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#112 November 1, 2013 to November 30, 2013)
Date: 11/30/2013, 8:43 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Hudson Jester
Web:
Location: Newark DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Prices Run Area
Schools Att'd: Geo Gray, Warner, PS duP '51
Employers:
Message: Tom..Zada and Yachtie were at the 60th reunion at Timothy's,
P.S. class of '51. Were you there? Also, Ellie Russo (Sabe's sister)
was there, and she was also at the luncheons for 61 and 62 reunions.
I've been to all of them, from the 10th year on. Can't make the
Price's Run reunions, or my brothers would beat me up! NO GIRLS ALLOWED!
HA....Shirley Hudson Jester
Date: 11/30/2013, 11:31 am, EDT
Name: Tom
Web:
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village..18th & Tatnall
Schools Att'd: #9,#24,Warner,P.S.,UDEL,PENN
Employers: Many
Message: Bob, Iwas relegated to the under the desk treatment once myself
for melting crayons on the radiator. I told my mom and she was so
pi...d she came in and chewed Miss Shaw out and I think the treatment
stopped at that juncture (1940). Shirley, we were classmates at P.S.
'51. Shall try to make that Prices Run reunion some time. See Yachtie
Megonigal often. He and his bride Zada (Bunn) live in a georgous home
in Laguna Beach overlooking the Pacific and jogging off to lunch at
Vegas in their twin engine Piper Cherokee. Yachtie was at Warner in
1945/46 and then went on to Brown to study auto mechanics. But, the
temporary help business interrupted, he and the late Sabbie Russo hlit
it big with Kelly Girls, Tom split off to California and started his own
corporatioin.
Who needs college ??
Date: 11/27/2013, 10:56 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Web:
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Did anyone ever go to the Philadelphia Christmas Parade? I
remember when I was a toddler my parents took me there and the people
along the route were about 5 or 10 people deep. They couldn't see
anything. One said to the other they'd wait til Santa came so I could
see him. When he came near they asked people in front to let me go
through to see him and they did. Then we left. It was freezing cold.
They probably went up and back on the train.
Date: 11/23/2013, 10:26 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Web:
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Crackers and water! :O Sounds like old time prison diet.
Date: 11/23/2013, 6:43 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Web:
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: Borgia's did have good pizza. They were right next door to
Frankie's. I remember the Reno's pizza truck coming through the
neighborhoods, and 'Hoagie' (as we called him), the driver. He was a
character.
Bill : thanks for the info.
Date: 11/22/2013, 5:00 pm, EDT
Name: Fred Best
Web:
Location: Colonial Heights
Old Neighborhood(s): colonial hgts
Schools Att'd: St. Joe's, St Thomas, Sallies
Employers: DuPont Experimental
Message: Meant to say Monday through Saturday, oops
Date: 11/22/2013, 4:59 pm, EDT
Name: Fred Best
Web:
Location: Colonial Heights
Old Neighborhood(s): colonial hgts
Schools Att'd: St. Joe's, St Thomas, Sallies
Employers: DuPont Experimental
Message: Evening Journal and Wilmington Morning News were both Monday through Friday papers as long as I remember.
In
the early to mid sixties my favorite sub shop after paying for my
papers on a Saturday was Philomena's at 2nd and Lincoln. A regular sub
was fifty cents!
Frankie's at 5th and Union was my favorite for
cheesesteaks. There was also a Reno's Pizza on Union which is now
Borgia's Italian Food Festival.
Date: 11/22/2013, 3:57 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Web:
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: a few
Employers:
Message: Jerry T, the first Sunday News Journal was printed on 7
September 1965. It was delivered free that day to existing subscribers
of the Morning News and Evening Journal. On 6 September 1965, the first
Saturday edition of the News Journal was printed. That surprised me as
I thought that it had always appeared 6 days a week.
Date: 11/22/2013, 1:55 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Web:
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: Jack Zebley : Frankie's was my favorite for Italian subs. It's a
shame the store had to close, but Helen Gallo was getting up in age.
Does anyone remember her husband ? I also remember Frankie's pinball
machine. My pinball hangout was Trippe's(Ben Terepka's) on Maryland Ave.
and Sycamore Sts. He had 2 pinball machines in the back, one of which
was the baseball/pinball.
Tom(from Williamsburg) ; Wow, regarding Miss Shaw, and the longevity of her career.
Connie
: I remember when the basement of St. Hedwig's grade school stored
boxes and boxes and boxes of water and crackers in the event of war
with Russia.
