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Visitors Nostalgia & Memories

(Archive #62: May 1, 2009 to May 31, 2009)

Date: 5/31/2009, 10:01 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT THE Y, DO YOU REMEMBER THE BOWLING ALLEY THAT THEY HAD THERE. I USED TO SET UP PINS BACK IN THE LAT 40'S AND EARLY 50'S.

TO BUD: I KNEW THE DURSTEIN'S WELL, I BOUGHT THEIR VENDING CO ON MILLER RD AFTER RALPH DIED. THEY HAD A LOT OF TRAGEDY, HIS YOUNGEST SON DIED AT THE AGE OF NINE AND THE OLDER ONE DURK BECAME A LAWYER. WHAT A GREAT FAMILY.

Date: 5/31/2009, 9:28 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers: City & DuPont
Message: For Budkyle: I remember you from the Ex-Station but
don't think I was the guy that stopped you on Monkey hill, and I think you must be exaggerating at least a little because there is no way you could go that fast on Monkey Hill with out getting killed. Uncle was Harvey Leathem(Spelling?) am I right? Harvey was a grat guy and a great leader.
Date: 5/31/2009, 5:40 pm, EDT
Name: Bill Fisher
Location: Westminster, CA
Old Neighborhood: 22nd & Monroe, 30th & West, Edgemoor Terrace
Schools Att'd: #30, P.S. duPont Jr High, Mt. Pleasant, U. of D.
Employers: American Airlines, System Development Corp., UCLA, Xerox Corp.
Message: I remember very clearly swimming at the "Y" at 11th & Washington... in the nude, and how you learned very quickly how to protect certain items when jumping off the side and especially off the diving board!
Date: 5/31/2009, 2:56 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula, CA
Old Neighborhood: Lancaster Village, Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd:
Employers: F&M Scientific (Now HP Avondale), Spitz Laboratories,
Message: If my memory serves correctly swim lessons at the YMCA in the early to mid 50s were not really in the nude. (close though!) I remember we were reqired to wear athletic supportors. Am I wrong? But like you Jingles I don't remeber any negative thoughts or complants about it. It is sad that we have lost the innocence we all once had.
Date: 5/31/2009, 11:37 am, EDT
Name: Budkyle
Location: Marshallton
Old Neighborhood: Faulkland Hgts
Schools Att'd: McKean 1970
Employers: DuPont
Message: Great Site! I worked at Chicken Delight on W. 4th St. as a delivery driver in the late 60s. Still haven't had chicken that good. Got stopped by a WPD cop one night doing 60+ MPH going down monkey hill. Didn't get a ticket but the cop said he would tell my Uncle Harvey about it. He was on WPD at the time. I think the cop may have been Ray Jubb but I'm not sure. Met up with Ray at the EX Station in the late 70s in 336 Semi Works.
Date: 5/31/2009, 9:19 am, EDT
Name: Jingles
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood: 9th and Madison
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, William Penn "60
Employers:
Message: We all swam in the nude at the YMCA. There was never anything thought to be bad about it in those days. And I don't remember anybody ever complaining about anything inappropriate either. I was also there every Saturday. We also did our swimming in the summertime at the "headgates" down on the Brandywine in the summertime during weekdays. That was also done in the nude. Never seem to be any problem with that. (Other then sometimes some of the neighborhood girls would sneak around and tie our clothes into knots and then giggle at us)
Date: 5/31/2009, 9:15 am, EDT
Name: Bud
Location:
Old Neighborhood: 34th & VanBuren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: They were when I went there in the late 30's at the Y on Washington St and 11th. At that time if you wanted to swim it was in the nude.
Date: 5/31/2009, 8:31 am, EDT
Name: tarragon918
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
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Message: Hey, were all the boys swim lessons at the Central Y in Wilmington taught with the boys in the nude?! There's something that doesn't sound right there - I've never heard of swimming lessons needing to be taught that way! I do remember that Y, though, and used to go to family swim there. I guess I need to ask my brothers about this!
Date: 5/31/2009, 8:10 am, EDT
Name: Bud
Location:
Old Neighborhood: 34th & VanBuren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Use to go to the YMCA every saturday for swimming (minus bathing suit) then after they always had a movie, maybe some western serial or Flash Gordon episode.They always always ended at at a point where something was about to happen but you didn't find out what until the following week.
I remember the Durstein family and I believe they lived in the area of PS. Remember Ralph and Dick ?and there was a sister who unfortunately died of polio at a young age. Very sad, she was a beautiful girl.
Date: 5/30/2009, 10:54 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, State of De.
Message: Did anyone belong to the Central YMCA ? I didn't have a membership, but took swimming lessons there with my cousin, Gene Szatkowski, when I was 11 in '59. We had to take our lessons in the nude, but for the final test ,in front of our families, we, of course, had our trunks on. We stayed for about an hour or so after the lessons. Good burgers in the cafeteria, played bumper pool.
I haven't been in that area for a while. Is the " Y " still there ?
Date: 5/30/2009, 1:01 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: To Jerry T,

My office was next to Harper & Thiel. I had rented the Space from Mr Mitchell. I Think that Bob was a few years older than me. You lived not far from my Place on Concord Ave. I was at Concord Ave and Van Buren, Next to the Corner. I bought Durstein's Vending around 1978 and Gaylord's Snack Bars in 1972.

