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#89: August 1, 2011 to August 31,
2011)
Date: 8/28/2011, 9:06 am, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Bill, can't say I remember anyone by that name or nickname and description.
Date: 8/27/2011, 10:22 pm, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: some very well
Employers:
Message: Ray, do you remember a gun named Bill, who everyone called the Weatherman? He worked at the Experimental Station, I think. Use to be a regular at Defiance on Jackson St. in the early to mid 70s. Buzz cut, real thick glasses.
Date: 8/27/2011, 8:24 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Jim Rambo. Billy Jarrell was one of my favorite people.
He was just flat out one of the nicest guy's I have ever met. He used to stay at my place at the Beach when we had our Defiance Tournaments. I remember all too well the last time he went down to play, he wound up staying back at the house too weak to play
but game enough to go down with us and try. Bub Querey being the good guy that he is elected to forgo the Tournament and stay with him, it was sad.
Date: 8/27/2011, 4:16 pm, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: several
Employers:
Message: You're the winner, Ray. The article didn't mention the Shields house or Salmon's. The club had a tag day scheduled to raise money to buy the property and Wilmington had a deluge. Some of the members defied the rain, when the club postponed the tag sale. Third floor of the Weccacoe Fire Co. was the place mentioned.
Date: 8/27/2011, 12:32 pm, EST
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: L
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Mandatory evacuation in my area, packed up last night, trunk full of my kids baby pictures, could not leave pics and staying at my brother's in Pike Creek, much higher ground in case of flooding :O
Date: 8/27/2011, 11:58 am, EST
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: bayard/ conrad
Employers:
Message: Speaking of the Defiance Club, I still miss hearing Billy Jarrel belt out those Irish melodies. Wonderful voice and a great guy to go with it.
Date: 8/27/2011, 11:14 am, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: Ralph Pryor: I do have your email address and I will email you this weekend.
Date: 8/27/2011, 10:49 am, EST
Name: Ralph PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: WARNERR, W,H.S. ,V.F.M.A.
Employers: WILM. DEPT . PUBLIC SAFETY. ETC.
Message: RICHARD BURTON, I REMEMBER HURRICANE HAZEL, I WAS ON THE DEL MEM. BRIDGE POLICE , WAITING TO GO ON THE WILM. POLICE DEPT.. SHE DID DAMAGE TO ONE OF THE TOLL BOOTHS, AND SHE TOOK MY CAP RIGHT OFF MY HEAD , ,NEVER SAW IT AGAIN !THANKS FOR THE 8X10 OF MY DAD. GAVE YOU MY E- MAIL ADDRESS. E= MAIL ME.
Date: 8/27/2011, 10:27 am, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Bill, Our Club was formed at 231 N. Jackson St. on October 21ST, 1919. This was in the private home of W. Shields. The Club then went to the WEECO Volunteer Fire House on the 3RD floor located on the
South West corner of 2ND and Jackson Streets. I twas there until the Fire House became a paid City
Fire Department. The Club then moved to the South
East corner of 3RD and Jackson Streets where they used the back room of W.A. (Salmon) Shields' Store.
They remained here until a deposit was made in the
Spring of 1922 on the property which would become
the long time home of DEFIANCE A.A. located at 219
and 221 N. Jackson Streets owned by C.C. Clancy.
Since then it has been located in Browntown and now
is located on the corner of Boxwood Rd and Boxwood Ave.
Date: 8/27/2011, 12:09 am, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: of course
Employers:
Message: For Defiance members and everyone else: where did the club first hold its meetings before the building opened at 221 N. Jackson? I found an article in The Star that mentioned this. Hint - within one block.
Date: 8/26/2011, 10:59 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Went down the Beach today to get all the deck furniture put in the garage, take the awnings down and put them there also. Boy was that traffic bad.
I usually get home in an hour and forty minutes, it was a little over three hours today. Also took the big flat screen TV off it's stand in the sun room away from the window it sits under and placed it in a safer location(I hope).
Date: 8/26/2011, 3:45 pm, EST
Name: Phil Culver
Location: Layton, Utah
Old Neighborhood(s): 36th and Washington, Matson Run
Schools Att'd: PS 1970
Employers: USAF
Message: To Ruth Corey of Newark Delaware
I may have an electronic copy of your mom's PS yearbook. What year did she graduate? I have most from 1950 and on and quite a few that are older. I'm not selling it and I'll send it to you no charge. Same goes for anyone else who would like a PS yearbook, if I have it.
