An Autumn Afternoon on Elmer Street, The Burg
Some of these pictures really do take me back 35 years and
I am instantly young again for a spell. Trenton Joes was
near this, Orsini Travel Service was on the corner of
Elmer Street and Chestnut Avenue. We played nighttime
touch football in the Immaculate Conception Parking Lot
near here because it had lights. I am told folks parked
in there sometimes when it snowed after the lot was
plowed. Remember how snow looked at night in the glow
of street lights? God Bless The Old Burg:)
3 comments:
I can remember sitting by the window and watching the snow go past the street lights. Back then they were still a conventional bulb. If you very good with a BB and a wide rubber band you could, and speaking of blue laws why were the prized Dennis The Menace "Wham-O" slingshots illegal. We all had them smuggled in from "Pennsy". We still managed to get our "Wham-O's" along with BB guns and firecrackers and real honest to goodness ash cans and cherry bombs. All you could get here were sparklers and those "snakes" made of some toxic ash?
Skip
Skip
HI MAC....I THOUGHT BENGIVOGIA HAD A BAR ON THE CORNER OF ELMER AND CHESTNUT. OF COURSE, THAT'S GOING BACK SOME YEARS. AL WAS A LETTER CARRIER ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS FROM THE BURG AT THE TIME. REGARDS.
Hi skip & ralph:)
477 Chestnut not in the picture as its on the other side of the street was a bar owned by Peter Bentivogli according to my records:)
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