Bruce : I was in my Sophomore year at Archmere, in
Latin class, when the announcement came over the P.A. system, that
President Kennedy was shot. That Friday night in Hedgeville was an eerie
one. It was a warm evening with a dense fog throughout the
neighborhood. That day, and throughout the weekend, hardly a soul could
be seen walking.
Date: 11/19/2013, 4:25 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Web:
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N Franklin St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Springer
Employers:
Message: Anybody remember where you were when President Kennedy was
shot. I was in 8th grade math class, Mr. Fidel, who was a big Kennedy
supporter, had his picture in the classroom. A teacher from another
class came into ours crying and told Mr. Fidel the President had been
killed. Some kid laughed and I remember Fidel picking the kid up by his
shirt and slamming him to the wall. Lucily he got control of himself
and told us all to leave the class room and we were sent home. That was
the start of a very strange and sad week-end for the U.S.
Date: 11/19/2013, 3:26 pm, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Web:
Location: Cape May
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers: USAF ret
Message: Strange, never remember the duck and cover drill in school. I
may have been absent when it was scheduled. I recall the air raid
drills, most of the time at night. Started first grade in 1937, war
declared in Dec '41. I was in #24 School until I went to Warner in
1943. Never remember such, in Warner. Went to WHS '46-'50, never recall
it there.
Date: 11/19/2013, 12:40 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Web:
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Remember the air raid drills in school - get under the desk and hands on the back of your head.
Date: 11/18/2013, 7:11 am, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Web:
Location: Cape May
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers: USAF ret
Message: Tom... I too remember Miss Shaw as my teacher in first grade. I
recall the dunce stool and tall pointy hat with the word dunce printed
on it. Never occupied it as I was much to timid, just a small guy at
the time and the teacher seemed to be 6 foot tall. Anyone that sat on
that dunce stool that called attention to themselves were placed beneath
her desk where they could not be seen by the class. Again it never
happened to me.
Date: 11/17/2013, 10:29 pm, EDT
Name: Shirley Hudson Jester
Web:
Location: Newark DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Price's Run
Schools Att'd: Geo Gray, Warner, PS duP '51
Employers:
Message: The Price's Run (men only) reunion is still held at the Grand
on the first Saturday in April. My brothers usually attend, Jack, Bob,
Ken Richard Hudson. Maybe you know them. My sister, Joan, and I were
never allowed, but plan to crash it someday??? Shirley Hudson Jester
Date: 11/17/2013, 5:40 pm, EDT
Name: Tom
Web:
Location: Williamsburg, VA
Old Neighborhood(s): 1722 Tatnall St. (18th & Tatnal
Schools Att'd: #9, #24, Warner, P.S., UofD, Penn
Employers: Not enough room here to say
Message: At # 24 my first grade teacher (1940) was Miss Shaw, not an
earth shaking fact except that she was also my Aunt's teacher in 1911.
We had no cafeteria but could run down to Brown Vocational (14th &
Market) and buy a "Victory Lunch" during the war consisting of a
lunchmeat and cheese sandwich on a roll, a half pint of milk, and a bowl
of soup for, ready ?, SEVEN CENTS (.07). AH, THEM WERE THE DAYS.
Played trumpet at Warner in the same band and orchestra as Ralph Pryor
for Mr. Kazinski (sp?). Have already voiced my dismay at what our home
town has come to. After college went into the Navy and never returned
except to visit friends, see a Delaware game, and attend annual
reunions...one, our old neighborhood at Brandywine Village, and Ninth
Ward neighbors. One scheduled on December 5th this year. Have not been
able to get back for the Price Run get together set up by Jackie Smith.
Understand it;s over the old Grand on Market?
Date: 11/16/2013, 11:42 am, EDT
Name: Jack Zebley
Web:
Location: Newark
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flata
Schools Att'd: Lore Bayard WHS
Employers: WTC
Message: Jerry T..Saturday lunch after paying the newspaper bill was at
Mike's Sub Shop on Union Street just down from 6th (before Mrs.
Robino's), and at Frankie's just below 5th street. Pinball machines at
both were five cents.
Date: 11/12/2013, 4:05 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Web:
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: Still on the topic of newspapers, does anyone know when the News Journal started the Sunday papers ?
Date: 11/12/2013, 3:58 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Web:
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: Jack Zebley : where did you get your sub and Tastycake from on Union St. in the mid-50's ?
I
remember a James/Jim Bogia, who would be in his mid 60's now, and who
lived out Maryland Ave., possibly Richardson Park. Wonder if he was
related to Mr. Maurice Bogia ?
Date: 11/12/2013, 2:29 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Web:
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N Franklin St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Springer
Employers:
Message: My bundle of papers were delivered on N Broom St. in back of
the 1401 Apartments. I got in trouble for throwing the paper used to
protect the bundle and wire in the storm drain where the bundle was
dropped
Stupid Kid!