Date: 5/29/2009, 5:56 pm, EDT
Name: Bud
Location:
Old Neighborhood: 34th & Vanburen
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers:
Message: Harper & Theil were originally located on Miller Rd at 32nd St
Date: 5/29/2009, 3:43 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: To Jerry T. --Jerry, I bought my house from the Harper of Harper & Theill, at that time their Factory was on Broom Street across from where Home Depo is now. Don't know if they had another place or not.
Date: 5/29/2009, 3:19 pm, EDT
Name: Jack Riley
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Union Park Gardens
Schools Att'd: St. Thomas 57, Salesianum 61, University of the Arts 65
Employers: Kaumagraph Corp., State Children's Dept.
Message: I think the discount catalog store prior to Best and Basco was called Keil's.
Date: 5/29/2009, 2:58 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: 1. The movie house at 25th and Market was the Strand. 2. And this is the second time someone has had to remind me of the name of that toy store. I think it was a year or so ago someone else told me what it is. Maybe I'll remember it this time!
Date: 5/29/2009, 12:46 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood: 25TH & MADISON
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I MUST REALY BE GETTING OLD I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE MOVIE AROUND 25TH OR 26TH MARKET ST WAS IT THE STRAND?
Date: 5/29/2009, 9:22 am, EDT
Name: Pat (Stillwell) LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Connie, the toy store at 9th & Market (east side) you were trying to think of was Rosenbaum's.
Date: 5/29/2009, 8:57 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Per the 1974 telephone directory white pages, there was a BASCO Jewelers Inc 2501 Kirkwood Hwy. (The Newark Farmers Market is at 2515. I was beginning to think I had Basco and Boscov's mixed up.)
Date: 5/29/2009, 6:13 am, EDT
Name: Roy C. Pollitt
Location: Punta Gorda FL
Old Neighborhood: Gordy Estates, Woodbine
Schools Att'd: Krebs, Springer, Brandywine High
Employers: WILM WNRK WAMS
Message: The Best stores cited below were BASCO stores previously. These were nice stores ... just one more example of things that were good that are gone ... and the you-know-what in this life remains. (Sorry ... I am in a bad mood today .... :) )
Date: 5/28/2009, 6:05 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: JERRY LANK : When I got out of the Army in late '71, my first house for 3 years was at 2900 N. Broom St., just up the street from the Mitchell business. By then he passed it on to his sons. You must have went to Sallies with Bob Mitchell. He was my brother John's age.
I remember a Harper-Thiel electroplating company in the vicinity of the Mitchell business.
Date: 5/28/2009, 5:51 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: KENNETH SZAROLETA: I went to St. Hedwig's grade school from '54-62. There was a young Szaroleta family who lived on Linden St., a block or two up from the school. They had 1 or 2 smaller children. Mrs. Szaroleta was very active with the Church and school. Was wondering if there is any relation?
Date: 5/28/2009, 10:15 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: There was a Boscov's on Kirkwood Hwy just West of the Astro Centre Shopping Center. Now it's the Newark Farmer's Market.
Date: 5/28/2009, 9:39 am, EDT
Name: Danny
Location: wilm
Old Neighborhood: Bancroft park way
Schools Att'd: St.A's and St. E's
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember if the Best stores on 202 and kirkwood hwy were once called Bosco or something...I know they were also called srvice merchandise, but for some reason i remember the name Bosco....
Date: 5/27/2009, 10:46 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: Joan,

What a great video. I had rented one of the Buildings from Andy Mitchell. I had a business right where Andy was looking in the picture.

Date: 5/27/2009, 9:48 pm, EDT
Name: Kenneth szaroleta
Location: Pennsylvania
Old Neighborhood: Hilltop
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig, Sallies
Employers: Braunsteins,Hearn's,DOC
Message: Does anyone remember Susan Yellow on WILM radio? She played alternative music back in the late 60s.
Date: 5/27/2009, 5:47 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: JerryT.

I rented a spot from your Uncle Andy on Miller Road next to Arnie Walton's Sunoco Station.

