, every once in a while when I think of him, I say, "I'm sorry, Jack."
I see someone brought up the St. James dances again - my favorite subject. I wish more people would tell us about their fun times at those dances. And, Harvey, what do you think, should we ask that infamous question once again?
Name:
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 9:45:36 PM
I think sticky baby & babs is on the wrong site...
Name: babs
Email: barraehatch@aol.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 9:40:34 PM
I forgot to mention ; site is called Sticky baby , Move your mouse around.
Name: babs
Email: barraehatch@aol.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 9:34:49 PM
I love this site,I hope it is forever, Thanks again John B. Reminiscing can Make us all sad and glad, But, if anyone gets bumbed out and needs to laugh when they sign off, try this sight; TURN it UP LOUD, IT just might make you remember how it feels to really laugh!
WWW.YOCUM.ORG./BABY/
Name: Floyd CHS 48
Email: fljftru@aol.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 9:06:52 PM
To Florence CHS 50, RE dances at smedley. You must also remember Miss Eachus, who ruled. She taught geography didn't she?
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 8:28:44 PM
Hey Florence, I think some people have good genes & they can eat, drink & smoke & still have a good long life but others can't. So I think everything in moderation is o.k.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 8:22:32 PM
Kate, I don't know if they did or not. I tell you what tho, I wish I never heard of clorestol and no fat and diabetes andhigh blood pressure and heart attacks. I love to eat and bake and make good things to eat.I am beginning to think that all this stuff they tell you not to do or not to eat is causing a lot of stress, what do you think.
Name: Donna
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 8:10:47 PM
To MaryAnn: No, my dad didn't live in Eyre Park but he told me he used to walk you and sometimes your brother home alot. My dad went to St.Michal's school with you up until they thru him out in 6th grade, he said then he went to Franklin school. He told me to tell you hello and that maybe this might help you remember him, he said Sr. St. Reginald would take him home with her alot of days after school. Do you remember her?
Name: Kate
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 7:43:59 PM
Florence, Didn't Ches-penn deliver donuts to all the small stores in Chester?
Name: Caroline
Email: carpete@bellatlantic.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 7:24:44 PM
Hal Showalter: First thank you for your generous contribution which John has added to the history of what made OLDCHESTERPA such a good place to have been a part of. First hand knowledge of Addison H. Showalter. I see your father has the honor of having added another first to the HISTORY of Chester and the US of A. Your Dad brought about the FIRST Safety patrol in the country. Which I have happy memories of having been a part of in the Dewey patrol.
Thank you,
Caroline
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 7:15:59 PM
Hey Patricia, You are so right , the previous generations used everything to cook with that we don't dare touch. lard, sugar, bacon fat & whole milk or can milk, remember Carnation can milk? They also did not know of cholestrol & lived to be old & happy. Where did we go wrong? I think we die early today from stress, what do you think?
Name: Jack Rez51
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 7:14:06 PM
Saw a post about dances…listening to Golden Oldies out here in Ohio brings back memories. Back in the 40s and 50s, going to a dance meant jitterbugging to great swing music and slow dancing where you really held your girl. Slow dancing where you were entwined with your partner, her head on my shoulder while we swayed back and forth.
Not sure that the kids today will have anything more than memories of a mob scene in a mosh pit to look back on.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 5:57:39 PM
I remember Dalton's Bakery. I lived right around the corner on Walnut, between 16th &15th. We knew a few of the baker's. One was Pat Strain who lived right up the street. I can't remember the rest. I know everything was mighty good.
Name: Hal Showalter CHS49
Email: hshowalter@pa.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 4:49:34 PM
Does anyone remember the Dalton Bakery.As a teenager I Stood on the running board & would jump off 7 run to customers door with hot bread
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 3:09:32 PM
Yes, everyone's recipe sounds delicious. I am going to try a few. Rc, glad to hear from you. Those were the days my friends, we thought they' never end. Now we realize. We couldn't wait to grow up. Not that there weren't many other wonderful things but.
Name: Floyd Murray
Email: gooddoc02@hotmail.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 2:50:27 PM
Hi Everyone! The name of the “underground” pool hall was the Royal. Back in high school daze, a friend and I used to stop in there sometimes on Friday nights. It was very close to the old State Theater, under Henry’s, and you entered in a door in the small alley there and went right downstairs. They did not worry too much about checking age ID’s then ;-) You’re right, Tom, it was dark, filled with smoke and sure as hell looked liked something out of a Hollywood version of a backroom pool hall. My friend and I only used to shoot each other – there were plenty of guys in there who could have easily creamed us without any problems and taken all of our money had we tangled with them. But it was a cool place I never saw any problems in there, just a bunch of guys playing pool. To James MacIntyre III – your memories are somewhat similar to mine. This same high school friend (and we’re still good friends – he lives in St. David’s today and stopped down each week over the past few months to help me move. That’s a true friend) and I used to play pool and ping-pong at the YMCA on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons and on Friday nights we’d usually wrap up the evening with a visit to John’s Doggie Shop and Smith’s Newsstand on 6th St. where I was such a regular customer. The nice old lady Margaret would let me browse through the “adult” magazxines – Lee wouldn’t :-) HA!-HA! Anyway, at the end of the evening Bob would leave to walk back to his home on Lindsay St. then and I’d head back to Dupont St. and we’d walk together up to 12th St. by the Madison Grille and part ways until next time. Try doing THAT today on a Friday night without getting your head cracked wide open. I remember one Friday night we tried to pick up some girls (don’t know what we were going to do with them as neither of us had cars, we wre only about 17 but we really just wanted to hang out with them) in front of the old hobby shop down from St. Michaels and across from Berman’s. Was it Simmon’s? They rebuffed us, with one of the girls saying to Bob, “Who do you think you are, Elvis Presley?” which had us both laughing the rest of the evening. Speaking of pool – my Dad and his sister were good friends of Jimmy and Alice Dougherty who lived in, I recall, the Crum Lynne area in the early 1970’s. Jimmy was considerably older than his wife and a nice, gentle, soft-spoken man who was quite short and worked at the Media Courthouse where he was court crier. I used to enjoy playing a lot of pool in those days and was shocked to find that this friendly, old little guy, oringally ffrom Chester, was considered one of the top pool players, in the area back in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Later, I wrote an article for my Daily Times column about him. He had seen Mosconni play in South Philly and he said that Mosconni, a kid of around 13 then, beat a lot of the older players. He never played Mosconni I recall but he DID play – and beat – the legendary Ralph Greenleaf, who was probably the best player on the national scene in the 1920’s. They played in Chester and Jimmy was quite humble about the whole thing. He told me, bluntly, that he only beat Greenleaf once even though they used to play there regularly – (I forget if Greenleaf was from Chester or not but he did used to play there a lot) and he also made no secret of the fact that the only reason he won was that Greenleaf was almost too drunk to stand up. According to Jimmy and Alice, who also knew him, Greenleaf was a terrible alcoholic. After the game, when Greenleaf was sober, Jimmy also told him this – admitting that he won simply because Greenleaf was drunk. “You’re the best” he told him. They remained friends for years. My Dad told me that Jimmy said he would like to travel with me to some of the places where I shot pool and show me some tricks and this would have been a great thing to have happened but frankly, I worried about his age. I was an OK shooter, nothing great, and I played mostly for fun but I used to go to some real hellholes back in those days like the White Rock and the Wagon Wheel in Darby, Leinhauser’s on Chester Pike in Sharon Hill and a few others like them and I was not anxious to bring an old man into these dives. I was busy enough watching out for my own back, you see. Re John’s hot dogs – I forget the cost but like many Chester residents, at one time or another, I had those rascals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I know they weren’t expensive and, like Paul said, they were the “Best buy for a good feed in the whole City”. I still go down there for them – like a Big Mac attack, there are times when you get a craving for a John’s hot dog and nothing else will do. At one time I used to buy pints of the sauce – I don’t know if you can still buy it like that or not as this was about 15 years ago - mix it lightly with water, per Pete’s instructions, and make my own “John’s hot dogs” at home at 2-3 in the morning but it was somehow not nearly the same as buying them fresh off the grill from John’s. They still taste the same to me – that sauce is like no other in the world. Dad was a member of the Young Men’s Republican Club in the same building as John’s now is (is the club still there and open?) and we stopped in John’s a lot after visiting there too. Those were, indeed, the days. My best to everyone here on the Old Chester PA page.