Phil
Date: 8/26/2011, 10:20 am, EST
Name: Shirley Hudson Jester
Location: Newark DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Price's Run Area
Schools Att'd: Geo Gray, Warner, PS duPont '51
Employers:
Message: Everyone have a safe weekend! I tried to "batten down the hatches" but I couldn't find any hatches! Oh, Well! Later...Shirley Hudson Jester
Date: 8/26/2011, 10:05 am, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: Anyone remember hurricane Haze, back in the early 50’s I think? It tore off roofs in the flats on Bayard Avenue, I think.
Date: 8/25/2011, 1:41 pm, EST
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookmeade
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd & Washington
Schools Att'd: #30, Warner, P.S., UD
Employers:
Message: Budo, Dave McCallister used the nickname "Snapper" because his family ran the McCallister soup company and their #1 product was snapper soup. Dave was proud of the soup connection and was directly involved with the company business. He had a F-84F with "Souper Sonic Snapper" painted on the fuselage. When he worked at All American he dropped an application to join the Guard on my desk at least once a week!
Date: 8/25/2011, 1:29 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Rich - where did you go to High School? The closest one to Beckers that I know is P.S. and that was 34th and Van Buren - at least a mile away. Brown was at about 14th and Market, over 7 blocks away.
Some rough characters did hang at Becker's, but they never bothered anyone going by or in the store. Al wasn't a regular, apparently he just stopped to chat with some of his school mates there because a lot of our school mates lived down on Vandever Ave.
Date: 8/25/2011, 1:21 pm, EST
Name: Budo
Location: N WIlm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & Van Buren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Bob- Colonel McCallister certainly deserves to be in the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame. His last aircraft a F-86H sits on display at the Del. Air National Guard grounds at the Wilmington Airport. Tell the story of how he got the nickname "Snapper" Budo
Date: 8/25/2011, 12:49 pm, EST
Name: Rich Deptula
Location: Hockessin
Old Neighborhood(s): S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: Wilmington HS. & Brown Tech
Employers: sELF
Message: # 207
Muareen, It was just a few blocks from my High School. Some tough characters hung there!
Date: 8/25/2011, 12:38 pm, EST
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Becker's corner was a place we were not allowed to go, my dad told us it was a rough neighborhood and stay away from there. I don't know why my dad thought it was not a good area, but he would be right about it now :-(
Date: 8/25/2011, 11:01 am, EST
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookmeade
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd & Washington
Schools Att'd: #30, Warner, P.S., UD
Employers:
Message: For Budo, you might be interested that Stern's friend and C.O., Snapper McCallister will be inducted into the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame in September.
Date: 8/25/2011, 7:41 am, EST
Name: Budo
Location: N Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & Van Buren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: 57 years ago today Captain Frank Stern of the Del. Air National Guard died in the crash of his F-86 aircraft. Frank was in business with his father Frank Stern Sr on Tatnall St with Stern auto convertible top recovering. Frank was a family friend. Anyone remember ?
Date: 8/24/2011, 5:23 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Did any of you know Al Graham. Just spoke to him and he said he hung at Becker's on occasion. He lived on 24th Street.
Date: 8/24/2011, 2:19 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: I went to grammar and Jr. High with Earl, Jr. High with Carol duPhily, and knew of the Riley boys. Hung with the Riley girls on a few occasions but we normally traveled with different groups.
"Ernest F. DuPhily, Sr. "Ernie" Age 67 of Landenberg, PA passed away Wednesday, January 16, 2002.
Ernie serv-ed in the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict. He was the own-er and operator of Ern-est Construction Company and designed and built custom homes for 30 years. He was also the co-owner of Donna's Delights in Newark, DE.
Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Donna Sikorski DuPhily; children, Lisa Marie DuPhily, Ernest F. DuPhily and Marcus B. DuPhily; his sisters, Carole Varisco and Janet Hollett. "
Date: 8/24/2011, 12:33 pm, EST
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline, Goldey-Beacom
Employers: duPont
Message: Connie, I went to St. Patrick's with Ernie DuPhilly. Seems to me that I saw in the News-Journal obits that he died within the last couple of years.