Date: 5/27/2009, 2:34 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula, CA
Old Neighborhood: 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: RICH LLOYD: I do not have your email address. This site does not show them. Please email me at alminne@msn.com. By the way, the folks on this site would likely enjoy hearing more about the Del-New Jersey Ferry Co.! Please tell us some of your experiences.
Date: 5/27/2009, 12:39 pm, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's 51, WHS 55
Employers:
Message: Wow! Thank you all, I am happy so many of you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Date: 5/27/2009, 10:53 am, EDT
Name: George Klein
Location: Ocean View. DE
Old Neighborhood: Browntown
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Joan: Congratulations on your find. It has brought back great memories for me and surely many more who participate in thsi site. Thank you and take care.
George
Date: 5/27/2009, 10:50 am, EDT
Name: George
Location: O
Old Neighborhood: Browntown
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Bruce Regarding the Gulf Station, It was(is) at 8th and Washington Streets. The building across the street in the video is the old Salesianum. The last year of classes in that building was 1957.
Take care
George
Date: 5/27/2009, 9:34 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. Finishing Co.
Message: Joan,
Thanks for the great movie. Being a kid in the 50's it brought back a lot of memories. The Gulf station rings a bell with me, but not loudly. Does anyone know the location? Was it across from the YMCA?
Ralph - interesting note about marching down the hill to your beat. Too bad the Police don't have that kind of presence today. Thanks to you and all the cops that kept us safe.
Date: 5/26/2009, 11:31 pm, EDT
Name: Albie
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: To help date the film - The Ten Commandments debut was in 1956.
Date: 5/26/2009, 10:50 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
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Message: I don't care what year it was Joan, I enjoyed it. And three years later I bought my first brand spanking new car. When Gene Lamott became Mayor we(WPD)
got a $800 across the board raise, which He had promised if we would back him in his bid for the office.
He tried to back out of that promise but we held him to it(I won't say how, but we did) and that's when I bought my first new car, a 1960 Chevrolet Biscayne,
paid a whopping $2200 for it. It turned out to be the worse car I ever owned. Those were the days.

Date: 5/26/2009, 8:07 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH
Location: TARPON SPRINGS, FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: LORE, WARNER, W.H.S., V F M
Employers: RETIRED
Message: HI JOAN H. . JOAN EVEN IF IT IS NOT 1957 FILM , AND IT COULD BE ? I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING ME BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS WITH THE W. P. D... I REMEMBER THE DAYS IN THE UNIFORM DIVISION IN A PATROL CAR , BUT ALSO MARCHING OFF DOWN THE HILL TOWARDS 10TH. FRENCH ST. AND AS YOU CAME TO YOUR BEAT ,YOU FELL OUT OF RANKS . EACH MAN DID THIS UNTIL. WE HAD ALL GONE TO DO OUR THING. ---PROTECT THE PEOPLE OF OUR CITY !

Date: 5/26/2009, 7:30 pm, EDT
Name: Don Wood
Location: Charlotte, NC
Old Neighborhood: 10th & Monroe
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS, U ofDThe vide
Employers:
Message: The video circa 1957 maybe very time accurate. Looking at the video several times about age of cars the newest one seen is a 1957 Dodge. Many seen which are 1956 or older. Cannot be sure video is 1957, but am sure no car in video is a 1958 or newer. Don Wood
Date: 5/26/2009, 7:20 pm, EDT
Name: Don Wood
Location: Charlotte,NC
Old Neighborhood: 10th & Monroe
Schools Att'd: #24, WarnerJr. High, WHS , Uof D
Employers:
Message: The website -about Wilmington 1957 seems to be time accurate., at least based on the cars in the video. After several reviews the newest car I can see is a 1957 Dodge. Maybe others can see a more recent one. Almost all seem to be 1956-or earlier cars. Don Wood
Date: 5/26/2009, 3:12 pm, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's 51, WHS 55
Employers:
Message: Ralph and Ray, not sure if the movie was all really taken in 1957. I just submitted it to this website, since it shows so many locations and people from that era.
Date: 5/25/2009, 10:22 pm, EDT
Name: Pam
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I'm curious if anyone knows of any old family cemeteries in the New Castle area. They seem to be much more numerous in Kent and Sussex. I know of Talley-Foulk and Buckley-Grubb, but surely there must be more than those? Thanks!!
Date: 5/25/2009, 7:17 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH
Location: TARPON SPRINGS, FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH CLAYTON
Schools Att'd: WARNER M W,H.S. V.F.M
Employers: RETIRED
Message: THANKS, . WAS WONDERING . WAS FRANK PYLE A PATROLMAN OR SGT . RAY ? IF HE ,PYLE WAS NOT A SGT. THEN IT WAS NOT 1957 . IN ANY CASE, I WILL CHECK AGAIN, AND I AM OVER DUE FOR NEW GLASSES ! !
Date: 5/25/2009, 6:34 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Ralph, I recognized Pyle, Simmons & the Rooster.
Date: 5/25/2009, 5:29 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: Joan H : thanks for the 1957 clip. At 5 minutes into it, I saw my uncle, Andy Mitchell, in front of his plumbing and heating business.
Date: 5/25/2009, 4:31 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: LORE, WARNER , WHS. V.F.M
Employers: RETIRED
Message: IN REGARDS TO THE WEB SIGHT WILM. 1957. THERE IS SOMTHING WRONG . I OBSERVED THE POLICE OFFICERS GOING ON DUTY, AND TRYED TO SEE IF I COULD RECOGNICE A FEW OF THEM .I COULD NOT. I WENT ON THE FORCE IN 1956. ONE DID LOOK LIKE CAL LAYTON AS A PATROLMAN. IF IT WAS CAL ,THEN THIS FILM OF THE POLICE WAS NOT 1957. LAYTON WAS A SGT. WHEN I WENT ON THE FORCE. MAYBE MY WONDERFUL GOLDEN YEARS ARE CATCHING UP WITH ME. . BUT I DID NOT SEE ANY OF MY OLD GANG ! RAY, WALT , JIM, ETC. DID YOU RECOGNICE ANY ONE ? BUT IT WAS A GREAT FILM OF THE GOOD OL DAYS , GONE BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN !
Date: 5/25/2009, 3:33 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I recall waiting to get my hair cut by Mister B in a salon (above the Greek restaurant just South of Woolworth at 9th and Market) and watching people being taught ballet in the upstairs over Goldbaum's (? name) Toy Store or the store next door to it.
Date: 5/25/2009, 2:34 pm, EDT
Name: RALPH
Location: TARPON SPRINGS ,FL
Old Neighborhood: 9TH. CLAYTON ST
Schools Att'd: LORE ,WARNER W H S, V F M
Employers: RETIRED
Message: THANKS RAY WILL . CHECK IT OUT .
Date: 5/25/2009, 11:28 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: The services and ceremonies culminating at the Delaware Ave. Memorial on this day were always most honorable.
Date: 5/25/2009, 11:28 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St.Paul's & WHS
Employers: City & Dupont
Message: To Joan H. Thanks for that website on Wilmington 1957. Saw a lot of fellow Policeman I remember from my days on the Force. Ralph Pryor I'm sure will enjoy
that one also. The rest of the video showing some of the old business places was great also. My next door neighbor's Sister was shown in her Store, Lanzalotti's Cleaners. Again Thanks,
Date: 5/25/2009, 11:25 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: Connie, George, Dave, Jack and Bruce: Thanks for the responses on the Arthur Murray dance studio. More than likely she worked at the one on Market between 8th and 9th. I now remember my grandmother saying, "look up at that building across the street, that's where Aunt Virginia works." This was as we sat in a restaurant or Grille on Market, close to Rodney Square, awaiting her arrival for lunch.
Date: 5/25/2009, 10:30 am, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's 51, WHS 55
Employers:
Message: Just received an email with a great website attached.
www.moviemice.com. After you open it, scroll down the list on the right side to Wilmington 1957.

