Visitors Nostalgia & Memories

(Archive #59: February 1, 2009 to February 28, 2009)

Date: 2/28/2009, 9:59 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: Gerry Gallucio lived up the street from me when we were growing up on sixth st. His brother Nicky was in the Service with my cousin Tony Serpe. I also knew his Uncle who I went to school with at Sallies Billy Perrillo. I just called my cousin Tony to let him know, we are all shocked.

Date: 2/28/2009, 12:42 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th st. between lincoln & union
Old Neighborhood: little italy
Schools Att'd: lore- bayard -brown voc.
Employers: retired

Message: ALBERT....When i was at Bayard we had nothing but basketball ......MR. SAM PRATT Was the gym teacher & basketball coach....MR PRATT Was little ALL-AMERICAN in college ( football ) he was a end on the football team

Date: 2/28/2009, 8:43 am, EDT
Name: albert
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood: Penny Hill
Schools Att'd: Mt Pleasant
Employers: duPont

Message: Joe B: Where you at Bayard when Walter Kelk coached the soccer team? I worked for Walter at duPont.

Date: 2/27/2009, 11:15 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th street between lincoln & union
Old Neighborhood: little italy
Schools Att'd: lore-bayard-brown voc
Employers: retired

Message: TONY & BOB CHERICO 'S Fathers were brothers

Date: 2/27/2009, 9:35 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S. Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H GreenStamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S. Army, State of De.

Message: JOE BUBBLES: How was Tony Cherico related to Bob Cherico's dad, who had the pool hall at 7th and Dupont ?
JACKSON ST. BOYS' CLUB: when I started in '55(at age 7), there were Preps, Cadets, Juniors, Intermediates and Seniors. The annual Prep membership in '55 was 50 cents. The Seniors had the basement room with T.V. and 1-2 pool tables., and we could smoke ( cigs.). I remained a Senior until age 16. Don't remember how long you could belong. The Senior room was the old arts/crafts room when I was a Prep.

Date: 2/27/2009, 8:13 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & Wilmington High
Employers: City of Wilmington & DuPont

Message: Joe Bubbles : I remember the names Lutz & Cherico
and you Joe but not the others. I often tell people that I just about lived at the Boy's Club. I lived at 103 S. Jackson St. and the Club was in the next block South on Jackson. I have a large picture of it hanging in my Family Room. I can't say enough about the Boy's Club, were it not for that place Lord knows how myself and other guy's might have turned out. I was married at the age of 20 and played basketball for the Boy's Club till I was 21. Do you remember they had Midgets, Juniors, Intermediates, Seniors & Alumna. The Alumna were Guy's from 18 to 21 years of age, We had our own little room down in the basement. Those were the days.

Date: 2/27/2009, 2:52 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th st.between Lincoln & Union
Old Neighborhood: LITTLE ITALY
Schools Att'd: LORE,BAYARD AND BROWN VOC.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: dave cauffman.........i went to brown in the early 50's....i was in elect. shop ...with joe morales, vinnie ciarlo.augie papilli,artie d'aloise....are you buddy cauffman who was in my shop class at brown...ray jubb... i think you hit it right about al berry, it was such a long time that ...i can't remember to much about that time frame...ray you are pretty sharp .you jog my memory a few times about diff. things.....now ray do you remember me from the boys club...went with tony cherico, franny lutz, joe matissino & a few other guys from little italy

Date: 2/27/2009, 12:55 pm, EDT
Name: Mario Le Pera
Location: Harrisonburg, VA
Old Neighborhood: Newark
Schools Att'd: Newark
Employers:

Message: Since Bob Wilson mentioned me, I do recall that experience. At that point in time, driving through Elsmere was a real challenge as the police were known to stop you if you were only going a little over the 35 mph limit. One time when I was alone coming back from Elsmere, I got stopped and know I was only going 39-40 mph. The officer would not listen to a word I was saying but just gave me the ticket. It was a lose-lose proposition.

Date: 2/27/2009, 11:56 am, EDT
Name: Wayne
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Ray, Stan Greene is too young to have been on the Elsmere force during the time frame mentioned. He is still working (Citibank). To Dave Cauffman, when did you go to Brown? I was there from 9/55 till 6/59. My cousin graduated in 61, Joyce Burris. She is Earsie's brother, (Preston Burris) All Star football player for Wm Penn late 50's early 60's. He played in a couple of the blue & gold games. He also worked as a guard at GM Boxwood Rd.

Date: 2/27/2009, 11:14 am, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula
Old Neighborhood: Lancaster Village, Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd: Oak Grove, Alexis I, Conrad
Employers: F&M Scientific (Now HP Avondale), Spitz Laboratories,

Message: Jerry T., Joe Bubbles & Ray Jubb: Thanks for the responses and names. None rang a Bell. Ray, I know what you mean about memory fade. I am sorry I can't remember this officer's name because I like to contact him and thank him for steering me away from trouble so many times. Let me do it this way. Thanks to all the Police men and women in all the New Castle County Communities that worked so hard to to make that time safe and sound! And thanks to our webmaster for this vehicle that helps to bring back those great memories!

Date: 2/27/2009, 10:55 am, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood: 25TH&MADISON
Schools Att'd: HARLAND ,WARNER ,BROWN
Employers: ELECTRIC HOSE &DUPONT

Message: JOE BUBBLES WHAT YEARS DID YOU GO TO BROWN?D

Date: 2/27/2009, 10:31 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Joe Bubbles : There was an Al Berry on the Wilmington Police Dept.. I think He may have been on the Elsmere Dept before He came to Wilmington. My memory is fading fast so I'm not too sure about this, but I think He became Chief of the Elsmere Dept. after He left Wilmington also. There was a Stanley Greene that left Elsmere and became a Wilmington police Officer also and I just ran into him this past week, He is now living in Delaware City, but He was much later then Berry.

Date: 2/27/2009, 9:24 am, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: United States
Old Neighborhood: 158 S. College Ave in Newark
Schools Att'd: PS, UDel
Employers:

Message: Sorry to hear about Jerry Galuccio. His place on Lovering Avenue had been a regular stop for my Delaware friends when we've met for lunch in Wilmington for the past 20 years. And Mario LePera will remember at least one mermber of the Elsmere police force from that long-ago night that I was stopped while driving and requested to spell the word LABORATORY. I passed the test easily, having (then) recently spent 4 years studying Chemistry at the U of Delaware. But I did have to pay a fine for 'foolish driving.' Do you still have to be as cautious as ever when driving through Elsmere?

Date: 2/26/2009, 9:12 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th st.between Lincoln & Union
Old Neighborhood: LITTLE ITALY
Schools Att'd: LORE,BAYARD AND BROWN VOC.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: Two more elsmere police names ( ? ) AUSTIN & LEONI (SPL)

Date: 2/26/2009, 9:04 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th st.between Lincoln & Union
Old Neighborhood: LITTLE ITALY
Schools Att'd: LORE,BAYARD AND BROWN VOC.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: Was their a elsmere police officer named Al Berry and another one's last named citro back in the 50's

Date: 2/26/2009, 4:32 pm, EDT
Name: Jim Batty
Location: Wilmington DE
Old Neighborhood: Little Italy
Schools Att'd: Ps, Warner, Lore
Employers: The Travel Company

Message: Sad news to report...Jerry Gallucio passed away Tuesday. Gerry owned Gallucio's on Lovering Ave since 1970 when it was "The Embassy". He changed the name to Gallucio's in 1973. He was a 1961 graduate of Wilmington High School & an avid golfer. He will be missed by many.

Date: 2/26/2009, 4:14 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: AL MINNE : Sorry I can't help you out with the names of E.P.D. officers in the time period 57-59. I was only 9-11 yrs. old then, and did not yet stray that far from Hedgeville at that age. Maybe some other members could.

Date: 2/26/2009, 12:42 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temcula, CA
Old Neighborhood: Lancaster Village / Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd: Oak Grove, Alexis I, Conrad
Employers: F&M Scientific (Now HP Avondale), Spitz Laboratories,

Message: JERRY T.: I had a good friend on the Elsmere P. D. but cannot remember his name. Perhaps you could help. Circa 1957-59 I worked at Silver's Pharmacy as a delivery boy and soda jerk. This officer used to come in every day and order my specialty, a very rich and thick milk shake. My recipe but greatly improved by his consultation! On more than one occasion he turn me around and got me back on the right track. He was a great Police Officer and friend. Could please you mention any E.P.D. names you might recall from that time period. Thanks!