Name: Tom CHS76
Email: t9257@yahoo.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 1:45:29 PM
KeyWestMike: Yeah I knew he is alive. Myself and a buddy use to go to West Palm to visit another friend who lived there. It just so happened that he lived about 4 or 5 blocks from where Vic has his motel, my buddy lived in West Palm for like 12 years and never knew vic was there, until myself and other buddy went down. Vic wouldn't remember me but he would remember my buddy. We use to hang with his stepson in McCaffery.
Name: Caroline
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 1:44:35 PM
John B: You've done it again.
Checked the WHATS NEW section and saw another addition to Mr.Addison H. Showalter life. This update regarding Keystone and the safety patrols they sponsored brought back a flood of memories. Remembering trying to be picked as the safety leader, the safety picnics at Lenape Park, getting out of class afew minutes earlier so that you could be on your corner. Having to keep those safety badge straps clean. On occasion using white liquid shoe polish to cover a smudge that would not come clean.
The picture of Dewey brings back a faded memory of a pavilion between Horace Mann, back towards the library and between the two schools. Wonder if anyone else remembers the pavilion.
THANK YOU AGAIN...
Name: RC
Email: ruthcarney@webtv.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 1:22:56 PM
Florence,thanks for asking for me. I'm right here enjoying sharing memories. All this talk of food makes my mouth water! My mother was a very good cook and baker so "home made" was taken for granted but tasty cakes were a real treat.They were Jr. and Sr. in those days. The Sr was a family size square cake. My favorite was vanilla with lemon fillin. We used to go deep sea fishing out of Cold Spring Harbor (wildwood) croakers were plentiful.A lot of times you would have 2 on the line. We just dredged them in flour.salt and pepper and fried them in bacon greese in an iron skillet--heaven. We always had shad in the spring.--baked it for hours to soften the bones. I love the roe. Do you remember the tiny oyster crabs? If you were lucky there would be a few when you bought oysters for stew. I'll have to stop. I'm drooling!
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Name: keywestmike
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 1:13:55 PM
Read that short story about the pool hall about chester vic beating willie mosconi, saw vic about 8 years ago, he is alive and well in west palm beach, fl....if ya were interested..
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS50)
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 1:07:46 PM
Sunday family dinner usually consisted of chicken and dumplings and lemon meringue pie and my grandmother excelled at preparing these. A few years ago, I found an old "original" receipe for chicken and dumplings. Well, the amount of lard used in preparing the chicken, plus the lard used in the dumplings, made me sick while I was making them, and just couldn't eat it. It's amazing how wonderful we thought all the lard was and it made me realize why most of our grandparents were well overweight. But it didn't shorten their life span; my grandmother was 78 and her sister 86 when they died.
I don't know how you folks feel about Breyers Ice Cream of today. We have it here and I don't buy it because it's not what I remember as a kid. Blue Bunny Ice Cream reminds me of the "good ole days." I think it's the best. Do you have that there?
Name: hgc /pmc '59
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 12:46:03 PM
Pete E said to me that it was his father's sauce and was a special recipe.pete graduated from chs in 1955,.Was he your classmate?Pete used to cooK it up every monday,you could smell the aroma for blocks.
Name: hr/chs'55
Email:
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 12:42:22 PM
Sally, Was your maiden name Esrey?
Name: hr/chs'55
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Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 12:36:46 PM
That wonderful sauce on the hotdogs at John's Doggies was, I believe the recipe of either Pete E's father or his partner, a man our family knew as"Sport" Hassis. Anyone know if I am correct or not?
Name: The Deaf One
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Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 11:32:43 AM
Paul: Ever since TastyKake changed their wrapper from wax paper to cellophane the taste has never been the same since. I'm sure they probably changed the ingredients also. That's what I think.
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Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 11:30:43 AM
To Tom Royal Billiards
Name: hgc /pmc '59
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Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 10:35:23 AM
My dad used to bread his trout (weakfish)with cornmeal,and fry the heck out of it.Also weakfish are are really good poached(boiled as he used to call it).used an iron pan ,with fillets and just covered them with water,when the red is out of the back bone they are ready,dad would salt and pepper them,add butter and serve them for BREAKFAST.He only lived to be 94.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 10:13:45 AM
hgc/pmc, Actually I believe everyone used lard back then.My Grandmother used to fry her fish and my niece used to make french fries,both were the best tasting food I ever ate. She always used those heavy iron skillets.For years she would beat her cake mix with a wooden spoon, and she made great cakes. I told my sons bring me a whole weakie so I can cook it the way she did, and I think any meat or fish has a better flavor with the bone in.Nothing tastes the same and yet they say we are all getting heavy. Maybe its because we are looking for that certain flavor and can't find it, so we keep on trying too.
Name: hgc /pmc '59
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Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 10:02:15 AM
John's Doggie Shop in Chester is a now franchise,Pete E. has not worked the store for several months,about a year or so.Tasteekakes are to sweet for my liking,don't remember them as that sweet, like they are now.Some one told me that the company used lard ,a no-no today,and since that was removed the taste has suffered,but the food is healthier i guess?