Happy Memorial Day and thanks to all the vets out there and the young men and women serving today. Stay safe!

Date: 5/25/2009, 9:34 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: :-) Thanks for the photos of Ralph Pryor. It's nice to see what some of the people I've exchanged emails with look like. Also - he was my Uncle's neighbor in Union Park Gardens. :-)
Date: 5/25/2009, 8:14 am, EDT
Name: Bob LaFazia
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Union Park Gardens
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and WHS
Employers:
Message: Here are a couple of photos that I received yesterday from Ralph Pryor, he played taps, Memorial Day Weekend at local V.F.W. cemetary in Tarpon Springs, Fl., thought you might like to see them, have a great Memorial Day, Bob

Please click these on:
http://www.delawareallstatefootball.com/Ralp...
http://www.delawareallstatefootball.com/Ralp...

Date: 5/24/2009, 6:35 pm, EDT
Name: rich lloyd
Location:
Old Neighborhood: faulkland road
Schools Att'd: marshallton , conrad
Employers: del-new jersey ferry co.
Message: Hey Al Minne ,I live in San diego. Please contact me by email.
Date: 5/24/2009, 2:37 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula, CA
Old Neighborhood: 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: Thanks Ray, you have a great and safe holiday too! :-)
Date: 5/23/2009, 7:47 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
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Message: TO ALL YOU GOOD PEOPLE OUT THERE. PLEASE HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HOLLIDAY WEEKEND.
Date: 5/22/2009, 9:24 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco Island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: I was sorry to hear of the passing of Dick Holmes, he was a good friend of my Sister Frances (Lank) Sheing who also worked for WILM for 20 yrs. He was and still i a Legend in Wilmington Radio.
Date: 5/22/2009, 9:55 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: As per the 1974 telephone directory there was an Arthur Murray School of Dancing at 1208 Market Street. The recent directory lists "Bill Godsell Candlelight Dance Club" at 1700 Augustine Cut-Off. Now there is almost a full page of dance studios.
Date: 5/22/2009, 8:58 am, EDT
Name: George
Location: Ocean View, de
Old Neighborhood: Browntown
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Jerry The Arthur Murray in Wilmington was, I believe, around 9t and Orange streets
Take care
Date: 5/21/2009, 5:21 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood: 25 TH & MADISON
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I THINK THERE WAS A ARTHUR MURRAY BETWEEN 8&9TH ON MARKET IF I REMEMBER RIGHT IT WAS ON THE SECOND FLOOR
Date: 5/21/2009, 2:16 pm, EDT
Name: Jack Riley
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood: Union Park Gardens
Schools Att'd: St. Thomas 57, Salesianum 61, University of the Arts 65
Employers: Kaumagraph Corp., State Children's Dept.
Message: The dance studio is still active and located at the Augustine Cutoff. However, it has not been an Arthur Murray's for many years. Can't remember the current name.
Date: 5/21/2009, 8:35 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: Bruce: I thought I remembered an Arthur Murray dance studio in that location. It backed up to Baynard Stadium. I'm not sure if that is the one she taught dance in. I don't know if it was in that location in the 50's. I thought it was in town somewhere.
The Zutz Insurance Co. was actually called the Harry M. Zutz Insurance Co., and I think it was in town, within a block or two of Rodney Square, but I'm not sure. I remember walking into town with my grandmother once and meeting my Aunt for lunch, somewhere on Market, close to Rodney Square.
I didn't see either of these two businesses listed on this site. My memory is vague since this was in the early to mid 50's.
Date: 5/21/2009, 7:49 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. Finishing Co.
Message: Jerry T. I remember the Arthur Murray studio at Augustine Cut Off by Wanamakers. Is that the one?
Date: 5/20/2009, 9:09 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.D.
Employers: B&O R.R., Resilient Tile, U.S. Army, Equifax, St. of De.
Message: Does anyone remember the Arthur Murray dance studio and the Zutz Insurance Co. ? My aunt, Virginia, worked for both of them, in the 50's I believe.
Date: 5/20/2009, 10:15 am, EDT
Name: Delmer Nicholson
Location: Cincinnati
Old Neighborhood: Bellevue
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Karen...What a beautiful tribute to your Uncle Boyd!
Take care.
Date: 5/19/2009, 5:11 pm, EDT
Name: Karen Elliott
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Old Neighborhood: Sherwood Park
Schools Att'd: JDHS
Employers:
Message: I submitted the following as a letter to the editor for the News Journal, but they probably won't print it...-
RICHARD B. HOLMES - His obituary does not and could not do him justice. He was a son, a brother, a husband, a father, a grandfather, a friend, a singer, a dancer, a world traveler, a musician, a computer dude, a soldier, a radio personality, a role model, the first mayor of Elsmere, a contributing member of many communities, a church member, a student of life-long learning, a New Year's Day first stepper for good luck, and he was my Uncle Boyd. He was the unassuming life of every party. What I'll remember most about him was his zest for life and his sense of humor - wacky, one-liners, retorts, play on words, never off color, quick wit. My Uncle Boyd was one of the most delightful personalities I've ever or will ever meet. His passing has left a whole in my heart and has taken the wind out of my own comic sail. Richard Boyd Holmes - he walked softly but carried a big schtick.
Date: 5/17/2009, 8:17 pm, EDT
Name: webmaster (Harry)
Email: webmaster@oldwilmington.net
Web:
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Wood'n Flats, Willow Run, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: No. Dick Holmes and Roger Holmes are two different and unrelated local radio personalities.

