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#72: March 1, 2010 to March 31,
2010)
Date: 3/30/2010, 5:16 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile, B&O R.R., U.S.Army, Equifax, St.of De.(retired)
Message: I, also, remember the Easter egg hunts at Rockford Park. We took our kids there, once, in the 70's. There used to be a crooked tree to the right, just before you got to the road that went around the Tower. It leaned over at a weird angle. They had one of the eggs hidden in that tree. I wonder if that tree is still there.
Date: 3/27/2010, 9:02 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Canby Pk / Browntown
Schools Att'd: St E's / WHS
Employers:
Message: George, I do not know the name prior to Johnny's. Knew the Mc Dermotts well. Mrs McDermott (ann) lives with her youngest daughter in Oak Orchard. Then there was Rosie,Annmarie,Jackie,Pat,Barbara Jimmy (drowned around 1957) another boy younger than Jackie. I think Barbara passed a few years ago. Thier father was called Stinge. I also remember the Doughertys and the Scotts.
Date: 3/27/2010, 8:26 pm, EDT
Name: George
Location: Ocean View
Old Neighborhood(s): Maryland Avenue and South Broom Street
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Hi Sharon:
George again. I know Dick Maguigan pretty well. I used to see him on the beach in Cape Henlopen State Park, but not for a while.
Around the corner from Mrs. Purnell on Maryland Avenue lived the McDermotts and the Doughertys. Do you remember them?
Also I have a BrownTown trivia question for you and anyone else on here. What was the name of Johnny's store before it was Johnny's?
Take Care
George
Date: 3/27/2010, 3:59 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: While looking for something else, I ran across the obituary [EJ Mon Oct 19 p.10] of A. Jos. DeFiore, who died at age 69, in October 1964. He was born in Naples, Italy, arrived in Philadelphia in 1907 and graduated from Temple. He went into managing movie houses. Once in Wilmington, he managed the Broadway theater on W. 4th street. That was a new one to me. Out of the era and not on the movie house list. Later he owned and operated the Park theater.
Date: 3/27/2010, 1:41 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Canby Park / Browntown
Schools Att'd: StE's / WHS
Employers:
Message: Hi George, Carmen Lagarelli had a older brother Jimmy who was a state police. Jimmy Purnell was my mothers younger brother. He graduated from Sallies in 1952 he went to work for Amaco. He passed away in 1998. There were also Meguigans on 5th Av.
Date: 3/27/2010, 1:28 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: Delaware Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Canby Pk /Browntown
Schools Att'd: St E's / WHS
Employers:
Message: Hi Maureen, I think I remember Karen brothers name may have been Tom. Maybe ? Did you know Sharon Scully from COK ? Her 1st husband was Jimmy Desmond. He had a brother Jackie. They were from the 40 acres. I also know another Jim Desmond from 40 acres.
Date: 3/27/2010, 11:54 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Maureen - I certainly remember the riots but we lived on the other side of town. Our only 'event' was the protection of National Guard troops at the corners along Market Street. I remember hearing kids walking home from school talking about which store windows they were going to break out after the troops stopped partroling the streets. They said what items they had their eye on to steal. It was then we realized that our City had been taken over and decided to get out of town at the first opportunity.
Date: 3/27/2010, 9:36 am, EDT
Name: George
Location: Ocean View, de
Old Neighborhood(s): Maryland Ave. and South Broom St
Schools Att'd: St. E's Salesianum
Employers:
Message: Hi Sharon: You mentioned some familiar names. Carmine Laarelli, Mike and Paul Muldoon. I remmber those guys from walking up the hill to St. E's. I also remember the
Purnells, Jimmy. He was a state policeman, right. Is he your dad?
Take care
George
Date: 3/26/2010, 9:50 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson st.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10TH & Monroe st.
Employers: East Lynn dress shop 9TH & Market St.
Message: Webmaster, I have a Delamore dairy bottle from the 50's, my husband's family are the Desmonds. My hubby's mother was a Desmond, her father Connie Desmond, Uncles John and Andrew Desmond came over in the early 1900's from County Cork, Ireland. John owned and ran Delamore dairy farm in Hockessin, DE. and the dairy store was located on Lancaster Ave. in Wilmington. Tom Produce stand is now located on the old Desmond farm. If you want I will send you a picture of the bottle to put on the list of dairies next to Delamore Dairy. E-mail if you want me to send it to you.