Name: Tom CHS76
Email: t9257@yahoo.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 8:55:05 AM
Does anyone remember the name of the pool hall that was under Henry's department store? I remember going in there with my ex-brother inlaw years ago. It was always filled with cigar smoke. Always reminded me of Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason in "The Hustler". I also heard that Chester Vic beat the hell out of Willie Mosconi in a pool match down there.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 8:35:51 AM
Jule, I sure doe remember the Friday night dances at Smedley in the 40's. The last song they played for us was Stardust, written by Hoagy Carmichel. I still can remember the words. A very special time of our lives and we couldn't wait to grow up. I remember John's hot dogs and my husband still goes down and get's a few every now and then, Paul as far as tasty kakes go, they have changed something in their recipe, and no they don't taste the same. I used to love those chocolate juniors, bought one the other day, nothing like they used to be..Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end. Hi Kate,Pat--I wonder where RC is?
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 8:34:44 AM
I read in the on-line version of the Delco-Times a couple of days ago about a plan to bring in the National Guard to Chester to help with the drug problem. This may be the only possible solution. What do some of the current residents think?
Name: Julian (Jule) Watras
Email: jwatras@aol.com
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 2:07:45 AM
Does anyone remember the dances as kids in the early 50's and 60's that were held at Jeffris Elementary School, St. Michaels School, Smedley Jr. High School, and St.James High School
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 10:02:22 PM
TO James McIntyre.... John's Doggies at that time were 13cts. each or 2 for a quarter. Best buy for a good feed in the whole City for my money! I've stopped several times at the Conchester Hwy. location for them. Don't know if my taster is going with age or what but they just don't taste the same. Neither does Tastykakes! Maybe my taster's not going... Cheesesteaks and Hoagies still taste the same!
Name: James MacIntyre III
Email: macintyrej@adelphia.net
Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 8:47:22 PM
I remember many very happy Saturdays at the Y.M.C.A. in Chester and then stopping at the news stand to poke around and then going over to the "hot dog" stand to get two dogs with that delivious sauce - all for 25 cents! Those WERE the days, my friends! Happy Memories.
Name: Pat McFadden
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 6:50:18 PM
I see the same worthless "unidentified no name" person(s) is still adding nothing here except sarcasm and weak attempts at humor; however, it's better you post your anger here than taking it out on your family and friends, and hopefully, you have no wee children in the household. In the meantime, go stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole - that'll give you something to really complain about and know how it feels to really hurt - not that you're not already deeply hurting about something and like to take it out on others.
Personally from Pidipat to the unidentified objects who like to see what they write appear on the internet, and crave to be part of the "action", but don't know how. Well, accept people as you would like to be accepted and have a cheerful frame of mind, and everyone will enjoy you and, in return, you will feel good about yourself at the end of the day. Try it, you'll like it. I promise. In the meantime, try posting your tongue on a frozen flag pole.
Name: Kate
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 5:03:55 PM
Don, you are right.
No name you are wrong.
Name: Don Hubickey
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 5:00:08 PM
To Mongo Jerry, I think the Cotton Club was the Russian American Citizens Club on 3rd st between Wilson and Ward next to Kenefski's Funeral Home. The Dinky Club was the Polish club down on 2nd st between Wilson and Hayes.
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 4:28:39 PM
kate ,apparentily you do.
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 4:27:20 PM
Chief Halftown is it you or maybe MJ????
Name: Caroline
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 3:52:31 PM
John: Thank you so much for adding the update on Addison H. Showalter. He was a most gracious man as I can remember as a child and my time in Chester.
Hal: You were very generous in sharing the letter your Dad wrote you regarding his much earned testimonial dinner. The letter was one filled with the warmth of a father that could not share the evening with his sons attendance. Again Thank you for sharing.
Caroline
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 3:51:57 PM
hey kate,same person made both comments.
Name: Kate
Email: lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 2:35:23 PM
Thanks for the update on Stan Walters.
to no name, e-mail pidipat, stop your worthless remarks, who is interested.
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 12:41:46 PM
i believe Stan Walters has something to do with the N.F.L. Europen football league.maybe gen mgr of a team?
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Date: 5/20/2002
Time: 12:36:06 PM
Hey,pidipat ,they didn't charge you anything extra for the coachroach in your ice cream,did they?Seems to me you are over looking a bonus in your purchase ,how ungratful can you be?
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Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 10:27:59 PM
The name of the Dinky Club was Polish National Alliance (PNA)
Name: Bob (Buck ) Bychkowski
Email: rbychkowsk@aol.com
Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 10:05:39 PM
To Craig Rainey
I grew up with Donnie D, Taught him everything he knew.
Name: Dr Howard Smith
Email: drhlsmith1@yahoo.com
Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 9:42:39 PM
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS '50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 7:27:35 PM
To: Jack Rez '51 - So, you were the fellow behind the counter at Doc Johnson's - eh? Now, I remember you.
I spent a good portion of my life at Doc Johnson's in 1947 to 1950, because I loved ice cream and they were always served in what is now practically a collector's item - those tulip-type glass containers. Thank goodness, because you could always see what was coming up next, as opposed to a bowl.
One day, with great anticipation I spent my quarter (maybe a dime - not sure) on either two scoops of Peach or Strawberry ice cream. It must have been a soletary selfish thing I was doing at the time, because no one else was with me. (Should have had a witness- but one ever knows when you might need one.) When I got to the second scoop (oh, ice cream was so good in those days), there was a big, fat, overfed cockroach, resting there in what I can only assume was "cockroach heaven". Not knowing how to express my disgust (and I certainly wasn't going to argue with a handsome gentleman such as yourself), I just put down my spoon and left. See how nice we were in those days? Another learning lesson.
Now, after all these years (58+) I have often wondered if you saw that creature with his teeny, tiny little outspread arms and legs (he had a fine burial - thank god, no other mourners were here) laying on top of what would have been my next scoop
Can you explain to me how that cockroach got into my ice cream? I have waited all these years for an explanation, and everytime I eat ice cream, I look for a cockroach. Not your fault, Jack, I just wondered if you ever saw anything like that. I'm sure you didn't have dead cockroaches laying around as an "extra" charge, like syrup and nuts, etc.
True story -
Name: Dave
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Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 5:48:52 PM
I don't remember that there was ever a McDonalds at 9th and Booth. There was however a Ginos there.
Name: Skinsman
Email: redskinnyfan@aol.com
Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 5:19:58 PM
Stan Walters lives in England with his wife. She moved there with her job and he followed, but I don't know who or what he does or works for.....
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 12:47:23 PM
TO TOM GREENE... Where in Chester are you working?
Name: Jack Rez51
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Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 9:34:52 AM
Tom Greene...your recollection of the names and places really brings back memories. I moved to Buckman Village from Aniline Village in 1947 and left upon graduation from College in 1959. Worked in the Food Fair as a stock boy shortly when it opened. Before that as a Soda Jerk at Doc Johnson's at 9th and Keystone.
