Visitors Nostalgia & Memories

(Archive #85: April 1, 2011 to April 30, 2011)


Date: 4/30/2011, 7:29 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Now I remember Ye Old Tavern and hearing that Bob opened it. We had moved from the area in 1960 and had lost touch with them, that must by why I only remember what was going on at the original site.


Date: 4/28/2011, 2:29 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S.Broom,N.Broom,Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, St. of De.(retired)
Message: Spent part of my 21st birthday at Ye Olde Tavern, 7 days before my Army induction in 1969. Didn't a lady slip on the ice, hit her head and die as a result, somewhere in an alley way, parking lot or in front of the place ?

Date: 4/28/2011, 12:23 pm, EDT
Name: Bob LaFazia
Web: http://www.delawareallstatefootball.com
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Clayton, Union Park Gardens
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and WHS
Employers: One was "Ye Olde Tavern", Bobby Piane's old place
Message: Brings back Memories:
Many years ago Bobby asked me to Manage his new place he was going to build, (Old Kelleher's place)...around '68 or '69...worked on it for a long time fixing it up...we called it "Ye Olde Tavern"...great place, on 23rd and Market sts., Mrs. Kelleher was a sweet person, always wore a hat...had entertainment during week with Smilin' Harry and then the "Banjo Dusters" (close:-)...on weekends...fun times...Bobby still had his catering business across the st., Angie, his wife was a sweetheart too! Both businesses are gone now!
Bob LaFazia :-)

Date: 4/28/2011, 7:43 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: As for the Kelleher connection, I believe they stored some of their trucks in the garages owned by the Kellehers. The garages had a driveway from Tatnall Street through to Market Street.

Date: 4/28/2011, 7:42 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Bob and Angie started their catering business at 2130 Market Street where Mimi and Sam had their Italian restaurant. After they closed the restaurant it became a sub shop and teen hang-out. Then I believe what had been the eating area became the office area for the catering business as they did their food preparations in the back of the restaurant where the kitchen was.

Date: 4/27/2011, 7:36 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, Fl
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline, Goldey-Beacom
Employers: duPont
Message: Connie, I grew up in the 9th Ward, as we knew it back in the day. Bobby Piane married one of my Ursuline classmates, Angela Marsilli. Sadly, she passed away a few years ago. I remember them both very well. Together they started a catering service which, I believe, was started after they bought Andy Kelleher's old place around 23rd and Market Sts. They progressed from there to the English Grille, I believe. Do any of you old Wilmingtonians remember this? When they first started out, they catered wedding receptions in the hall above her father's business on Lancaster Ave.

Date: 4/26/2011, 12:24 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookmeade
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Washington
Schools Att'd: #30, Warner, P.S. UD
Employers: Knowles Hobby, Eichbaum Models, USAF, All American
Message: While working for Bill Eichbaum awaiting a pilot training class assignment (summer 1950) one of the jobs I did was to cut and polish a "Stanley" emblem out of 1/8 inch thick brass for one of Marshall's Stanley Steamers. When we delivered it, he couldn't tell it from the original sample we copied!

Date: 4/25/2011, 11:15 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula CA
Old Neighborhood(s): 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: "Images of Rail - Wilmington and Western Railroad"
has a good photo of Marshall's Engine 402 on page 19. It may even show Marshall as the Engineer. This is the same engine shown in the recent photo on the home page of auburnheights.org per Brownys' post. It is 1:8 scale. The book is really great check it out at WWW.arcadiapublishing.com.

Date: 4/25/2011, 9:43 pm, EDT
Name: brownys
Location: Prices corner area
Old Neighborhood(s): Ardentown,Wilmington
Schools Att'd: Brandywine district
Employers:
Message: Try auburnheights.org for Marshall steam train
photo.1/8 scale

Date: 4/25/2011, 3:12 pm, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad
Employers: WDG, DuPont
Message: Connie (and others),

I was not speaking about the WWRR. Marshall had a "Small-scale" steam railroad that road around his property. I have seen one photo in a book of the railroad but I can't use it. I also do not remember the scale size.

