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2008-2009

Love the website, it has brought a smile to my face!

 I grew up on the west side of Nutley near the Bloomfield border and lived their from the 50's through  the 80's.

 1)I remember walking the pipeline down to church street to get to junior high and high school: I also remember when the junior high was actually the old high school.

 2) I do remember the creaky wooden floor at Gantner's Hardware .. and Mr Gantner helping you find everything.

 3) Buying a dozen hard rolls at  Kucinski's bakery on Sunday...the best hard rolls in the area IMHO

 4) Walking to the center  for a visit to Drew's hobby shop to run the slotcars.

 5) Taking the 13 Broad to Newark, to clothes shop for school at Bamberger's Hahne's and S Klein's.  School supplies came from Peerless.

6) I remember walking to Rizzuto Berra's Bowling alley when it opened in Styretowne and getting Phil Rizzuto's and Gil McDougall's autographs.

 7)Drinking Awful Awfuls at Bond's..did they fill you up!

 8) I STILL have to stop by Rutt's Hutt for a couple of rippers with their famous relish, a cup of all meat chili and a side of onion rings.  Some things just don't change.

 9)I remember switching from Lincoln School (Mrs Kelly)  to the brand new Radcliffe School (Mrs Woodruff) and yes you didn't ask to go to bathroom ..you went to court! made perfect sense at the time!

 10) I remember the rec basketball games on saturday morning at the Radcliffe gym and the carom boards set out  on the playground for the summer program.  I remember lining up for the new polio vaccine and the tine tests in the School Gym.

 11)Saturday football games at the Park Oval; Regularly beating up on Passaic, East Side Newark and Bellville and the inevitable loss(es)  to Montclair and/or  East Orange.  Late morning Thanksgiving games against Kearny.

 12) The Beck's tv repairman visiting the house regularly to keep the old Admiral TV going.

 13) My mom dropping off the old Plymouth at Johnny's Sunoco on Bloomfield Ave and Johnny somehow fixing it again.

 14) I remember Ideal Dairy delivering milk onto the porch where it sometimes froze in the winter.  Mr Duggan and Tony's Ice cream truck were regulars in our area.

 15) Chasing behind the mosquito spray truck at dusk ( we must have cut 20 yrs off our lives) on hot summer days.

 16) Speaking of mosquitoes, does anyone remember Clark's Pond?  ( drained when the GSP came through)

 17) Playing football under the high tension wires on Ohlson Ave and playing basketball with a basketball hoop and backboard nailed to the telephone pole which PSE and G periodically removed, and we would promptly put back up.

 18) Ralph's had the best thin crust pizza in town, but I liked Santini's as well when they moved into Nutley on Franklin Ave.

 19) I can still remember the smell of fresh ground coffee at the old A&P on Franklin Ave where my Mom grocery shopped before it moved to Harrison St.

 20)I remember the Sweet Shoppe near the corner of Center St and Prospect, where you got fountain sodas for a dime, but the special flavor of the week was a nickel.  The penny candy was actually a penny or 2 cents.  They also had the full compliment of comic books we just had to have.

 21) I remember the Saturday Matinee double features at the Franklin Theatre where they would have cartoons in the intermission. 

 22) Getting haircuts at Mario's on Center St and Bloomfield Ave on saturday morning, waiting for Mario because he gave the best haircuts.

 Enough memories for now! thanks for the opportunity.

DP

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