Do you remember when the MacDonald's opened with the original golden arch design on 9th Street between Clover and Booth? I think it was the first MacDonalds in Chester. And every Westender remembers Honeysuckle Farm with its great ice cream, great waitresses(Mike Mangan's Mom), great hamburgs and pinball machines. Remember when the State Liquor Store was an A&P?
Spent a lot of time on W. 6th Street on the front porch of Joe Battle's house. His Dad had a roofing business that was right next door to the house. His Dad had Racing Pigeons in a coop behind the house just below the railroad embankment.
Name: Sally
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Date: 5/19/2002
Time: 9:24:20 AM
Tom Greene I was born on Thomas St.(73yrs ago).Did your grandparents live in the court which was the 1200 block, Iremember Marion & Ray Christ who live on Vauclain St, that sure was a great family
Name: Tom Greene
Email: tjg67@yahoo.com
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 10:24:16 PM
Chester was a great town in which I was proud to be a resident 1949 to 1970. I still work in Chester. I remember the Lyric Movie Theater on 3rd street in which you could watch a movie for 25 cents. I remember Joe Gruzka's neighborhood store on 10th street between highland and harwick sts. He was a real nice person and so was his family. Bobby Gruska became a Dentist. He was also a real gentleman and a credit to his family. McMasters was on 3rd street near the Lyric movie and had many novelty items that my brother Ed and I spent many times buying things when we were kids. Our family took the bus on weekends to downtown Chester and then walked to Sun Village on thomas st. to visit our Granparents, "The Crists." The State movie and the Boyd Theater were downtown and were fun places to go. Marchliks hardware store was on 6th street east of highland avenue. Kyj's Bakery was on 3rd street and I think it still is there. They also have a place in Brookhaven. The Food Fair supermarket was on 10th and Harwick and The Penn Fruit supermarket was on 9th street between Booth street and clover lane. I worked at Gino's restaurant at 9th & Booth and remember selling 15 cent hamburgers, 10 cent french fries, 65cents for a KFC special which included 2pc chicken, & fries. The life of a Gino Giant was 45 minutes because of the special sauce. I drove a 57 Chevy Convertible which weas dark green with a white top to St James in 1966 & 1967. When I blew the 283 bored out to a 292 engine, we put in a 327 Corvette engine in the 57. Wish I had the 57 now. We used to race up the conchester highway before I95 was made. These were the good ole days. Tom Greene
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 9:36:50 PM
Good story, Paul!
Gospel...
http://www.angelfire.com/tn/gospel/
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 9:05:10 PM
Speaking of enlisting... When I was 16 I decided to join the Service. Went to the Recruiting Office in the Post Office at 5th. & Edgemont. [I think it was on the second floor] In the hall there were several doors. Over each door was a sign. One was Army,Navy, Marines etc. It didn't matter which door you went in. You were in the same room. In I walked. All the Recruiters came rushing to the door to greet me. I selected the Army guy. He offered me a cigar.[even though I didn't smoke them] Well,I signed up for the Army. Treated like royalty the whole time. The Recruiter set a time for me to go to Philly for the tests. The day arrived. He came to my house with an Army car. Just the two us went to Philly. Still treated royally. Had the written tests in the morning. They put us all in a room and left us alone. Needless to say,everyone copied. Then came lunch. Great feed in the cafeteria. Kept offering more food. I thought this Army stuff is going to be just great! After lunch came time for the physical. I FLUNKED! [heart murmur] Left the room. The nice guy Recruiter came over to me and held out his hand. In it was a Bus token and a train ticket. He said I can catch the Bus just down the street. I said" wait a minute! You brought me here and I think you should take me back" He laughed! Said"can't do it BYE!" All of a sudden I wasn't royalty anymore. THE END!
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 8:44:15 PM
To Ray Agent.... Just looked it up.... My Great-Grandparents lived at 623 Morton Ave. Just across the street from you.
To Harvey... Yes,that was my G-Grandfather. He was 21 yrs. old then. Pretty short hitch. Maybe if you could enlist today for a few months they would have more volunteers.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 8:26:00 PM
Trish--- Yes I have been there quite a few years ago,I went to quite a very good show there one night.
Name: Kate(ND65)
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 7:58:34 PM
Thank You, It sure was the Harbor Light, had many a dance on that disco floor.
Name: Trish
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 7:47:25 PM
To Florance
How about the Ukranian Club around 3rd and Ward St
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 7:42:51 PM
To Kate,
Do you mean the R&S Club in the woodlyn Shopping Center
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS '50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 7:09:50 PM
There have been several posts concerning athletes with the last name "Dodds". One of my best friends at CHS, Lillian "Nunny" Ross married Jake Dodds who was one of our top athletes, if not the top. I also knew his sister, Pat Dodds, but at the time, I did not know there were so many brothers and sisters in that family. How many sisters and brothers were there and it appears that all the boys were "great" athletes. I am wondering if one of the Dodds boys just written about is a brother or son of the Dodds kids from the late 40's and 50's or is it the same family. I know that today they are an especially close-knit family (I've chatted with Pat) and it would make a great story to know what influence their parents had on them. Maybe someone can get Pat Dodds to post something about that on this board.
Where are you Pat?
Oh, I forgot to mention that John Larkin had children also from his second marriage and their names were Read, Wright and Gym. The twin girls were Recess and Belle. Our little town was so innovative, that the rest of the country used the names of these children as the names of the subjects taught in their schools also, even their relaxation periods. As it turned out, "Recess" was the favorite of all the children. Everyone loved her.
Name: FlorenceChs50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 6:59:56 PM
I have been thinking about the Larkin House, I believe the last owner was John Monkaites, not sure of spelling. In the late 50's myself and a friend named Marie used to go out drinking with a few night students,veterans, from the Korean war. We all used to meet in Frog Pond and have a lot of fun talking. Some times we went dancing and then to breakfast. I am surprised I never missed work .
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 6:32:41 PM
WAS THE BAR IN THE WOODLYN SHOPPING CENTER CALLED THE HARBOR LIGHT?
Name: ,Kate
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 5:10:05 PM
Florence, that is not the right name, this was in the 70's in the Woodlyn shopping center, on Tues. nite they had $5 nite, all u could drink till midnight, maybe someone else can remember the name, thanks.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 4:40:08 PM
Kate, my husband thinks it was Palooka's. I think Paul was telling us about a fight when he was driving cabs, I will tell you my husband got locked inside a bar without his friend and the people beat him up. That's when he was younger.
It was at the Upland Court, in 1678, that the first hospital for the insane,supported at the cost of the public, in the history of penna.was established. "Jan Cornelissen" appealed to the justices that his son Erik " is berefit of his natural SENCES and turned quite mad, and yet he beeing a poor man is not able to maintain him ." The Court ordered that a "Little Blockhouse " should be built at Amoslanpart of Part of Ridley Township, bordering upon Darby Creek-- and directed a levy to be made to defray the expenses of its construction and the maintenance of the lunatic.