Date: 11/12/2013, 10:59 am, EDT
Name: Jack Zebley
Web:
Location: Newark
Old Neighborhood(s): Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard, WHS
Employers: WTC
Message: My brother and I served papers in the Flats, and the area west
of the B&O tracks down to Greenhill Avenue. We served in the mid
50s during the WHS football season for the two guys who were on the
football team. It was our first job and a great experience. We also
paid MR Bogia on 3rd Street between Union and Lincoln. Saturdays were
always great with a sub and Tastycake on Union Street after collection
and paying our bill.
Date: 11/11/2013, 7:30 pm, EDT
Name: Pat (Stillwell) LeVan
Web:
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 22nd and Tatnall Sts.
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: One location for the Morning News and News-Journal pickups was
on Buena Vista St. a short street pff Vandever Ave. Mr. Thomas
Leonard was in charge of that location.
Date: 11/11/2013, 7:18 pm, EDT
Name: Fred Best
Web:
Location: Colonial Heights
Old Neighborhood(s): colonial hgts
Schools Att'd: St. Joe's, St Thomas, Sallies
Employers: DuPont Experimental Station
Message: Early '60's there was a garage pickup site for the Evening
Journal on the 1900 block of West 3rd street between Union and Lincoln
on the south side of 3rd Street. I walked there every Saturday and paid
money to Maurice Bogia. My paper route was Foster Park Apartments,
Corbin Court and the 3000, 3100 and 3200 blocks West 2nd Street.
Garage on 3rd Street was later Charley Shuster's car repair shop.
Date: 11/11/2013, 6:00 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Web:
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: What were some of the other locations, besides 2nd and Jackson, where paperboys picked up their bundles ?
Date: 11/10/2013, 8:22 am, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Web:
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood(s): 25TH & MADISON ST
Schools Att'd: BROWN
Employers: EH&R & DUPONT
Message: BACK IN THE 40s WHEN I HAD MY PAPER ROUTE MOST PEOPLE GOT PAID
IN CASH EACH WEEK .SO THE TRICK WAS TO KNOW WERE THEY WORKED AND WHEN
THEY GOT PAID AND HIT THEM THAT NIGHT ( IT WORKED FOR ME )
Date: 11/7/2013, 4:26 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Web:
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: I used to go with a buddy sometimes to deliver papers, and
collect, in the late 50's, early 60's. His route was within several
blocks of the paper pickup up point, in an old garage on the corner of
2nd and Jackson. The same thing happened to him on collection days, with
people not paying, and being told to come back at another time. One
time when we went to collect, in an apartment building on 2nd St., the
apartment door was partially open, and we saw something that 11/12 year
olds should not have seen. The man yelled out for us to go away using
several expletives ; the woman didn't say anything.
Date: 11/6/2013, 7:11 am, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Web:
Location: Cape May
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers: USAF ret
Message: My brother delivered papers in Happy Valley, always a couple of
readers would not answer their door and seem to dodge the newsboy.
They were inherited from a former friend that had the route prior. My
brother always tried to collect from the deadbeats, but it never
happened. Young kids just paid the company from the collection and
never seem to terminate serving the paper to the ones that owed.
Date: 11/5/2013, 8:41 pm, EDT
Name: Ed Begley
Web:
Location: Santa Fe Texas
Old Neighborhood(s): Sacred Heart playground
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart ,Salllies And Wilmington High
Employers: Rice Bakery,Avisun
Message: Hi Bruce, Had a Route that took in West and Washington St.,from
8 th to 9 th Street and both apt. and stores .people did not want to
pay the paper bill.
Date: 11/4/2013, 9:20 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Web:
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N Franklin St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Springer
Employers:
Message: Did anyone have a paper route delivering the News Journal? My
route included 1401 Apts. on Pennsylvania Ave. I used the freight
elevator and one morning I got stuck in the elavator. Since it was early
no one heard the alarm bell and I was one scared kid until the
maintenence people let me out.
Collecting was a pain - people would dodge me to avoid .42 cents a week! :-(
Date: 11/1/2013, 4:08 pm, EDT
Name: Jim Kelley
Web:
Location: Pike Creek, DE
Old Neighborhood(s): Alban Park
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Richardson Park, Conrad, WHS
Employers:
Message: The Apartment Complexes were the best for getting the most
Candy with the least walking(except up steps). Alban Plaza Apartments
was a good one for me, except a friend did find a razor in an apple
there in the early 70s. Remember the boxes of stale Good-n-Plenty? ha
lol