Norman, if you are out there, maybe you would know.


Date: 4/25/2011, 11:14 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: http://www.wwrr.com/default.aspx

Date: 4/25/2011, 11:13 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Webmaster - check out the Wilm. Western RR site and see if any of those photos are familiar sights -
http://www.wwrr dot com

Date: 4/25/2011, 10:13 am, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: I visited Marshall's place in Yorklyn as an adult with my own children. The steam trains were a lot of fun for the kids but I really enjoyed seeing all of those antique cars that he kept in a barn there. It was quite a collection. We rode up to Yorklyn on the restored railroad now in back of the old prison property.

Date: 4/25/2011, 9:41 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad
Employers: WDG, DuPont
Message: In todays TNJ, an article about Yorklyn. I remember my father taking me there in the 50's to ride the scaled-down steam train that Marshall had.
Anyone else ever go there?
I do not have any photos. :-(

Date: 4/25/2011, 2:11 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers: WDG, DuPont
Message: Backup performed 4-25-2011

Date: 4/22/2011, 11:25 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: yes
Employers:
Message: Am I the last one to know that The Wax Furniture Co., which name really confused me when I was small, was named after its owner, Louis Wax?

Date: 4/21/2011, 1:45 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Webmaster, So sorry, I sometimes forget which site I am on when I write a comment not related to Old Wilmington.net I promise not respond to unrelated memories on this site, will go to the blog instead. :-(

Date: 4/20/2011, 5:27 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: graduated from both Harlan and P.S.
Employers: In Delaware: Richmond Radiator, Benj. F. Rich Co., Tidewater Oil
Message: Ray, It would be interesting if someone from the AG's office would offer a comment re: the cost factor in the Delaware criminal justice system. Maybe I've just read too many detective stories where the solution to a crime is usually not the obvious one.

Date: 4/20/2011, 5:15 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers: WPD & DuPont
Message: Danny Stat, maybe you don't realize to what lengths the State and their Courts will go to to save money. When they let murderers plea bargain it's not usually
because they don't have enough evidence to convict,
it's because there is that 1% chance they might not
get it after they have spent a lot of money trying to convict. As I recall, there was no doubt in the minds of the Detectives investigating the murder in question
but there was a lot of questions in regard to what the cost would be to take this man to trial and mainly
because of the language problem. I certainly don't believe they couldn't find someone who spoke his
particular dialect but I do believe they just took the easy and cheap way out.

Date: 4/20/2011, 4:12 pm, EDT
Name: Janet C.
Location: Wilm.
Old Neighborhood(s): 8th and West
Schools Att'd: THE High School
Employers: Wilm Dry Goods
Message: Danny Stat, sir, you talk like you graduated from P. S. Dupont High School.

Date: 4/20/2011, 3:16 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: graduated from both Harlan and P.S.
Employers:
Message: If the man who worked at the Chinese restaurant was not convicted of the woman's murder in 1969, there's a possibility that he did not commit the crime. With the language difficulty and I'm imagining a citizen question, as well, the man from China may have been accused in order to steer the criminal inquiry in a different direction than toward the person who actually committed the crime. I don't believe there's a provision in the Delaware criminal code for sending a convicted murderer back to their country of origin; even if they are in the U.S. illegally. Those suitcases with the woman's dismembered remains may have been "planted" where they were found in order to cast suspicion on a poor man who could not adequately defend himself, or he may have committed the crime; I don't believe we can determine that from our distant recollection. I'd guess, though, that if the judge had a real question in his mind re: the defendent's guilt, then he may have shipped the man back to China rather than incarcerate an innocent man. If he's still alive, someone should go and ask the judge; that is, if you're really interested in discovering what occurred in the judge's courtroom.

