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#87: June 1, 2011 to June 30,
2011)
Date: 6/30/2011, 3:02 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Ralph, Thanks for playing at the Memorial day ceremony. :-) I go to the Veterans cemetery on Memorial Day every year, this year it was so great, best turn out ever! My dad past away Oct. 22 2008 and he is buried there. Dave J. Kelley is a World War 2 Marine Vet. good friend of Doug McClure, who also past away 2009 they were always in the Parades. Doug would drive my dad in the Marine red van and down to the Memorial day dedication at the bridge in the morning and over to the Vet's cemetery in the afternoon for the ceremony. Miss them both :-(
Date: 6/30/2011, 2:41 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Hi Ralph and Francis, It was fun reading back the old post, lots has happened since then, some good and some sad, but I am glad to hear your guys are alive and well! :-) that is great!!!
Date: 6/30/2011, 9:21 am, EDT
Name: FRANCIS RIZZO
Location: CARRCROFT
Old Neighborhood(s): FRONT AND ADAMS
Schools Att'd: #3 #4 Bayard WH
Employers:
Message: Jerry T
I am still here 91yrs old married 63 yrs
Jeanne had 2 brothers Micnael and Mark.
THE shop was a bottling plant Wilmington BOTTLING We made 9 different flavors. had it till 1972. Urban Renewal come along, had to give it up.Hated to leave.
Date: 6/29/2011, 9:04 pm, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: Maureen:
Yes, I do have some. The program I used back then was called WWWBOARD. Some of you might remember that it was a "Threaded" messaging system. To separate the messages would be something I don't want to attack right now. There were only less than 25 messages where posters could answer each other and it was open to scams.
Date: 6/29/2011, 5:40 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST
Schools Att'd: WARNER, W.H.S. V.F.M
Employers: WILM .DEPT. PUBLIC SAFETY, ETC. ETC
Message: HI MAUREEN,, YEP I AM STILL HERE , I CHECKED THE OBITS, .-----PINCHED MYSELF . WILL BE 79 THIS AUG.. BUT FEEL 69 . --I THINK . BUT REALLY MAUREEN , IT IS GREAT TO SEE YOUR NAME AND POST, ON OLDWILM..NET. AGAIN .THANKS FOR THINKING OF ME . BY THE WAY , I AM ONLY PLAYING THE TRUMPET ON MEMORIAL DAY AT THE LOCAL VETS CEMETERY. WISH MY OLD FRIEND PAUL RICHARDSON WAS STILL WITH US ,WE PLAYED SOME BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TOGEATHER. HE WAS THE BEST ! !
Date: 6/29/2011, 2:55 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: Mr. Rizzo : good to hear from you again !! You said that you enjoy reading the posts, especially the ones from your old neighborhood. Any old memories which you have of Hedgeville would be greatly appeciated, especially by us from the same neighborhood.
Refresh my memory. As a small kid growing up on S. Jackson St. in the 1950's (I'm 63 now), I remember your company, but can't remember if you were a bottler or a distributor or both. Did you have all the flavors of sodas ? How about the lime sodas, which were colored green ?
Didn't you niece Jeannie have a younger brother ?
Date: 6/29/2011, 1:20 pm, EDT
Name: FRANCIS RIZZO
Location: CARRCROFT
Old Neighborhood(s): FRONT AND ADAMS
Schools Att'd: #3 #4 Bayard WH
Employers:
Message: maureen K DUNNING
SLIGHT MISTAKE
know YOU all
Date: 6/29/2011, 1:13 pm, EDT
Name: Francis RIZZO
Location: carrcroft
Old Neighborhood(s): front and Adams
Schools Att'd: #3 #4 Bayard Wilm high
Employers:
Message: Maureen K Dunning
I am still here,never miss a day, reading the post
on OWN. I enjoy reading the back and forth you all do especially the places and things I was familiar with. also feel like I know all.
Date: 6/29/2011, 11:09 am, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: Harry, Very proud of your efforts over the past dozen years with this site. Always great to see a fellow Conradian doin' the right thing. And it's so much easier for me now, being 3,000 miles away, to know whatz happenin'.