Dick Holmes' son, Boyd, told me that he will keep Dick's website active and that he has more photos and other memorabilia to post.

Dick's website is: http://www.richardbholmes.com/

Photos of Roger Holmes can be found here: http://oldwilmington.net/oldwilmington/radio...

Date: 5/17/2009, 6:53 pm, EDT
Name: Mike
Location:
Old Neighborhood: Richardson Park
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Did Dick Holmes go by Roger Holmes when a radio broadcaster?
Date: 5/16/2009, 8:55 am, EDT
Name: Jingles
Location: New Castle
Old Neighborhood: 9th and Madison
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, William Penn "60
Employers: General Motors, Conrail, self-employed, retired
Message: I agree with Ray 100%. Not only is the news Journal extremely biased in their reporting, but they're editing seems to be nonexistent. Their headlines for the stories sometimes leave you wondering what they're talking about instead of stimulating your interest. I now mostly read the news on Delawareonline and get thoroughly amused by readers reaction to the stories. One even refers to the paper as "The News Urinal". Kind of crude but fitting.
Date: 5/15/2009, 9:17 pm, EDT
Name: Roy C. Pollitt
Location: Punta Gorda FL
Old Neighborhood: Gordy Estates, Woodbine
Schools Att'd: Krebs, Springer, Brandywine, U of Del
Employers: WILM, WNRK, WAMS
Message: Sad to hear of the passing of Dick Holmes. I worked with Mr. Holmes as a 17 year old at WILM ... nice man and very talented.
Date: 5/15/2009, 7:08 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I still shed a tear for the passing of the old Wilmington SUNDAY STAR newspaper which went out of business in late April, 1954. It was owned, operated and published by the Martin family for many years and I was fortunate enough to have my picture in it (among a whole crowd of people at the old B&O Station) in their next to last issue.
Date: 5/15/2009, 5:55 pm, EDT
Name: Albert
Location: Lewes
Old Neighborhood: Penny Hill
Schools Att'd: Mt Pleasant
Employers:
Message: When Christiana Securities sold out to the Gannett Corporation marked the decline of the News-Journal. Long gone are the days of Dick Rinard, Bill Frank, Ralph Moyed, Al Cartwright and Matt Zabitka. How I miss national reporter Mike Ryoko whose columns appeared regularly in the Journal debating the political scene in the country and bemoaning the fate of his beloved "Cubbies". Maybe this year Mike...maybe this year!
Date: 5/15/2009, 4:36 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Bruce, I have been reading the Wilmington News Papers for longer than I care to remember. Back when they had a Morning News and Journal Every Evening.
This paper has gotten so bad in the past few years that it really isn't worth buying. They refer to all sorts of suburbs as Wilmington, they could develop a whole page of corrections if they cared to. I don't claim to be a winner of any spelling B's but I could run circles around their writers, they apparantly don't have "PROOF" readers, it's just plain ugly. It's a shame they have no competition because I believe they would go under if they did, I knoe I would try a new Wilmington Paper if there was one.
Date: 5/15/2009, 11:43 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm Fiishing Co.
Message: Folks,
I notice that a few of the posts bashes the News Journal. I haven't lived in Wilm. for years, but sometimes check out their web site. What are the complaints about the paper? The way things are going we probably won't have news papers in a few years due to costs, internet, etc. I guess I'm old fashioned enough and still enjoy reading a paper. The news on the web site seems adequate for the area.
I remember when they used to publish a morning and afternoon edition and didn't have a Sunday paper.
Just wondering what is wrong?
Thanks
Date: 5/15/2009, 11:11 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
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Message: Browny, if he works for the News Journal he not only probably never heard of this site but probably doesn't even know where Wilmington is.
Date: 5/15/2009, 10:04 am, EDT
Name: brownys
Location: Prices corner
Old Neighborhood: Wilmington/Ardentown
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: As stated today in the News Journal, Crossroads 05/14/09
Editor, Ken Mammarella@delawareonline.com, is doing an article called,
What do you miss that!s no longer in Delaware.
Thoughts, words, photos.
Has he never heard of this website?
Should I introduce him to it?
Date: 5/14/2009, 6:56 am, EDT
Name: webmaster (Harry)
Email: webmaster@oldwilmington.net
Web:
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Wood'n Flats, Willow Run, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad (1960)
Employers:
Message: Here is part of Dick's obit from the News Journal:

