805 South Clinton Avenue, The Burg.
Once upon a time this was Placido Tedeschi's
Grocery Store:)
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5 comments:
There was a family that had a small butcher shop here back in the 50s. Not sure of the name, but they were Hungarian -- might have been a Bodnar relation.
They built a good sized smoke house in the back of the property out of cinder block and made pretty good kolbasz -- not as good as Varga or Tindik, or oven Spike Thomas, around the corner on Genessee St. We were particular.
They were the first to use an imported cash register, made by Brother. Everybody else in the area was still using the big nickel plated National Cash registers. ;-)
The beige colored house on the left was the home of the Turgeons. The father was Turgeon-bachi, and the mom was Turgeon-naynie, to me. (Please forgive my improper spelling!)
I believe Mr. Turgeon used to work for Roebling's and had the classic black painted metal lunch box.
They had daughters that were very good friends of my Mom and Dad.
Wonderful folks!
807 S Clinton
Yolanda Turjan
Oh Heck let me fire away a bunch
of your possible neighbors around
here:
803 Steven Lajtr
808 John Reinecke
809 Vince Meszaros
812 Jas Szathamary
813 Helen Burke
814 Lena Petrino
815 Mike Miloszar
816 Connie Buttice
817 Olga Head
818 Joe Damico
819 Amelio Gioffredi
822 Mike Grobelmy
823 Carmello Fantuazzo
824 Josephine Balz
Mike O Donnell
Elizabeth Marren
825 Joe Pfaff
827 Mike Sabo
828 John Smolinka
830 Theresa Ketterer
Richard Brown
831 John Szenzi
833 Julius Toth
835 John Francella
Joe Persico
827 Joe Bodnar
OK, reallllly good! ;-) An incredible list!
I remember the Lajty family, next to Glibas at 803. They had a daughter whose name I have forgetten.
"Lolly" and Olga Turjan were the daughters. Wonderful folks!
Vince Messzaros moved into our old home at 809. He came to the US from Hungary in about '56.
Bob and Helen Burke were our next door neighbors. That home was occupied by the Claytons before them. Frankie Clayton was a bit older than me and could really throw stones.
Mike and Helen Miloszar were next. Mike was a retired police officer. Helen had a beautiful back garden with trees and shrubs. She was the cook on the block by which all others were judged. She made incredible chicken soup with chickens form Chambersburg Poultry Market. I have her nut roll recipe!
Olga Head was a Pulaski descendant. I believe she had three children -- two daughters and a son, Arthur.
Mal and Margie Giufrede were next. I'm not sure, but Mal may have been a cabbie. Realy nice folks.
Didn't the Toth's live at 821? Gilbert / Geza Toth played trombone in the Jr 4 band.
The Fantauzos! I forgot about them entirely! I think Mr. Fantauzo was a builder.
Pearl and Joe Pfaff lived in the home originally owned her father, Mr. Ernie. Pearlie was a very sweet person. Joe was wonderful as well. They had two sons: Bill and Bob. Bob is/was a police officer in Forked River. You may have known their cousin, Judy Pfaff, who attended Franklin School. She was a lovely girl/woman. After going through school I worked with her at Western Electric Engineering Research Center in Hopewell.
The Sabos had two sons: George and Mike. Mike was a fireman who worked in that beautiful firehouse by Chestnut Park and the one up the street just past Beatty.
Joe Bodnar was partners with his brothers in the gas Amoco station at Clinton and Hudson.
Joe Persico was a cabbie. His daughter Joyce was a reporter for the Trentonian like forever.
You forgot the Kovaches that owned Mercer Confectionary, and the Kollatches that owned Clinton Hardware.
Across the street, Jimmy Szathmary gave me my first haircut. He used to listen to Bernie Kosnoski on the radio.
Q. How'd I do, from memory? ;-)
Wow !!
Well I will go on a bit more
then:
S Clinton Avenue in 1957..
727 Bodnar's Service Station
722 Joe Ungaro
717 Charles Demarco
713 Fred Schultheis
711 John Kasket
709 Frank Tulli
707 Charles Fischer
Henry Guear
706 John Dolster
705 Joe Conti
704 Livio Angelini
703 Dennis Taylor
701 Jennie Hammell
700 Jean DiPaola
699 Graham Walker
698 Ray Krause (Tavern)
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