Visitors Nostalgia & Memories

(Archive #109 August 1, 2013 to August 31, 2013)

Date: 8/31/2013, 10:17 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: ___ De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Jerry T, they were just poor kids trying to express
themselves. What bothers me most about the
incident is some of the area residents questioning
if the victims might have been prostitutes or
engaging in some other type illegal activity, like
that should make it different or not so bad of a
crime. Shows what type of residents we have living
in that area now.

Date: 8/31/2013, 7:51 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: The vermin in Wilmington are at it again. According to the news, two women, ages 24 and 32 were gang raped by a group of 10-12 teenagers in Kosciuszko Park(formerly Delmore Park), bordered by S. Broom, Maple and Franklin Sts., a little before 7 p.m., this past Thursday. Horrendous ! Fifty years ago there would have been a group of about 50 of us all over that park, playing football, basketball, horse shoes, cards, on the swings, or just sitting on the 'Rocks', or in the 'Round House'.
Date: 8/30/2013, 2:50 pm, EDT
Name: Pat (Stillwell) LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Patrick's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: Tom, thanks for sharing your memories of the good old days in Wilmington, I, too, used to sled down "Grassy Hill" as we called it and stop at Mrs. Mack's. I knew a lot of the "kids" you mentioned. Those were wonderful memories of wonderful times.
Date: 8/30/2013, 12:35 pm, EDT
Name: Tom
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine village
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, P.S.
Employers:
Message: Continued: Mr. Kramedas had a wholesale produce business down on fourth street. Two of the boys, Johnny and Gregory were in our local scout troop. When time came to go down to Camp Rodney he provided one of his trucks to carry usdown to Northeast, MD. This was a fun time and very gracious of the patriarch Kramedas. The memories are flooding back and the site won't permit me to monopolize the time. So off I go back to retirement and golf down here in the "Historic Triangle" of the country; Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. All be well.
Date: 8/30/2013, 12:30 pm, EDT
Name: Tom
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine village
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, P.S.
Employers:
Message: Doggonit, I had more to say ! We played ball in the "Triangle" park that ran down 17th the street and the Park Drive; we sneaked on the train that came down from the paper mill and hop off at Market. Frank Kelly, the patriarch of the Kelly clan lived at 1803 Market, now a key part of the Brandywine historical community. He was a contractor and paved over a dirt lot up behind his home for the gang to play basketball. When any of us got confronted by the police we'd often give our name as Reardon (sons of then Judge reardon) since there were six of them the cops couldn't know the difference ! The Reardon clan live a few houses up from the intersection of 18th and Tatnall, the four corners of which were used as bases in our version of handball. We also played wireball and stepball, none of which can be understood by my grandchildren who uaually have a handful of electronic wonder ?? The Kremedas clan was a little farther up 18th in the same block.
Date: 8/30/2013, 12:21 pm, EDT
Name: Tom
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine village
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, P.S.
Employers:
Message: The old 1910 picture at 18th & Market brings back a lot of memories. i lived in a second floor apartment at 18th & Tatnall from 1942 to 1948. Before that at 1908 West.We had a fine group of youngsters in those days, the Kellys,Reardons, Kramedas', all of which had seven siblings, then a few singles like Kershaw, Locke, Whiteman, Sarmasakis, Mosley, et al. We would sled down 18th street from Tatnall to Market and stop when the sparks began to fly from the paved street. Our gathering place was "Miss Mac's' a little candy store which also sold ice cream bread and milk to the locals. The proprietor was Miss McLusky a wonderful lttle lady who attended Mass twice a day at St. Pat's across the Market Street Bridge and provided a haven of warmth for us sledders with her kerosene stove on which we were allowed to put our wet and freezing gloves. When the Kerosene got low she reward the boy who went down to the service station at 18th & Market for a refill with ice creab
Date: 8/30/2013, 9:41 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: GOD BLESS AMERICA - "ONE NATION UNDER GOD"
Date: 8/29/2013, 10:02 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. Clayton St.
Schools Att'd: W.H.S. , V.f.M
Employers: Wilm. Police Dept, . SecuritySupervisor. Innisbrook . Golf Rsor
Message: A Early Labor day Greeting to all on Old WilM.COM . Have a Great Labor Day Weekend ! And GOD Bless America !
Date: 8/22/2013, 8:17 am, EDT
Name: Forum Admin
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: A preview of the Facebook Group - oldwilmington.net

Photos and nostalgic comments and questions about Old Wilmington are posted...

http://www.facebook.com/groups/249239408500816/

Date: 8/20/2013, 6:46 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St.Paul/Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: :D Hi, good to see guys are still on. ;-)
Date: 8/20/2013, 3:58 am, EDT
Name: Sharon Bolt
Location: Newark De.
Old Neighborhood(s): woodlawn flats
Schools Att'd: lore, cedar hil, bayard
Employers:
Message: I grew up on the 1500 hundred block of Lancaster Ave. between Clayton St. and Rodney St. I am 60 years old now, and would like to know if anyone on here remembers growing up there, I often think about my childhood friends and what happened to them, The Olin family are always on my mind if anyone on here remembers please contact me I grew up right next door the the Yeatman's
Date: 8/19/2013, 10:27 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: ___ De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Connie, thank your local legal crooks,POLITICIANS!
Date: 8/19/2013, 2:35 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: The mid 60s was when we became afraid to walk out of our door on W 23rd Street. Nothing was safe outside and one man up the block had someone trying to tear down his front storm door to get in while he was sitting in plain sight in his living room.