Dick Holmes, age 86, died May 13, 2009, at Saint Francis Hospital. He was born May 25, 1922. Shortly after graduating high school, he moved to Wilmington. In 1946, after serving in the US Army in London, France and Germany during World War II, he began his radio career with WILM. He was hired as a staff announcer and later worked as a deejay for many years, spinning the top recordings of the day, and interviewing some of the musicians featured on the current hits.

Date: 5/14/2009, 2:36 am, EDT
Name: Bill Fisher
Location: Westminster, CA
Old Neighborhood: 22nd & Monroe, 30th & West, Edgemoor Terrace
Schools Att'd: #30, P.S. duPont Jr High, Mt. Pleasant, U. of D.
Employers: American Airlines, System Development Corp., UCLA, Xerox Corp.
Message: Saddened to hear of the passing of Dick Holmes, one of Wilmington's finest radio broadcasters. He'll be missed.
Date: 5/13/2009, 9:55 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood: Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers: Wilmington & Uncle Dupy
Message: For any of You out there who went to St. Paul's School and graduated from same around 1949. Some 6 or 7 old graduates have been meeting for breakfast once a month, seems that there is always a new face
each month. We enjoy breakfast and going over old times. We try to go to a different place each Month, Tomorrow it will be at the Gerystone in Newport . If you would like to join us, You are certainly welcome.
9:00 A.M.
Date: 5/13/2009, 10:12 am, EDT
Name: webmaster (Harry)
Email: webmaster@oldwilmington.net
Web:
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Wood'n Flats, Willow Run, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad (1960)
Employers:
Message: BRUCE::

I posted a super-enlarged photo of the corner stone - check it out. When the "+" appears, left-click it...

http://oldwilmington.net/photos/malls-shoppi...

Date: 5/13/2009, 9:24 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. Finishing Co.
Message: Webmaster, thanks for the pictures of the Merchandise Mart and sorry to see the old Strawbridges and Clothier building being destroyed. From one picture there is a date inscribed on the building as 1951. The block it is on looks like a time capsule. I was born in 1950 so it would be interesting to see what was of interest to Wilmington at the mid point of the century. Thanks
Date: 5/12/2009, 10:06 am, EDT
Name: Bruce H
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood: N. Franklin St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. finishing Co.
Message: Jerry,
You mention Lank's a lot in your postings. Where was it , what was it and what happened to it? Sorry for the ignorance, the store was probably before my time or in a different area of town. Thanks
Date: 5/11/2009, 9:26 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. D.
Employers: B&O R.R.,Resilient Tile,U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.
Message: Thanks Pat, but not Tootsie Rolls. This was more like a caramel.
Date: 5/11/2009, 7:13 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Could that be Tootsie Rolls? Probably not, since they are still around today.
Date: 5/11/2009, 5:56 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. D.
Employers: B&O R.R.,Resilient Tile,U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.
Message: JERRY LANK: My grandfather also had a considerable amount of penny candies in his store. One of my favorites, in the 50's ,was an approximate 3 inch cylindrical roll of a light brown caramel like candy with red and yellow colors on the wrapper and twisted on the ends. I can't remember the name, but it tasted similar to the " cow tales " without the cream inside. I couldn't find it on any of the old candy websites, and thought that you might remember it.
Date: 5/10/2009, 7:51 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: Connie,
What a fantastic site you have shared with us. Every candy from the fifties and sixties we had in our store.

thanks again.

Jerry Lank

Date: 5/9/2009, 6:43 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember the connection that Danny Ozarks had with Wilmington? I believe that he had some family here.
Date: 5/9/2009, 3:15 pm, EDT
Name: oldeschool55
Location: wilmington
Old Neighborhood:
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Message: hello fluffy - and welcome to the site

I spent some time down at ole stapler park, were you from that crowd??