Date: 8/24/2011, 11:45 am, EST
Name: Shirley Hudson Jester
Location: Newark DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Price's Run Area
Schools Att'd: Geo Gray, Warner, PS duPont '51
Employers:
Message: Connie, I knew the Riley family. They lived farther up toward Market Street. I knew Earl Hudson and Mary Alice Hudson, also. The duPhily's I knew, but not well. If there were boys in the family, my brothers probably knew them because they were into all kinds of sports. Shirley
Date: 8/24/2011, 11:25 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: The Carey family also live there a while. Dorothy, Francis, and Connie Carey were the children. Little Jimmy came later.
Date: 8/24/2011, 11:24 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Shirley - did you know the Rileys, Earl Hudson, or the DuPhilys?
Date: 8/24/2011, 10:37 am, EST
Name: Shirley Hudson Jester
Location: Newark DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Price's Run Area
Schools Att'd: Geo Gray, Warner, PS duPont '51
Employers:
Message: Native Delawarean, born 1933 in the front bedroom at 631 Vandever Avenue. Still here, although NOT on Vandever Avenue. Parents sold that house in 1954 and moved to Holly Oak. All things considered, I'd rather be in Delaware! Shirley Hudson Jester
Date: 8/24/2011, 6:39 am, EST
Name: Dolores Cardinalli
Location: SW Pa
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St, Hedwwigs,Bayard, Wilm, Hi
Employers: DuPont
Message: Everyone enjoy the jolt yesterday and getting ready for the hurricane?
We've had earth, wind is coming and water, skip the fire element dear Lord.
Date: 8/23/2011, 8:51 pm, EST
Name: pete
Location: fl
Old Neighborhood(s): stanton
Schools Att'd: conrad
Employers:
Message: Grew up on delaware park-went to Conrad-but graduated in 60 from Mckinley high in Hawaii-no,not in family way-spent thirty years in Montana catching trout-retired to Daytona Beach-lived in Pa. and Va. for a few years.
Date: 8/22/2011, 3:34 pm, EST
Name: Chuck Wilson
Location: Bear
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St Paul's and WHS
Employers: Retired USAF and Univ DE Police
Message: I was born and raised in Wilmington and during my Military career I lived in Sanantonio and Amirillo Texas, Greenville S. Carolina, Savannah Georgia, Trabzon Turkey, Westover Mass., Shreveport Lousiana, Weisbaden Germany, Niagara Falls NY., Yuba City California, I also spent time on a temporary basis at the following locations: London England, Aman Jordan, Toledo Spain, Terran Iran, Oslo Norway, Iceland, Assension Island, Bermuda. Now I am back in Delaware to stay.
Date: 8/22/2011, 2:13 pm, EST
Name: Tom Kolasinski
Location: Gle ndale, AZ
Old Neighborhood(s): Elsmere
Schools Att'd: Oak Grove, Conrad, U of D
Employers: Honeywell (retired)
Message: I grew up on Forest Ave in Elsmere where my parents lived in the same house for over sixty years. I lived in Indianapolis and Ashland, Kentucky while in the Army before returning to Delaware (Claymont) for one year before my employment took me to Bucks County, PA for the next 26 years. In '92 I reluctantly accepted a company transfer to Arizona, quickly learned to love the Southwest, and retired here in '02. I always would have preferred to stay in Delaware but have always been happy with where I ended up. Now that I travel through much of the US to new places I've never been to I sometimes wish I had been more adverturesome about living in new and different places. Time changes both places and people.
Date: 8/22/2011, 5:44 am, EST
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S.Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: Aside from living in Wilmington, the Wilmington area and down here at the shore, I spent 20 months with the Army in South Korea from 9/69 to 5/71. Most of my off duty time was spent off base, sightseeing and enjoying the people, the culture and the food. Fascinating country, yet I yearned for good old Wilmington, especially in the beginning of my tour. We went back to re-visit in 1989, and how things had changed, especially with respect to modernization and construction. What was once a small dirt road which ran parallel to my base, and took you in one direction to the 4077th M.A.S.H., had become a major highway. I'm sure it has changed much since.
Date: 8/21/2011, 10:54 pm, EST
Name: Linda (Morgan) Gunzl
Location: Marabou Medows Newark
Old Neighborhood(s): 25th and Washington Street
Schools Att'd: PS duOunt
Employers:
Message: I was born in Delaware in 1953 and have been here all my Life. I am a genealogist researching Family History. Richard Burton, I saw you post about Delaware Coach, do you have a Patridge? Currently researching, HAWKE, Sinclair, PYLE, Painter, Morgan,
Zebley, Denney, Coughten, Collison. IF Any one is researching any of their own families, be glad to help. This is a great to put an actual History to where the relatives lived, and life back then. Very interesting. Lindagunzal@aol.com
Date: 8/21/2011, 8:54 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: I have to laugh when I see all the places you've lived
Bob, and I've lived in this same house for almost 50 years and only two other houses my entire life and all three in the same City (Killington). That's 77 years. I don't envy you though, because I don't know if I
could take all that moving. Did your job take you to all those places or are you just a vagabond? I did live
in Germany for 18 Months, compliments of Uncle Sam.
