1375 South Clinton Avenue, The Burg.
The Corner of South Clinton Avenue and Liberty Street, a very
busy place. A well known sight folks pass by often. Another
one of those interesting Burg buildings:)
UPDATE: Barb points out this was Priors Donuts , then a Funeral
Home, then Tina's Hair Dresser.
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Home of Priors Donuts. The falling wall of donuts. Greasy and Sweet. In the day I could eat a bag of 'em (and still sleep). You could smell them all the way to Broad St and know when they were done...Heaven!! Later it was Cordas Funeral Home and then my hairdresser Tina. Jr. Prom at St Anthonys, Sr. Prom at Trenton High and then my wedding day. Nobody could give you big Chambersburg hair like Tina.
Thank You Barb:)
I will put that on the post:)
Across the street..diagonally was the typewriter sales/repair place that later was Tony Macaroni's cemetary monument business.
Pryor's typewriters. And Dinger Bros. Wrought Iron on Liberty and Rusling.
Barb: Dinger Brothers, my dad worked for them for 1 day after everyone got laid off from a plant he worked at on Lalor St. All they spoke was German and being Polish it drove him crazy.
Joe Z..that was the great thing about the Burg, walk 1 block in any direction and you heard different languages or dialects and could eat different foods. Even your friends mom's made regional foods that all tasted different.
I used to get the school bus to Villa Victoria in front of Tina's before I have my '74 Vega to drive. Speaking of Dinger brothers, remember when it burned down? Huge fire. I was worried my brand new Firebird was going to get damaged. We lived 2 doors down from Mack on Liberty St.
Lynne..my dad had a call radio, if there was a fire, we were there. Yes, I do remember, my girlfriend Helen was the 1st house on Rusling and they were afraid the whole block would go up. I also remember when Cathedral burned down...we were there too, by the Ave Maria Shop. That was truly a hugh fire.
I was walking home down Cass Street
and saw the clouds of smoke in the
sky and as I kept walking it became
apparent that it was close to our house. Wow that was a fire.
It did melt the vinyl siding on
the end house across the street a
bit and Dinger Brothers paid to get
that repaired. I think I remember
a petition Dinger Brothers passed
around for neighborhood folks to sign to allow them to rebuild..
Folks on our block back in the day:)
Home Seal (Pat Pratico)
The Kimbles
The Merrions
The MacNicolls
"Aunt Florence" (I never knew
her last name)
The Barbers
The Pabers
Folks around the block
The Allens
The Woolvertons
The Schmidts
The Mahers
The Wenzels
Remember when that place on
Anderson & Rusling was also a corner store?
Shari also had a 74 Vega
did she buy it from you?
It was Orange with an 8 track
player= it was groovy:)
Lynne, I wouldn't mention that you went to Villa. Sax and Joe Z get too worked up over Villa girls. All I had to say was "I wore a uniform", and off they went. See comments under "Once was a police station".
Lynne...don't listen to Barb P.....we knew angels when we saw them..so what if they wore short skirts and knee socks...and white blouses...and.....sorry, lost control for a second!!
OK, Sax..I rest my case. I think you should have to do a charity gig for the "pagan babies".
As long as they are female pagan babes and wear short green skirts with knee socks.....and smoke!!
They used to put really stale donuts in the trash. We knew where to look, and if they looked "OK", we ate them.
There was a linotype print shop behing Priors.
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