Date: 5/9/2009, 10:17 am, EDT
Name: fluffy
Location:
Old Neighborhood: forty acres
Schools Att'd: st.Ann's
Employers:
Message: Hi every one great site
Date: 5/7/2009, 5:53 pm, EDT
Name: oldeschool55
Location: wilmington
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
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Message: connie, thank you for sharing that website, it was alot of fun to see all those candies from my youth
Date: 5/7/2009, 11:59 am, EDT
Name: Wayne
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Jerry, being from around Madison & Monroe and the 6th Street area did you remember a boy named Clifton Hughes who died from Polio in the early fifties? He lived on the south side of sixth St. near Monroe. A girl and I from his class at M.C.I.W. were to visit him at home, but it never came to be. He passed during the school year. Jim Rambo may remember him too.
Date: 5/7/2009, 9:25 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location:
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I found this site - http://www.candymemories.com/list.php and now I'm not sure if it was Bazooka or Double Bubble that had the comic strips.
Date: 5/7/2009, 9:16 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location:
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I remember the grape but can't remember the name, either. I also remember Blackjack. My aunt and uncle from Virginia loved it but couldn't buy it near their home. One visit to Wilm. they bought as much as they could find. By the time they got about halfway through what they bought it had turned too hard to chew.
Date: 5/6/2009, 11:36 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry Lank
Location: Marco island Fl
Old Neighborhood: 9th Ward and Madison St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Salesianum, Goldey Beacom UOD
Employers: Lank's, Deltona (Remedio-Hearn), Gaylord's, Dursteins Vending
Message: Well to Start, noone had a larger selection of penny candy than my store on Concord Ave. (Lank's). Next, the place where the Stables were belonged to my Uncle, he later converted it to garages.

The location was between Madison and Monroe on sixth street and went thru to fifth strreet. It was bought by the morroco shop. I think it was youngs in the 50's.

The Lot that i taling about noone would know about it unless they lived in that area or was a Cop.

Date: 5/6/2009, 5:27 pm, EDT
Name: oldeschool55
Location: wilmington
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
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Message: and speaking of gum, who remembers blackjack gum??
used to buy it at a corner store at 8th and scott- boobies
Date: 5/6/2009, 3:25 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. D.
Employers: B&O R.R.,Resilient Tile,U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.
Message: Penny pieces of Bazooka bubble gum was a favorite. There was also a pack of grape gum, 5 sticks, but I can't remember the name.
Date: 5/5/2009, 3:11 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Connie, I think that was Fleers' Double Bubble. It was THE best. During the war (WWII), it was almost impossible to get. There was another brand, Bub, but it was terrible. Whenever we kids heard a store had Fleers, we high-tailed over there and got some. One girl at school once paid me a quarter for a piece of the penny gum!
Date: 5/5/2009, 10:03 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location:
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: I liked the Double Bubble chewing gum that had a small cartoon inside each wrapper.
Date: 5/5/2009, 9:39 am, EDT
Name: webmaster (Harry)
Email: webmaster@oldwilmington.net
Web:
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Wood'n Flats, Willow Run, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: How about the 1¢ and 5¢ vending machines that had the post card size of movie and sport stars. One place that had them was Lenape Park. Today, if they had such a thing, I would not want any photos of movie & sport-types.
Date: 5/5/2009, 9:03 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. D.
Employers: B&O R.R.,Resilient Tile,U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.
Message: I remember the pictures inside the Dixie cups in the '50's, the Skippy cups were a little before my time.
My grandfather's store, Szat's/Shotz, carried the Dixie cups and they were good, but there was an ice cream cup at Mary's corner store on S. Van Buren and Beech. It came in a plastic rather than paper product container with vanilla ice cream and some soft swirls of either strawberry, chocolate or other flavors.
Eugene Twardus, a St. Hedwig's grade school friend and youngest of the Twardus' Market brothers on Maryland Ave. had Mary's as one of his favorite stops.
Date: 5/5/2009, 8:29 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood: S. Jackson St. in Hedgeville, S. Broom St.
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U. D.
Employers: B&O R.R.,Resilient Tile,U.S.Army,Equifax,State of De.
Message: I heard two rumors before and wonder if anyone knows whether or not they are true : that Bill Haley from Bill Haley and the Comets once worked in a grocery store on Concord Pike(Rt. 202) and that Bruce Willis once worked in a retail store on Concord Pike. before he made it. ??????
Date: 5/4/2009, 11:30 am, EDT
Name: Bob Wilson Jr
Location: Beaufort SC
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: To Pat LeVan - I DO remember the Dixie Cups with the still from a movie scene under the membrane on the inside of the cover. Even back then, anything that John Wayne was in was likely to be promoted there...especially from that Oater series called "The Three Mesquiteers", in which he often had a role. But I wonder if anyone ALSO remembers a packaged form of ice cream called "Skippy Cups" that were also around in the early 1940's? Skippy was a comic strip character, and the undeside of the lid featured him in a drawn gag cartoon. The cup was slightly larger than the Dixie Cup. Who remembers this product?
Date: 5/3/2009, 11:48 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location:
Old Neighborhood: Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Another WILM POLICE OFFICER gave up the ghost.
WALTER G. DARRELL, JR, Mr. Walter G. Darrell, Jr., 86 of Newark, DE, passed away after a five year battle with Parkinson's Disease on Thursday, April 30, 2009.
Mr. Darrell was born in Massey, MD on April 7, 1923, son of the late Walter G. and Pearl E. (Wallace) Darrell. He was a graduate of Wilmington High School, class of 1941, where he excelled in track and field. A veteran of the United States Army, he proudly served our country during WWII and was a member of the 494th Armored Field Artillery and the 116th AAA Gun Battalion. Mr. Darrell served as a police officer with the City of Wilmington Police Department, having achieved the rank of Sergeant and retired after 20 years of dedicated service. After his service with the police department, he became employed with the Superior Court of Delaware, where he served as Chief Bailiff for nearly 18 years before his retirement in 1986. An avid sports fan, he especially enjoyed baseball and football, and also loved the art of photography. Mr. Darrell was a member of the F.O.P. and the D.A.P.
A devoted husband, father and grandfather, Mr. Darrell is survived by his loving wife of 60 years, Mary C. (Gutowski) Darrell; his son, Thomas C. Darrell and his wife, Pamela; and his grandchildren, Mariah and Justin Lewkowitz. In addition, he is survived by his aunt, Mary R. Lafferty; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
The family would like to thank the staff members of Manor Care Pike Creek and Heartland Hospice for the kind and compassionate care given to Walt.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. John the Beloved Church, 907 Milltown Rd., Wilmington on Tuesday, May 5, at 11am. Interment to follow in All Saints Cemetery. Family and friends may visit at the DOHERTY FUNERAL HOME, 3200 Limestone Rd., Pike Creek Tuesday from 9-10:30am.
In lieu of flowers, please make donations in memory of Mr. Darrell to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, 1359 Broadway, Suite 1509, New York, NY 10018 (www.pdf.org), 800-457-6676.
To offer online condolences,
please visit
www.dohertyfh.com
Date: 5/3/2009, 11:36 am, EDT
Name: Liz
Location:
Old Neighborhood: west fourth, 5th ave
Schools Att'd: bayard, whs
Employers:
Message: Jerry T,