Date: 3/26/2010, 9:21 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson st.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10TH & Monroe st.
Employers: East Lynn dress shop 9TH & Market St.
Message: :-) Hi Sharon, I work in Wilmington at East Lynn Dress shop on Market St it was located in the Opera house, which is now The Grand Opera House, it is beautiful, hope you have had a chance to catch a play, concert, or Ballet there. Swan Lake is playing tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
I work at the shop in the late 60's age 18 and during the 1st. day of the 1968 riots we had to leave by way of Market street to 4th st. pass all the burning houses, the smell of fire was frightening and you could hear shots fired, we had to lay down on the floor of the car and it took us a really long time up 4th. to get out of the city, traffic was at a stand still, it was unbelievable. I worked with Karen Quinn and her brother drove us girls home. What a brave thing he did. I can't remember his name, but forever thankful to him. Anyone know the Quinn family from Christ Our King parish, there were at least 16 kids in this nice family.
Oh, I think the Burger King you were asking about was on Market St. a couple of doors up from East Lynn. between 9th and 8th.
Date: 3/26/2010, 7:44 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Canby Pk / Browntown
Schools Att'd: St E's / WHS
Employers:
Message: Ray / Bill, Thank you I'm glad other people remember the Burger King. I am working my way through the archivies from present to 4/07 so far.
Ray Jubb, In the archives I saw the mention of Tom Gears. I new Tom well he lived a door away from us in Canby Pk. My mother was a switchboard operator for the police & fire. During the 68 riots she would work late & with the curfew in effect the police would bring her home. They would get out of the sguad car with rifles drawn untill she was safely in the house. Very sad & scarry time for the city of Wilm. Canby Pk had many Wilm Police and Fire employees due to the residency requirements.
Date: 3/26/2010, 6:43 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Canby Pk / Browntown
Schools Att'd: St E's / WHS
Employers:
Message: Jerry T, My grandparents lived at #4 Cedar St, just behind Sids Liquiors (Wienstocks). Family was Givens Md Av,Lagarelli,Muldoon,A few others on 5th Av,Duncans on Wright St, Burns on Brown St. We also lived on Brown St until maybe 1954 accross from the cow's home which became the girls club. We then moved to Canby Pk.After Cedar St and my & my grandfathers passing my Grandmother Purnell moved to Rodney St across from St E's jym.
Date: 3/26/2010, 4:18 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgevill
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I remember the Burger King in the 800 Block of N. Market Street. Many a call our Police Department got there. And like everything else the animals didn't allow it to stay there too long.
Date: 3/26/2010, 8:52 am, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: By the way, The Burger King was at 826 N. Market [1962].
Date: 3/26/2010, 8:10 am, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: The Burger King between 8th & 9th on the east side of Market really did exist. It was mentioned on here a while ago.
Date: 3/26/2010, 7:06 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile, B&O R.R., U.S.Army, Equifax, St.of De.(retired)
Message: SharonRae : I remember Govatos' on Market St., but don't remember a Burger King there. There might have been one on Delaware Ave. or King St. Where in Browntown did your mother have family ?
Date: 3/25/2010, 10:48 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Canby Pk/ Browntown
Schools Att'd: St E's & WHS
Employers:
Message: I'm still new to this site and have been reading the archives which brings back a lot of memories. My mother had a lot of family in Browntown. We walked or took the bus most of the time. I remember there being a Burger King on Market St. Somewhere between 7th & 9th St. It was on the same side as Govatas. Probably in the early 60's. Is there anyone else that remembers this?
Date: 3/25/2010, 9:07 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): Baynard Village
Schools Att'd: PSduP
Employers:
Message: On Thursday March 25, 2010, at 8PM on the cable channel HGTV program called "Our First Place", a young single guy was shopping for a place to buy. He looked at three in the Trolley Square neighborhood, but they were all too rich for his pocketbook. He DID take a place in Happy Valley, however. The outdoor shots made by HGTV made both of these neighborhoods look pretty good to my eye. I assume that these areas are still/now relatively tranquil re: crime these days, or was I being deceived?