Date: 6/29/2011, 10:45 am, EDT
Name: George
Location: Ocean View
Old Neighborhood(s): South Broom, Maryland Ave.
Schools Att'd: home skooled
Employers:
Message: Any endeavor lasting twelve years deserves congratulations and you most certainly have mine. It must be a labor of love.
Take Care
Date: 6/28/2011, 9:06 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Hi
Message: Hi Ralph, I just read your post, lol, I just am out there somewhere, so glad you are still around :D
Date: 6/28/2011, 9:00 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Webmaster, I am reading back to old post in 2006, lots of funny and interesting post from Ralph Pryor and Francis Rizzo, are they still with us? Francis was 87 in 2006, and I found lots of old post from a few people from where I grew up, shared my same memories. Do you have any post prior 2002?
Date: 6/28/2011, 3:23 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St.Paul's &WHS
Employers:
Message: Ralph, what makes you think Harry could put up with us another 12 years LOL?
Date: 6/27/2011, 9:38 pm, EDT
Name: RaLPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS .FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST
Schools Att'd: WARNER . W H S , V. F. M.
Employers: DEPT. PUBLIC SAFETY WILM .DE. SECURITY CHIE
Message: CONGRATULATIONS HARRY , AND MAY THE NEXT 12 YEARS BE AS GREAT AS THE LAST ! AND I HOPE ALL OF US ARE AROUND TO ENJOY THEM. AGAIN, THANK YOU !
Date: 6/27/2011, 8:34 pm, EDT
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes/Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): W 29th
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Jerry,
Fusco was good; however, IMO John's @ 5th & Lincoln was superior!
Date: 6/27/2011, 3:41 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: 12 years! Imagine what's occurred for everyone in that time span and how the world has changed since then. Twelve years is the time it took for most of us to go from the beginning of 1st grade until we graduated from high school! It's longer than it's been since 911 and longer than the 2nd Bush and Obama presidencies combined. Twelve years ago my two sons were barely teenagers; now they're employed as scientists and my youngest son, who was only 11 then, is engaged to be married. I'd bet that everyone who reads this column have experienced huge changes in their lives, too. I remember that when I first found this website I discovered that one of the early posts here was made by my father, Lewis Stat; 12 years ago my Dad was only 82 years old, now he's 94. When my father shared some of his early memories of Wilmington on this website 12 years ago he signed his posting: "Looking Forward, LS." Today, I'll sign similarly, so that if I look back 12 years from now--when I'm 80 years-old--that "look over my shoulder" may give me a glimpse of what I was thinking on this lovely summer morning on South Pender Island in British Columbia. Harry, please add my thanks to the others who have thanked you for providing us with this forum through which we share fond memories of our childhoods and our lives in Wilmington. Good luck and all best wishes for the next 12 years. "Looking Forward, D.K.S."
Date: 6/27/2011, 3:26 pm, EDT
Name: Budo
Location: N Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & Van Buren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: My thanks also Harry. Your two sites have really given me something to look foward to everyday when I sit down at my computer.
Budo
Date: 6/27/2011, 1:32 pm, EDT
Name: PATTY
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): L.I.
Schools Att'd: St. Thomas, WHS
Employers:
Message: Harry - Thank you for 12 years of wonderful memories. It's hard to believe it's been that long since I've been reading all the posts on your site. What a wonderful idea you had in starting it, and despite all the work it's taken you, to continue it! :-)
Date: 6/27/2011, 1:10 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Webmaster, Thank you and congratulations to 12 years of wonderful memories, information and pictures on OldWilmington.com You have done a great job, hope it is around for years to come!!! :-)
Date: 6/27/2011, 10:45 am, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: My Dad, Sam Rambo, was a fireman stationed at 2nd and Jackson from time to time. I used to carry his lunch down to him from 3rd and Connell on weekends. I did get to slide down the pole and ring the fire bell a few times. Then I would walk across the street to the corner store and get myself a piece of their great pizza.