Date: 4/20/2011, 12:43 pm, EDT
Name: Patty
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Little Italy
Schools Att'd: St. Thomas, WHS
Employers:
Message: Talking about the Easter chicks brought back memories of my grandmother buying and raising the baby chicks (this was in the 40's). When they were grown, they became part of her Sunday spaghetti dinners !! :O


Date: 4/19/2011, 3:39 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: I bought 2 baby chicks in the 50's at the Wilm. Dry Goods Store. They died within a couple of days, my sister and I had funeral and buried them out in the back yard, along with songs, prayers and lite a candle, put 5 cents in the box at church to make sure the baby chicks went to animal heaven.

Date: 4/18/2011, 8:22 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, St. of De.(retired)
Message: In today's WGMD news on line, there's an article saying that live pets such as baby chicks and rabbits are not the perfect Easter gifts. When I was small in the 50's, I received a couple baby chicks for two Easter's in a row. The first Easter they were dyed colors, and they didn't last long. The next Easter I received a couple more which weren't dyed, and they didn't last long either.

Date: 4/18/2011, 5:35 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Ray, Jim, It is a shame for the family, no justice for them, deporting the man was not justice.

Date: 4/18/2011, 5:25 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Albie, What happened to the young lady back in 1969 was very scary and sad. I heard something about her working for the News Journal, but not really sure if that was true.

Date: 4/18/2011, 5:14 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Bill, Sorry to ruin your Chinese dinner, lol!

Date: 4/17/2011, 8:15 pm, EDT
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes/Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): W 29th St
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Maureen, I had a friend who attended Goldey Beacom and sat next to her in class. He said she was not local and very outgoing. The students did not receive grief counseling back then like they do now.

Date: 4/17/2011, 4:35 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Jim Rambo, Your 100% right about that, they were having a lot of trouble(so they said)with the language
so they shipped his sorry butt back to where ever it
was that he came from. I personally thought thsy did
it(deporting him)to save money and it probably did save the State a lot of money.

Date: 4/17/2011, 4:14 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: From what I recall, the Chinese man who murdered "Joey" was convicted but the judge said, "He was just lonely," and sent him back home to China where he wouldn't be so lonely.

Date: 4/17/2011, 3:17 pm, EDT
Name: Jim Fox
Web: http://www.crossroadsfamilyministries.com
Location: Sayre, PA
Old Neighborhood(s): Glendale on Rt 40
Schools Att'd: Newark & Christiana
Employers: DuPont Experimental Station
Message: to #324 Kevin,

Do not know anything about Bo Huckman the man, but I remember his boat dealership and marina. The boat sales and marine store was located just below the overpass of Basin Road and DuPont Hwy near airport. The place became a carpet showroom & warehouse and who knows what after that. The marina was located on the west shore of the Elk River above the entrance to C & D Canal. I was just a kid when he was still in business.


Date: 4/17/2011, 3:13 pm, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: Maureen, You know, I believe that the killing by the Chinaman in 1969 did not result in his conviction.(but I will check it out) My present recollection is that no one could find a translator for the Chinese dialect involved. They opted to deport him instead of looking further! I will confirm this week.

Date: 4/17/2011, 9:02 am, EDT
Name: Wes Jones
Location: Brandywine Hills
Old Neighborhood(s): Northminster
Schools Att'd: Hanby, concord
Employers:
Message: Everyone, thanks for the information and your memories of Shellpot Park. Webmaster, thanks for the photos of the area. I had seen the ones from 1937 and 1957, but not the one from 1926. Now I am even more curious about this area. It looks like the white rectangle in the 1937 photo in the red box is the remnants of the pool shown in the 1927 photo. If this is true, and my orientation is correct, it looks like Washington Street extension didn't exist in 1927. Nor did Lea Boulevard. Does anyone know when these were built?

The upper right corner of the red square in the 1937 photo points right at my house, which is the 2nd oldest in this part of Brandywine Hills. The oldest is the farmhouse at the corner of Hawthorne and Marlowe, which was built in 1818, I've heard. I think it is the one in the clump of trees just above the pool in the 1927 photo.

I have explored this area and found the remains of an old mill behind Forman Mills. It is actually on Matsun Run near where the run connects with Shellpot Creek.