IOn August 3, 1681, Deputy Governor William Markham, representing Penn, established the seat of the ColonialGovernment of Pennsylvania at Chester.
I remember going to the Dinky Club, The Eagles,And a few others, but do not know their other names
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 4:35:28 PM
Thanks to all who answered my question about the Larkin House. I think the problem may be which bar was actually called the Larkin House. That may be where I`m getting mislead. Since so may remember the dinners at Larkin House then it was the one on the right side of 7th street heading toward the water. The other bar did not serve dinners. I lost a bet but I appreciate the information. Thanks again.
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 3:51:34 PM
That should be Walters. Kate
Name: Kate(ND65)
Email: Lucydesi8@comcast.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 3:50:10 PM
Florence, My husband's grandmother had a lot of those curlers so I do know what you are talking about. I met a lot of the Eagles in the 70's when they used to drop in the bar close to where the RS club is, I forget the name of it but it had a disco dance floor & I saw Ron Jaworski make a fool out of hisself one night ...also have Stan Waters autograph......same night Jaworski came over to my girlfriend & I and he had 2 gold footballs around his neck & said, "does anyone want to play with my balls" he was not funny......I proceded to talk to Stan who was a nice guy, said he wanted to retire in the Keys, wonder where he is now.....Kate
Name: Skinsman
Email: redskinnyfan@aol.com
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 2:35:06 PM
Does anyone remember how long the "Eagles" had their training camp at Widener (PMC)? I know that during the 70's they were at the Chester site, but before that I'm drawing blanks....
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 2:03:41 PM
Does anyone know whatever happened to Will Lebus who used to live in Sun Hill during the 70's? he graduated from St. James in the early 80's, but that's the last info I have on him.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 1:33:12 PM
Chester----The first court that convened in Pennsylvanis was at Upland.{now Chester},Nov. 14, 1676, and was administered under what was known as the "Duke of York's Law."
anyone remember those small tin curlers that you squeezed open and stuck your end of your hair and then rolled and pulled the the other part over it and it clicked.
Name: spanky
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 12:51:59 PM
hey baseball fans:the most memorable times for me were in the chester east little league. there were some real hot shots there. the guys that come to mind from the 60s are ,donnie dodds, dave murry, fred ungerino,billy grant, mike silva, barry cotaline,the gill brothers and the list goes on. remember joe sguires team and the VFW, always the 2 winning teams, they seemed to have all the right players. thats my take on chester baseball
Name: BBALL FAN
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 10:29:52 AM
Craig: I remember that matchup. Also remember Donnie Dodds putting it to Jeff Lamp who later became an NBA all star while Lamp was an all american at Virginia and Dodds was in his short-lived career at Temple. Remember Paul Westhead when he was at LaSalle being quoted in the Inquirer as saying that he had only seen one other player who could do things with a basketball like Dodds, the player was Pete Maravich. At the time of this quote, Dodds was a senior in high school. He was the man!
Name: Mongo Jerry
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Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 9:52:19 AM
Anyone remember the two private social clubs in the west end, one was called the "Dinky" the other the "Cotton" ? What were the real names?
Name: Craig Rainey
Email: CraigyFled86@aol.com
Date: 5/18/2002
Time: 12:37:09 AM
Are there any Chester sports fans out there? Yes this is the track and field man, but I just want to know If there are anyone out there that remembers All-star Donnie Dodds, and all-star Darrel "Hot Shot" Fuller going at It for a few good high school years. Those two dudes really tore things up on the basketball court. I remember one night In particular when St. James came to Chester High School and Donnie wasa bringing the ball up and Hot Shot came up to defend. Donnie did an a crowd pleasing dribble to himself through Fullers legs and ran past him and scooped up the ball and continued on down the court. Hot Shot caught up to him and got back on D but was laughing the whole time because he knew that his innercity friendly rival had just got one up on him. Hot knew that he had a showman to deal with, and Donnie also knew that he had a showman to deal with. Both of these guys always knew what to do with the basketball, and always brought out the best In one another.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS50)
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 11:57:07 PM
According to Lou Warfel's book, John Larkin, Jr. was the first man to hold the office of Mayer of Chester. He was elected one month after the city was incorporated on 2/14/1866(no indoor plumbing then, folks). Mayor Larkin was also a member of a pioneer Chester family (wonder which one). The neighborhood from 10th and Madison to 11th and Upland was known as Larkintown. Larkin School was named in his honor. Now, ain't that nice? His sons were Bart, Mark and Franklin; daughters were Sparkle and School. So, I think the school was named after Sparkle - just my personal opinion, of course.
Name: spanky
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 11:24:06 PM
so can someone tell me who this Larkin person was in chester history that they named a school and a tap room after him , kind of silly, a school and a bar...gotta love it.....
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 11:03:05 PM
Paul...Looks like Grandfather volunteered.
Twenty-Eighth Regiment - Emergency Troops of 1863. Mustered in June 19-24,1863; discharged July 27-28, 1863.
Company F. Captain, John Woodcock; first lieutenant, Ralph Bulkley; second lieutenant, Horatio G. Hotchkiss; first sergeant, Roswell S. Williams; sergeants, Alexander E. Crozier, William Major, Edwin Boadin, Daniel Crowder, Lewis P. Watkins, William B. Farra, John A. Lieb, Alfred Kenyon, Frederick A. Davis, Hiram Hyzer, Thomas Lomax, Jonathan Henrock; musician, Ransaler McFarland.
Privates. - John T. Adams, Enos Anson, Samuel T. Allen, Charles W. Broadbent, James H. Brenzinger, Ralph Crowther, Nilson R. Compfort, Enoch Chidester, Jerome A. Chase, William Camp, William E. Daniels, George F. Drake, John Dunkerly, William Eastwood, Samuel Fields, John Ford, Edward Farrand, John Greenlee, David Greenlee, Cyrus Greenwood, Geore Henderson, Kennedy Humes, James R. Kinsey, William H. Litzenburg (promoted to sergeant major June 23, 1863), Joseph Mulvaney, William Moore, Lyman Mayo, Charles D. Manley, Dennis McLaughlin, George McChan, Albert M. Neil, Patrick Orin, Charles H. Pedrick, George Robinson, Henry J. Robinson, George Smith, John D. Shutts, Lord W. Scott, Aaron L. Shaw, Pennell Stetser, William Shields, James O. Taylor, Joseph D. Tuckerman, Israel Thomas, Washington Thomas, Hezekiah P. Vanbariger, George Westfall, James Wilde, Bennett Wakeman, William P. Worrall, Calvin L. Walker.
Name: Mary Ann Kessler Barrow
Email: mabarrow@att.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 10:45:33 PM
Donna,
Yes, we lived on S. Eyre Drive and my brother, Ned, was a year younger than me. What a wonderful time we had growing up in Eyre Park with the creek right across the street where we played cowboys, soldiers and fished there so many times.