When I say I have to laugh, I don't mean that to be sarcastic it's just funny how to guy's from the same City went different way's with different life styles.
Date: 8/21/2011, 5:10 pm, EST
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Madison
Schools Att'd: PS, UDel
Employers:
Message: )K - Here's where I've lived since August of 1949: First, 5 locations in Wilmington - 23rd and Madison: Monroe Park: Fairfax (2 homes on Waverly Road): and Green Acres. Newark, DE; Then Beaver, PA; Port Arthur, TX, Chelsea area of Manhattan, NY; 5 locations in NJ in North Plainfield, Plainfield (2 places), Union Township, and Hillside; 3 locations in Greenwich Village in Manhattan, NY; Fort Knox, KY; 2 locations on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, NY; Dobbs Ferry, NY; 4 locations in Greenwich, CT; 2 locations in Stamford, CT; and as of now, Beaufort, SC. Thatsa lotta places where I've hung my socks.
Date: 8/21/2011, 11:22 am, EST
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: bayard/ conrad
Employers:
Message: I retired in 2005 and headed for the mountains of Mexico, south of Guadalajara. Three hundred fifty dollars per month for a maid and gardener, $20 for a one hour massage, real estate tax of $150 per year, and no air conditioning or central heat necessary. Ten thousand gringos here in "winter" from the U.S. and Canada and you can "get by" without Spanish but it's not recommended. Weather is perfect. Nothing at all like the border area.
Date: 8/20/2011, 9:41 pm, EST
Name: Pat (Stillwell) LeVan
Location: Port Saint Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Patrick's, Ursuline, Goldey-Beacom
Employers: duPont
Message: I have lived all over the country since I married and left Wilmington in 1961. My husband worked for duPont and we lived in Memphis, TN; Whitehall, MI; Lewiston, NY; Joliet, IL; Parkersburg, WV and retired first to Clearwater, FL and eventually to Port Saint Lucie, FL. But, guess what? My very favorite place to live ever was WILMINGTON, DE. It will always be HOME.
Date: 8/20/2011, 5:27 pm, EST
Name: Bill Fisher
Web: http://Home.earthlink.net~whfisher
Location: Westminster, CA
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward, 30th & West Sts, Edgemoor Terrace
Schools Att'd: #30 (Concord Ave), P.S. DuPont, Mt. Pleasant, U of D.
Employers: American Airlines, UCLA, Xerox
Message: How spread out are we? I'm in California, and I know there are many other states and countries where contributors to this forum are living. Wilmingtonians get around; let's see just how many different states/countries we're in. Just post a message with your City, State or country in it.
Bill Fisher
Westminster, CA
Date: 8/20/2011, 1:43 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: BILL M - wasn't Vinnie Scott all-star football?
Date: 8/20/2011, 10:43 am, EST
Name: Bill M.
Location: Richardson Park
Old Neighborhood(s): Richardson Park
Schools Att'd: St Matthews, Sallies
Employers: Continental Can
Message: My best memories are of playing baseball from '54 to '60. Seems like we played at fields all over the city. Places like Browntown, 2nd and Clayton, Woodlawn Ave., 18th and Van Buren, Conrad HS, Rockford Park, etc, etc. That was before Sallies even had a baseball field. Sallies bussed the team out to Rockford Park for daily practices.
I still remember the best players in the city those days: Billy Olewinski, Bob Tinsman, Rusty Gates, Vinny Scott and Bill McMahon. Boy, did Matchy have a curve ball!!
I never remembered having social/racial problems in any of these neighborhoods. And after thinking long and hard about that, it is clear why. I guess I would get bumped from this forum if I said what has changed. But it definitely is the elephant in the room.
Anybody else remember back when???
Bill
Date: 8/18/2011, 4:28 pm, EST
Name: Dave S
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood(s): Broom St
Schools Att'd: Conrad
Employers:
Message: Joan H....... He was not really blind at all. He was always looking for tips. I know because he always asked to borrow my dog.