Date: 2/25/2009, 10:26 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: SHOCK THEATER with Roland and Igor : Remember them well on Fri. nights. Used to go over, 2 houses down, to my Aunt Jane's who used to allow me to watch the show, snacks included, and sleep overnight.

Date: 2/25/2009, 10:08 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: GALYNN MESSINA : I knew a Bill Stephey who lived on Tamarack(sp.) Ave. in Elsmere in the 70's. He was a former W.P.D. oficer and consultant to the Elsmere P.D. Bill had a nice collection of guns off the Living room, a beautiful, handmade checkers/chess table in the kitchen and an unbeleivable train set in the basement. Additionally in the basement, he had an array of tools and equipment for building guns. Was wondering if that was your Dad ?

Date: 2/25/2009, 2:19 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS,FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST .
Schools Att'd: LORE, WARNER , W.H.S. V.F. MILL.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: HI GALYNN, YES I KNEW YOUR DAD BILL STEPHEY. AS RAY STATED , YOUR DAD WAS GREAT WITH FIXING GUNS . ETC. HE REPAIRED A 32 SNUB,NOSE I USED IN UNDER COVER WORK . ASKED HIM WHAT I OWED HIM, HE SAID NOTHING. BUT I GOT EVEN WITH HIM , HE AND A FEW OTHER WILM. COPS. CAME INTO MY WIFES RESTAURANT ONE DAY FOR LUNCH. I TREATED HIM . HE WAS A GOOD COP AND A GREAT HUMAN BEING. AND MY FRIEND. GALYNN, DID YOU GO TO LORE SCHOOL. YOUR DAD AND I WENT TO MY SONS 5TH GRADE CLASS HIS DAUGHTER WAS IN THE CLASS .WE SPOKE TO THE CLASS ON SAFETY , ETC.. WAS THAT YOU IN THE CLASS WITH MY SON GLENN ? AGAIN, I WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR DAD ,AND HIS KINDNESS !

Date: 2/25/2009, 8:17 am, EDT
Name: albert
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood: Penney Hill
Schools Att'd: Mt Pleasant
Employers: dupont

Message: Kids shows back then were great but my favorite was staying up late Friday nights watching Shock Theatre with Roland (John Zacherle) and Igor.

Date: 2/25/2009, 8:06 am, EDT
Name: Jay Zehr
Location: Harrisonburg, Virginia
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Here's a good article on Gene London. I forgot I had seen this show until I read the lyrics to the theme song.

http://www.tvacres.com/child_genelondon.htm

Date: 2/24/2009, 10:03 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: ED BEGLEY
JOE GARBER ALSO HAD A VARIETY STORE ON THE CORNER ACCROSS FROM ORLICKS, IT WAS CADDY KORNER FROM ORLICKS.
HE MOVED FROM THERE AND OPENED A HARDWARE STORE ON SILVERSIDE AND MARSH RD.

Date: 2/24/2009, 2:23 pm, EDT
Name: Jim
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Anyone remember a TV show in the sixties...probably around '66 or '67...I remember the Monkees were on around the same time...the show was about a son who was a super hero and you never saw the father? He was always hidden behind a newspaper. The show was really short lived but I don't remember the name.

Date: 2/24/2009, 2:16 pm, EDT
Name: Jim
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Superman, oh yea. The REAL Superman for me...George Reeves. Batman = Adam West. I remember Batman came on two consecutive nights, remember?
"Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel. I could only watch the first night because the next night Lost In Space was on and that was my brother's favorite show. We had to take turns back then. only one TV per household.
Also liked Clayton Moore! "Who was that masked man?"
No heros for kids today?

Date: 2/24/2009, 9:32 am, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood: Fairfax
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers: Post Office

Message: When I was a freshman at UDel just before Christmas in 1952, I signed on with the Post Office, then on Rodney Square, to deliver mail by foot. They sent me down to the neighborhood near 4th and Madison and Monroe. It was a freezing cold week. Most of the mail was Christmas cards, too big to slip in easily through the old front door slots of the houses, so I had to remove my gloves often, to jam the cards into the slots. After every half-hour of doing this, my hands (as well as the rest of me) were blue with the cold. I still thank God that there was either a corner drug store or luncheonette on one of the 4th Street corners that I could run into and down a cupful of steaming hot chocolate. I've never been as cold as that in my life ever since.

Date: 2/24/2009, 9:15 am, EDT
Name: Swifty
Location: Middletown DE
Old Neighborhood: Northeast
Schools Att'd: MCI Williams, Bayard, Warner, PS
Employers: Bank of Delaware, Budd, Honeywell

Message: Don't forget Willie The Worm & his sidekick Newton the Mouse (who was never seen).

Date: 2/24/2009, 8:56 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: I liked all the kids' shows, but my three favorite T.V. shows were Flash Gordon, came on shortly after I got home from school, Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene, and Superman. Robin Hood and Superman came on at 7 and 7:30p.m., on Tuesday's, one after the other but forget the order. This was about 54, '55.

Date: 2/23/2009, 10:51 pm, EDT
Name: galynn
Location: bokeelia florida
Old Neighborhood: wilmington
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Ray - Thank you so much! Did you know that my brother Hugh has stepped into his shoes as a detective in the force? I am one proud sister!
I miss dad so much!

Date: 2/23/2009, 10:47 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: To Gaylin: I knew your Father very well, He was one hell of a good Cop. He also was very good at fixing guns, He did a couple of jobs for me on some old weapons I had. If I remember right He retired as a Lt. shift commander in the Detective Div. Great Guy.

Date: 2/23/2009, 10:27 pm, EDT
Name: galynn
Location: bokeelia florida
Old Neighborhood: wilmington delaware
Schools Att'd: lore, bayard, whs
Employers:

Message: To Ralph Pryor-
Did you happen to know my father William David Stephey, he also was on the force in 1995, the year I was born?

Date: 2/23/2009, 10:12 pm, EDT
Name: galynn
Location: bokeelia florida
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Thanks Jim and Jerry T ! I thought I was going out of my mind, any one I have spoken to didn't have the slightest idea what I was talking about. I feel like I have just come home again...thanks so much!!!!!!

Date: 2/23/2009, 8:09 pm, EDT
Name: Jim
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers: GM (but for how long?)

Message: I remember Sally Starr. I'd rush home from school just to see my gal Sal and Popeye and the pony express (about 3:00 or 4:00 o'clock, channel 6). Also remember Wee Willy Webber. But Gene London was the best! Everything about the show...the stories, the skits, the drawings, Debbie Dibly, Quigly Mansion and the secret tunnel, the box of confetti that would fall on his head. Man, I wish I could go back there!

Oh yea, and the song...

Come right on in to the General Store
We have licorice, gumdrops and sourballs;
Anything that you're hankering for,
You'll find in Cartoon Corners General Store.

"There's lots of stories and songs that you know,
Toys to build and a big pot belly stove;
Cartoon fun with your favorites so,
Let's ring up the curtain on this show!

There's something else I've forgotten, let's see,
Of course, Gene London, that's me!"

Date: 2/22/2009, 9:47 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: GAYLYNN MESSINA : Yes!
Gene London - " Open for business "
Sally Star - " Love, Luck and Lollipops "
Chief Halftown - " Ees da , sa sassuway "

ERNIE MABREY : Sorry, I don't have any pictures of the bakery on Chestnut and Adams, and having grown up 2 blocks away at Elm and Jackson in the 50's and 60's, don't remember the store , but appreciate the info., as a remembrance of the old neighborhood. Where did you live ?

ERNIE MABREY and RAY JUBB : I don't remember a soda store at Chestnut and Adams, but remember one , Mulvena's, at Adams and Elm. Also, I remember a boarded up, old public school at Adams and Elm, which extended to Chestnut. It was a P.S., number unknown, which was closed sometime before I was a small kid in the early 50's. I also remember a Polish Hall on the corner of Adams and Chestnut. If I remember correctly it was called or had a Polish organization within it , called " Kasa Chorych ", translating to " Sickness or patient's fund ". I used to go there once a month for my aunt, Jane Turoczy, to make a payment, and in return, receive a quarter from her.