I still can't place Jack Lewis but the name is so familiar. Did he live in Eyre Park or did you as you grew up?
Mary Ann
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 10:43:25 PM
For Chester History Buffs: For your files...
William Penn's First Voyage To His Province In 1682 - The Change Of The Name Upland To Chester, And The Reason It Was Made.
http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead/ashmead_pg21
http://www.delcohistory.org/ashmead/index.htm
Name: Ann Heneks (Rez '49 & ND '53)
Email: Ann Heneks@aol.com
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 10:06:51 PM
I love this site. It sure does bring back some very GOOD old memories. Thank You!
Name: FC CHS68
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 10:02:44 PM
The 501 Bar was on the other corner of 7th & Potter which backed up to the Russian Club.
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:37:36 PM
LOL Ray..... I also remember the Russian Club quite well. As I related earlier I drove for Bell Taxi. One night I was sent there on a call. I went in,went downstairs to look for my fare. Perfect timing! A big fight broke out. They locked the doors and wouldn't let anyone leave. The Police arrived pretty quickly. Officer Chet Zubrycki practically cleared the place by himself! Another fun night!
Name: Pat McFadden
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:34:30 PM
P.S. - Forgot to ask - what was/is the name of the family from whom the school/house got its name? What contributions did they make to our city? I attended Larkin school from 1st to 4th grades, but never thought to ask the school where it got its name, and no one ever brought up the subject. Oh me, so much to learn, and so little time.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS '50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:28:32 PM
Well all this discussion about where the Larkin House was/is located has me very curious. If you were going to the Delaware River, it would be on the right side; if you were going to Morton Ave., it would also be on the right side? What side would it be on if you were headed nowhere in particular? Would it be the east side of the street or the west side, or the north or south? Depending on which direction you are going, it will always be on the right side or the left side. If you were in a helicopter, which side of the street would it be? Now come on, guys, clarify this. AND, is the place still there? Maybe it went in another direction.
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:16:10 PM
Thanks, Jocko...I was trying to remember Ray's name. Seems to me he was John's son-in-law and lived on Old Middletown Rd?
Name: Paula
Email:
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 8:50:08 PM
To Blank Name: Born in Crozer Hospital, grew up in East End of Chester.
Name: Ray Agent
Email: rayagent@earthlink.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 8:37:42 PM
Paul - I certainly do hope you had your tongue in your cheek when you asked if I knew your great grandparents. 1887 was just a little bit before my time even if you think I am Methuselah. I do however, remember the Russian Club on Morton Av.,as well as Minka's bakery with all those wonderful aromas on a hot summer night. I also remember the tailor shop run by Mr. Maisis (sp) and next door, the candy shop where you could pick out two or three pieces for a penny and Mrs. David would sometimes throw in an extra piece if you have been a good boy. Maybe I am Methuselah to have remembered those things.
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 7:45:08 PM
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Name: MJB
Email:
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 7:06:37 PM
All you Notre Dame Grads don't forget the "Dames @the Dunes" on Sunday June 2 2002. It's @ Avalon Community Hall, 30th St & Beach, Avalon NJ $20.00, lunch, door prizes & old friends.. Make checks to: Dames at the Dunes, 911 Washington St, Cape May, NJ 08204 or call Kitty Walsh Kelly '45 609-263-7236 - Dolores Behl Garvey '46 609-263-6591 - Sally Dolan Mack '50 609-398-3573 - Mary Ann Battista Mascitti '59 610-853-2648. Try to reply by May 25th. Great fun & memories galore.
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 6:57:16 PM
yeah paula, even from chester, are you?
Name: jocko chs 52
Email: jocko 19971
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 6:53:35 PM
sorry folks the Larkin House was on the right side of Potter St going to the De river. It was also on the right side of 7th St going toward Morton Ave. John Makides was the owner back in the 50's. I believe he sold out to Ray his bartender. His other bartender was Dick who was there a long time.
Name: keywestmike
Email: keywestmike@aol.com
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 6:18:55 PM
Read someone mention the old larkin house, when i worked at the old sun ship weatheril plant off of 7th st that was definetly an old haunt, i also remember as a kid going in there with my folksin the 60s on fri nite, think it was shrimp nite or some sorta fish nite..My folks sent me an article ed gehart wrote in the daily times on may 10thabout my niece, megan dicave and my pop, jim dicave...hope ya all read it, pretty good article ed..i sure miss delco and my family...
Name: Paul D. Crowther
Email: pcrowther4@cogeco.ca
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 5:27:45 PM
TO RAY AGENT.... My,the world gets smaller all the time. I never knew you lived on Morton Ave. Perhaps you knew my Great-Grand Parents who also lived in the 600 block of Morton Ave. This would have been about 1887. His name was Ralph. [I write this with tongue in cheek!!]
Name: Pat Kelly
Email: gunthrsmom@aol.com
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 5:02:25 PM
John, There was a policeman from the West End, I believe he lived around 7th and Wilson Streets with the last name of Kozubal who was shot in the line of duty. Cannot remember his first name. He left two children behind, son and daughter. His wife Julie lived in New Jersey. Maybe this would help to locate another officer killed in the line of duty. Am planning to attend the reunion in October. Sounds like fun. As far as memorabilia, what are you looking for. I have policeman ball snapshots (large), some awards give to policemen, etc. Let me know and I can bring them in October. Great website. Pat
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 4:30:12 PM
Ray, Harv: I remember my Uncle going to a barber on 2nd and Thurlow Street and getting a straight razor shave and having his face wrapped in these hot towels. I also remember that during his time you could go to the church and get what was called a "Pledge". If you drank you would promise to stop for what ever period of time decided, smoked, etc.
There was also a bath house that he would go to but that I can't remember I was to young.
Name: Ray Agent
Email: rayagent@earthlink.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 4:01:41 PM
Harvey - you were right about the location of the Larkin House How one thought leads to another - does anyone remember the bathhouse (G rated massage parlor)located in the middle of the block of Potter St. between 6th & 7th on the same side as the Larkin House? Back in ancient times before the Lenape Indians arrived, I lived as a little tot at 624 Morton Ave. and our back yard butted up against the bathouse. It was strictly a legitimate business run by the Pallishusky family.I can remember in the fall they would harvest the end branches of a couple of monster oak trees that towered over the property. They would tie these small branches together with leaves attached and hang them in a shed to dry out. I was told that people would pay good money to get a steam bath, massage and get whacked all over with these branches. Nothing like todays massage parlors. Its interesting that the buildings that housed the parlor and living quarters for the family are still among the few remaining on that block.