Date: 8/18/2011, 2:27 pm, EST
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Pauls & WHS
Employers: Wilm. Trust and others
Message: Barbara, are you by any chance thinking about Hagey's?
Old wooden sloping floors, unbelievable bathrooms and a lot of fun. It was sold awhile back and has been converted into a beautiful home. The singing group from Breck's mill used to come there after rehearsals, (way back in the 60's). A blind piano player used to entertain as well.
Date: 8/18/2011, 2:26 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: I was wondering if it was a corner building that faced another street but had an entrance to the tavern on S. Park Drive - sort of like a mom and pop with an area of the house used for business.
Date: 8/18/2011, 11:30 am, EST
Name: Barbara Hartnett
Location: USA
Old Neighborhood(s): rockford park
Schools Att'd: in pa
Employers:
Message: As I recall it was south of Lovering but before the bridge near the falls and an old mill. My memory has dimmed and I haven't been back to the area since the mid '80's.
Date: 8/18/2011, 11:15 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: What was the closest intersecting street to the Hole in The Wall?
Date: 8/17/2011, 3:32 pm, EST
Name: Barbara Hartnett
Location: USA
Old Neighborhood(s): Rockford Park area
Schools Att'd: In Pa.
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember a place on South Park drive along the Brandywine called "Hole in the wall Tavern?" It was there in the 1980's as I recall but my husband says there was no such place. I have been there!
Date: 8/17/2011, 1:32 pm, EST
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood(s): W 29th St.
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers: Retired
Message: That garage was made famous by the sicko Aubrey McKay (serial rapist) thet preyed on women back in the mid '70's. DART now wants to utilize it as a transportation center. That is ideal because there are a lot of sicko's that ride the DART bus anyway.
Date: 8/17/2011, 6:14 am, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: I thing the Midtown Parking Garage was in such poor shape and that is the reason it closed. It may have been that it wasen't worth fixing up.
Date: 8/16/2011, 11:58 pm, EST
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S.Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: Correction to my post # 175 : that was an 18 " roll, not an 18 ' roll. Wouldn't mind having one of those, though.
Date: 8/16/2011, 11:49 pm, EST
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S.Broom, N.Broom, Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: Jim Kelley - found this info. from the Archives of O.W. on 10/17/02 by a member of the Limmina family : 'Charlie's Original Sub Shop' opened in the 1930's at 413 Madison St., and was owned by Rosario(Charlie) and Mary Limmina. It was the first sub shop in Dela. Their son, Yatz, and his son , Tom, were the co-owner's of Yatz's on 7th and Union Sts.
I'm not sure when Yatz's moved from S. Rodney St. in Cleland Heights to Little Italy, but I'm pretty sure I remember still getting subs from the Cleland Heights location in 1972, before I moved out of the neighborhood.
1941 prices at Charlie's Original Sub Shop : 10 cents for a small sub on a 12 " soft roll, 20 cents for a large sub on an 18' hard roll. I thought I remembered that in the 50's the large subs were bigger than the standard 12 '' today.
Date: 8/16/2011, 10:19 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers: City Of Killington & Uncle DuPOnt
Message: Could it be Mr.webmaster that there aren't enough people brave enough to park there or was some other reason given, you know Killington is not the safest place to be.
Date: 8/16/2011, 7:59 pm, EST
Name: Webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: In TNJ tonight:
"The Midtown Parking Garage at Ninth and Orange streets in Wilmington closed at 9 p.m. tonight and will not reopen any time in the foreseeable future, its manager said."
Date: 8/16/2011, 3:44 pm, EST
Name: Jim Kelley
Web: http://www.whs79.com
Location: Pike Creek, DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Cool Springs, Alban Park, Richardson Park, Glenville
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Richardson Park, Conrad, Wilm High, Del Tech, UD
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember what year Yatz's Sub Shop moved from Cleveland Heights to Little Italy? And is it true that the current owner's grandfather opened the first sub shop in Delaware in 1931 at 4th and Madison street? I remember as a kid on the way home from Bud Zebley little league games picking up a small regular sub at Yatz's when we won:)
Date: 8/14/2011, 9:11 pm, EST
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville(S.Jackson), S.Broom, N.Broom,Klair Ests.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. of D.
Employers: U.S. Army, State of Dela.(retired)
Message: Hi Dolores : thanks for keeping in touch. Take care.