Date: 2/22/2009, 8:38 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: To Ernie Mabrey: Ernie I hung out for a time in the
mid to late 40's at Chestnut & Adam Streets. On the N.E. Corner was the Amalgamated Leather Factory, on the N.W. Corner was a little soda shop, on the S.W. Corner was a Church that had a Club under same caled tha "Polish National Knights of Colombus". Now the only corner I'm not sure of, and it seems to me it was an empty lot was the S.E. Corner. In the block South of that corner was a Boarded up old Public School, it had a number that I don't recall and it was used by someone as a warehouse.

Date: 2/22/2009, 8:04 pm, EDT
Name: galynn messina
Location: bokeelia florida
Old Neighborhood: wilmington delaware
Schools Att'd: wilmington high
Employers: radiology regonial

Message: does any one remember the tv show Gene London and the general store?? He was popular in the late 50's early 60's also does any one remember sally star and chief halftown????

Date: 2/22/2009, 5:06 pm, EDT
Name: Ernie Mabrey
Location: Browntown
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: This is a long shot, but a very long time ago (up thru the 1930's or 1940's?), there was a bakery at Adams and Chestnut Streets (the house is long gone, as I-95 sliced thru this area), owned by Theodore Hammer. Would love to find a photo of this bakery if anyone has ever seen one. Thanks.

Date: 2/22/2009, 8:40 am, EDT
Name: Orv
Location: Lincoln,De
Old Neighborhood: Montgomery St.
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: For Ed Begley... Only drug store I remember at 4th & Madison was Orlicks on one corner... directly across Madison was Monahan's Shoe Store and Jack's Card Shop, then opposite those across 4th was an American Store. This was in the late 40's... could've been another drug store in that area later on.

Date: 2/21/2009, 8:01 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: JOE BUBBLES : I remember hearing about the Colonial Bank on 4th and Lincoln being robbed, but can't remember any of the specifics. Maybe some of our other members, remember.

Date: 2/21/2009, 5:20 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Santa Fe,Texas
Old Neighborhood: Sacred Heart
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart-WHS
Employers: Avisun-Amoco

Message: What was the name of the two drugs stores at 4 th and Madison St. One on each corner.

Date: 2/21/2009, 4:41 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: Barber shops : my Dad went to a Ciconte's or Ciconti's barber shop in the 50's and 60's. It was on Maryland ave. between Linden and Elm Sts.( same block as Eagle Dye Works and Brodinsky's. ORV : wonder if he was any relation to the Ciconte's you mentioned on 4th St. ?

Date: 2/21/2009, 1:48 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Santa Fe,Texas
Old Neighborhood: Sacred Heart
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart-Wilmington High
Employers: Avisun-Amoco

Message: Here one:
Remember the three button Bennie's Overcoat with you flag flyers shoes or wing -tips shoes and the Billy x-collar shirt with a winsdor knot in your tie.
GREAT thread's

Date: 2/20/2009, 3:14 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th st. between Lincoln & Union
Old Neighborhood: Little Italy
Schools Att'd: Lore,Bayard, Brown Voc.
Employers: Retired

Message: Anyone remember the year when the Colonial National Bank got robbed & how much money was stolen.(4th & Lincoln branch ) Jerry T....Bobby's Cherico's father's place was on 7th & Dupont st.

Date: 2/20/2009, 1:38 pm, EDT
Name: Orv
Location: Lincoln,DE
Old Neighborhood: Montgomery St.
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Anyone out there remember Ciconte's barber shop.
It was on the N. side of 4th St. just east of Madison.
(almost across from Orlick's drug store) I remember getting my hair cut there for 50 cents in the 40's.

Date: 2/19/2009, 10:28 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: Any You Horse Buffs out there, I have auestion for you.
There were two horses at Garden State back in the late 50's or early 60's that were in a dead heat twice and then there was a run off. Anyone know what the names of the horses were.

Date: 2/19/2009, 9:44 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: Jerry T.

My wife worked for Equifax from the time they opened in Fairfax. I worked down the Hall at Remedio-Hearn who had the Deltona Franchise. The Police whose picture that Ray Jubb was talking about in the Picture also worked for them.

You know Pete D'mico was quite a basketball player his Father had a shoe repair shop between 6th and 7th on Madison St.

Date: 2/19/2009, 12:32 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: EMMA JANE MULDERIC FIORELLI : I lived at 302 S. Jackson St. and turned 61 today. Was wondering on which part of Jackson St. you lived ? I went to High school and the U. D. with a Bernard Bonk who lived in the area of 6th and Jackson, same age.
JOE BUBBLES and JERRY LANK : My older brother,John Tomczyk Jr., worked at the Colonial National Bank on 4th and Lincoln for a summer or two, as some sort of courier, somewhere between '56 and '61. Was wondering if either of you remember him working there ?
JOE BUBBLES: An old acquaintance, Bob Cherico, said that his Dad had a pool hall on 5th or 6th and Lincoln or 5th or 6th and Scott., named Cherry's. Was wondering if you remember it ? Bob is approx. 70-72 now.
JERRY LANK : from previous postings on this site and communications with you , I learned that you went to Sallies and Goldey Beacom with my brother John Tomczyk, deceased in 1978, and appreciate your responses. I don't want to belabor you about him, but I appreciate any of your remembrances of him to add to the collection of my fond memories of him.
JERRY LANK : I saw from a previous posting that your wife worked at Equifax. I worked for Equifax at the Fairfax location for several months ,part time, somewhere in the mid to late 70's. Two names that I remember are Nick D'Amico and the General Manager, last name Green. Any connections ?

Date: 2/19/2009, 12:28 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: Jim Salvatore opened up a Health Store in Miami. His father had a butcher shop on 7th and Madison back in the Forties & Fifties. He was playing Drums ever since he was in Grammar School.
My Family and his Family were very good friends.
He lived in Elsmere

Date: 2/19/2009, 11:19 am, EDT
Name: Jingles
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood: 9th and Madison, Minquadale, New Castle
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, Colwyck, William Penn "60
Employers: General Motors, Conrail, self-employed, retired

Message: Speaking of the drum shop on Delaware Avenue, I bought a custom-made set of drums from Jim Salvadore and we became friends. Used to sit in once in a while with whoever might be playing at the San Souci Lounge. Last I knew, he moved to Florida.

Date: 2/18/2009, 11:16 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Thanks Pat, I'm glad to hear Gerry is still with us, tell him I said hello. Ralph said there were still two living out of the marchers but didn't say who they were. But but now I know they are Gerry and Ed Boulware.
Also tell Bill that I'm holding off sending him emails so He doesn't have too many to read when He gets back. And enjoy that weather down there because it's lousy up here.

Date: 2/18/2009, 11:09 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd:
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: Ray Jubb, I knew Diffi well, we had a poker club and played every month. He also worked with my wife at Equifax. He was also a good friend of my Sister. She introduced him to the wife he had when he was on the Force, her name was Mildred.
He was one of the best Drummers in the Country, he sat in with Ramsey Lewis's Band and was offered a permanent job with his band but turned it down. He was an avid coin collector and then when he retired he got into antiques.

He was in partners wwwith Jim Salvatore who had the Drum Shop on Delaware Ave.

Date: 2/18/2009, 9:12 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Sacred Heart
Old Neighborhood: Adams St 10 and 8 th
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart-Wilmington HighAdam
Employers: Avisun & BPAmoco

Message: Well hello,
We are both fine hope you are also. Love to talk about old times.epangels_2002@yahoo.com.
Ed

Date: 2/18/2009, 5:45 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: WARNER, W.H.S. V.F. MILL.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: IN REGARDS TO RAYS . MENTIONING THE WILM.POLICE OFFICERS MARCHING IN THE PARADE UP MARKET ST.. ITS SAD ALL THOSE GOOD MEN GONE , ALL BUT TWO ! I KNEW THEM ALL. THE PARADE TOOK PLACE IN 1955. ONE YEAR BEFORE I WENT ON THE FORCE . I WAS VERY CLOSE AND WORKED WITH A FEW OF THEM. BILL (HOOT ) GIBSON WAS MY SGT. AND CLOSE FRIEND . THEY DID THERE JOB WELL ! GOD BLESS.