Date: 4/16/2011, 11:43 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: yes
Employers:
Message: Thanks for the Chinese food stories. I just sat down with a bowl of, wait for it, yes, Chicken fried rice, to catch up on the site. When I worked at 39th & Washington, we used to run up Philadelphia Pike to Darley Rd. for lunch. There was a Chinese restaurant in the shopping center there. After a few trips, I noticed that the business license in the window was issued in Manhattan. And not a feline on the premises. Ahhh, good times.

Date: 4/16/2011, 3:22 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: various; primarily, Harlan and P.S.
Employers:
Message: My father, Lewis Stat, who was born in 1917 and graduated from Wilm. High in the winter of 1935 operated several car lots in Wilmington when he was a young man. This morning he told me that he remembered the name "Bo Huckman." He thought Huckman had a used car lot on Market St., "way out Market," was how he described it, perhaps in the neighborhood between 30th and 40th Streets.

Date: 4/16/2011, 11:02 am, EDT
Name: Kevin D
Web: http://www.kevin67.com
Location: Ellicott City, MD
Old Neighborhood(s): 40 Acres-St. Ann's, Baynard Blvd, COK, Wilson Rd,
Schools Att'd: COK, IHM, Springer, BHS
Employers:
Message: Hi, all. Do any of you (senior members more likely) know anything about a Wilmington character named “Bo" Huckman? I seem to remember while growing up references to a “Bo Huckman MARINA” but never a car dealership as the link states. Do any of you know anything about him, his racing career, his Wilm car dealership or marina?

http://www.rumbledrome.com/rtedhorn.html

scroll down to:

"Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photo
Indianapolis rookie, 1935, with mechanic Bo Huckman.
(Heisler notes: Bo Huckman was from Wilmington, Del., and was involved with racing for many years driving in one of the early new car stock races at Langhorne before WWII. Had a used car lot in Wilmington in the 1940's.)"


Date: 4/15/2011, 4:06 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): HEDGEVILLE
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Maureen, How could anyone forget that one. We found her in two suitcases in the back yard of the
Chinese place on 7th Street between Tatnal and Orange Streets. He had chopped her up with a meet cleever.

Date: 4/15/2011, 2:18 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen
Location: L
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Ray, Do you remember the murder of a young women in 1969 by a Chinese man who worked at the Chinese Restaurant located on Shipley St.? My husband at the time, who was on the WPD walked the beat in the area of Shipley St. came home from the job late that night after the body was found, told me about it along with the gory details. The Chinese man was convicted and later deported back to China.

Date: 4/15/2011, 11:51 am, EDT
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes/Wilm.
Old Neighborhood(s): W 29th
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Bill L, Joey Petrillo went on to Hollywood and acted in a few movies (Hairspray, Philadelphia) and even did a few Soprano episodes.

Date: 4/14/2011, 8:17 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TYH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: WARNER, W.H.S. ,V.F.M.A.
Employers: WILM.POLICE . HEAD OF SECURITY INNISBROOK GOLF RESORT .
Message: In regards to Shell Pot Park. my Dad worked for 38 years , with the old Del Coach co. which is now , Dart . HE STARTED OUT WITH THE TROLLY'S WITH THE OLD COW CATCHERS IN FRONT. My Dad had the SHELL POT RUN., USE TO TELL ME ABOUT THAT OLD AMUSEMENT PARK , BIG BANDS , DANCING , AND OF COURSE THE RIDES ETC.. My Dad kept that run for many years . and brought many people from Del . and I guess Pa,etc... he told me how sad It was when the park closed. after the Trolly's, CAME THE TRACK LESS TROLLY'S , THEN THE BUS. my DAD was 20 yrs. old when he started with the old DEL COACH CO.. his last and longest bus Route was the Brown town to the Marine terminal. When It rained , he left the elderly folk's off in front of there home. and if it was raining , he held a umbrella over there head. needless to say , EARLE PRYOR WAS WELL LIKED IN THE BROWN TOWN AREA. . ON HIS BIRTH DAY , HE CAME HOME LOADED DOWN WITH A B/DAY CAKE AND GIFTS.. . BUT I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER , WHEN HE FIRST STARTED OUT , TAKING FOLK'S TO SHELL POT PARK , HE HAD PAINTED A PICTURE IN MY MIND , WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PLACE ! THANK'S Dad

Date: 4/14/2011, 7:45 pm, EDT
Name: Bill Lyons
Location: Rehoboth BEACH
Old Neighborhood(s): 7TH & Harrison
Schools Att'd: St. Pauls; Salesianum, WHS
Employers: Self
Message: I believe the quarry mentioned in recent post belonged to the Petrillo family.