Date: 8/14/2011, 8:28 pm, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: Ralph Pryor: Yes john Zebley lived at 6th and Springer Street on 6th street in an upstairs flat. The father was a fireman for the city. I think you’re referring to his son Jack Zebley. I went to school with the younger brother, George.
Date: 8/14/2011, 8:16 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Thank you Dolores, I'm fine and hope you are also.
Good to hear from you.
Date: 8/14/2011, 7:56 pm, EST
Name: Dolores Cardinalli
Location: SW Pa.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Bayard, Wilm. High
Employers: DuPont
Message: Hi Jerry T.. Jubb and Tom.
Been a while since I followed you all. Will be a while when I get back on again, Just wanted to touch base with you all/
Ruth Ann: hope all is well with you.
Date: 8/14/2011, 6:46 pm, EST
Name: Butch Schilling
Location: Aiken, SC
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Hundred, Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: Alfred I, Silverside, Mt. Pleasant
Employers:
Message: Marie, according to the Social Security Death Index an Amanda Hutson passed in 1978 and was apparently living in Cape May at the time.
Date: 8/14/2011, 3:41 pm, EST
Name: rLPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: LORE ,WARNER, W.H.S.
Employers: WILM. DEPT. PUBLIC SAFETY,ETC.
Message: RICHARD BURTON, I SEE WHERE YOU LIVED IN THE FLATS. DID YOU KNOW A JOHN ZEBLEY AND FAMILY WHO LIVED THERE ? JOHN AND HIS SON WERE GOOD FRIENDS OF MINE, REPJFK@AOL.COM
Date: 8/13/2011, 9:56 pm, EST
Name: Marie Cox
Location: Midland, NC
Old Neighborhood(s): Brookside, Fireside Park, Neward
Schools Att'd: St. Elizabeth's High School, Wilmington
Employers: Pathmark Supermarkets
Message: I moved to NC in 1993 and brought with me an antique slant front desk that I got from a girl I knew who live off of Naamans Rd. Today my husband finally got around to doing much needed repairs to the back of the desk and feet. He found a letter opener that reads...Dino's Cafe & Restaurant, 217 W. 9th Street, Wilmington, Del.
Does anyone remember this restaurant and are they still around today?
Also we found a paystub from June 3rd, 1950 for an Amanda O. Hutson who worked for the Diamond State Telephone Company. Ive tried to locate her on line and have not had any luck.
Thanks for any help.
Date: 8/12/2011, 9:41 am, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: Harry, received your email but when I replied back it failed. Send me your email address.
Date: 8/12/2011, 6:53 am, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: Ralph Proyer: A package left Clear Warder, FL today at 5:43 am for delivery. Be on the lookout. One more package to go
Date: 8/11/2011, 12:14 pm, EST
Name: tony leo
Location: secane pa
Old Neighborhood(s): washington st
Schools Att'd: west chester
Employers:
Message: pizza place im looking for a pizza place that use to be market street around e 3rd st or 4th (or 3 blocks from the train station)..all i remember is across the street was a resturrant that had a picture of a lady in the window that the eyes would follow you as you walked by,,the pizza place had very very thin crust that would crack when you bite into it..i am going back about 45 years and i really would like to know the name of the place and see if it is located somewhere else..please help me fimd if they are still opend..thk tony
Date: 8/10/2011, 8:49 pm, EST
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes/Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): W 29th St
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Re: Johnny's Market. What a shame! I knew that neighborhood was doomed when Figel's Bakery closed shop after so many years.
Date: 8/9/2011, 5:59 pm, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the Firsst State
Message: Ralph Pryor: Two more packages should be arriving. One is scheduled to arrive this Friday. Don’t do anything with the pictures until you receive the other two packages.
Date: 8/9/2011, 5:25 pm, EST
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: WARNER, W.H.S, V.F.M.A
Employers: WILM. DEPT PUBLIC SAFETY, ETC.
Message: RICHARD, I RECEIVE ONE (1 ) PACKAGE, ENCLOSED, 4- I D PHOTOS OF MY DAD I NEVER SAW THEM BEFORE !---DROPSHIP #G627639 ---IMAGE 8--2X3 METALIC GALLERY #352403809----SHIPED USPS. WILL BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THE 2ND. PACKAGE , AND ON ITS ARRIVAL, WILL CONTACT YOU. AGAIN . THANK YOU ,RALPH
Date: 8/8/2011, 3:44 pm, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State.
