The First WaWa I can recall was the Villa Park WaWa on Liberty
Street and Revere Avenue. Coffee pretty good, cheapish cigs,
Hoagies not bad, nice folks behind the counter:)
I also remember a WaWa on Beatty Street and South Broad Street,
and the WaWa on Hamilton Avenue near Eet Gud Bakery.
Also a WaWa on The East State Street Extension.
The biggest WaWa I have seen is the WaWa in Florence on Rt
130.
WaWa began as a Dairy in Pennsy in 1901.
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Excuse me Mack, in keeping with the charter of this website, Weinberg's Department Store is(was) at the corner of Beatty and S. Broad St. ;-)
Did AlJon's go away? They were a cuppla brothers from Hightstown that opened stores all over the place, including one on S. Broad and Front St., across from the RKO Capitol. For a chain of stores, these were pretty decent hoagies.
SJ:)
Good point. That site was
Weinbergs then became WaWa.
This site celebrates the Burg
up to and including the 80s.
The WaWa at Broad & Beatty was
there like 25 years before it got
sold off. Literally generations.
Thus the WaWa is an old Burg item:)
Aljons name is ringing a bell to
me:)
I have been told that WaWa on Liberty and Revere will soon be closing.
...Oh No, Tom Pass, where will all the cops go? If WAWA closes, I'll have to call 911 instead of just calling WAWA.
Aljons still around. I see one
in Hightstown , Plainsboro, and
the closest one seems to be
1280 Yardville-Allentown Road
about 1/4 milr from Allentown:)
Barb P,
Good observation and quite funny.
No love lost here for WaWa closings!! Never patronized them...chains like WaWa are one of the causes, if not the main cause, of many neighborhood "Mom&Pop" stores and supermarkets closing. Gimme' an old Negozio di caffè anyday (that's coffee shop for you non-Burgers:)) or a soda-fountain to sit at and enjoy some refreshment....that is still the way it is in North Boston's Italian neighborhood....a step back in time...and NO freakin' WaWa or 7-11 or the likes...!!
Sax: The Bostonian's in the Italian section, must be doing something right to keep those traditions all these years.
They have..they remember their heritage and their families stick together..they are a tight community...just like the Irish are in Southie, or South Boston. They have anchor-churches (Catholic) and anchor-businesses, predominately Italian or Irish owned...sticking to the basics of real traditional food, festivals, etc. Italian guys hanging on the corner in the North End and Irish guys hanging (sometimes passed out on the ground) on the corners in Southie (Sorry Mack)!!:) Sunday with the family is still a top priority...and so is Church. Plus, all most all of the new immigrants to these neighborhoods are either Italian or Irish...now that tells you something, doesn't it!
Southie Shoutout !!! :)
No offense taken Sax.
Indeed if I went to Southie
and no one was passed out I would
tell them they are doing it wrong:))
I went to a St Pats Parade
(location not mentioned here)
and everyone was a sippin the
suds including a pretty little
young mother with sunglasses who
was sipping a beer with a big
straw. There were laws against
drinking out on the street and the police were right there..some also
sippin the suds. Great fun !!!
(Proudly waving my Irish flag)
Most folks had a habit of going to the closest store for bread milk eggs candy cigs coffee lottery etc.
Especially the kids and old folks.
The neighborhood collapsed first
then the Mom & Pop stores died, not the other way round.
There was only one 7-11
in the Burg (on Chambers) and
one WaWa (on Beatty).
I do agree a bunch of these places
in one area would kill off the Mom
& Pops, but in the Burg this was
not the case.
I disagree...One is enough to spoil the environment!
Add suburban malls and two cars in every family to mix and easy to see why neighborhoods collapsed. Walking through the communities and communicating with neighbors was a big part of their survival.
WaWa is one of the things I miss the most living in SC. I love WaWa coffee. When we come to Jersey for a visit the first place we go is to WaWa for coffee.
SC
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