Date: 4/12/2011, 7:44 pm, EDT
Name: william rogers
Location: belmont
Old Neighborhood(s): madison st
Schools Att'd: St Peters
Employers:
Message: I to knew John Smith from the Madison St area We all went to the best barber shop in Wilm. Brunos twix six and seventh on madison

Date: 4/12/2011, 12:12 pm, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: The Shellpot Park photo is a PDF file. When zoomed to 100%, the photo is 48" x 24". Any larger than that it gets out of focus.

Date: 4/12/2011, 10:40 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, St. of De.(retired)
Message: I couldn't blow up the pictures of Shellpot Park any further, but it looks like a roller coaster in the middle of the 1927 photo.

Date: 4/11/2011, 6:05 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: Pender Island, B.C.
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: Hi Maureen,

My grandparents lived on the corner of 9th and Monroe in the house where my father, who was born in 1917, grew up. John Smith who later became the chief of police in Wilm. lived 3 houses down the street on the east side of Monroe. I never lived there but since my grandparents lived there until the 1960's, it really was my 2nd home in Wilmington. I lived primarily in the 9th Ward; first on 37th street and then later in Brandywine Hills. Graduated from P.S. in 1961.


Date: 4/11/2011, 4:38 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: JIM - I wouldn't dare go there! Actually, about the only time I go in the City is to visit the Art museum or the cemetery on Sundays. I was wondering if anyone remembered the mom and pop store across the street from them. They closed decades ago after their child met with a tragic accident when he fell down the cellar steps.

Date: 4/11/2011, 11:02 am, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad
Employers:
Message: Shellpot Park:
Well, go here:

http://www.oldwilmington.net/photos/parks/Sh...

to see if my maps are correct. The pool is the only thing that stands out. I think the quarry was the Petinaro Quarry, wasn't it??

Anyway, the photos blow up large for study. Now, onto the Shipley Run...


Date: 4/11/2011, 10:58 am, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: San S, What were the years that you grew up on 9th and Monroe Street ? Did you know Bernard Sewell, Franny M. Dan M, George Esterling , Sandra Hunt, can't remember who else lived on Monroe, Madison St. area? Nords grocery store on 10th and Adams, Jimmy's lunch counter on 9th and Adams, Chocolate shop on 9th and Madison?

Date: 4/11/2011, 10:49 am, EDT
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookmeade
Old Neighborhood(s): Garfield Monument
Schools Att'd: #30, Warner, P. S., UD
Employers: Knowles Hobby, USAF, All American
Message: My memory says that Shellpot Park was located on the west side of Market Street. The dam several have mentioned was off to the East (right side heading north on Market) side. There was a trolley turn-around on that west side also.

Date: 4/11/2011, 10:27 am, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: Whatever you do, please do NOT go to 22nd and Lamotte to find out about the Blue Rock Tavern. That intersection is now, in my opinion, the most dangerous in the city of Wilmington.

Date: 4/11/2011, 9:10 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember The Blue Rock ("tavern") at 22nd and Lamotte? I'm trying to remember the name of the mom and pop grocer on the corner across the street from them.

Date: 4/11/2011, 8:45 am, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers: WDG, DuPont
Message: My photos and maps put Shellpot Park on the west (Sears side) of Market Street. Along with the Shipley Run, Shellpot and something else I forgot, I am getting together some postings...

Date: 4/10/2011, 10:25 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula CA
Old Neighborhood(s): 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: DANNY: "The Blog" is at http://users3.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g35-...