Message: Ralph Pryor: The pictures were taken by Delaware Coach Company. How many packages did you receive? I also have one package left to send you. I’ll try and get it in the mail tomorrow.
Date: 8/8/2011, 2:10 pm, EST
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: WARNER ,W H S ,V.F.M.A
Employers: WILM,DEPT .PUBLIC SAFETY, ETC.
Message: RICHARD, THE PHOTO.S OF MY DAD ARRIVED TODAY . WHAT A GREAT LOOKING MAN , IF I DO SAY SO MYSELF. GREAT OLD PHOTOS . MY CHILDREN, GRAND CHILDREN , AND SOME DAY , MY GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER WILL ENJOY LOOKING AT THEM.. RICHARD WERE THE PHOTO'S TAKEN BY THE PA. TRACTION CO.,OR DEL COACH CO. ? AGAIN ,THANK YOU SO MUCH .
Date: 8/8/2011, 8:01 am, EST
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Madison
Schools Att'd: PS duP
Employers:
Message: An old classmate has asked me what the name of the place was, and apparently still is, up on the Philadelphia Pike, across from the 'new Masonic Temple'...that served great, warmed-up cinnamon buns. It was along the route of the #4-1 trolleybus. I don't remember it at all.
Date: 8/7/2011, 12:45 pm, EST
Name: Bob LaFazia
Web: http://delawarefootballhalloffame.webs.com/
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 2nd and Clayton, (
Schools Att'd: St. T's, Lore, Bayard, WHS, Delaware and West Chester
Employers: Me
Message: Hey how ya doin? Harry, I still love your site, its the BEST! I have all my friends and relatives all over the country viewing it! OK, this is my NEW Website...thought it was ABOUT time someone built a Delaware Football HALL of FAME Website...here it is, if you like it, please join...if not...stay with the #1 Site in Delaware...HERE! Click on: http://delawarefootballhalloffame.webs.com/
Thanx for lookin', Harry, my tomatoes are just the Best this year, Jet Stars!
Bob LaFazia
Date: 8/6/2011, 5:29 pm, EST
Name: RALPH PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9TH. CLAYTIN ST
Schools Att'd: WARNERV, W H S
Employers: WILM. DEPT. PUBLIC SAFETY
Message: RICHARD , THANK YOU , WILL CONTACT YOU AS SOON AS THE PACKAGES ARRIVE. REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THEM. AGAIN THANK YOU.
Date: 8/5/2011, 11:05 pm, EST
Name: George
Location: Ocean View
Old Neighborhood(s): South Broom, Maryland Ave.
Schools Att'd: home skooled
Employers:
Message: Hi I used to see a notice about a regular monthly meeting of athletes from Wilmington high, PS etc posted here. Does anyone have any current information about that meeting.
Take Care
George
Date: 8/5/2011, 3:26 pm, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: Ralph Pryor: I have shipped two packages to you today and their estimated arrival is: Aug 10 - Aug 15.
I have two more small packages to put together for you and I will advise you of the estimated dates of arrival when I ship them.
One of the packages will have my contact information in it in case you need to contact me. If packages arrive B/4 you get the contact information please let me know they arrived via this site that you received them.
Thanks for the little history on the proper names of the companies where my father and yours worked.
Date: 8/4/2011, 4:33 pm, EST
Name: Fred Best
Location: Colonial Hgts
Old Neighborhood(s): Colonial Hgts
Schools Att'd: St. Joe's, St. Thomas's, Sallies
Employers: Uncle Dupie
Message: Gallucio's used to be Embassy Hotel run by Charley Lewis. I walked by many a day on my walk home from Sallies.
Date: 8/2/2011, 5:33 pm, EST
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, Sate of De.(retired)
Message: The caption under the lithograph also says that the brewery opened in i866, and the present day Gallucio's is the only building left of the original brewery.
Date: 8/2/2011, 4:56 pm, EST
Name: Bob Wilson Jr.
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Madison
Schools Att'd: PS duP
Employers:
Message: Webmaster Harry and All - Delaware Brewery Expert Medkeff has recently posted (at Facebook's Old Wilmington site) a copy of a terrific lithograph of the one-time brewery (it shut down in 1932) that took up the entire block where Gallucchio's is today, on Lovering, Scott and Wawaset Streets. Check it out. The original of the lithograph is at the Hagley Museum. It's a great piece of the 19th Century lithographer's art.