Name: hgc/pmc 59
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 3:44:57 PM
florence chs/ 50 I just checked a publication titled'"DELAWARE COUNTY TODAY /ALMANAC"70th edition 1995 date,in it is dates of Chester/upland settled 1644 Tinicum Township settled 1643 apparently both settled by the Swedes,keep in mind that Chester,has remained inhabited since that time,Chester name was changed in 1682 from Upland. Tinicum Twp settlement was NOT occupied continus from that time. so it depends on how you define what a town is . I don't think you are wrong,but I think it interesting to look at history. Of course remember Henry Ford said "ALL HISTORY IS BUNK". FLORENCE HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND.p.s.by the way i am no scholar and i got the grades to prove it.
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 3:21:08 PM
My recollection is that the Larkin House was on the left side going toward the river.
Name: Tom Morrison
Email: tmorr42@aol.com
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 3:04:59 PM
Tracy Lyons............Did you have an older brother named Ricky? Lived near the church on Prov. ave? guessing it was 18th & Prov.?
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 1:37:30 PM
That part of Chester comprised between the Delaware, Ridley and Chester rivers, extending northwestwardly to where is now the Crozer Theological Seminary, was originally a tobacco plantation conducted under the management of the Swedish government. In 1644 the greater part of this territory was granted by the sewdiah crown to Joran Kyn {George Keen}, who had come to the PROVINCE as one of the bodyguards for Gov. Printz. In 1675 the first meeting for Divine service in Pennasylvania, by the Society of Friends.It doesn't really matter you are probablt right. I can't argue with a scholar.
Name: Donna
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 1:28:06 PM
Hi Tracy Lyons! I remember you from Notre Dame. It's good to see you found the site, and like when I first signed on someone welcomed me aboard, so Welcome Aboard Tracy, hope you enjoy! I graduated in '82, we were the class that ND closed on in our senior year and had to go to O'Hara. I'm from the west end of Chester my grade school was Ressurection of Our Lord, see ya, let's see if you remember which Donna I am ok
Name: Donna
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 1:22:47 PM
MaryAnn, first let me ask you , do you have a younger brother? did you live in or near Eyre Park? Jack is my dad.
Name: U.W.
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 1:00:32 PM
Hgc: Yes, the Schuylkill starts just above Pottsville, PA a City in the mountains of PA. I have added a link to a map of the river if anyone is interested in the demographics of the river mentioned. Really a beautiful trip from start to finish.
(schoo-kil; from the Dutch, "hidden river")
http://www.schuylkillriver.org/main.html
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 11:41:30 AM
Does anyone remember the Larkin House at 7th & Potter? Was it on the left or right side of Potter going towards thr river.Thank you
Name: hgc /pmc '59
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 11:09:49 AM
florence/chs 50 I still standby what I said,Chester(Upland )pre dated Wm. Penn no doubt about that,he was English,but the Swedes and Dutch were here before the English.As I said Tinicum was the site of the first permanent settlement in Pa,but it was abandon later on ,there were indians there before the Swedes,and on it goes.Remember the Schuykill River is as DUTCH as you make it.so the dutch were north of Chester before Wm Penn.
Name: Paula
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 11:05:55 AM
Does anyone remember the photo portrait company that would come to your house back in the '50's and take photographs?
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:55:12 AM
Harvey, I remember that,also when you were getting your house papered, the man brought you a large book over to your home and you picked what you wanted and then he would figure up how many rolls he needed and price right in your home. hgc/pmc--- I am only going by what this book says. thats all.
Name: Paula
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 9:40:23 AM
To Mongo Jerry and Blank Name: Lighten up, be kind, life is too short - are you even from Chester?
Name: hgc/pmc 59
Email:
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 8:56:38 AM
to Florence chs 50 I am not sure that Chester is the oldest town in Pennsylvania,i think you would have to be a lawyer, with a legal definition of "town" to make sure that statement is correct.Certainly it is "one of the oldest towns in Pa.",but the oldest I'm not sure.Certainly the Swedes settlement in Tinicum Township is right there 1649 (i believe) and there were other settlements in Pa that go way back.You would also have to consider Indian (native american)settlements also.I guess I am being a knitpicker though.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 8:23:48 AM
Their is a book called CHESTER Historical Briefs by Henry Graham Asmead Pub. 1914. You can find out about this book over in the yellow section. We picked ours up at local flea market. It is quite interesting.
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Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 1:43:25 AM
way to go mongo jerry, agree that the statement about chester, philly and boston is so stupid and the one about chester's history is connected to the seahore is just as stupid. at least she didn't mention phoenix this time.
Name: Mongo Jerry
Email: mongojerry44@hotmail.com
Date: 5/17/2002
Time: 12:29:28 AM
The events that happened in Chester far outweigh the history "claimed" by Philly and Boston? Good Grief Pat, I don't have the words to describe the stupidity of that statement. Talk about revisionist history! I guess Chester was the real first Capital of the United States but nobody knew it. How about the "Chester Tea Party"?
Name: Harvey Martin
Email: hsmartin@snip.net
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 10:15:41 PM
Does anyone remember when you didn't go out and buy a new sofa and chairs...you called the Slipcover Lady. She came to the house and you picked out your material and she measured... and then she came back a week or so later with her machine and made you custom-fit slip covers. You fixed her a nice lunch and paid her a fraction of what it would have cost for new furniture and everybody was happy...even your husband.
Name: Pat McFadden (CHS '50)
Email: pidipat@earthlink.net
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 9:36:27 PM
Chester, PA, may not be much now, but with all the memories and history we have shared right here on this board, more and more people realize that the events that happened in Chester (formerly Upland) far outweigh the "history" claimed by cities such as Philadelphia and Boston. Chester was history in the making, if you take the time to study our history.
You can't talk about oldchesterpa without including the NJ shore - and nobody ever came back without salt water taffy, and wasn't it fun to watch it being made? How about that big statute of the Planter's "peanut man"? I think "Planter's" was the only brand we had or knew of then. He was a landmark. I miss all that, as I know so many others do.
Name: mjb
Email:
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 8:35:33 PM
Mike Pedicin's signature was "Shake a Hand" goes back to the early 50's @ Bayshore or Tony Marts. not sure anymore. All Chester guys & gals were there on weekends, great fun, no heavy drinking, no DUI's, just good clean fun. Growing up in Chester area was great and a still great memory.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 7:52:47 PM
Chester, is the oldest town in Penna.FEW cities afforded greater opportunities for trade expansion than chester did. It's natural facilities are unsurpassed. It was a great manufacturing center and was destined to brcome greater.Year by year they became more diversified. Some of the greatest industries in the world located in Chester or outskirts.When their was a depression in the textile trade, chester became very dull.The greatest amount of workman were employed in the iron and steel industries. more later.
Name: Sheree
Email: Picabostow@hotmail.com
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 5:26:14 PM
To Tina: Would your George Pierce be any relation to William E. Pierce of Chester? William was a carpenter.