Trick or treat night some teens tried to push their way in the door when I opened it to give treats to young children. All that night we heard small children scream then begin crying because teens grabbed their treat bag.

Then people like me were called racists because we left the city for a safe place to live.

Date: 8/19/2013, 2:23 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N Franklin St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Springer
Employers:
Message: Ray,
Urban renewal - right?!
Date: 8/19/2013, 11:00 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: ___ De.h
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: I walked the beat in late 50's early 60's and watched them lie about tearing down housing from
2nd Street to 8th Street on Popular Street. They
said they were going to take a block at a time and
move the people in that block to temporary housing
while they tore the block down and rebuilt it for
the people they had moved out. They wound up
tearing down all the homes from 2nd to 8th and all
those displaced by this were on their own, most of
them moved to the West side. The vacant blocks
remained vacant for years.
Date: 8/19/2013, 10:40 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: It's already low income housing. From what I understand, they're going to rebuild with updates, move current residents to vacant buildings while rebuilding, then move them back into new units. It seems like it's one of the few safe areas in the city.

I didn't know where it was because I thought the name referred to the topography, and I couldn't think of a neighborhood in Wilm. with flat land! After realizing the area was named after the Brit. word for apartments, I realized that I was familiar with those apartments I visited one in the '60s and a co-worker tried to talk me into renting one in the '70s when I was living in Woodland Apartments. Nice place.

Date: 8/18/2013, 1:53 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. Clayton St.
Schools Att'd: W.H.S. ,V.F.M.A.
Employers:
Message: Connie , thanks for the Info. On the Flats. If they do Raze the Flats. I hope there not thinking of Building Low Income. Houseing ? It would breed every type of Crime In the whole Area !
Date: 8/18/2013, 9:53 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Thanks for the link.

Today's Sunday News Journal has a 3 page spread about the plans to raze and rebuild in the Flats.

Date: 8/16/2013, 9:03 pm, EDT
Name: Forum Admin
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: Woodlawn Flats...

http://www.oldwilmington.net/maps/neighborho...