Date: 4/10/2011, 10:10 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: Please tell me how to access "the blog."
As long as I'm here, though, I want to share a couple of good memories: the Harlan Frolic and the Maypole and Duncan Yoyo exhibitions at Harlan School; playing "match/touch" to add or subtract to my collection of baseball cards; going down to the old Wilm. baseball stadium to watch my friend, Billy Missimer sucessfully try out for Little League and then going back to the stadium with him on warm summer evenings to climb the outfield fence to sneak in to the night exhibition games that were played there; later, cruis'n the Dandy but eating across the street at the B & G drive-in or just down Gov. Prince Blvd. at Jan's Steak House which, hands-down made the best steak sandwich in the world, skating at Prices Run in the winter and later spending so many days of misspent youth at either Frank's Pool Hall at 2nd and Mkt. or hanging out at Bud VanSice's motorcycle shop; of course, there was much more, but those were indeed "the good olde days."

Date: 4/10/2011, 7:17 pm, EDT
Name: brownys
Location: Prices corner area
Old Neighborhood(s): Ardentown,Wilmington
Schools Att'd: Brandywine district
Employers:
Message: Through talking to a few people who went
to Shellpot Park, ,everything was on the East side. Waterslide, swimming pool, dance hall,small coaster, midway games etc. On the west side was a dam, and a mill, with a run off from the mill supplying water for the creek.

Date: 4/10/2011, 7:04 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S.Broom, N.Broom. Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, St. of De.
Message: Danny Stat : check out posts 440 and 442 on the Blog, and then make the decision if you would like to venture down and walk through Shellpot.

Date: 4/10/2011, 3:28 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: P.S. I gave my father the information I learned from posters on this column about his music teacher at Wilm. High, Mrs. Bacon; it brought back memories for him of when she took him and others from his class on "outings" to hear John Phillip Susa and his band at Longwood Gardens and meeting Jimmy Caras, the world champion pool player, at his pool hall on the 2nd floor of the building next to the old Warner Theatre. Thanks, everyone for helping to give my Dad a happy day, remembering good memories from his school days in the 1930's.

Date: 4/10/2011, 3:20 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward; 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: I remember exploring the remnants of what we were told had been Shellpot Park; this was on the WEST side of Market St. More accurately, on the EAST side of Washington St. Extension which was how we accessed the overgrown woodland area where we discovered concrete foundations and the ruin of what appeared to be the crumbling walls of an old swimming pool. Since this was in the 1950's, I imagine that everything that was there then has disappeared by now. I'm imagining that the ghost of that old fortune teller who once had her stand at the park is still holding court under an old Sycamore. Anyone game to scramble through the brambles and take a look?

Date: 4/9/2011, 11:12 am, EDT
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes/Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): W 29th St
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Back in '57 there was a path behind Edgemoor Elementary School that would lead to the swimming area @ Shellpot creek that Connie mentioned. I recall a rope from a tree we utilized to jump in the creek. Not as great as Rehoboth or OC but a sure bet to get some relief from the heat if you did not have air condition at home.

Date: 4/8/2011, 3:55 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Wes Jones: Shellpot Park was on the East side of Market Street. As a kid we used to ride our bikes there to catch snakes and frogs and just generally
have a good old time. I also remember a lot of Stories
about the Park in it's hay day but it was certainly on the East side across from where Sears was. I don't
remember what was on the side of Market Street
where the Sears Store located in those days.

Date: 4/8/2011, 1:32 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookmeade
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd & WashingtonStreets
Schools Att'd: #30, Warner, P.S. UD
Employers: Knowles Hobby, USAF, All American.
Message: I had twin uncles who trapped the "Bulldog" for musrat. I remember falling off the dam into the water! Shellpot remains were on the western side of Market Street north of where Sears was built. In late 1930s a concrete undulating skating rink was still there. We boys used to go into the park area to set off fireworks. My parents took me to see the park burning.