Date: 2/18/2009, 11:52 am, EDT
Name: Emma Jane Mulderic Fiorelli
Location: Delpark Manor
Old Neighborhood: Jackson St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart & St. E's HS
Employers:

Message: Hi Ed: How is everything? How is Pat doing? Nice hearing from you.
Emmy

Date: 2/17/2009, 10:09 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: St. Patrick's, Ursuline, Goldey-Beacom
Employers: Eckerd's, duPont

Message: For Ray Jubb, Gerald Mackey, my cousin, is certainly alive and well and living about 2 miles from me in Port St. Lucie, FL. In fact, he and his wife, RoseMarie are coming here for dinner on Sunday night so they can visit with Anne and Bill Lyons (also my cousin). It will be a good old Wilmington rendevous. Anne and Bill are down here for the month of Feb. staying on Hutchinson Island.

Date: 2/17/2009, 9:53 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: I was looking at the Picture of the Police officers marching up Market St. in a parade. I knerw them all and worked with most of them except Diffenderfer,but I did know him, He left before I went on the Department. I believe that Boulware may be the only one out of that group that is still living, though I'm not sure about Mackey. Maybe Ralph or some one else can shed more light on the subject, I would like to know.

Date: 2/16/2009, 7:05 pm, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Email: webmaster@oldwilmington.net
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Woodlawn Flats, Willow Rn, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad '60
Employers:

Message: JINGLES:: He is the same Charles Christy.
His father's photo studio was on the Kirkwood Hwy in Elsmere. The building was later sold (1970s) to my ex-brother-in-law (still a good friend of mine, though) for his copier machine business, Copy Systems.

Date: 2/16/2009, 3:58 pm, EDT
Name: SEAN NAGEL
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Fairfax
Schools Att'd:
Employers: MBNA, Christiana Care

Message: St Mary's Church is still open @6th and Pine. They have one Mass on Sunday @10Am, and a Wednesday evening Mass midweek. The priest from St Patrick's Church is also the Pastor @St Mary's. BTW, St Mary's was consecrated by a canonised saint. St John Neumann, when he was Archbishop of Philadelphia. At the time Wilmington didn't have it's own diocese, it was part of Philadelphia.

Date: 2/16/2009, 2:02 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Sacred Heart.
Old Neighborhood: Sacred Heart
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart-Wilmington High
Employers: Avisun-BP Amoco

Message: For Ray Jubb, Ray thanks for the note.Tell him (Bill) if he has a email address to sent it to me.
Also is St.Marys still there it was on 6 Street. And there was a playground up the street from it.Had some good basketball games there against the kids in that area

Date: 2/16/2009, 1:05 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending

Message: Bubbles, Minutelli also was manager of the 6th and Madison branch first.

Date: 2/16/2009, 11:36 am, EDT
Name: Jingles
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood: 9th and Madison, Minquadale, New Castle
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, Colwyck, William Penn "60
Employers: General Motors, Conrail

Message: Webmaster, was browsing through your updated school section. I noticed what I think is your name in the same class in Oak Grove JHS class of 57. I had at least one acquaintance in that class. That would be Charles Christy if it is the same person. He was a class president. His father had a photo studio. Charles became head of the Industrial Engineering Technology at Delaware Technical And Community College.

Date: 2/16/2009, 11:34 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: St. Hedwig's Church and School : I would be deeply appreciative of any old photographs of St. Hedwig's Church and School ( early 50's and before ) of :

1.) St. Hedwig's Church from Linden St. ( looking for a shot of the old, black ,wrought iron fence with shrubbery and a tree, just outside the window of the room where the altar boys changed into their vestments ).
2.) St. Hedwig's Church on Harrison St. between the Church and Rectory.
3.) St. Hedwig's Convent on the corner of Harrison and Linden Sts. ( before the present school ).
4. A photo of the oldest school on the site, once the original Church ( now part of the parking lot ).
5. A photo of the playgound area between Linden and Elm ( dirt lot ), before the new Convent was there.

Date: 2/16/2009, 10:32 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: Truly a sad story of the closing of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church on the East Side. It served its purpose well for generations of Polish and non-Polish families. Sadly, there might be some other city Church closings in another generation or two. Even though I attended St. Hedwig's Church and school, I have some close ties and fond memories of St. Stan's. Maternal and paternal sides of my family grew up on the East Side : 6th and Church, 7th and Church, 701 Bennett St., E. 6th St., Curlett St. They all attended St. Stan's Church and many went to the school. My great aunt ,Cecilia Mical, even though she moved from the East Side years before and lived in Cleland Heights, would still attend Mass at St. Stan's. My Dad attended the school until 4th grade, and then started working. The Polish wedding receptions in the Hall were the best. I remember them starting at about noon and lasting until midnight sometimes( in the 50's and 60's ). Caught a glimpse and stared all night at my first, soon to be, real girlfriend there, at a family,Bartkowski,wedding ( too shy, then, to engage ).

Date: 2/16/2009, 9:28 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Joe Mosbrook, I lived down the street from your parents on N. Franklin St. in the 50's until 62. We were next to Dr. Wendel, the dentist. This was back when Drs. had their offices in their houses. Dr. Flaherty, was also on our block. You mentioned the Hawkins, who owned WILM. I believe they lived on Broom St. Sally ran the business after Ewing passed away.

Date: 2/16/2009, 7:08 am, EDT
Name: joe bubbles
Location: 6th.st. between Lincoln & Union
Old Neighborhood: Littly Italy
Schools Att'd: lore -bayard- brown voc.
Employers: retired

Message: The person (Manger - President ?) in charge of colonial bank at 4th & lincoln was ...ABLE MINUTELLI

Date: 2/16/2009, 4:11 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: St. Stanislaus Kostka Church on Wilmington's East Side closed after mass yesterday...

Date: 2/16/2009, 12:31 am, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: Bubbles,

I think that they had a Colonial Natioal Bank on the Corner of Sixth and Madison before the one at Fourth and Lincoln.
I forget the name of the manager, he was an Italian that lived not far from our Store on Concord Ave . He was transferred to 4th and Lincoln.

Date: 2/15/2009, 9:54 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd:
Employers: City Of Killington & Dupont

Message: For Ed Begley-- Ed I see Bill at least once a month at
our Retired Officers meetings, I'll tell him your asking about him.

Date: 2/15/2009, 12:41 pm, EDT
Name: Norman
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: No30 /Warner/ Brown Voc.
Employers: Self

Message: For Danny, there was a Colonial Charter Co. at 709-13 Ford Bldg. which was at 10th. & Market St. according to the 1927 Wilm. City Directory. Geo. W. Dorsey, Pres., Abram J. Sherman V.P., Leighton J. Dorsey Sec-Treas.

Date: 2/15/2009, 12:22 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Bubbles
Location: 6th. ST Between Lincoln & Union st.
Old Neighborhood: Llittle Italy
Schools Att'd: Lore,Bayard,Brown Voc.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: HARRY ......WEBMASTER......Down from the bank before it was a coin shop, it was FANNY'S DRY GOODS,next to her going up 4th. st ( east ) was her sister's gift shop ( Mary Louise's ) ...On the corner before it was B.RITTER'S FURN. STORE...It was the POST OFFICE...Also before RYAN'S it was CARROLL'S (SHOE)-DRY GOODS STORE

...On the corner before it was B.RITTER'S FURN. STORE...It was the POST OFFICE...********** I think that is what I said

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Date: 2/15/2009, 8:39 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Woodlawn Flats, Willow Rn, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad '60
Employers:

Message: Also, on the same block was Colonial Stamp & Coin store and a branch of the USPS which was first located on the corner of 4th & Union Streets. B. Ritter Furniture moved in after the USPS moved.

I remember, while living in the Flats and passing it many times, Ryan Furniture store on the corner down from the Colonial Bank had a wing-back chair in their show window it seems for decades.

