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#92: November 1, 2011 to November 30,
2011)
Date: 11/30/2011, 9:22 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: genco-Thanks for the science lesson re: high altitude diving; most interesting. I'm not sure if this was what Mr. Bender was talking about, but you never know.....
Pete - I don't know if it was Nat Bender who made that statement about muscles turning to fat but it certainly sounds like something he might have said. When he retired from teaching in Wilmington, Mr. Bender moved to Naples, Florida where he began a successful 2nd career in real estate. In the 1980's, I once visited him at his home in Naples, where he lived on the beach, in a high-rise that looked out over the Gulf of Mexico. It seemed like a fitting place for our old coach and phys.ed. teacher to finally hang up his lanyard with its well-worn, nickel-plated whistle--and with a glass of sherry in hand--watch the last glimmers of the setting sun sink into the far reaches of the warm Gulf waters...... Thank you, Nat Bender, for the gift that you gave to so many of us......
Date: 11/30/2011, 5:34 pm, EST
Name: genco
Location: wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): west
Schools Att'd: hard
Employers: gm
Message: Stats...here is some science i found...not exactly swimming in a 2 story pool...but maybe this is kinda what he was thinking...the old coach i mean...
High altitude diving
When you dive, you're dealing with two kinds of pressure. One is the varying pressure under water, while you dive. The other is the air pressure once you are back at the surface. The dive tables assume that pressure to be sea-level air pressure, and the surface interval times and their impact on nitrogen release are based on that assumption. But what if you dive at higher elevations? The PADI Recreational Dive Planner warns that diving above altitudes of 1,000 feet requires special considerations. There are several.
For example, if you start out at sea level and then drive up a mountain to dive in a mountain like, such as Lake Tahoe which is at 6,200 feet, you start out having residual nitrogen in your body, and your first dive must be treated as a repetitive dive, unless you wait long enough for your body to first totally adjust to the new altitude.
Further, while water weighs the same at altitude than at sea level (except for the small difference between saltwater and sweet water) and the extra pressure exerted on your body by, say, 66 feet of water is the same as at sea level, once you get out of the water, the air pressure is lower. Which means the pressure ratio between your deepest depth and the surface is larger at higher elevations than it would be if you did a dive to the same depth at sea level.
Date: 11/30/2011, 5:30 pm, EST
Name: pete
Location: fl.
Old Neighborhood(s): stanton
Schools Att'd: conrad
Employers:
Message: 'The old coach said that it was necessary to dive a little shallower there for fear of touching the bottom of the pool at the bottom of a dive; do you think that's even possible?"
Would that be the same coach that said no weightlifting,your muscles will turn to fat? lol
Date: 11/30/2011, 5:20 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Didn't mean to tick you off Genco. Just thought perhaps wherever you read POLAR, they might have meant to write POPLAR, have a nice day anyway.
Date: 11/30/2011, 4:41 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: Bill from 4th and Harrison--Nat Bender, the swimming and diving coach at P.S., once told us that there was "enhanced gravity" at the old Kruse Pool because of it's location on the roof of that building at 12th and Poplar St. where the pool was located. The old coach said that it was necessary to dive a little shallower there for fear of touching the bottom of the pool at the bottom of a dive; do you think that's even possible?
Date: 11/30/2011, 4:31 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: Maureen from 9th & Jackson--DDT was banned in the U.S. in 1972; all of us have now lived nearly 40 years without having had any exposure to it! Even Al Minne who wrote that he used to immerse himself in clouds of the stuff was able to find his way to a new life in California........As for Col. A. Parker Hitchens, the former Commissioner of Health, who oversaw the spraying of DDT throughout the cafeteria at Mary C. I. Williams School in 1945, none of us will ever know whether his exposure to DDT contributed to his ultimate demise, will we?
Date: 11/30/2011, 4:07 pm, EST
Name: genco
Location: wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): westside
Schools Att'd: hard knocks
Employers: gm
Message: hey ray take the time to read the whole post and you would see POPLAR correctly spelled...i am glad your keyboarding is good...just sayin back to you now!!! thanks to everyone else that helped
Date: 11/30/2011, 4:03 pm, EST
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning0
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: How long was D D T used in US ? I thought it was banned a long time ago.
Date: 11/30/2011, 9:41 am, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: yes
Employers:
Message: Kruse Pool was at 1325 Poplar St. It was named after Edwina Kruse, once the principal of Howard High. The pool was on the roof of the one story building.