Date: 6/26/2011, 11:41 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: Ray : can't be sure if his name was Finnerty or not. I'll have to start looking for my old Boy Scout memorabilia box.
Date: 6/26/2011, 11:25 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedheville
Schools Att'd: St.Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Jerry T. could that Firefighters name have been Finnerty? The Fire House is still on Gilpin Ave. Our Police & Fire Credit Union is located in the back of the Fire House. And the last I heard about this House was that they wanted to turn it into a Museum for
Fire Fighters when the new one is completed.
Date: 6/26/2011, 8:14 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: When I was in the Boy Scouts, Troop # 7, at Pulaski Legion, a couple of us went to the Fire Station on 2nd and Jackson Sts., to get tested for our 'Safety' merit badge by a Fireman. I forget his name now. I'll have to see if I can find the card he signed off, on. One of the Dobrzynski brothers from Elm St. was a Fireman there, but it wasn't him. Neat inside the station. We got a tour, but weren't allowed to go down the pole. It became, and I think it is still, the Emmanuel Meal Center for the poor and homeless.
Date: 6/26/2011, 4:21 pm, EDT
Name: Sean
Location: 1500 Block Gilpin Ave
Old Neighborhood(s): Trolley Square
Schools Att'd: Newark High
Employers:
Message: Sue, The firehouse is still there, and being used on Gilpin Ave in the 1800 block. They are building a new firehouse at the corner of N. Dupont and Gilpin Avenue which will replace the old 1893 firehouse. It is a long way from completion, as they had to raze a building to make room for the new firehouse. They are still working on the basement, no new structure up as of yet.
Date: 6/26/2011, 1:13 pm, EDT
Name: Sue Lilley Dominguez
Location: Santa Maria, CA
Old Neighborhood(s): 40 acres
Schools Att'd: Highlands, Warner
Employers:
Message: Budo, I lived at 1826 Gilpin Ave. and the fire house was 4 houses down. Does any one know if it is still there?
Date: 6/25/2011, 7:13 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: Fusco's on Union St. was my favorite lemon water ice. I forgot to look last time up. Is he still there ?
Date: 6/25/2011, 6:01 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: Happy Birthday to this wonderful site, Mr. Webmaster. Thanks for providing this great site for us oldtimers to reminisce about the wonderful old days in the best city in the USA to grow up in. Love reading all the posts!
Date: 6/25/2011, 5:01 pm, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood(s): Wood'n Flats, Willow Rn, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad
Employers: WDG, DuPont
Message: * * * WWW.OLDWILMINGTON.NET is 12 years old TODAY * * *
Date: 6/25/2011, 4:59 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: There was a little shop on Lore Ave (just before Penny HIll Deli & sub shop) between Phila Pike and Brandywine Blvd that had great Italian Water Ice in the 1960s.
Date: 6/25/2011, 1:33 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: There was something special about eating an Italian Water Ice, especially when the "dog days" of August baked the Wilmington sidewalks. The tiny pieces of lemon peel that we found scattered throughout the ice seemed like little treasures and the lemon flavored ice was good to the very last drop! I never had a snow cone that could compare with one of those Italian ices. I remember buying them at a stand on the east side of Union Street, somewhere between 5th and 6th Streets, I believe.
Date: 6/25/2011, 11:37 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: Swifty- At first it was a bit of a challenge to climb the ropes at P.S. Within a short time, however, many of us could clamber up using only our hands; when we reached the top we would wrap our legs and feet around the rope and descend very fast, in great leaps and bounds, pausing only once or twice on the way down to slow our descent. You could only accomplish this if you were wearing gym shoes, otherwise you'd burn up your feet. I think many of us were inspired by photos from WWII that showed SEABEES or Marines climbing up or down rope nets on the sides of ships.
Date: 6/24/2011, 11:08 pm, EDT
Name: Ruth Corey
Location: Newark, DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Grew up on 24th St., Murray Manor aka Millcreek Trlr Park
Schools Att'd: Forest Oak, Heritage Elementary, Stanton Jr. High, Delcastle
Employers:
Message: I was wondering....
