  Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 955 Registered: 04-2008 |
Note on the picture | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 291 Registered: 03-2008 |
Z: We had the sharpener man too. We'd have to walk - not run - out with the scissors - and I think he sharpened the old hand lawn edger too. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 956 Registered: 04-2008 |
Thanks CFG, I was beginning to wonder | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2352 Registered: 04-2005 |
Z, I was thinking about that, too, but I couldn't remember if he came with a car or a cart. Does anyone remember a Waffle Man? | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 950 Registered: 04-2008 |
I'm trying to zoom in. It's something like: "Compliments of Tom Cotter All State Ins Co" Not sure about Cotter, State or States, and Ins. I'll try to snap it and send it to you. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 957 Registered: 04-2008 |
Thank you | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2353 Registered: 04-2005 |
Quick off topic (like that's new) question for Z or 7. What are the braided cords a lot of the Tigers are wearing around their necks for? | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 958 Registered: 04-2008 |
Their titanium supposedly they give some type of relaxation and increase circulation. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 951 Registered: 04-2008 |
You're welcome Z. I didn't notice J, but I will try to find out if Z doesn't find out first. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2355 Registered: 04-2005 |
For real? That sounds like the copper bracelet bullshit to me. Oh, well, if they believe it.... | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 959 Registered: 04-2008 |
Funny I was was writing that in and decided to delete it | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 960 Registered: 04-2008 |
MIGGS!•••• 2 run jack in the bottom of the ninth!•• | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 961 Registered: 04-2008 |
Come on let's do the Mojito | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2356 Registered: 04-2005 |
I hate the copper bracelet thing. I was at a chiropractor's office with my sister one time, and the (so-called)Dr. was hawking those bracelets to an old man. It pissed me off so bad. He was telling this old guy how he really had to have one, and he could pay it off in 3 months at $30 bucks a month. I thought 'You parasite, preying on an old guy on a fixed income. Give him the damned bracelet if it's such a miracle cure. Aren't you afraid of losing his business when it cures him?' | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 962 Registered: 04-2008 |
Plus they turn you green | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 25 Registered: 07-2008 |
don't personally remember the sheeny men coming around, but remember guys going down the street with either vans, carts, or something like that hawking knife sharpening, another selling veggies. i knew of sheenies where my mom came from in nw ohio - her uncle was one - town drunk who went door to door trying to sell stuff. was kind of sad. as for copper bracelets, my dad wore one - he was a big golfer and said it did help his arthritis. at the time it wasn't my place to ask. so, for all of you, what is now where calcaterra funeral home was? heard it is a burger king or something like that. can still remember a police funeral in the 60's when Frank, the janitor was the first in the line of mourners - quite an impressive parade going to sj church - everyone was on the sidewalks watching. | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 26 Registered: 07-2008 |
cfg, i mentioned before my sister was in campfire girls with you. her name is linda and grad from sjs in 1969, lives in roseville now. any memories? can remember going to camp wathana to pick her up with my folks. if you remember her, email me at stevem@arrowsmitheye.com | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2358 Registered: 04-2005 |
12468, There is a Wendy's over there on the corner of Moross and Kelly. I think there's an Auto Zone or something like that where Calcaterra's was | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 29 Registered: 07-2008 |
man, hate that, but that is progress i guess. is there still a bank or whatever where the credit union was kiddy corner from the church? dad always parked there for mass as it was a quick getaway | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 652 Registered: 04-2007 |
12468: Trvia: What was located at the Calcaterra site prior to the funeral home? | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2359 Registered: 04-2005 |
I think it's still a credit union, but CFG would know better. She still goes to SJ for church. I just visit the area once in a while | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2360 Registered: 04-2005 |
I posted some recent pictures of the area on my Facebook site. http://www.facebook.com/album. php?aid=3387&id=1210646994 | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 30 Registered: 07-2008 |
kellyroad, wish i knew, but it was always a funeral home. now that you question this mind enjoying a couple of jack on the rocks, was there a union 76 station that they took over as a garage for the hearses? that would be the only thing i remember else being on that lot | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 653 Registered: 04-2007 |
12468: J on the rocks...Is that a Tenn. tradition? lol anyway, check out the picture on April 6 on this SJ thread. There appears to be a Marathon station where the the hearses eventually were. Across the street there was a Pure station (in the 50s and early 60s) that became a UNION 76 STATION then eventually a Pet Shop located where Fordham and Moross converged. Answer to trivia: Kroger was located at the Calcaterra site. In fact, part of the Kroger structure may have been used for the funeral home | ||
Jazzstage Member Username: Jazzstage Post Number: 183 Registered: 08-2007 |
I remember a guy that sharpened knives pushing a cart around the neighborhood but I don't think he did it for long. It was probably in the late 70's. If you want to see what the area looks like now, check out google street maps. I just went by and was surprised to see the Fr. Ording center has a big pregnancy center sign on it. Very tacky. Also went through the old neighborhood and it was disgusting to see my old home with plywood windows. It was a vibrant neighborhood and is now really suffering. Kellyroad, were you the one asking about Dennis Wrosch a while back? I taught with him at Cornerstone Elementary and heard he is a principal now somewhere. We used to work out together. I hope he is well. | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 31 Registered: 07-2008 |
yes, i remember the marathon station now. when calcaterra bought it, i remember thinking they must have a lot of money and were buying everything in the area. kroger? that was definitely before my day. and, i remember the union 76 going to a pet store - wasn't it a fish place? thing that also got me about the area was the gift store or whatever it was on the corner. always had a lot of lamps in the windows, and i never saw anyone buying one. thought the place was for the rich when i was a kid. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2366 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jazzstage, I know what you mean. I took a drive through a few weeks ago, and my house was boarded up, too. Very sad and depressing | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 957 Registered: 04-2008 |
I remember the gift shop on the corner. I don't remember ever going in there. But I frequented George's Party Time, and sunk a ton of money into Topps Baseball cards...I still have some from that era...along with some fillings. Nice place to go for a Mr. Freeze from the cooler by the window in the front of the store. And the bakery ladies next door were so nice to give me one of those large sugar cookies every time I went in there. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 965 Registered: 04-2008 |
Ahh Calcaterra's I worked there for 3 years during H.S. Many a time I would sneak a friend or two in the north entrance where the flowers and "guests" were delivered and bring them into the operating room, once they got past the swinging doors I would shut the lights off on them. Gee I wonder where I learned that trick from? I never claimed not to be sadistic. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 2371 Registered: 04-2005 |
That priest planted the seed, you watered it, fed it and tended it, didn't you, Z? |