Date: 3/25/2010, 6:52 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Don't know if anyone else remembers the Donnelly family. They lived in East Lake for a while and then the 400 block of S. Bancroft Parkway. The dad, Harold, died there in 1964. Mom, Anna, passed away in 1999. Their son, James (Jimmy) died on this day in Viet Nam in 1966. Brother Bob passed away in 2007 in Va. Bob graduated from P.S. Jimmy was an ornery kid and I've never forgotten him.
Date: 3/23/2010, 3:33 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: You lived at 14th and King and attended St. Pat's school! Wow - did you have an easy commute! :P
Date: 3/22/2010, 12:15 pm, EDT
Name: Tom Sullivan
Location: Near Rehoboth/Millsboro
Old Neighborhood(s): 14&King,17&Wash
Schools Att'd: St.Pats P.S.DupontPennSt extension&BrownVoc
Employers: HearnBros/PostOffice@4&UnionChrysler/Tidewater-Getty-Texaco
Message: Gonna saerch the Sunday Star info.I used to sell them and the Morning News on n.WashSt Bridge.Thanksgiving games WHS & PSDuP on Concord Pike and old BlueRocks Park where the circus came/Oberly Brick Lotsa good memories
& Plenty more
Date: 3/17/2010, 4:46 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers:
Message: Pat, I remember Donald. He had light hair and was heavy.
Date: 3/17/2010, 4:44 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile,B&O R.R., U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.(Retired)
Message: I once worked with a Bill Binkley who said he lived somewhere on Vandever Ave. near the Becker's corner area. Wonder if anyone knew him or the family. He'd be in his mid 60's now.
Date: 3/17/2010, 3:25 pm, EDT
Name: Jack Riley
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): Union Park Gardens
Schools Att'd: st.thomas, salesianum, philadelphia college of art
Employers: Kaumagraph Corp., State Children's Dept.
Message: Correction. I believe the "Mr. Twister" was driven by Ray Marsh of Newport.
Date: 3/17/2010, 3:22 pm, EDT
Name: Jack Riley
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): Union Park Gardens
Schools Att'd: St. Thomas 57, Salesianum 61, University of the Arts 65
Employers: Kaumagraph Corp., State Children's Dept.
Message: Back in the mid to late 60's and early 70's the top local Corvette drag racers were Dick Spence-"Tomato Can", Dick Collins-"Tar Baby" and Marvin Sterling-"Mr. Twister".
Date: 3/17/2010, 2:59 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I remember the Riley family from Vandever Ave. The mother's name was Myrtle and there was a son, Donald and he was one devil.
Date: 3/17/2010, 2:12 pm, EDT
Name: Wayne
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood(s): West Side
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Mike O, I really don't know, but thought the car belonged to Dick. There is a possibility that he may have had to sell it. After being in business with a friend from high school, for a few years, the story goes, he found the partner was taking money from the business. One side did mechanical work the other body work. The split may have cost Dick money he didn't have at the time and possibly he sold the car at that time to raise money to keep the business afloat. This is all speculation and I really don't know one way or the other, but I was to have my car painted there, and it fell through because of the split. I only heard the one side, and even that was second hand. It was my impression however that initially the car was his and he raced it. After that he got into motorcycles and four wheelers. I remember the sons had them when they were just barely able to walk. They were motorheads from the time they were old enough to talk.
Date: 3/17/2010, 1:19 pm, EDT
Name: Mike O
Location: Townsend DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Richardson Park
Schools Att'd: Sallies
Employers:
Message: Wayne - I know Dick Spence built 'Tomato Can', but I thought Marvin Sterling owned it. I saw it many times at Cecil County.