Date: 2/15/2009, 7:38 am, EDT
Name: joe bubbles
Location: 6th & union st.
Old Neighborhood: little italy
Schools Att'd: lore ,bayard, brown voc.
Employers: retired

Message: Back to DANNY...I left out a few a things concerning COLONIAN BANK...It was first called COLONIAL TRUST COMPANY (chartered 1927)..then it changed it's name to Colonial National Bank....I have two banks ..a round one & a sq.one

Date: 2/15/2009, 7:17 am, EDT
Name: joe bubbles
Location: 6th & union st.
Old Neighborhood: little italy
Schools Att'd: lore ,bayard, brown voc.
Employers: retired

Message: DANNY......Colonial National Bank ...Main location was at 4th & Lincoln street ,The bld. is still there,the also had a 2nd location on Maryland ave.... ( I Think the main branch closed in the 70's )...TO JERRY ...REMEDIO;S were related, the father owned the one at Scott st.the son owned the one on 5th & Jackson....ED. B. RICH LEMMOM from madison st. is alive & well

Date: 2/15/2009, 2:25 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Woodlawn Flats, Willow Rn, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad '60
Employers: Wilm. Dry Goods, US Army, DuPont (Retired '91)

Message: I want to say to all of the posters since the beginning of this year and the startup of the new "Nostalgia Forum" that EVERYONE is doing an excellent job with their comments. ;-) ;-) ;-)

To those posting questions: I hope the response you receive help you somewhat. I was involved with one person searching for someone and received a positive answer. :-)

The European spammers :-( :[ :[ are gone :-) which make things easier on this side :-).

I have several new pages to create for the site: Wilmington Police; Gibraltar (the Sharp property); a "Then & Now" page and over 100 new photos.

So, Thank you and keep up the good work...

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Date: 2/14/2009, 10:05 pm, EDT
Name: Ed
Location: Sacred Heart
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:

Message: Jerry, tks. I heard Bill was still alive ,I was thinking about Richard Lemon and Jack Deyanski (again Not sure of spelling) He lived at 7or8 and Monore St Next to the Drug Store. I think he had two sister.Lost track of him went I went into the Marines.(1957) We all played basketball and stick ball in the playground.

Date: 2/14/2009, 8:45 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Mosbrook
Location: Cleveland Heights, OH
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Jerry -- I don't recall Harry Sheing, but I certainly remember Ewing Hawkins. He and his wife lived down the street from our family on Franklin Street. That was about at the time I was working at the other station, WDEL. And I do remember Sam Shipley. He seemed to be doing PR for almost everybody in town.

Date: 2/14/2009, 7:49 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: To Joe Mosbrook,

I meant to ask U before if you knew my brother-in-law Harry Sheing. My Sister (his wife) worked for Euwing Hawkins from WILM for years. She knew a lot of the same people as U did. She left Mr Hawkins and went to work for Sam Shipley.

Date: 2/14/2009, 7:34 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: Ed Begley,

Bill Sheing is my Brother-in-laws Brother. My Brother-in-Law was Harry Sheing, he passed away in 2005. Bill is working for Wilm Trust Security since he went on Disability from the Police force years ago but as far as I know he is still in Wilmington.

Date: 2/14/2009, 2:47 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Sacred Heart School yard
Old Neighborhood: 4 th Madsion St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Wilmington High,Padua
Employers:

Message: Looking for the following people: Bill Sheing,Richard Lemon,Jack Dry-ski not sure how to spell it.Emma Jane Muldric.People in our youth. From 195- thru 1960.

Date: 2/14/2009, 12:51 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS , FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: LORE, WARNER, W.H.S. , V.F.MILL.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: HARRY OUR WEBB MASTER, I NOTICE THE SPORTS PHOTO,S HAVE NOT BEEN UP DATED FOR A WHILE . I KNOW YOUR BUSY. BUT I , AND I AM SURE OTHERE,S WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME ,NEW PHOTO,S OF BASE BALL , TRACK AND FIELD, FOOTBALL ETC... BY THE WAY HARRY , IT WAS A LONG WAIT ,BUT AS I STATED, YOU HAVE DONE A BEAUTIFUL JOB UP DATEING OLD WILMINGTON.NET ,SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL !

Date: 2/14/2009, 9:56 am, EDT
Name: Jingles
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood: 9th and Madison
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, Colwyck, William Penn "60
Employers: General Motors, Conrail

Message: Tom, I also delivered newspapers in the early 50s. Same profits, and also went to the same hobby shops. Used to buy model airplanes. They were made out of sticks and balsa wood. I was advised to check my many coins and become a collector. I didn't do it. Many years later I became a coin collector and thought back about all of those buffalo nickels, and very rare Lincoln pennies that I squandered. Some of those pennies now sell for thousands of dollars.

Date: 2/13/2009, 8:38 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: To Dave Cuffman,

I want to thank you for the kind words you have said in one of the Archives about our Store on Concord Ave.

To the People talking about Remedio's pizza Shop on Lancaster Ave. Remember that there were two Remedios (not related to my knowledge) one was on fifth st as you got off 95 and the other was on Lancaster Ave.

The Remedio's on Lancaster Ave. now has the Knight's of Columbus there now. That is the one Where they had the good Pizza.

Date: 2/13/2009, 8:21 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: Jerry T.

Yes I was at Goldey Beacom when Your Brother was there, I think we were also At Sallies together.

Speaking of the Merchandise Mart. It went down hill and then Frank Acierno bought it and Put a Gold's Gym in there for his son.

Kerm Justice had a big job with DOT at the time and had the State of Delaware put an Exit for the Mart and First State Bowling Alley off of 495.

Date: 2/13/2009, 7:24 pm, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Woodlawn Flats, Willow Rn, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Again, for MM store listings, go HERE: http://oldwilmington.net/oldwilmington/mm-st...

Date: 2/13/2009, 7:22 pm, EDT
Name: Sean Nagel
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers: Christiana Care

Message: The men's store at the Merchantdise Mart was Mullins

Date: 2/13/2009, 12:48 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: RAY THANKS FOR THE INFO. THE JAME CHURCH I AM LOOKING FOR WAS NEVER ON THE FORCE,BUT WAS A WILMINGTON FIREMAN FOR YEARS HE LIVED AI 2511 MADISON ST AROUND 1951 1952

Date: 2/13/2009, 12:18 pm, EDT
Name: Tom Kolasinski
Location: Glendale AZ
Old Neighborhood: Elsmere
Schools Att'd: Oak Grove, Conrad
Employers:

Message: The other day someone wrote about delivering newspapers. I had a paper route delivering the Evening Journal in the early 50's. 30 cents a week got customers 6 papers (Mon.-Sat). I collected on Friday nights (almost everyone was at home) and followed up on Saturday if req'd. The newspaper took 21 cents and my profit was the remaining 9 cents. With a 60 paper route $5.40 a week plus some tips meant plenty of cash for sodas, ice cream, movies and visits to the Hobby Center and Knowles Hobby Shop for model airplanes.

Date: 2/13/2009, 12:08 pm, EDT
Name: Tom Kolasinski
Location: Glendale AZ
Old Neighborhood: Elsmere
Schools Att'd: Oak Grove, Conrad
Employers:

Message: Some other businesses I remember at the Merchandise Mart: SunRay Drugs, Murphy's Men's Store, JC Penney, Horn & Hardhart. Eckard's Drugs.
Any others?

Date: 2/12/2009, 10:02 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers: City If Wilmington & Dupont

Message: To Dave Cauffman: I remember a James Church on the Police Deepartment. This guy got fired and then later was sent to jail for various crimes.
For any 40 acre folks out there that don't know about this, Sweeney's Irish Shop Catycorner to St. Ann's Church has a nice book on the history of the area. Also I visited the buisness section of this site tonight and saw that in 1959 D & M Electronics was located in the 200 Block of W. 4th St.. Believe it or not, it's still there. I bought a bluray DVD player at Bestbuy and they wanted to sell me a HDMI Cable which is needed to operate this DVD player for $60.00. I went D & M and they sold it to me for $27.50, Still some good places to shop in good old Killington.

Date: 2/12/2009, 7:54 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood: 25TH &MADISON ST
Schools Att'd: BROWN VOC
Employers: ELECTRICT HOSE & DUPONT

Message: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER A JAMES CHURCH WHO LIVED ON MADISON ST AND WORKED FOR THE WILMINGTON FIRE DEPT,IN THE EARLY FIFTIES.

Date: 2/12/2009, 7:08 pm, EDT
Name: Albert
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood: Penney Hill
Schools Att'd: St Helena/Mt Pleasant
Employers:

Message: The Horn & Hardart in the Merchandise Mart was also known as Sammy Greene's and the large apartment complex was orginally Clifton Park Apts.