Date: 4/8/2011, 1:09 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: l
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: My husband's family on his grandmother's side owned a Dairy farm on or near Prices Corner shopping center. I am looking for information and pictures of the farm. The Desmond's Delamore Dairy on his grandfather's side also owned a farm in Hockessin where Tom's Produce is located, it was sold in the 80's,also looking for pictures of the Dairy farm and the Dairy store on Lancaster Ave.

Date: 4/8/2011, 11:28 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N. Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St.Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, St. of De.(retired)
Message: I read a reference to the Shellpot Amusement Park which said only that it was devastated by a fire in 1934, and never re-opened. I also remeber my mother saying that a lady fortune teller had a stand there.

I also read about a band of gypsies who used to camp along the banks of the Brandywine Springs State Park. Lots of history about this park going back through the days as an amusement park, through Civil War days(Jefferson Davis visited), through Gen. Washington's encampment there, through the Indians drinking from the mineral springs, etc.


Date: 4/8/2011, 8:02 am, EDT
Name: Robert J. McKelvey
Location: Cape May, N.J.
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers:
Message: I recall my mother saying she went to dances held at Shellpot Park hosted by Red Skelton. Most likely during the late twenties or early 1930's. They may have been marathon dance contests.

Date: 4/8/2011, 7:05 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: There was a small park on the Market Street side across the street from Sears. There was a small creek running through it and our little dog swam in it.

Date: 4/8/2011, 1:03 am, EDT
Name: Tom
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St Hedwig, Brown Vo-Tech
Employers:
Message: I came across this: Shellpot Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in northeast New Castle County, Delaware.[1] The stream rises between Grubb Road and Shipley Road, south of Naaman's Road at 39°49′19″N 75°31′55″W in Brandywine Hundred and discharges into the Delaware River at 39°44′05″N 75°30′16″W near Edgemoor.[2] New Castle County, the Conectiv Edge Moor Power Plant, the DuPont Edge Moor plant, Amtrak, and the City of Wilmington all discharge storm water into Shellpot Creek.[3] The name is likely derived from the Swedish Sköllpadde Fallet (meaning "Turtle Falls"),[4] and has been historically known as "Schillpades", "Skilpot", and "Shilpot".

Date: 4/7/2011, 10:10 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S. Jackson), S. Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, St. of De.(retired)
Message: Shellpot Park : I remember my mother saying that Shellpot Park was on the other side of N. Market St. , across from the the old Sears. This was back in the early 1930's when she went there. I thought she said that there was also something where the old Sears was, but I can't remember if it was part of the Park, or an added area when they had festivities there. Can't help out about any mills in that area.

Date: 4/7/2011, 4:21 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Isn't the Bulldog a small area off Lea Blvd just up from the Printz? It was on the Shellpot Creek. There was a small creek with a dam and our parents took us there on occasion to 'swim'. On the other side were the remains of some small stone buildings and we went there to change.

Date: 4/7/2011, 1:54 pm, EDT
Name: Wes Jones
Location: Brandywine Hills
Old Neighborhood(s): Northminster
Schools Att'd: Hanby, Concord
Employers:
Message: I live now near Shellpot Creek. I'm researching the old mills along the creek. Does anyone remember these mills, or Shellpot Park? Where exactly was the park, by the old Sears, or on the other side of Market Street? And who remembers The Bulldog?

Date: 4/7/2011, 1:54 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula CA
Old Neighborhood(s): 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: Am I remebering correctly that Casapulla's operated out of their home? That was part of what I liked about the culture of the Sub shops back in the 50s and 60s. I wonder if some still are home base.

Date: 4/7/2011, 1:12 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen
Location: llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred heart
Employers:
Message: I love Capriotti's, they make them the same at all their locations. Penny Hill was also very good but no longer in business. Casapulla's on New Road in Elsmere is always very good.

Date: 4/6/2011, 6:36 pm, EDT
Name: Russ Cunningham
Location: Frackville,PA
Old Neighborhood(s): 10&Monroe,10&Van Buren Sts.
Schools Att'd: Warner & WHS
Employers:
Message: Hi Again,
I foolishly left out why MARK HILL jumped into the BRANDYWINE that day-HE pulled out & saved a boy a boy from drowning.I don't ever remember seeing MARK after Warner.Ihope LiFE was GOOD. He deserved it.