Date: 11/30/2011, 6:55 am, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High
Employers: DART the First State
Message: If the street’s name was Popular street it’s now Called Clifford Brown Walk.
Date: 11/29/2011, 11:06 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's
Employers:
Message: Genco, I patrolled the Streets of Killington from 1958 to 1980. I can't recall a street by that name are you sure that someone didn't forget to put both P's in and maybe it should be Poplar instead of Polar, just sayin.
Date: 11/29/2011, 4:53 pm, EST
Name: genco
Location: wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): west side
Schools Att'd: hard knocks
Employers: GM
Message: can someone tell me the name of Polar street in wilmington today...i see it referenced in 1930...specificaly 12th and poplar...a pool was there....
Date: 11/29/2011, 4:12 pm, EST
Name: Norman
Location: Newpor Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th. ward
Schools Att'd: #30,Warner, Brown Voc.
Employers: Self
Message: Connie,
Do you remember a huckster coming around weekly, Mr. Davis, smoked chesterfield cigs and had great vegies, also remember the great petitfores from Brown's bakery and thier ice cream and remember the ice cream sodas from Hayden's pharmacy at 20th. & Market St. yummy.
Date: 11/29/2011, 8:35 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: I remember seeing a horse drawn produce wagon being pulled along Tatnall Street near 23rd in the mid 60s. The Broom Man came that way once or twice, too.
Date: 11/28/2011, 11:44 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: My father, Lewis Stat, tells me that he remembers the Madison Street Farmers Market was only open a couple of days a week, "maybe on Wednesdays and Saturdays." Dad said that the farmers set up their tables on the east side of Madison St. between 8th and 9th and sold live chickens as well as produce and eggs. When my father first went there (probably in the early 1920's) many of the farmers came to the market by horse and wagon; later they drove to town in "well-worn produce trucks"; it was a hard life for those farmers and for nearly everyone then, at least it was in that neighborhood.
....and to think, just 30 years later many of us were munching those scrumptious steak sandwiches at Jan's out on the Gov. Printz, buying cream donuts at the donut shop on Penny Hill and continuing the Wilmington tradition of savoring each bite of that world champion of all banana cream pies at the New York Restaurant.
....and now another 50 years have passed and we're still talkin' about it!
Date: 11/27/2011, 11:08 pm, EST
Name: Steve Armstrong
Location: Bowie Maryland
Old Neighborhood(s): East Side
Schools Att'd: St. Joseph's ,Sacred Heart, St.Peter's Cathedral, Salesianum
Employers:
Message: My Mother , Maxine Lawson Armstrong Holley sadly passed away earlier this year ( 5-24-11). She was the daughter of Irma Lawson who was active in politics in Wilmington in the 40's , and 50's . Mrs. Lawson also owned the Lawson Hotel.
Maxine Holley retired from the Internal Revenue Service in the mid 80's.
Both were members of St.Joseph's Church.
My family including her sons ( my brothers) John Armstrong and Eugene Holley Jr.will miss her very much.
Date: 11/24/2011, 11:13 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: Dolores : thank you for sharing. Butch will be sadly missed by many,especially in that large family clan.
Date: 11/24/2011, 8:29 am, EST
Name: DOLORES CARDINALLII
Location: mountains
Old Neighborhood(s): HEDGEVILLE
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Bayard, Wilm. High
Employers: COMMERCIAL CREDIT, DU PONT CO.
Message: Leonard (Butch) Bartkowski died suddenly yesterday morning of a massive heart attack, age 60. formerly lived at Linden and Van Buren Sts.
Date: 11/24/2011, 12:21 am, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: In Florida, in the 1980's, crop dusters would swing low over the city (Naples) spraying Malathion to control the mosquitoes that flourished there. When we'd hear the roar of the plane's engines, along with many of my neighbors, I would dash around my house closing the windows to try to prevent the sickly smell of Malathion from infusing the house. There were also little tanker trucks that plied the neighborhood alleys, spraying that same chemical along their route. Everyone knew--or believed--that the chemical was far worse than the mosquitoes, but no one, it seemed, could do anything about it. Finally, I moved away, back to the clean air of New Mexico where I lived until making my way to the Pacific Northwest. Now, my neighbors and I are subject to westerly winds that bring us (we're told) diluted but still worrisome levels of radiation from Fukushima. I wonder, though, if Wilmington is better off with it's title as "chemical capital of the world" and its national ranking as one of the top geographies for cancer in the U.S. One of the things we can give thanks for tomorrow is the fact that in 1972 DDT was banned for use in the U.S.; as of this fast-approaching new year, all of us will have lived 40 years without it........
