Gas Stations in the Burg in the 1960s:
Al's Service Station 750 Chambers, American Service Station
102 Hamilton, Bechtel Service Station 1060 Chambers, Bodnar's
Service Station 727 South Clinton, Chambers Street Esso 877
Chambers, Chambersburg Esso 256 Hamilton, Cottrell's Flying A
Service Station 1065 South Broad, Dale's Flying A 585 South
Broad, Thomas Dileo 201 Hudson, Dwyer's Flying A 2 Rusling,
Fabian's Gulf 118 Swan,Lucky's Shell 1100 Chambers, Marazzo
Auto Service 1101 Anderson, Palumbo Cities Service 1005
Chambers, Pete's Flying A 501 Division, Phil's Sunoco
682 South Broad, Spoto's Cities Service 241 Hamilton,
Storky's Chevron 859 Chambers.
3 years ago
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I lived right down the street (Genesee) from Bodnar's I remember my first cat a brand new 1957 Ford Fairlane 500, I just turned 17... I pulled into Bodnar's and said FILL IT UP cost me all of $2.00 gas was around 19 cents a gal... my how times change and not always for the better
ooopps not cat .... car LOL
SteveB
I used to hang out at Bodnar's all the time. Helped to pump gas. Used their tire tank to fix the flats on my bike.
Frankie, Johnny and Joe were great guys.
And Willie worked the car wash. You grabbed the thing on rails and pushed it up one way for wash, wipe the car down, and waalk it back the other way with water only for a rinse.
All a great bunch of Burg guys -- nice businessmen, too.
I'll never forget seeing the old station as the supplier of the car for the DC gunmen.
SJBill. are you from the neighborhood? I grew up in the 300 block of Genesee, went to St Stephens Grammer School and Church I am in Florida and try to get back to Trenton at least once a year for a visit, it breaks my heart to see what happened to the old neighborhood...
I walked past your house to get to Harrison School.
Our home was between Gliba's and Kovach's candy store on South Clinton.
You remember Chorba-bachi, the caretaker of St. Stephens's school? He spent most of his time yelling, "Hey you kids! Get the hell outa here!", to us. ;-)
Seriously, I loved the fellow, and loved being in the neighborhood with the school, the church bells and Father Kish. They were truly grand times.
The 300 Block of Genesee in 1957:
300 John Zogmont
302 Julia Makranzi
304 Anna Soltesz/Ray Shannon
306 Michael Raves
307 Ballis Roth
308 Mary Palinkas
309 Albert Francesak
310 Steve Balog
311 Frank Mitraki
312 Eugene Szajko
312.5 John Vartas
313 Bertha Mayoros
314 Joe Bodnar
315 Elizabeth Burke
316 Rose Resch
318 Fred Walker/Don Vukovich
320 Steph Lekka/Art Williams
321 Frank Freidel
322 John Tilger
324 Julius Papp
326 Jennie Reck
327 Don Payson/Andrew Szpop
328 Joe Nemety
329 Peter Butchon
330 Anthony Texzla
331 Charles Mayhew
332 John Pregg
333 Louisa Mayhew
334 Ed Schaller
335 John Novekmatz
336 Andrew Uhaze/Tom Cirillo
338 Steph Georgiew/William Fiore,
Anthony Rossetti
339 George Montague
341 Theresa Halasz
343 Jas Kish
345 Mary Mikula
347 Bijou Tailors & Cleaners
Laura Williams
Nellie Gabys
OH MY, Gliba's and dont forget Parichy's on Geneasee St near the corner of Hudson, and MACK great list of neighbors.. all are gone now... I remember as a kid, most every Saturday all the ladies were out front, pulling the weeds from between the cracks in the sidewalk, sweeping and scrubbing the porched and washing down the sidewalt, I bet the new folks still do that NOT!!!
SJ, you must have lived right next door to the Pfaff's Pearl and her sister, they were right behind the St Stephen's rectory.. and as for Chorba bacsi, can never forget the "get da hell a ray" LOL and he never was without one of those little dried up cigars in his mouth, when they got too small to smoke he would stuff then into his pipe...do you remember the hurricane in 1958 that took the school roof off, flew right over the church and landed on the rectory.... I actually saw it go, was visiting friends on S Clinton and happened to look out their front door just as the roof took off.... and how about the Kovacs plumbers dang, this blog is bringing back so many memeories.. LOVE IT
Thank You Steve:)
God Bless The Ole Burg:)
SJBill...my grandmom (Freund), always referred to Fr. Kish as Fr. Grab-it-all, never by name. My parish was Immaculate, so I didn't understand, but she always held her pocketbook close, when Fr. Grab-it-all was around.
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