I do a lot of genealogy research and have only limited info on my mom's family and her siblings. I was wondering if anyone here may have gone to school with any of the DeLacy kids? My mom Marie, graduated from PS DuPont class of 1940 (I think). She had an older brother Bill, younger siblings Anne, Jimmy, "Jean" aka Regina, and Eddie. If any of you may have gone to school with any of them I'd love to hear from you about any memories you might have of them. What were they like in school? Who were their friends? Were they into sports or extra curricular activities? Sadly all the DeLacy's have passed on so any info you could share would be a treasure to us. Mom worked at Katie's Restaurant, Uncle Bill worked for DuPont as did Anne. Jim worked for the Electric Hose and later the City of Wilmington and to be honest I don't remember hearing where Eddie worked. Trying to learn what we can about those I wish we knew better when we had the chance. Any help would be appreciated, feel free to email me direct. Thank you.
Date: 6/24/2011, 12:45 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Danny S, It is never too late to write down your childhood memories, have a journal next to you at home and start writing down as you remember and add it to you computer later, or tape it . My dad was interviewed by my brother with a video camera, what a nice gift for all of us. Anyone reading this and has not written their life story should, it would give so many people in your life such a special gift.
Date: 6/24/2011, 10:01 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: Connie:
The A&P store is in the background of one of my Conrad band photos marching in the Memorial Day Parade, 1958
Date: 6/24/2011, 9:37 am, EDT
Name: Swifty
Location: Middletown DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Northeast Wilmington
Schools Att'd: MCIWilliams, Bayard, Warner, PS
Employers: Bank Of DE, Budd Co, Honeywell
Message: Danny: I remember those ropes. I also remember that if Mr. Bender or Mr. Warner were not looking, somebody would wait until you got to top and start swinging the rope. It was not very pleasant if you were afraid of heights. But, I survived without suing anybody. If that happened today, they would be running to the lawyers when they got back down.
Date: 6/24/2011, 9:35 am, EDT
Name: jack degnars
Location: new castle,de
Old Neighborhood(s): 2nd & ford behind greenhill dairy
Schools Att'd: lore,bayard,WHS
Employers:
Message: jim,
I remember selling"hokey pokey snowballs". Iwould
"borrow" blocks of ice from greenhill dairy milk
trucks,then I went to Petes 5&10 on 5th & lincoln
to buy an ice scrapper.We then would go around neighbor holloring "hokey pokey snowballs" Thanks
for bringing back a good memory.
Date: 6/24/2011, 8:41 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Budo - was that A & P on Delaware Ave.? I recall going to an A & P in that area a few times just before they closed it.
Date: 6/24/2011, 2:48 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: One of the more memorable class trips that we took at Harlan School was to a fire hall. Of course, none of us knew which fire hall we were visiting; probably one that was located near the school. I remember exploring the building with the other kids in our class and seeing the sleeping area on the 2nd floor of the hall where the firemen slept. It seemed like some sort of "bunk house," and of course it was. Most memorable of all was the fire pole which all of us boys wanted to slide down. I don't think we were allowed. Within a couple of years, though, Nat Bender and Jake Warner gave us access to a high rope in the gym at P.S. which sort of satisfied our urge to slide down the fire pole.
Date: 6/23/2011, 5:53 pm, EDT
Name: Budo
Location: N Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & Van Buren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Connie, You're right on the firehouse as best as I remember now. My mother use to food shop near that area at an A&P store. Budo
Date: 6/23/2011, 5:48 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward, Baynard Village
Schools Att'd: PS duP
Employers:
Message: Connie - Ronnie Grant did have a younger brother but I don't remember that his name was Roger. He also had two older sisters, and the Grants lived on McCabe Avenue between Jefferson and Madison. After school, we used to watch the Hopalong Cassidy show on TV in the Grant's living room. And I did know that Billy Carden had passed away. I saw him last at the PS Class of 1952 50th Reunion in Wilmington in July, 2002. Great guys, all of them!