Date: 2/12/2009, 6:16 pm, EDT
Name: Jim Batty
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Little Italy/Eastlake
Schools Att'd: Lore/George Gray/Warner/PS
Employers: The Travel Company

Message: Speaking of Remedio's @ 5th & Jackson. At this point in my life I'm not embarrassed to say I was taken there on my bachelor party & I'm told I was dancing very well on the bar with the strippers. Some time back a free internet radio called Pandora was mentioned. Here is another one for you & I think it's better--Slacker.com. Pick you own oldies by the artist you want. I just found out from Swifty that this forum was back. Thanks Mr. Webmaster.

Date: 2/12/2009, 5:34 pm, EDT
Name: Phyllis B.
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Prices Run
Schools Att'd: PS duPontB
Employers:

Message: Bob Wilson & Bruce - Do you also remember a neat little restaurant at the north end of the Merch. Mart? - I believe it may have been a Horn & Hardart. Speaking of the past, wasn't there a wonderful Polish Vets Club in Browntown off E. 7th St. a long time ago. Always had a band, and it seemed they were always there on Fri. and Sat. nites. Played polkas and all the hits of that day. It's probably not there anymore.

Date: 2/12/2009, 4:47 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: BRUCE: the bar that you are thinking about was on 5th and Jackson Sts. and could be seen from I-95.

Date: 2/12/2009, 3:20 pm, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: The large apartment complex was done over and is now called the Paladin Club Condominiums.

Go here to see store listingsL http://oldwilmington.net/oldwilmington/shopp...

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Date: 2/12/2009, 1:11 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: There is/was a very large apartment complex next to the Merchandise Mart. Is it still there?
From the recent posts I assume the M M is empty. Back in the "good old days" I remember the stores being S & C, an Acme, Paulens Toy Store, Hoys and...... Anyone else remember any others?

Date: 2/12/2009, 12:39 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: United States
Old Neighborhood: Fairfax, Green Acres
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:

Message: The Merchandise Mart was hot stuff when it opened, particularly for its vast parking lot where my dad taight me how to drive the family Buick in the early 1950's, probably in 1951.The Blue Laws were still in effect back then, and all of the stores there were closed on Sundays. Then the malls up on the Concord Pike were developed, and they did to the Merchandise Mart what the Merchandise Mart did to Market Street. If I could weep, I would do so when I'm on an Amtrak train heading toward Philly three or four times a year, when I look out to the left and see the sad remains of the Strawbridge building and the other businesses like Mulllin's Clothiers that once thrived there. Heck, I can still remember the great Mullins store when it was down at 6th and Market...

Date: 2/12/2009, 12:16 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Jerry T. - You mention pizza Remedio's on Lancaster Ave. Is this the same place that was a topless bar in the early 70's.

Date: 2/12/2009, 10:36 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: Sorry folks, one last reminiscence for the day. A Hedgeville neighbor shared this story with me. After I-95 came and cut through Elm St. between Jackson and Adams, Ziggy B., who lost his house on Elm St., was observed one day afterwards, standing alone on the sidewalk in front of what used to be his residence, muttering the Polish phrase, " Tu stoj moja dom ", translating, " Here stood my house ". How sad ! I also miss my neighborhood, the way it used to be.

Date: 2/12/2009, 9:58 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: Pizza : my favorite in the early to mid 60's was from Remedios on Lancaster Ave. We used to go to the side door, take-out entrance for individual slices and then to Delamore Dairy for a soda or shake. Enjoying both on the steps of Bayard school before returning to West End Park, now Kosciuszko Park, was a perfect summer evening for me as young teen in the early 60's.

Date: 2/12/2009, 9:27 am, EDT
Name: albert
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood: Penney Hill
Schools Att'd:
Employers: DuPont

Message: The Merchandise Mart was constructed in 1956 and began the flight to the suburbs. Twelve years later Market St shopping was almost a thing of the past.

Date: 2/12/2009, 8:31 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: I, too, remember the newspaper garage across from Stellini's. Helped out my buddy, Joe C., several times with his route, picking up the bundles there around 1960. The rest of the block, I think, was a park with a lot of bare dirt. My Dad used to get our pepperoni at Stellini's.
Concerning the Merchandise Mart: I haven't been by there in several years, and I don't think there were any open buildings. I can't recall when it was no longer a shopping center. Had some good memories of it. My buddy Bill K.'s mom used to work at the Hoy's. Remember going with him and his Dad and sisters to pick her up from work. Remember being dropped off there with him, once, in the mid 60's to do some Christmas shopping, then walking back to Hedgeville at night. Murray's men's clothing store was a favorite for my brother John and I , once girls entered our lives. They had nice suits.
JERRY LANK : was my brother John with you at Goldey Beacom,too ?

Date: 2/11/2009, 9:33 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Mosbrook
Location: Cleveland Heights, OH
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Another note about the Clippers -- in 1940 they defeated the then-pathetic Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL 16-14 in an exhibition game.

Date: 2/11/2009, 9:24 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Mosbrook
Location: Cleveland Heights, OH
Old Neighborhood: Franklin Street
Schools Att'd: Alexis I., Tower Hill, Lafayette
Employers: WDEL, NBC

Message: In the late 1930s, future coaching great Vince Lombardi played for the Wilmington Clippers. In the '40s they played at Wilmington Park. I also remember doing the PA announcing for a few Clipper games in the 1960s at Baynard Stadium.

Date: 2/11/2009, 7:30 pm, EDT
Name: Albert
Location: Lewes DE
Old Neighborhood: Penney Hill
Schools Att'd: St Helena, Mt. Pleasant
Employers: DuPont

Message: The Clippers played their home games at Wilmington Park, 30th & Governor Printz Blvd. and were Champions of the American Association in 1941. U of DE also played their home games there.

Date: 2/11/2009, 7:12 pm, EDT
Name: William Albensi
Location: Newark
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: To Whom It May Concern: Hi, my name is William Francis and I recently co-authored a photographic history book on the DuPont Highway for Arcadia Publishing, due out March 2. I have been investigating a minor league football team that existed in Wilmington before and after WWII called the Wilmington Clippers. I have gathered info and photos at the state archives, historical society, wilmington library. I'm certain there is more available and would appreciate any information your site can provide. The team had a rebirth in the 1960's, but I am more interested in the original team. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
W.F.
author225049@yahoo.com

Date: 2/11/2009, 5:30 pm, EDT
Name: Charles Wilson
Location: Bear
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, Read and Jackson
Schools Att'd: St Pauls, WHS
Employers: US Airforce(20yrs) Uod D Police Dept(24YRS)

Message: I can recall many a Saturday morning when we would go and collect money from our News Journal paper customers. We would pay our bill at 2nd and Jackcon in a grage type building across the street fro Stelini's bakery. Then we would go in the bakery and buy 5 tomato pies(5cents eack) and a quart of chocolate milk. Sit on the curb outside the bakery and eat all the pies. Wish we could do it today :-)

Date: 2/11/2009, 11:50 am, EDT
Name: Jingles
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood: 9th and Madison
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, Colwyck, William Penn "60
Employers: General Motors, Conrail

Message: Many evenings in the summer I would sit on the brick sidewalk outside Serpe's, back up against the wall, smelling the aromas of fresh meat pizza. After my first job, selling newspapers on the corner of ninth and Madison, I was able to buy a slice. Nothing like their Sicilian pizza. No bunch of garbage on top. Just a nice thick crust and the tangy sauce.

Date: 2/11/2009, 11:24 am, EDT
Name: Delmer Nicholson
Location: Cincinnati
Old Neighborhood: Bellevue/Bellefonte
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Walt Lafferty - You mentioned Miss Roe as one of your favorite teachers at Mt. Pleasant. I graduated in '46 from the 9th grade there and had a Miss Roe for algebra and homeroom. She was certainly one of my favorites also.