Date: 8/2/2011, 4:38 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Thank you, Browiie. I didn't think to look there. Glad one of us is awake.
Date: 8/2/2011, 2:58 pm, EST
Name: Brownys
Location: Prices Corner area
Old Neighborhood(s): Ardentown,Wilmington
Schools Att'd: Brandywine district
Employers:
Message: To Connie, RE: Bancroft Mills,
According to Hagley research library,
Bancroft Mills became Indian head Mills in 1966.
The finishing plant was put up for sale in 1972.
It was purchased June 4,1973 by Wilm. Finishing Co.
Then Beaunit Corp. ,Feb. 1975. Finishing operations ceased in 1981
Date: 8/2/2011, 2:27 pm, EST
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: John S. I have a yo
unger brother Jack, graduated Wilmington High in the mid 70's
Date: 8/2/2011, 7:32 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Browny - the plant was still in operation into the 1970s, but it wasn't called "Bancroft" anymore. It was known as Indian Head untill the plant was shut down.
Date: 8/2/2011, 1:53 am, EST
Name: Danny Stat
Location: South Pender Island, BC
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: When we were teenagers, Morty Rosenblatt lived with his mother on one side of a duplex on the east side of Washington Street at 33rd, next to the cemetery. His father, who had operated a used car sales lot on Gov. Printz Blvd., passed away when Mort was 13 years-old and like too many other unfortunate children, Mort suffered the hardship of not having a father to encourage and love him through the "fevers" of adolescence. First as a boy and then a young man, Mort took refuge in reading; he also was moved by the songs of Buddy Holley and Hank Williams. When we were a bit older, we'd sometimes drive up to Chester and The Hook to drink beer at Ginsburgs, Molly's, or one or another of the tap rooms that served the workers at Sun Ship where the proprietor would turn a blind eye to the fact that we were not yet 21. So we'd buy a couple of drafts from Harry Ginsburg and kick back in the cool darkness of the tap room where Mort could forget for a moment that he was a boy without a father. I was one of Mort's pals and so I'm happy to see his name in print on the Old Wilmington Website.
Date: 8/1/2011, 6:18 pm, EST
Name: brownys
Location: Prices corner area
Old Neighborhood(s): Arden,Wilmington
Schools Att'd: Brandywine district
Employers:
Message: According to Wikipedia [ today!s encyclopedia ].
As textile producers left the northeastern United States for the southern states, Bancroft Mills closed in 1961.
The complex was recently owned by Wilmington Piece Dye company which went bankrupt in May 2003. The site was then bought by O'Neill Properties Group, a company specializing in the renovation and revitalization of disused or potentially dangerous parcels of land. Bancroft Mills is scheduled to become a large luxury condominium complex, to be called Rockford Falls. Today the complex stands as a reminder of the significant milling history of the Brandywine Valley.
Date: 8/1/2011, 5:08 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Maureen - there was a "Bookland" in the Branmar Plaza Shopping Center at Marsh and Silverside Roads listed in 1974. No name of the owners. No listing of the same store in the latest directory.
Date: 8/1/2011, 2:45 pm, EST
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: Bancroft did indeed become Indian Head in later years. My dad, Frank Stillwell, worked at Bancroft from the 20's into the 40's. In the 50's and 60's, my aunt, Bert Mulherin, worked for the same plant which I remember her calling "Indian Head".
Date: 8/1/2011, 2:12 pm, EST
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Jackson
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers:
Message: Jim,There is a book store in Bryn.M. Plaza shopping center off Marsh Rd. The owner's name was Richard R. not sure of the last name's spelling so I won't try it? Richard may have be a relative of Mort Rosenblatt, he is in his 50's, thinking he may be a son or grandson of Mort R. The book store has been there since late 70's.
Date: 8/1/2011, 10:47 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Re Bancroft Mills - I remember my father talking about Indian Head (mfr of the same products). I wonder if they were the owners in the late 60s and early 70s when he was still working there.
Date: 8/1/2011, 10:38 am, EST
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: bayard/ conrad
Employers:
Message: The question about book stores reminds me of the most memorable store owner that I knew. It was Mort Rosenblatt, a guy from up near Bellevue. He had the book store/ comic book store just west of 5th and Market. It's now a restaurant. Later, when Mort became seriously ill, he opened a store in his Bellevue home. I used to take my son into both locations. Mort had a ton of valuable books and was a real character: great sense of humor and extremely knowledgeable re: first editions etc.