Date: 11/23/2011, 9:55 pm, EST
Name: Ralph PRYOR
Location: TARPON SPRINGS . FL
Old Neighborhood(s): H. CLAYTON ST.
Schools Att'd: WARNER, W H S . , V.F.M.
Employers: DEPTH.PUBLIC SAFETY , WILM, DE,. SUPERVISOR INNISBROOK RESORT
Message: TO OUR WEB MASTER, AND ALL MY FRIENDS ON OLD WILMINGTON.NET. HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING AND A LONG LIFE !
Date: 11/23/2011, 5:52 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: I used to like the smell of D.D.T. I remember the airplanes spraying the marshes, only several blocks away from where I lived on S. Jackson St. D.D.T. has been linked to diabetes.
Date: 11/23/2011, 12:37 pm, EST
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula, CA
Old Neighborhood(s): Lancaster Village, Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, A.I. DuPont H.S., Conrad
Employers: F&M Scientific (Now HP Avondale), Spitz Laboratories,
Message: As kids we used to follow the spray trucks and run through the DDT fog. I wonder if that's why my brain is a little warpped now. LOL
Date: 11/22/2011, 4:18 pm, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: yes
Employers:
Message: In its issue for 9 September of 1945, The Sunday Star carried a column by Delos O'Brian reporting on Wilmington's campaign to eradicate insect carried disease. Mr. O'Brian accompanied Col. A. Parker Hitchens, Commissioner of Health. Part of the report described the visit to Mary C. I. Williams school, where the cafeteria was sprayed with a fine oily mist of DDT. Goodbye flies.
Date: 11/21/2011, 1:34 pm, EST
Name: webmstr
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: Edgar M. Hoopes Reservoir - 1960
http://youtu.be/ugBvEx4RhCQ
Date: 11/21/2011, 11:16 am, EST
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: bayard/ conrad
Employers:
Message: I remember those frost-bitten Thanksgivings of the past. Conrad played Neward H.S. in the traditional turkey day game. At one game, I recall being so cold in the stands that I was tempted to leave in spite of the close score. I just kept thinkin' about that hot turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy waiting at home and hung in there at the game. Doesn't seem quite so bitter cold these days. I probably dress warmer though.
Date: 11/20/2011, 4:49 pm, EST
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Wishing all Happy Thanksgiving!
Date: 11/17/2011, 12:15 am, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: Ray Jubb- Whenever politics enters into the equation there are always candidates for nearly every position who seem, and possible are, "more deserving" than the person who is chosen. I remember the 1966 election when Jim Tunnell ran against J. Caleb Boggs for the U.S. Senate. Tunnell had been a Rhodes Scholar and was an articulate and distinguished man who could speak eloquently to the issues of the day. As you no doubt remember, Senator Boggs was a very popular and successful office-holder and politician. It was a vivid time in my life and yet I can't recall Senator Boggs ever saying anything that made a difference in the national debate about the war in Viet Nam, for instance. Still, Tunnell lost the election to Boggs by a wide margin. Even if John Smith had a "hand up" in his rise to Police Chief, I was pleased to read that you "considered him a good Chief".
Date: 11/16/2011, 6:33 pm, EST
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Danny Stat, You may want to think of it as a
Horatio Alger story But I was there when he made
Chief. He went from Detective Sgt to Chief of Police
in a matter of Months. I call that the great Political
Story. There were many men more deserving and
much higher in rank that should have been made
Chief. After having said that, I have to say that I
considered him a good Chief but just as Political as
his rise to the job.
Date: 11/16/2011, 2:34 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: "Chief Burgess" reminds of "Sky Chief" gasoline, first introduced by Texaco in 1938. The "Chief" brand of gas was initially brought out in 1932 as "Fire Chief" gasoline, a high-test grade of fuel that was advertised as having an octane level suitable for use in fire engines.
One notable "Chief" in Wilmington was Chief John Smith who as a boy lived with his family in the 800 block of Monroe St. (east side of the street). Smith's rise from his humble beginnings to become the "Chief" of Police in Wilmington is one of the many Horatio Alger stories in our beloved home town.
Date: 11/16/2011, 12:17 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Thank you. To quote the old Japanese movies - "Ahh, sooo."
Date: 11/16/2011, 11:15 am, EST
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula
Old Neighborhood(s): Lancaster Village, Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, A.I. DuPont H.S., Conrad
Employers:
Message: "CHIEF BURGESS" An old title for the position we now call Mayor. This title was still used in some cities as late as the 60s. IE: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 11/16/2011, 7:48 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: "1739 Willington, the largest city in Delaware, received a royal charter and was renamed Wilmington with William Shipley as its first Chief Burgess."