Date: 2/11/2009, 7:48 am, EDT
Name: Albert
Location: Lewes, DE
Old Neighborhood: Penny Hill
Schools Att'd: St Helena/Mt Pleasant
Employers: DuPont Louviers

Message: Ah, Serpe Bros. Bakery back in the '50s on Madison. Good people. I recall attempting to drive to work at Louviers in a blizzard back in '67 or '68. Got as far as Harmony Rd on Rt 2 when my engine gave out. Seemed like Antarctica to me with no one around but I was eventually rescued by not a policeman, fireman, mailman, or ambulance - but A Serpe Bread Truck making his normal rounds. Got me back into Wilmington where I managed to take a bus home.

Date: 2/10/2009, 11:45 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: Dave,
Thanks for remembering. I live in Fl now. My coucins Richard and Tony Serpe from the Serpe Bakery fame also live in the same complex as i do.
You had mentioned Sacred Heart a few years back they had closed the Church and then I think they had changed their mind.
A few years back I had stopped as I normally did to go in the Church but it was closed. I stopped at the Rectory ) this was when Fr Paul was still living and talked to him and he told me that someone had broke into the convent, I think that was the start of the deterioration.

THANKS AGAIN FOR REMEMBERING OUR HAPPY DAYS STORE.

JERRY lANK

Date: 2/10/2009, 5:26 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: BRUCE : Murphy Cottage was one of the residential buildings comprising the Ferris Campus.

Date: 2/10/2009, 4:37 pm, EDT
Name: cord dombrowski
Location: cape girardeau, missouri
Old Neighborhood: elsemere
Schools Att'd: corpus christi, ole miss, southeast missouri univeristy
Employers: dalhousie golf club

Message: recently exposed to this site. enjoy reading the comments and can relate to some references

Date: 2/10/2009, 4:33 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Sorry Jerry T, I'm not Bruce M, but I'm curious, what is/was Murphy? I remember a liquor store, but not much else.

Date: 2/10/2009, 9:50 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: BRUCE: Are you Bruce M. who worked in Murphy, across the street from the Niblick in the early 70's ?
Yes, Ferris is still there with so many changes from the late 60's and 70's.

Date: 2/10/2009, 9:50 am, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's 51, WHS 55
Employers: WTC, various Actg. firms, Goodwill

Message: Does anyone know what is happening at the old S&C store at the Merchandise Mart? It looks as though someone is demolishing it bit by bit.

Date: 2/10/2009, 8:52 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Jerry & Kay - Yes the Niblick. Thanks for jogging my mind. While I have the Willow Run area on my mind, is Ferris School still there?

Date: 2/9/2009, 11:07 pm, EDT
Name: Dave
Location: Wilm
Old Neighborhood: Canby Park
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: What ever happened to Sacred Heart Church? Are there masses there on the weekends? If not, what are they using the building (church) for?

Date: 2/9/2009, 10:54 pm, EDT
Name: Aubrey
Location: Lewes, De
Old Neighborhood: Price's Run - Beckers Corner
Schools Att'd: George Gray Warner PS Brown Voc.
Employers: DuPont Local #80/74

Message: Walt Laferty = That's a name that is remembered= I also worked @ DuPont Edgemoor = knew your Dad well = I was in Instrumentation from 1945 > 1957 had
two brothers (welders) who worked there also. Your
Dad was a GOOD man. Aubrey

Date: 2/9/2009, 8:50 pm, EDT
Name: KAY BURTON WELLS
Location: PIKE CREEK,DE.
Old Neighborhood: HENRY CLAY DE.
Schools Att'd: ST.JOES,& ST.E'S
Employers: TELEPHONE CO.

Message: The name of the restaurant was the Niblick.
It was located near Willow Run

Date: 2/9/2009, 6:32 pm, EDT
Name: Walt Lafferty
Location: Wheaton, MD
Old Neighborhood: Bellevue
Schools Att'd: Mt. Pleasant, Univ. of Del.
Employers: National Bureau of Standards, (Now NIST)

Message: Butch Schilling. Nice to run across another Mt. Pleasant grad. I graduatedIn ’52. Dean Steel, and Buzz Sutton were friends of mine. I expect to see them both, God willing, at the class of ‘52 re-union in May. Yes, my father, also Walt Lafferty, worked for DuPont as an electrician at the Edgemore Pigments Plant. With his help, I was able to work 6 or 7 summers at the plant. As a result, I was able to pay my way through the University of Delaware where I fell in love with chemistry and have been doing research to this very day. I got a PhD at MIT and then went to work the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) and have been there ever since. I had many good teachers at Mt. Pleasant, and I would vote for Miss Rowe as the very top.

Date: 2/9/2009, 4:18 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: BRUCE: Wasn't that Niblick's restaurant ?

Date: 2/9/2009, 3:35 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Does anybody remember the name of the restaurant across from Willow Run and Ferris School that served great steaks. It was in a small strip center that also had a grocery store (Pantry Pride?) and a sub shop(Imperial Deli?). Thanks

Date: 2/9/2009, 2:31 pm, EDT
Name: Dave Woodward
Location: Salisbury, MD
Old Neighborhood: Ninth Ward 22nd and 23rd St.
Schools Att'd: Warner PS, and Mt. PLeasant 72
Employers: Self employed

Message: To Jerry Lank;
Hi Jerry, It is nice to hear from you. I remember you from Lank's. Was it you father who worked there also. We always called him 'old man Lank', but never to his face. A draft root beer in a frosted mug at the counter for ten cents. Subs weren't bad either. It was a nice store. You had a limited selection of magazines though. I had to go down to Tigues to buy Playboy.

Hope you are well,
Dave Woodward

Date: 2/9/2009, 2:02 pm, EDT
Name: Phyllis B.
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Prices Run
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Webmaster - I found the Archives on the old wilm.net pages and therefore, see that "Swifty" and most all the names I remember are still amongst us. Thanks for starting this forum up again. Also, it was nice meeting you and your wife at the Reunion last Nov.

Date: 2/8/2009, 8:29 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: Anyone out there from the graduating classes of Mount Pleasant, H.S., '66, or '67 ?

Date: 2/8/2009, 6:49 pm, EDT
Name: Phyllis B.
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Prices Run - 22nd & Church
Schools Att'd: Warner, P. S. duPont1
Employers:

Message: 1. Webmaster, were you, your wife & I the only ones from the Nostalgia Forum who attended the reunion of 11/22/09? What a great week-end that was. Eating that good food in the new cafeteria sure brought back memories. 2. Where are the "old" archives? How do we look them up? 3. Whatever happened to Swifty from York, PA who used to be a contributor to this forum. Miss him. Also, Robert McKelvey.

Date: 2/8/2009, 5:51 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temcula, CA
Old Neighborhood: Lancaster Village, Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, A.I. DuPont H.S., Conrad
Employers: F&M Scientific (Now HP Avondale), Spitz Laboratories

Message: For Charlie Walraven: Are you related to Paul Walraven? We were in scouts together cirica 1954-56. (Troop 19) Hi Buz! Glad to see you made safe harbor for the winter!

Date: 2/7/2009, 5:27 pm, EDT
Name: brownys
Location: Prices corner
Old Neighborhood: Ardentown/Wilmington
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: RE: Connie /snowstorm

Mar.16-19 ,1956.
A different storm. Further south, got more snow.
NYC 13.5 in.
Trenton 17.4 in.
Cannot find correct measurement record for Delaware
I know it was way too much.
Remember, shoveling out from inside the house.

Date: 2/7/2009, 4:27 pm, EDT
Name: Phyllis B.
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: 22nd and Church Sts.
Schools Att'd: PS, Warner, Geo. Gray
Employers:

Message: Do we remember talking a year or so ago about the ever elusive ice skating pond called the "Judy"? No one could remember where it was, just that it was dangerous to skate on. At the reunion of 11/22/09, I met up with someone who remembered. It was way down on E. 12th St. behind the old Jute Mill. Thus given the unadorned name "The Jute-E". If my memory is correct, I think someone named Aubrey Smith had this location about right when the previous discussion took place.

Date: 2/6/2009, 10:48 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: Jerry t.

When I was working for Deltona they had a contest where u got books of S&H Green Stamps for Lots that U sold. I won 300 Books. I took them down to there redemption center on Gov Printz and they thought that they were not real. Well anyhow my wife had a ball getting Christmas Presents for the whole family. They said they had never seen anyone have that many S&H Green Stamps before.