Date: 6/23/2011, 4:16 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Wilmington Fire Station 1814 Gilpin Ave Wilmington, DE 19806 - I believe that is between Lincoln and Scott
Date: 6/23/2011, 2:29 pm, EDT
Name: Budo
Location: N WIlm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & VanBuren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Sue, re: the fire house on Gilpin Ave. Do you remember about where on Gilpin ?
My folks lived on Rodney just off Delaware for a couple of years while I was very young and I' trying to picture it. Budo
Date: 6/23/2011, 1:07 pm, EDT
Name: Sue Dominguez
Location: Santa Maria, CA
Old Neighborhood(s): Wilmington 40 acres
Schools Att'd: HIghlands Elementary, Warner JR. HIgh
Employers:
Message: I lived in the 40 acres on Gilpin Ave. Does anyone remember the fire station there? We used to roller skate in front of it, and there was always a big heavy set Chief who would say "GIT!!" every time he was on duty. I went to Highlands elementary and had Sue B. Anderson as my 1st and 2nd grade teacher. I loved her! We would go to Joe Prouds for candy, and to Pini's on the corner for sodas. The Art Museum and Hagley were my favorite things to see. Great times!! Sue Lilley Dominguez
Date: 6/23/2011, 11:50 am, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: I remember those guys outside Canby Pool in the summer. One sold sticky apples and another guy sold, "Hokey, Pokey, Snowballs."
Date: 6/22/2011, 9:55 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood(s): 25TH & MADISON
Schools Att'd: BROWN
Employers:
Message: DANNY
AT THE TIME THE GUY WAS SELLING CANDY ON THE CORNER AT HARLAND I WAS IN THE AIR FORCE SO I NEVER HEARD MY MOTHER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT HIM.
Date: 6/22/2011, 7:22 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookemeade
Old Neighborhood(s): Garfield Statue
Schools Att'd: #31, Warner, P.S. UD
Employers:
Message: I lived directly across the street from the Garfield monument. I missed out on the "Garfield Boys" since I entered the USAF in Jan. 1951. I did know someof the "Boys", however. That was a great area. No fear staying out late!
Date: 6/22/2011, 4:29 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: I remember a guy selling something near Canby pool. Can't remember now what he looked like or what he sold. I was about 5 or 6, back in 1953, 54. I think that was before they had the concession on the outside, to the left of the entrance . He sood in the grass, a liitle to the left and at the beginning of the main concrete walkway, leading down to the pool.
Date: 6/22/2011, 1:23 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: Joe, I don't remember the man having a mustache and I've always believed that he walked to his "spot" at 36th and Jefferson where he sold us his "sticky" apples and fudge. Even if he didn't walk to Harlan, it's improbable that he was the same man who sold fudge after school let out at the Lore; there just wouldn't have been enough time; even with the new physics, someone can't be in two places at the same time. Maybe it was a franchise, though; perhaps a couple of cousins.
Date: 6/22/2011, 10:14 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Re Billy Carden - "William A. Carden
Age 70 of Citrus Springs, FL died Sunday, May 22, 2005, at home, in the care of his wife and Hospice of Citrus County."
Date: 6/22/2011, 10:11 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Did Ronny Grant have a younger brother named Roger?
Date: 6/22/2011, 9:31 am, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward, Baynard Village
Schools Att'd: PS duPont HS
Employers:
Message: "Standin' on the Corner" in Wilmington in the 9th Ward back in the 1950's were the gang of boys from PS who lounged at the feet of Garfield's statue at 23rd, Concord and Jefferson, across the street from Louis' Drugs. I've always thought of them since as "The Garfield Boys" and they included Dewitt Fielder, Don Walker, Don Rodenhiser, Ronnie Grant, Ronnie Smith, Ken Pickering and Nathan Hall. Jimmy Hamilton, Bob Amoruso, Billy Carden and Desmond Hoey.
What fun we had there, especially during those long summer evenings when we weren't at the baseball game or at the movies at the Strand or downtown.
