811 South Clinton Avenue, The Burg.
This ones for Bill S who mentioned that this was
his family's house once:)
6 years ago
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6 comments:
Wow! Thank you! I can't wait to show my wife and kids!
My family left that home in '63 and moved to Lawrence Twp.
I can see the Dinger Brothers railing is still on the porch. ;-)
There should be an inlaide red convret star in the top flat.
Lots of memories in that house.
Coal used to be chuted through that cellar window when Mike Pagano owned the place before us. Heat was converted to oil in the late 40s or early 50s.
We rented our first home was next door at 809. The landlady was Mrs. Danish who lived on S. Broad near Dr. Crane. The ground floor was a business store front -- a Tin Shop.
My Dad was raised across the street. There was a beauty shop in the ground floor, where Anderson's Flosists used to be. My granfather, my grandmother, and their three children lived upstairs.
My grandmother eventually succombed to wounds from a gangland bombing of a downstairs beauty shop that wouldn't pay "protection" fees, back in the 30s. The kids were all huddled under blankets and weren't hurt.
Dad was 8, maybe, and the oldest.
You're welcome Bill:)
My Dad also talks about the
days of coal:)
We all used "Blue Coal" anthracite.
Remember the Koller Coal Co? Wilson and Stokes also sold it.
I had no idea I remembered so much of this old stuff. Glad the new stuff is remembered as well. ;-)
Coal was the fuel for most of us back in the day. Also may remember that not only did we have garbage pick-up days but also ash pick-up days.
Might you remember the horse drawn recycling wagons? The drivers used to call out what they needed. There was a "Rag Man", and may recall a coal ash recycler, the "Ash Man".
Our ragman in the 50's was Mr Margolin..fellow classmate Harold Margolin's father. He volunteered his truck and time to collect papers for our boy scout troop #1. We would ride in the back of his blue dump-style truck and go around the neighborhood collecting paper. Mr Margolin had a wonderful cheery personality and really did look like a scruffy ragman!
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