Date: 3/17/2010, 11:51 am, EDT
Name: Wayne
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood(s): West Side
Schools Att'd: Brown, Warner
Employers:
Message: Carlo, I see you hung out at the pool hall at 6th and Lincoln. My Mom and her Brother lived above the store on the corner there for a short period of time. She always spoke very highly of the guys who hung out there. She described them as young gentlemen who were always ready to assist her, and my Uncle at the drop of a hat, with groceries (hauling them up the stairs) or whatever was needed. In the many times I visited, I never saw any of you to thank you, I'd like to do that now, although it is about 40 years late. As they say, better late than never. Both my Mom, and my Uncle, have long since passed but I've always remembered the kind words she had to say about the guys who used to play pool there. Thank you very much for the help you and your friends gave them, Wayne
Date: 3/17/2010, 11:39 am, EDT
Name: Wayne
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood(s): West Side
Schools Att'd: Brown, Warner
Employers: Bancroft, Haveg, Du Pont, CitiBank
Message: Connie, The Gail that everyone is talking about, could she be the one who married Dick Spence? He had an auto repair business up on Namans Road, and their house was next door. In the early sixties he drag raced, with a Corvette called Tomato Can. He did pretty well and may have been a National contender. He died in an airplane accident a few years ago. She was a friend of my in-laws, in the Rockford area - the Callahans. I know she still has breakfast with one of the Rubincam girls (also of Rockford) once a month. Her husband (Rubincams') Bob Shum, was killed about a year ago going to church (St. Matthew's) and crossing Maryland Ave in Woodcrest. He was hit by a hit and run driver who was drag racing at the time. They never were able to charge the driver, although they know who he is.
Date: 3/17/2010, 9:11 am, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office Retired
Message: Ray, you are right. John worked for Shone's Lumber.
Date: 3/16/2010, 11:21 pm, EDT
Name: Carlo DeStefano
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood(s): Little Italy / 6th & Lincoln
Schools Att'd: Wilmington High - 1967
Employers:
Message: I am looking for pictures of the hucksters on Lincoln Street, Park Theater on Union, the guys hanging out on 6th and Lincoln between 1963-1969, Lefty's Pool Hall on 6th and Lincoln, Charlie's Barbershop (my grandfather and namesake) on 4th and DuPont. I was born and raised on 6th and Lincoln and have many fond memories of those years.
Date: 3/16/2010, 10:29 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgevill
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS 1953
Employers: City of Killington & Uncle Dupy
Message: Shirley Prospero Riley, You forgot John of the Vandever Ave. Riley's. But you did well.
Date: 3/16/2010, 7:01 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office Retired
Message: Connie, I was married to the Riley's that lived at 25 th and Market next to the firehouse. They hung out with the Riley's that lived on Vandever Ave. The Riley's on Vandever Ave that I can remember were George, Norwood, James and Paul. The other family that lived on Market St were Billy, Maryann, Bernie, Rosalie, Jimmy. Bobby, Caroline, Jackie and Joey.
Date: 3/16/2010, 2:54 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: A lot of Rileys hung out at Becker's. They lived right down the street and there were a lot of children in that family. We occasionally hung out with 2 of the daughters and they were nice.
Date: 3/16/2010, 2:30 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers:
Message: I don't remember Gail but I married a Rileywho hung out at Becker's Corner. BIG mistake.
Date: 3/16/2010, 8:58 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: This Gail graduated Warner in 1953, lived near Rockford Park, hung out at Becker's as a teen, married a Spence, then married a man with an Italian name. She worked at Shop Rite before retiring but I don't know about before that.
Date: 3/16/2010, 1:31 am, EDT
Name: Butch Schilling
Location: Aiken, SC
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Hundred, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: Mount Pleasant
Employers: Dupont, Snow White Ice Cream
Message: I remember a Gail Blood who worked for Dupont in the late 50s - think she married a state trooper.
Date: 3/15/2010, 3:42 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office Retired
Message: I knew a family by that name whenI lived at Woodlyn Apt. that would have been around 1968 - 1969.
Date: 3/15/2010, 1:33 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Shirley - did you know Gail Blood?
Date: 3/13/2010, 12:16 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office Retired
Message: I have pictures of the Bancroft Christmas Party at the Riddle Ave Chapel in 1946.