I guess my dad, Al, left Johnny's in the late 60's or so, he left there and moved to Clayton, De with me and my family. He was there for a long time, also, my brother Don worked there, prob before your time there, he left at an early age and went to "Uncle Duppy" lol

Date: 5/3/2009, 6:22 am, EDT
Name: webmaster (Harry)
Web:
Location: Wilmington/Perryville
Old Neighborhood: Wood'n Flats, Willow Run, Oak Hill, Rich'n Park, Longview Farms
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, Conrad (1960)
Employers:
Message: Buz Peoples::
Is Albert Woodward (CHS1960) any relation to that Woodward family? Al lived on Rt. 141 & Woodward Avenue, about 2 blocks down from the old Price's Corner. Their all-brick house was demolished to make way for the widening of 141.
Date: 5/2/2009, 8:53 pm, EDT
Name: Buz Peoples
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
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Message: Dave Cauffman: The Woodside Creamery, in Hockessin, is owned by my cousin, on my mother's side, Joseph Mitchell. In the 20's and 30's my mother would spend summer days at the farm, driving the horse-drawn wagons for Joe's father, during haying season. The Woodwards owned the farm then and, Joe's Dad, I believe, married into the family. My mother's mother, Ida Woodward, was born at North Star, just down the road. My Mom told me about her wonderful times there. If she were still alive (1908-2006), "Tommy" Peoples, would have loved their homemade ice cream.
Date: 5/1/2009, 11:28 pm, EDT
Name: SUE P
Location: WILM
Old Neighborhood:
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Message: I DATED HARRY HALDAS (ONE OF THE TWINS)....WHAT A LONG TIME AGO ALL THAT SEEMS NOW. SO VERY SORRY TO READ ABOUT YOUR DAUGHTER, MARY.
Date: 5/1/2009, 2:32 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula, CA
Old Neighborhood: 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: PAT L.: I remember those dixie cups too. Don't think I have thought about them for 60 years!!! Thanks for the reminder. The pictures were fun and the ice cream was good and but licking the last bit off the wooden spoon gave me the same feeling as running my nails across a blackboard! Bordens was great ice cream. Anybody remember Ernie Jones who supervised distribution for them?
DAVE C.: Got to ask... Do we pay for WOODWARD Ice cream by weight of the product or by weight gain? :-)
Date: 5/1/2009, 9:19 am, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location:
Old Neighborhood:
Schools Att'd:
Employers:
Message: Before the ice cream plant at 26th and Market was bought by Borden's, it was Sharpless. They made little checkered dixie cups with movie stars' faces inside the lid. It came with a wooden spoon. All this for a nickel. We loved to lick the lid and peel off the thin paper to see which stars we got - like Tom Mix or Gene Autry.
Date: 5/1/2009, 8:20 am, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood: 25 TH & MADISON ST
Schools Att'd: BROWN
Employers: EH&R & DUPONT
Message: THE BEST ICE CREAM AROUND TODAY IS WOORDWARD DAIRY IN HOCKESSIN. IT IS SO RICH YOU PAY FOR IT BY WEIGHT NOT DIP.