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725 South Broad Street, The Burg. Once upon a time this was Steel's Floral Shop:)
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I knew the gentleman who owned the shop, sold him clothes at the Big and Tall Shop, his name escapes me now, but was the nicest guy you wanted to know. If I'm not mistaken that was Sam's Tomato Pies in the white building next to it.
Sorry guys....that is not Sam's next to Steeles..it was Vanek's butcher shop....I went to school with the son, Kenneth Vaneck...the shop was 723 South Broad....
Sam's is 2 or 3 doors down. Robert's restaurant is next door on the corner..."opened 24 hours", never opened past 5. Robert and his wife Barbara lived next door to Trionfetti's on Chestnut. All the funeral flowers always came from Steele's, he was in the Navy League with dad...great believer in the "psychic" Mary Szarka, everything stopped when her radio program came on. Mary was my husbands aunt, she used to be the crossing guard at Broad and Chestnut, before Mrs Czyzyk.
Mack...Mary was such a sweet lady, and I loved her dearly. Many people lived by her psychic predictions. When I was pregnant, mom and I bumped into her at Philip Arthur and she put her hand on my stomach and said, "there's a beautiful baby girl in there, and she's going to be early". Jeff was born...2 weeks late. They had to induce labor to get him out. If he knew then, what he knows now...he'd still be in there!
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I knew the gentleman who owned the shop, sold him clothes at the Big and Tall Shop, his name escapes me now, but was the nicest guy you wanted to know. If I'm not mistaken that was Sam's Tomato Pies in the white building next to it.
That's Sam's on the side. Gives me shivvahs just to see it. Does it have an industrial coke fired oven in the back?
Oh, the tomato pies he made! What did they cost, ninety cents for a small, and a buck-seventy-five for a large?
All were made under a cloud of smoke from a Parodi or DeNobili. A working man's pie!
On Steele's Forist, I think remember Bill Steele. His son, Billy, was of my brother's age and went to Harrison School.
I may be completely wrong above, and of the following -- was the business eventually sold to Sal Ippolito?
Sorry guys....that is not Sam's next to Steeles..it was Vanek's butcher shop....I went to school with the son, Kenneth Vaneck...the shop was 723 South Broad....
Sam's is 2 or 3 doors down. Robert's restaurant is next door on the corner..."opened 24 hours", never opened past 5. Robert and his wife Barbara lived next door to Trionfetti's on Chestnut.
All the funeral flowers always came from Steele's, he was in the Navy League with dad...great believer in the "psychic" Mary Szarka, everything stopped when her radio program came on. Mary was my husbands aunt, she used to be the crossing guard at Broad and Chestnut, before Mrs Czyzyk.
WOW !
Theres a name from back in the day.
I remember Mary Szarka :)
Navy League? Fair winds and following seas! God bless him!
Here's a cheesy website: www.navyleaguesantaclara.org. I'm president.
Still, we **need** a picture of Sam's.
Mack...Mary was such a sweet lady, and I loved her dearly. Many people lived by her psychic predictions. When I was pregnant, mom and I bumped into her at Philip Arthur and she put her hand on my stomach and said, "there's a beautiful baby girl in there, and she's going to be early". Jeff was born...2 weeks late. They had to induce labor to get him out. If he knew then, what he knows now...he'd still be in there!
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