Date: 3/12/2010, 1:05 pm, EDT
Name: joe pasquale
Location: little italy
Old Neighborhood(s): little italy
Schools Att'd: lore-bayard-brown
Employers: retired
Message: Jim Brady.....About A.I.DuPont (hospt) estates....The main entrance gate was open by my Grandfather Rosario Tamone...he was the last person to open the entrance gate by hand......He lost his arm in a accident at the powder mill...so DuPonts gave him that job to open the gate......they had a little guard shack where he stayed till he had to open the gate....in all kinds of weather, also he walked everyday from 9th. & Union st. to A.I. everyday
Date: 3/12/2010, 8:44 am, EDT
Name: Jim Brady III
Location: Elkton, MD
Old Neighborhood(s): Meeting House Hill
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: For anyone whose families worked at the DuPont estates during the early 1900s, they are doing an exhibit at Winterthur to honor these individuals. The exhibit begins Saturday, 3/27 and runs until July 25th. It's embedded within the "Lost Gardens of the Brandywine" exhibit. If interested in more information, either see my website link posted above or you can email me at jmbiii@yahoo.com
Date: 3/12/2010, 8:42 am, EDT
Name: Jim Brady III
Location: Elkton, MD
Old Neighborhood(s): Meeting House Hill
Schools Att'd: St. Mark's, Independence
Employers: F Schumacher, JPMorganChase
Message: Looking for pics of inside the Christiana Mall if at all possible, specifically pics of the food court that include the "Galaxy" Arcade. Trying very hard to get one of these pics with no luck yet. Even tried contacting the mall directly and they don't have anything. Email jmbiii@yahoo.com if you can help. Thanks!
Date: 3/10/2010, 8:10 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office Retired
Message: Happy Valley was on the other side of the Brandywine from the zoo. I think the bridge was call the Van Buren Street bridge. Up the street was the Memorial Hospital. I wish I could remember Pasquale's name and weather that was his first name or last.
Date: 3/9/2010, 10:26 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: We were familiar with the race from Market Street up to the bridge over to the zoo. I don't know if the race went all the way to the zoo but that's as far as we used to go as little kids.
Date: 3/9/2010, 7:54 am, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office Retired
Message: Up at Rockford it was over your head but at Happy Valley you could stand up. The race at Happy Valley had a lot of vegetation in it. Sharon and I had our hair in rollers because we were going to a dance that night. Do you remember the Brad Morris dances? It was the building next to the Warner Theater.
Date: 3/8/2010, 12:17 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Shirley - how deep was the race? We were always told that it was over our heads.
Date: 3/8/2010, 10:26 am, EDT
Name: Shirley Prospero Riley
Location: Wilmington (Tybrook) De
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square, Forty Acres, Rockford, Kentmere, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: St Ann's and Padua
Employers: US Post Office
Message: I lived on Gilpin Ave but stayed on the weekends and summer with my grandparents Jessie and Paul Cropper on Ivy Rd. All the kids would go swimming at Headgates. I remember sledding near Rockford Tower. I remember a guy name Pasquale, can't remember his last name, from Happy Valley who threw Sharon Warwick and me into the race the day before he was to go into the army. In the early 70's I lived on Springer St next to the Zebley's. Mrs Zebley made me an afghan which I still have today. I got married in 1968 the first day of the riots. That was an omen of what was to be my marriage.
Date: 3/7/2010, 10:19 pm, EDT
Name: Browny
Location: Prices corner area
Old Neighborhood(s): Ardentown,Wilmington
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I attended the Delaware Home Show over the weekend, and found out that, after 100 yrs. in Wilmington, Grossman!s [ Gross ] lighting is closing. Anybody have photos?
Another part of Wilmington history, will be gone.
I am afraid that trying to save certain parts of Wilmington, is like trying to save the Titanic with duct tape. It!s not like we didn!t see this coming.
Date: 3/7/2010, 8:01 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Madison
Schools Att'd: PS duPont Class of 1952
Employers:
Message: This message belongs on The Blog, I suppose, but I'm responding to Sheriff Head's post here... Harvey Head - About 110 years ago, two of my grandfather's sisters and their families moved from Chicago and Benton Harbor, Michigan to Sonoma County. One family later moved to San Francisco, and the other eventually went south to Riverside County.
Date: 3/6/2010, 8:13 am, EDT
Name: Marge
Location: Lyndalia
Old Neighborhood(s): Lyndalia
Schools Att'd: Conrad
Employers:
Message: The priest at the little Catholic church in Belvedere was Father Leo. Went there for mass many times.
Date: 3/6/2010, 3:31 am, EDT
Name: Ken Head
Location: San Rafael, CA
Old Neighborhood(s): 26th & Tatnall, Elsmere, Newark
Schools Att'd: Harlan Elementary, Oak Grove Elementary & Jr. High, Delcastle
Employers: USAF Retired, Coldwell Banker, Eugene Burger Management Corp.