Date: 6/22/2011, 8:20 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: There was a slim mustached Greek man who sold fudge at Warner in the early 1950s. The box he carried the fudge on had a false bottom. One day boys were buying funny looking cigarettes for a quarter each. (This is when a pack was about twenty cents.) I went up to him to buy fudge and he angrily yelled at me to go away! Some time later he wasn't coming to sell fudge anymore. I mentioned it to someone and they laughed and said he had been selling drugs and the school found out about it. I assume he was arrested.
Date: 6/22/2011, 7:23 am, EDT
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: Joe, did you have Mrs. MacAdams for kindergarten?
Date: 6/22/2011, 3:24 am, EDT
Name: JOE PASQUALE
Location: LITTLE ITALY
Old Neighborhood(s): LITTLE ITALY
Schools Att'd: LORE-BAYARD-BROWN VOC.
Employers:
Message: DANNY...IT PROB. WAS THE SAME MAN WHO SOLD THE FUDGE & CANDLIED APPLES....AT LORE SCHOOL..& AT CAMBY POOL....IN THE EARLY FORTIES..DID HE HAVE A LARGE WHITE MUSTACHE...IF IT WAS... I KNOW A FEW THINGS ABOUT HIM...HE WAS OF GREEK NATIONALITY...SPOKE BROKEN ENGLISH...HE HAD A GRANDSON WHO WAS IN MY ROOM IN KINDERGARDEN OR FIRST GRADE..
Date: 6/22/2011, 1:28 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: Thank you, Maureen. My children are both scientists; unfortunately, my time to tell them stories about my childhood is now quite limited. That being said, however, I am inspired by your enthusiasm to tell my sons my recollections about the man who sold candy on the corner at Harlan school, so I want to thank you for that as well. I was hoping that someone reading this column could add to my recollection and perhaps elaborate on it. No doubt David Cauffman's mother, who worked in the office at Harlan School, had adult knowledge about this man; perhaps there are others. Then again, preserving the childhood memory exactly as it is has merit, too. Either way, I don't think I'll be disappointed. Thanks again, Maureen, for your compliments.
Date: 6/21/2011, 5:57 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: L
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Dan S, You have a gift for writing, hope you are are sharing your stories with your family for future generations to come :-)
Date: 6/20/2011, 4:00 pm, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: Upon further reflection (re: the man who sold candied apples and fudge at 36th and Jefferson), I can honestly say that it was the man's quiet dignity that impressed itself on the small boy's memory. There was a kindness in his gaze and demeanor that, from my perspective now, I can only ascribe to the man's life experience which had brought him--in what I imagine may have been his twilight years--to the flag-poled corner of our elementary school. The man must have known, as we children fled home in all directions, that the little taste of sweetness that he had so affordably sold to us, would linger in our memory, long after the sound of his departing footsteps had faded from the sidewalk of our schoolyard.......
Date: 6/19/2011, 1:03 pm, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Pauls & WHS
Employers:
Message: Swifty, heck no, we deliberately walked by that corner to check out the guys :P
Date: 6/19/2011, 11:20 am, EDT
Name: Swifty
Location: Middletown DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Northeast Wilmington
Schools Att'd: MCIWilliams, Bayard, Warner, PS
Employers: Bank Of DE, Budd Co, Honeywell
Message: Joan H: I was one of those guys standing on the corner of 9th & Market. I worked at 6th & Market and would make the 3 block trip almost everyday. I hope we didn't annoy you too much.
Date: 6/19/2011, 10:24 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: June 19, 1999 The 61 students of the last class of the 39 year old Wilmington High School at North du Pont Road and Lancaster Avenue were graduated.