Name: Joe
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 4:38:17 PM
Appreciate the memories of Tony Mart's and Bayshores. Spent a few summers in OC in the late 70's and these places were still hopping. When they kicked everyone out at 2AM, they wandered down the road to a place called Dunes till Dawn. Always had some great bands there. Remember one called the Bonnie Parker Band. If you get to Somers Point these days, stop in a place called Charlies. Great people, good food and always a fun time.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 3:50:17 PM
Actually I have had Shad from there. It has been quite a few years tho. I don't eat the roe. My grandmother always had shad on Good Friday. I know that things have been getting cleaned up florence
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 3:33:19 PM
to florence chs 50,i see you say you won't eat any shad from the river,well you know they catch shad up around the delaware river gap,and also net them in the delaware bay.want to guess how the shad get to the gap?they sure have to swim past chester on their way up and out,if you enjoy shad it is a good chance they came from the delaware river.by the way since there is hardly any industry left,the river is much cleaner then it was in the 1950's.enjoy your shad roe or fish ,it probably went by chester,before you ate it.flounders and stripers love the delaware too,although they don't come up to chester,they do inhabit the delaware bay and tributarys.(in great numbers)
Name: Jack Rez51
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 3:32:13 PM
Mary...Dylan found The Band at Tony Mart's in Somers Point and they were known as The Hawks at that time.
NO NAME...Went back several pages of Guest Book postings and checked to see what recollections or other contribution to this site that NO NAME made...guess what NONE.
Suggestion...IF its NO NAME.........,, ...JUST SCROLL ON BY!
Name: Mary
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 1:23:39 PM
To Jack Rez51: I have been a fan of Bob Dylan and "The Band" both together and separately for decades. Thought I knew everything there was to know about both of them. Seen both Dylan and the Band (separately) many times. I never heard that Dylan first heard "The Band" in Sommers Point, NJ. So I thought I would prove you wrong and I did some searches on the net. You know what?? You are right. I never knew that. The Band was called the Hawks then with Ronnie Hawkins. Learn something new everyday. Thanks for that info. Here is the link that I found.
http://theband.hiof.no/history/part_4.html
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 12:10:32 PM
Jersey Shore web site? Cool. I moved there to LBI in 76 after high school. It got wierd in the 90's though... sad.
WFIL, Jerry Blavaat were part of my shore expiriences.
All ties together, it seems.
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 11:23:01 AM
wecome to the jersey shore web site
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 11:04:39 AM
Tina
My grandfather fished often, perhaps your grandfather fished with him. Many a fish we had from the Delaware Bay back then.Things got pretty bad in the Bay. I wouldn't eat any fish from this river. My son has a place on Long Beach Island, Him and his brother keep me supplie with flounder, in fact the season starts this week, blue's and striper's. I love saltwater fish, my one son caught a 40 lb. striper, a lot of fillet's , and I also love weakies. florence It is always good for families to be together, my children come almost every week to visit us. thanks florence
Name: Tina
Email: Cupatea712@hotmail.com
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 10:49:50 AM
Florence, I have an obit on George Pierce that mentioned he was a "riverman" like his father James and caught Shad in the Delaware - that was when you could eat fish from the Delaware River. Can you imagine?! I was just looking to fill in pieces of George's life - my dad remembers some things about him and that helps too. Speaking of the shore, we always went to the Jersey shore for a week or two every summer when I was a kid. My Nana, Margaretta Dalton Jackson, would go with us and she would spoil me by buying salt water taffy, raspberry and chocolate fudge, and Swedish Fish on the boardwalk. Those were happy times for the family when we went to the shore.
Name: FlorenceCHS50
Email: buffyk@fast.net
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 10:30:31 AM
Sorry, I forgot to sign just now. florence
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 10:28:51 AM
Paula, you right. Kate, I don't remember the names, which is getting to be a big thing these days. Glad to see your name up there. Tina, you are welcome. My Grandfather passed away many years ago. Pat, how true. I wish. I am also an easterner, but try to enjoy most of this. 50 yrs. ago, King Cut Poultry on 10th st. in Chester was redeeming egg cartons for 1 cent ea. Kind of like redeeming soda bottles as we used to do. Along Chester, Marcus Hook, Tinicum and surrounding area , this used to be summer area for the city folks.People came here to vacation. All along the local coast, people were bathing and sunning theirselves right here. Their were also fishing villages, where the fisherman went out and caught their catch of the day. their are a lot of historical spots around. Soldiers and Sailors monument,Landing place of Wm.Penn in the year 1682,resting place of John Morton, the Town Hall, etc. A ship would dock out there and take people down the river for different shore areas. Amazing.
Name: Jack Rez51
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 10:24:19 AM
Right On PAULA...BETTY thanks, I put the names with the places ...
Remember the big neon red arrow that pointed down into Tony Mart's - it also stretched from around the circle adjacent to the bay, leading you right into Tony's. Steele's was next door with only a narrow alley in between. The alley was large enough for a dolly with a keg on it and that's about it. And BayShores was within walking distance too.
Tony Mart's was a real music venue at Somers Point. It was the place where Bob Dylan first heard “The Band”, and signed them as his backup band. Over the years many bands played in the bar.
Some top bands of the time played at Tony Mart’s. Bill Haley and his Comets were there. One was Dave Apple and the Applejacks. A group called Dicky Doo and the Don'ts, Pete Carrol and the Carrol Brothers and in the later years Mike Pedicin became the regular attraction. These bands never took their audiences for granted.
Tony Mart's and Bay Shores began to compete for the same customers, the music would have to be constant or you could loose your entire crowd during a break. So when one band would go on break another would pick up the music and no one would notice the difference.
In the early days Tony Mart's employed a band called Len Carey and the Kracker Jacks. They were quite an act. As part of the advertising for this band, Tony Mart's would give away boxes of Cracker Jacks. Each of the bars had a jam session or matinee.
From 3:00 to 6:00pm the bands would play and people would come to party. Rain drums were beaten on weekend afternoons to get the Shoobies off the beach. The clubs would shake with the sounds of "Someone's in the Kitchen with DinaHHHHHHHHH" "Alabama Jubilee" and endless cheers as a new keg was tapped. After the matinees, customers would go back to their rental houses, clean up, have a little dinner at Mac's, Daniels, or the Bala Inn and be back in time for the bands to start again at nine.
Memorial Day weekend was the official start of summer and seven nights a week of rock and roll. Labor Day meant the end of summer.
Name: Paula
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 9:34:29 AM
No Name: Why pick on anyone? Just enjoy the site and get a life!
Name: Paula
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 9:32:16 AM
To Skinsman: thanks.
Name: Betty
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 12:41:37 AM
Jack thought of another one Tony Martz (sp)
Name: Betty
Email: stang524@aol.com
Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 12:40:39 AM
To----Jackrez51 was one of the all night bars along the water in Somers point call Bayshores?
Name: Mongo Jerry
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Date: 5/16/2002
Time: 12:30:58 AM
Pat: That wasn't the goddes of love spreading her wings, it was a Jersey mosquito. MJ
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