Date: 8/16/2013, 1:42 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: What were the approximate limits of "The Flats"?
Date: 8/15/2013, 11:05 pm, EDT
Name: Pam
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: none
Employers:
Message: So it's true! Woodlawn is going to demolish the Flats and put up blocks and blocks of apartment buildings instead! What happens to the people who are still living there? Anyone know? It's the end of an era!
Date: 8/13/2013, 7:20 pm, EDT
Name: Pat (Stillwell) LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall Sts.
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: Dave, I remember this: "We're the boys from 8th and West, we will always do our best; we're the boys with the great determination. Oh, they say we are not tough, that's because we are not rough...... and then I forget the rest. Who knows the rest?
Date: 8/12/2013, 8:43 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood(s): 25TH & MADISON ST
Schools Att'd: BROWN
Employers: EH&R DUPONT
Message: DOES ANT ONE REMEMBER (WE ARE THE BOYS FROM 8TH AND WEST ) I WILL STOP THERE.
Date: 8/12/2013, 10:54 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: JERRY T - That's funny!!!! :@ :D :-)
Date: 8/12/2013, 10:53 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Cheer, cheer, for old _______ High, you bring the whiskey, I'll bring the rye. Send the freshmen out for gin, don't let a sober sophmore in. We never stagger, we never fall. We sober up on good alcohol, with our loyal teachers lying drunk on the barroom floor.
Date: 8/12/2013, 10:44 am, EDT
Name: Joan Hentkowski Harris
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: How about the old WHS cheer? Cheer, cheer for Wilmington High, you bring the whiskey, I'll bring the rye. Send the freshmen out for gin, don't let a sober sophomore in. This has been stuck in my brain for 50 some years! Cannot remember the real words. :-)
Date: 8/11/2013, 5:18 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N. Broom, Klaier Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: I remember one of the St. Hedwig's grade school cheers : Sa, Sa, Sa, Hit 'em in the head with a Kiel-ba-sa.
Date: 8/10/2013, 3:02 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: I didn't attend either PS or WHS, but I did love those Thanksgiving games. My cousin, Helen Mackey, was a cheerleader for PS and I remember her chanting: "BoBoski What-in-Dot and Wha-Da and Fight!" whatever that meant!
Date: 8/10/2013, 10:32 am, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: W.H.SV.F.M. ,
Employers: Wilm.POLICE DEPT. INNISBROOK GOLF RESORT FL
Message: From the W.h.s. Fans/.. THANKS TO bOB. , I get to relive that day , and you know what ? ? My Turkey Dinner alwas taste extra great.-----------THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE MOON TURNS GREEN , AND THE CLOCK IN THE STEEPLE STRIKES 17 ,EYO EYIE WILL FIGHT THEM TILL WE DIE, IF ANY BODY HERE IS GOING TO WIN THIS YEAR IT HIGH HIGH HIGH ! ! Use to love that Cheer.
Date: 8/10/2013, 10:21 am, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: Tarpon Springs ,Fl
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. Clayton St.
Schools Att'd: W,H.S. , V.F.M.
Employers: Wilm.Police Dept..Chief Supervisor, INNISBROOK GOLF RESORT,FL
Message: Sounds Crazy, But almost every Thanksgiving Down here In Florida , To get In the Spitit of said Holiday , I watch the W.H.S. VS P.S. Dupont game Which , as you all know was played At 10:30 (KICK OFF ) The game was played In the early 1950,s. My good Friend Bob LaFazia Who played OFF. AND dEF. And was Captain two yrs. In a row E- Mailed me the Film.. (Its In my Favorites ). Its great Seeing Both teams Running on the Field before Kick off, Our Cheer Leaders The FANS In the Bleachers, and the little Jolly old Man with the WILMINGTON HIGH Umbrella. With the year ( I THINK )1923 Printed on said Umbrella, He would get a standing Ovation From the
Date: 8/9/2013, 10:38 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: ___ De.h
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Remember those boxes well Robert, I lived next to a Grocery store at the corner of Read and Jackson Streets. Many a day I sat with other kids from my hood on that box.
Date: 8/9/2013, 8:17 pm, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Location: Cape May
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers: USAF ret
Message: Pleasant memories of taking advantage of my Mother's charge at Jackson Store. Cupcakes and chocolate milk consumed on the large breadbox that sat outside the store entrance. Not many of the small stores had the boxes, that were covered with metal, with a large padlock. Bread man would pick up the old bread and leave fresh, it would be secure until the store opened.
Date: 8/9/2013, 9:12 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: When I was pre-school we would walk from 22nd and Market to the A & P after my father brought his pay-packet (cash wages) home. On the way up they pulled me in a small red wagon and on the way home I walked and the groceries rode the wagon. I remeber the 'aroma' when we walked past Borden's Ice Cream Factory. There was a bill board showing Elsie, Elmer, and their baby across the street.
Date: 8/8/2013, 12:30 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall Sts.
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: Dave, it was a Food Fair. The A&P was at 28th and Market Sts.
Date: 8/8/2013, 8:43 am, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESS9IN
Old Neighborhood(s): 25TH & MADISON ST
Schools Att'd: BROWN
Employers: EH&R DUPONT
Message: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE FOOD STORE AT 36TH & MARKET. WAS IT A FOOD FAIR OR A & P ?
I THINK IT WAS THE ONLY ONE ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN IN THE 40 TO 50 TIME FRAME.
Date: 8/7/2013, 11:52 pm, EDT
Name: Butch Schilling
Location: Aiken, SC
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Hundred, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: Alfred I, Silverside, Mt. Pleasant
Employers: Uncle Dupie, Snow White Ice Cream
Message: I used to go to a place called the Printz Grill, which, if memory serves, had dances on Friday nights; wondering what became of it and if anyone else remembers it better than I do -am talking roughly 1961 or so, timewise. Thanks.
Date: 8/7/2013, 8:24 pm, EDT
Name: Pat (Stillwell) LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall Sts.
Schools Att'd: St. Patrick's, Ursuline,
Employers: Uncle Dupie
Message: I was thinking the same thing, Ray. Have we run out of topics from the old days?
Date: 8/7/2013, 4:44 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: ___ De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: I can't believe not a single post on this site in four days.
Date: 8/3/2013, 9:07 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: ___ De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: For those talking about Auggie Zickcraf, Augie passed away Jan. 2006. He was in most of my classes in WHS. We were on Stage Crew along with
George Schneese and little short guy last name of Brown. Auggie was one hell of a nice guy. He married a gal named Jean Grimner, she also is gone, but then again so is almost everyone I grew up with.
Date: 8/3/2013, 10:01 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: This was expensive for that time - "August 3, 1951 The grand prize put up for the Middletown Firemen's Carnival on Green and Scott Streets was a brand new Buick Super four door sedan. List price of the new auto $2,661.00!"
Date: 8/1/2013, 9:01 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S. Jackson), S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: Stopped in a ' Cracker Barrel ' restaurant recently for dinner, then into the adjoining Shop to pick up some old time candy bars : Mallo Cups, Sky Bars, Zagnut Bars, the vanilla, chocolate and strawberry coconut bars, Zero Bars, and packs of Beeman's and Blackjack chewing gum. Couldn't find any packs of a grape flavored gum(forget the name), and Sen-Sen.