Message: Hey, Harvey
I remember you...you're my brother! Older brother, that is. A great website. Lots of nostalgia. Wilmington Dry Goods...I can still smell the place and feel the wooden floors.
Date: 3/6/2010, 3:21 am, EDT
Name: Harvey Head
Location: Sonoma County California
Old Neighborhood(s): North Wilm, Elsmere,Newark
Schools Att'd: P.S. Dupont, H.Fletcher Brown
Employers: Uncle Sam 65-69 Sonoma County Sheriff Retired
Message: Hi to anyone who remembers me. Many old memories visiting this site. I'll check back for any responses occasionally.
Date: 3/5/2010, 10:28 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile, B&O R.R., U.S.Army, Equifax, St.of De.(retired)
Message: Mike O : My brother John was in the Air National Guard during the '68 riots. I remember him saying that he was lucky and didn't have to go into Wilmington. He stayed back at the airport, I think, passing out supplies and ammo, and whatever duties they had for him.
Date: 3/5/2010, 10:11 am, EDT
Name: Mike O.
Location: Townsend
Old Neighborhood(s): Richardson Park
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: When asked if I was in the service, I would say in the Air Guard in the battle of Wilmington in 1968.
Housed for two weeks in the Wilmington Armory. During the day at Buana Vista and Race St. in a Del Power sub-station all brick with no windows and at night playing baskeball in the armory. The women from St Anthony's made us many home made meals,
thus saving us from sea rations everynight.
Date: 3/4/2010, 9:50 am, EDT
Name: Swifty
Location: Middletown DE
Old Neighborhood(s): North Wilmington
Schools Att'd: MCIWilliams, Bayard, Warner, PS
Employers: Bank Of DE, Budd Co, Honeywell
Message: Clark: I attended 7th grade at Bayard Jr High before we moved. At the time I did not know that my next visit to Bayard would be during the MLK assasination riots. My National Guard unit was positioned at Bayard.
Date: 3/4/2010, 5:11 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile, B&O R.R., U.S.Army, Equifax, St.of De.(retired)
Message: Clark : We were very respectable nieghborhood thugs in that Polish park named Kosciuszko.
Date: 3/3/2010, 10:00 pm, EDT
Name: Clark
Location: California
Old Neighborhood(s): Edgemoor Gardens, South Rodney St
Schools Att'd: Bayard Jr High
Employers:
Message: I remember: flattening pennies on the tracks in Canby Park, kids running out the doors of Bayard Jr High on hearing the news of MLK Jr's assassination, the Natl Guard troops marching downtown, basement parties and first kisses, neighborhood thugs in the Polish Park named Koscioski or something, Sam's Liquor store, rock&roll shows on TV filmed at Willow Grove, listening all night to WAMS on my transistor radio, etc etc. A great place to grow up.
Date: 3/2/2010, 5:14 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile, B&O R.R., U.S.Army, Equifax, St.of De.(retired)
Message: Thanks, Mike O. Even though I was a parishioner of St. Hedwig's, I used to go to Our Lady of Mercy for the earliest Sunday Mass on some summer mornings. There were nice breezes coming in through their open windows. Another summer choice was St. Paul's below the upstairs Church for 12:00 p.m. Masses(air conditioned). This was back in the early to mid 60's.
Date: 3/1/2010, 4:29 pm, EDT
Name: Mike O
Location: Townsend DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Richardson Park
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: The little Catholic Church in Belvedere was Our Lady of Mercy. I think the priest was Fr. James.
Date: 3/1/2010, 9:38 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Jackson, S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: Resilient Tile,B&O R.R., U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.(Retired)
Message: Does anyone remember the name of the small Catholic Church that was in the area of Belvedere, across from Maiorano's Market on Rt. 41 ?
Date: 3/1/2010, 7:14 am, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood(s): Wood'n Flats, Willow Run, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad (1960)
Employers: WDG, US Army, DuPont (Retired '91)
Message: Photos help wanted::
If any of this website's viewers has PERSONAL photos taken during the time of the 'Riots' in 1968 and would like to share them on this site, please contact me: webmstrhr@oldwilmington.net
With the exception of one, all photos posted here
http://www.oldwilmington.net/oldwilmington/1...
are from TNJ collection or other sources on the Net