Date: 6/19/2011, 3:31 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: The corner at 36th and Jefferson was where the flag pole was located at Harlan School. In the early 1950's, an older gentleman, who seemed as if he had come to Wilmington from somewhere in Europe, set up a small folding table there, from which he sold candied apples and chocolate fudge to the children, after school let out. He was a tall, thin, dignified man who often wore an overcoat with a scarf and a hat. I remember him standing there quietly with a dozen or so candied apples with their little sticks poking out from their wax paper wrappings, along with a meager array of small squares of homemade fudge carefully set out on his table. Later (possibly around 1954), school officials disallowed the man's enterprise and I never saw him again. I've always wondered who that man was, how he came to be in Wilmington and what became of him. So if I was asked to nominate a Wilmington street corner that was in some way special for "standin," it would have to be the corner of Harlan School at 36th and Jefferson, because of the quiet man who once stood there after school, where he sold his apples and fudge for a very few nickles and dimes and impressed a sweet memory on one little boy.
Date: 6/18/2011, 1:22 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: We always went to the free mornings at Price's Run Pool. Some mornings were so cool we wore a sweater to walk to the pool, then stayed under the water as much as possible to avoid the cool air. But there was no way to avoid that cold shower we had to run through to get from the changing room to the pool.
Date: 6/18/2011, 10:46 am, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Pauls & WHS
Employers:
Message: Speaking of corners, anyone out there remember the guys standing on the corner in front of Woolworths @ 9th & Market, at lunch time, watching the girls back in the early 60's? It was always very windy and back then we wore full skirts that we had to hold down when crossing the street.
Date: 6/18/2011, 10:39 am, EDT
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST
Schools Att'd: WARNER, W.H.S. ,V.F.M.
Employers: DEPT. PUBLIC SAFETY, ALPINE RM. SUPERVISOR SECURITY , INNISBOO
Message: TO ALL THE HARD WORKING FATHERS OUT THERE , AND TO ALL THE RETIRED ONES. HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO YOU ALL ! YOU EARNED IT !
Date: 6/18/2011, 8:44 am, EDT
Name: bettyb
Location: sussex co
Old Neighborhood(s): east 4th..bellemoor...jefferson farms
Schools Att'd: bancroft...wilm. high
Employers: woolworths...a&p...citi bank
Message: does anyone remember prices run pool in the late 40s & early 50s ? you could swim from 10 to 12 free and then come back at 1 and swim the rest of the day for 25 cents...there was a sunrise bakery not far from little flower school with fresh baked donuts..the long ones filled with cream with powdered sugar..yum
Date: 6/18/2011, 2:30 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S., Friends, U. of Del.
Employers:
Message: I read in today's New York Times that Winslow, Arizona is capitalizing on a line in an Eagles song about "standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona". Apparently, a little park has been built across the street from the supposed corner in the song, which has been plaqued with a historical marker; now tourists are congregating there and the whole enterprise is generating close to a half million $'s a year for the town's businesses. People actually go to Winslow to stand on the corner! In most cities in the U.S., including our very own Wilmington, Delaware, standing on a corner will get you arrested (for loitering) or, if you wait long enough, shot. The only people in Wilmington who capitalize on people standing on a corner are those who are employed in law enforcement and sign painters who are paid for making signs that read "NO LOITERING". Maybe it's just bad luck for us that the Eagles didn't write a song about "standin' on a corner in Wilmington, Delaware." If The Eagles had written a song about Wilmington, can you imagine which corner it might have been?.......
Date: 6/4/2011, 1:53 pm, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Location: Cape May, N.J.
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers:
Message: Moved into a great Wilmington neighborhood in 1935 and left around 1957. There were people that had their roots from other countries, including Irish, German, Polish and English and Jewish. I recall in the 30's an oriental family, never knew if they were Chinese or Japanese. There were two colored families that lived just two houses away from ours. What a great neighborhood to grow up in. Our neighborhood was small. There was even a Greek family that lived there. This was known as Happy Valley a great place to live.
Date: 6/4/2011, 8:15 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Interesting - June 4, “1954 With models on the Kirkwood Highway, Brookside homes in Newark were advertised. The Coronet model mortgage was $58.81 per month while the twin bath El Dorado was $74.02 per month.”
“Average Annual Salary: $4,700 Minimum Wage: 75 cents per hour 1954”
When the media reports how little one earns in other countries, then need to also say how much they pay for everything.