Date: 4/6/2011, 6:03 pm, EDT
Name: Russ Cunningham
Location: Frackville,PA
Old Neighborhood(s): 10& Monroe sts.and 10& Van Buren sts.
Schools Att'd: Warner JHS & Wilmington High(59)
Employers:
Message: Hello All !!
After reading thru some of the past years responder subjects,I thought I'd Throw out a few related tidbits for memory-joggin.My family moved to WILM. in summer of 1954 & the first sub shop we knew & loved was SAMS SUB SHOP @ 12th & WASH. STS. and FILOMENAS @ 2nd & LINCLN was FABULUS.Does anyone remember AWAY ALL BOATS W/ Jeff Chandler at the Queen & the WW2 landing boat in frnt of the theater{which I believe was symbolic of the fact that they were built at the foot of WEST ST.,so I was told by an oldtimer from the CCC cork plant in WILM.}Also, does any one remember MARK HILL getting an AWARD MEDAL @ WARNER J.H. for jumping into the Brandywine @ the waterfalls near BROOM ST.,AND who can't remember JOE CROCKET ,WHS,58/59 punting 40 yarders.I don't remember a waterspring at ROCKFORD PARK, BUT I do remember the night of 10/22/64 in that park when I proposed to my eternal LOVE, Bonnie, with whom I just celebrated 46 years of good happiness ,all a result of the Great Times in WILMINGTON.

Date: 4/6/2011, 3:16 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of De.(retired)
Message: Ooops. I should have posted # 285 on the Blog. Senior moment.

Date: 4/6/2011, 3:01 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S. Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of De.(retired)
Message: Talking about meatball subs, steak subs, turkey subs, cheese, tuna fish, etc. To me they're all sandwiches. There's only one that I consider a true sub, and that's an Italian. That's like someone trying to tell me that there's turkey kielbasa or deer kielbasa etc. They're sausages, not kielbasa.

Date: 4/6/2011, 12:24 pm, EDT
Name: Jan
Location: 5th and Broom
Old Neighborhood(s): St Hedwig's
Schools Att'd: Forget
Employers: Forget
Message: Keith, I remember that game. I felt bad for father Burk. I believe that was the last game he ever coached. Actually, Keith, I believe I sat behind you. Weren't you a Sallies cheerleader?

Date: 4/6/2011, 12:19 pm, EDT
Name: Keith
Location: Richardson park
Old Neighborhood(s): Forty acres
Schools Att'd: St Anna,pad,s sallies
Employers: Nine
Message: Back in the 50's: Remember high school basketball games at Howard High School? We spectators sat in theater seats and the game was up on the stage. I remember at a Sallies vs. Howard game when coach Father Birkenhauer got really excited yelling at the ref and fell off the stage.
I think Sallies lost that game.

Date: 4/5/2011, 12:57 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: some successfully
Employers:
Message: On April 4, 1916, the Delmarva peninsula was brought to a standstill by a snowstorm that only left three and a half inches of snow on the ground. Telephone and telegraph poles fell and the railroads were delayed. This was more snow than any storm that winter.

Date: 4/3/2011, 7:21 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Some places even call a meatball sandwich a sub.

Date: 4/2/2011, 5:24 pm, EDT
Name: Dick Ward
Location: Bel Air, MD
Old Neighborhood(s): vilone village, elsmere
Schools Att'd: oak grove, sallies, Uof D
Employers: APG
Message: Casapulla in Elsmere still the best especially steak sandwiches which are called steak subs down here. Been perusing student handbooks and school papers from Conrad in late fifties and early sixties. Really shows how far public ed has sunk over past fifty years. Scary to drive through NC County and see shuttered Chrysler and duPont is shell of former self. Anyway thanks to webmaster for this site. Grandkids love seeing pictures from 1957 oak Grove.