WHAT'S A CHIEF BURGESS ?
Date: 11/15/2011, 10:03 am, EST
Name: FRANCIS RIZZO
Location: carrcroft
Old Neighborhood(s): FRONT AND ADAMS
Schools Att'd: #3 #4 BAYARD
Employers: retired
Message: D C SORRY MY BROTHER IS A. LAWRENCE
Date: 11/15/2011, 9:58 am, EST
Name: FRANCIS RIZZO
Location: carrcroft
Old Neighborhood(s): FRONT AND ADAMS
Schools Att'd: #3 #4 BAYARD
Employers: retired
Message: D.C. I believe have us mixed I am Fracis J.
M
Date: 11/14/2011, 8:10 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: Dolores C. - great to hear from you. Best wishes for your health. Enjoy the holidays with your family, and eat healthy, - all Polish food.
Date: 11/14/2011, 4:35 pm, EST
Name: DOLORES CARDINALLII
Location: PA. MTNS.
Old Neighborhood(s): HEDGEVILLE
Schools Att'd: ST. HEDWIG'S, BAYARD, WHS
Employers: COMMERCIAL CREDIT, DU PONT CO.
Message: HI GUYS! BEEN A LONG TIME AND IT'S NICE TO HEAR YOU ARE ALL OK.
HAVEN'T BEEN SO LUCKY MYSELF, HAD TO HAVE THE PROSTHESIS REMOVED IN MY RIGHT SHOULDER THAT CREATED A STAPH INFECTION. LEFT WITH JUST A CONCRETE "SPACER" IN IT'S PLACE AND HAD TO HAVE A PICC LINE INTO MY HEART FOR THE MEDICATION THAT CAUSED A CLOT AND BACK IN THE HOSP. DOESN'T WANT TO DISSOLVE, UP TO PITT. PA TO BLOOD INST FOR SPEC. PILLS AFTER THE CLOT WERE SO VIRULENT HAVE GI TRACT PROBLEMS WHICH I NEVER HAD.
KIDS COMING IN FROM DE. AND EAST PA. AND OHIO AND INDIANA FOR THANKSGIVING. SCARED MOM IS GOING TO KICK THE BUCKET BUT WE WERE RAISED TOUGHER BACK THEN.
FRANCIS RIZZO, MIDDLE NAME LAWRENCE?
Date: 11/13/2011, 5:38 pm, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrsion
Schools Att'd: several
Employers:
Message: Yes, the Customs House was at 6th & King. It was a recruiting station for all of the services, I think. I was trying to remember the Marine recruiter's name, but had no luck [1966]. The building was housing evening classes for a college last time I looked.
Date: 11/12/2011, 11:56 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: And speaking of "clearing one's conscience," one summer night, in the '50's or perhaps it was as late as 1960, I was among a group of boys who "liberated" (stole) a small barrel of cooked hardshell craps that had been left on the sidewalk, outside the door to the old Blue Rock Tavern around 22nd and Lamotte Streets. We ate crabs until we were nearly sick of them and then gave the rest away to people on the street. A thoughtless, juvenile act that has bothered my conscience ever since........ :-(
Date: 11/12/2011, 8:19 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: Bill- I imagine that the person who stole the center hinges from the doors on the old post office combined them to use on another door. Perhaps somewhere in Wilmington there's a door that still swings on those pilfered hinges. It doesn't seem like something a "mature" thief would steal, more like a juvenile prank, so if we imagine that whomever took those hinges were teenagers at the time, then they would be in their mid-80's by now! Unfortunately, since the building's long gone, there's no returning the hinges; still, it would probably do those "boys" good to clear their conscience before it's too late, and let the rest of us know where those errant hinges ended up.......
Date: 11/12/2011, 4:40 pm, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: of course
Employers:
Message: On the old 9th street Post Office. A letter to the editor of the Sunday Star, dated 5 March 1940, commented on the theft of the brass door hinges from the old Post Office. The thieves stole only the center hinges leaving the doors operable. The letter writer also mentioned that several departments of the WPA had moved into the building.
Date: 11/10/2011, 12:52 pm, EST
Name: Pat
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: Little Flower only went to 4th grade. After that, the kids came to St. Pat's. There were two Franciscan nuns assigned to Little Flower when I was at St. Pat's in the 40's - Sister Romula and Sister Alexandrine.