Date: 2/6/2009, 10:41 am, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Sacred Heart
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Wilminton High
Employers:

Message: Connie, your right a lot of homes had porches on them. I wish I could remember how much snow did fall. I was going to Wilmington High then not sure if we went to school or went sleding at Cool Spring Park at 10th and Adams or Hercules Country Club. My wife Pat (Lamborn) and I used to hand out at both 10 and Jackson or 9 and Adams.

Date: 2/5/2009, 7:16 pm, EDT
Name: fRANCIS RIZZO
Location: wilm
Old Neighborhood: front and adams
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Jerry T. Mundorff bottling was at 30th and Market The Soda shop at 215 Maryland Ave was owned by the a Adam Jablonski. The other was called exactly that Triangle bottling, Check Beverages under Old Wilmington Net

Date: 2/5/2009, 3:28 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: GEORGE: Sorry, can't remember the name of the store on 2nd and Van Buren. Maybe Ray does.
FRANCIS RIZZO: I remember the store on Chestnut and Van Buren. My brother John and cousin Loretta took me there a couple of times as a small kid to get either a water ice or some type of slushie which my grandfather's store didn't carry. Do you remember Mundorff sodas? I rememeber someone in the family telling me that Mr. Mundorff once lived on S. Broom ,across from the Wilm. General Hospital and once had the soda plant on Maryland Ave. and Van Buren, bounded by another street, which I think was Beech. It was a triangular lot. When I was small it was a gas station.

Date: 2/5/2009, 2:57 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: I just received an E-Mail from my friend Ed Begley that his brother Jim had passed away. I knew Jim from my years at Sacred Heart. He had retired from Pepsi Cola and the last i knew he was working for NAPA off Naamans Rd. He was surely a Great Guy and will be surely missed. My Sincere condolences to his family.

Jerry Lank

Date: 2/5/2009, 10:52 am, EDT
Name: Francis Rizzo
Location: Wilm.
Old Neighborhood: Front and Adams
Schools Att'd:
Employers: Retired

Message: To Ray Jubb Miller's had the store at Chestnut and Van Buren,I went to Bayard with the son Joseph,Glad to hear he is still around, the last I heard of him about 35 years ago he was selling Real Estate. I Am
89 so Joe "is" up there. I cain't remember the name of the fellow that had the store at Read and Van Buren,
I served him soda's for a few years.

Date: 2/5/2009, 10:49 am, EDT
Name: George
Location: Ocean View. DE
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: To Ray and Jerry: While on the subject of neighborhood stores, does anyone remember the name of the one on the southwest corner of 2nd and VanBuren
Take Care
George

Date: 2/5/2009, 10:39 am, EDT
Name: Leona Renzetti DeGregory
Location: Wilmington and Millville DE
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Webmaster,
Received your book as a Christmas gift, really enjoyed it, brought back so many memeries.

Date: 2/4/2009, 4:55 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: RAY JUBB: I tried to email you with some info., but it was undeliverable. Said that your email address was not accepting from my email address.

Date: 2/4/2009, 4:40 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Hedgeville
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: To Jery T.--The store I remember at Read & VanBuren
was run by a Jewish Family named Miller. I still see the Son once in a while, He's older than me, and thats OLD. The other Family you mentioned I more than likely knew but can't remember the name.

Date: 2/4/2009, 12:46 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST
Schools Att'd: WARNER , W.H.S. V.F. MIL.
Employers: RETIRED

Message: JERRY LANK ,MY OLD FRIEND . SORRY I DID NOT CONTACT YOU THAT NOSTALGIA WAS BACK IN ACTION ! I GOOFED AS I STATED TO YOU. BUT HAPPY TO SEE YOU BACK ON LINE WITH FRIENDS. BUDDY RALPH

Date: 2/4/2009, 12:35 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:

Message: Ed - we didn't have to worry about our door being snowed shut. Ours was in an inclosed alcove and my friends all had covered front porches.

Date: 2/4/2009, 8:24 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers:

Message: RAY JUBB : Do you remember a candy, soda store with a pinball machine on your block, but on the corner of Read and Van Buren ? This was in the 50's and 60's. I can't remember the name. How about the Swalkowski family on Read St., one house up from Watson Grodzicki's grocery store ? I'll try to email you on the family. Let me know if it goes through.

Date: 2/3/2009, 4:09 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Wilmington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S. Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St Paul's & WHS
Employers: Wilmington & DuPont Ex-Station

Message: For Jerry T.> When you mentioned the name Reusing
I knew I knew that name, so I went staright for my year book which I keep here next to the computer for
moments like this when I see an old familiar name on the guest book, and sure enough my Wife and I gradusted with Bert in 1953. How is she and your Brother? And yor cousin Barbara lived next to the store at Elm & S. Jackson. I knew her and her Family.
Barb worked with the Gir''s Club as did her sister, Hope all I've mentioned here are doing well.

Date: 2/3/2009, 3:44 pm, EDT
Name: Butch Schilling
Location: Aiken, SC
Old Neighborhood: Old Windybush, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: Alfred I, Silverside, Mt. Pleasant
Employers: Dupont, Snow White Ice Cream

Message: Walt Lafferty, I remember you at Mt. Pleasant- Class of early fifties? I was probably in 7th grade when you graduated. Some folks I remember from that era, include Dean Steele, Buzz Sutton, Pete Shelton, Bill Stoops & Jim Selway, who lived not far from me on Silverside Road. If memory serves, my father frequently mentioned that he and your dad (also named Walt?) worked together at the F & F Division of Dupont. This group also included the respective dads of Bill & John Walker and Walt Tindall. I spent some summers with the Walkers at the old Camp Arrowhead when former West Point football coach Col. Sasse owned it. I think the Episcopal Diocese took it over around 1954.

Date: 2/3/2009, 3:30 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island FL
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward & Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,Sallies, Goldey Beacom, and UOD
Employers: Self-Employed, Lank's, Gaylords, Durstein's Vending and MBNA Ba

Message: Glad to have our Site Back,
Jerry Lank

Date: 2/2/2009, 5:18 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: United States
Old Neighborhood: Concord Avenue
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:

Message: Jerry T - Found your brother Al on Page 156 of the 1956 UDel "Blue Hen" yearbook (my year), standing next to Bob Hooper. I never knew many of the OXen, which was "the football house" back then, but I surely knew most of them from the Gridiron. They MAY have known who I was, as "Wilso", the guy who drew the weekly cartoon in the college newspaper, "The Review", but that's unlikely.

Date: 2/2/2009, 3:03 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: I remember buying record albums from Wilmington Dry. If I can trust my memory the record dept. was located in the basement. I bought the Beatles White Album there when it first was released.

Date: 2/2/2009, 1:37 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville, S.Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: S&H Greenstamps,Resilient Tile,B&O R.R.,U.S.Army,State of De.

Message: BOB WILSON JR. - My brother, Alfred Tomczyk, if I'm not mistaken, graduated from the U.D. IN '57. His soon to be wife, Roberta Reusing ( Sacred Heart and W.H.S.) and our cousin, Barbara Turoczy ( W.H.S ) graduated at the same time or within 1-2 yrs of each other( memory fading ). Al belonged to the Theta Chi fraternity and was in the R.O.T.C. program. *** In that '59 game with the Buffalo Bisons I watched Dallas pitch.

Date: 2/2/2009, 11:16 am, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: United States
Old Neighborhood: West 23rd Street
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:

Message: Jerry T - Walt Lafferty, Mario LePera and I were all at the U. of Delaware at the same time, and in the same class year, as Dallas Green, the Conrad alumnus who pitched baseball and was on the varsity basketball team for the Hens. Maybe we knew your brother Al. UDee was a much smaller place back then

Date: 2/2/2009, 9:13 am, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Archive File #58 created :-)

On this site - go here to read all about WDG, with photos :[ :
http://oldwilmington.net/oldwilmington/wdg.html

Date: 2/1/2009, 7:31 pm, EDT
Name: tom
Location: wilmington delaware
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: does anyone know what year wilmington dry goods closed in wilmington?

Date: 2/1/2009, 2:32 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Location: Santa Fe Texas
Old Neighborhood: 4 th Madison
Schools Att'd:
Employers:

Message: Connie:
Yes I remember that snow storm. The snow was so high about 2 feet, people were climbing out their windows,because the door's would not open. Most storm doors open to the outside.as they do today.