Date: 11/10/2011, 10:04 am, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: Little Flower
Employers:
Message: Little Flower was on Thatcher St., between 14th & 15th. It was just off Gov. Printz Blvd. St. Patrick's ran the school in what had been an old public school building. It's an empty lot now.
Date: 11/10/2011, 9:16 am, EST
Name: Budo
Location: N Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & Van Buren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers: USAF, FAA, 2 Airlines
Message: Pat, I remember my Mother taking me to the old Post Office when I was very young, probably in the late 30's
Date: 11/10/2011, 7:15 am, EST
Name: betty
Location: beach
Old Neighborhood(s): east side
Schools Att'd: bancroft, w. high
Employers: dry goods citi bank
Message: Bill, where was little flower school located ?
Date: 11/9/2011, 11:55 pm, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: Little Flower
Employers:
Message: Pat,
I remember riding past the post office on 9th street about 1957. Demolition was in progress. I have never been sure when it ceased being a post office, since the one on Rodney Square must have been finished in the Thirties. It may have been like the old Main St. post office in Newark, which was rented out to businesses after the new building went up.
Date: 11/9/2011, 8:57 pm, EST
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers:
Message: Budo, what year was that that the Post Office was at that location?
Date: 11/9/2011, 8:16 pm, EST
Name: Richard Burton
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): The Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard and Wilmington High School
Employers: DART THE FIRST STATE
Message: Winston: I live about 1 block away from Walgreens. Yes I noticed the bricks and even photographed them. I can remember it seems like about in the late 40s or very early 50s that 4th street going out of Wilmington toward Greenhill Avenue was a dirt road. Does anyone remember? Am I correct???
Date: 11/9/2011, 2:53 pm, EST
Name: Budo
Location: N Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): 34th & Van Buren
Schools Att'd: PS
Employers: A few
Message: Anyway remember when the Post Office use to be on 9th st between Orange and Shipley ? It was a classy looking building similar to the library
Then if was torn down to become the parking garage.
Date: 11/9/2011, 10:10 am, EST
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: bayard/ conrad
Employers:
Message: In its final years of use, the King Street entrance to the library was the entrance into the library's video collection.
Date: 11/8/2011, 9:04 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: I was also enamored by the stately buildings surrounding Rodney Square, and nearby. One did have the feeling of belonging to something grand; the city of Wilmington. The last time I was in the Wilmington Library was in Feb. 1969, less than 2 weeks before reporting for active duty with the U.S. Army. Almost forgot about the King Street's entrance to the Children's Library.
Date: 11/8/2011, 2:05 pm, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: When I was a tot the street near 22nd and Market had two pairs of rails - there was black top between the curb and the rail - then cobblestones between the pair of rails - then more black top and the same with the other pair of rails.
Regarding entrances to the library - there was a small entrance on King Street for the Children's Library.
Date: 11/8/2011, 10:36 am, EST
Name: Winston
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): North Wilm
Schools Att'd: concord
Employers:
Message: The city is repaving North Market Street. They have removed the asphalt, and in front of the new Walgreens you can see the old brick pavers. Does anyone remember when the street was all-brick, and when it was paved over? Anyone remember the trolley line that ran along Market?
Date: 11/7/2011, 3:59 pm, EST
Name: Daniel Statnekov (was "Danny Stat" when I lived in Wilmington)
Location: Orcas Island, Washington
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan, P.S. U of D
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember the entrance to the library on the south side of Rodney Square? Somehow it seemed different than foyers or entrances to other public buildings. The entrance to the Public Building on the city side of that building is also memorable as was the entrance to the old post office on the north side of the square. These were buildings where the sound of our footsteps echoed from the marble, tile and polished concrete, giving many of us the impression that we were indeed in a special place: a hall of purpose, perhaps, or in the case of the library, of discovery and learning. I also have a memory of grand brass doors that opened into the inner sanctum of the Continental American Building and the still-impressive entrance to the Hotel DuPont with its opulence and luxury, wood paneled ceilings and old-world chandeliers; all memories of some of Wilmington's great entrances that many of us share.......
Date: 11/1/2011, 8:51 am, EST
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
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Message: The place I'm thinking of had the main entrance on the numbered street and the Ladie's entrance on the named street.
Date: 11/1/2011, 12:06 am, EST
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrsion
Schools Att'd: Little Flower
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Message: Before it was Remedio's, the place was called the Brewery Tavern. The door on Fifth Street was there then. I was always told that it was the ladies' entrance.