I don't remember the guy with the bell but I do remember the guy with fruit. He'd come in his old beat up truck yelling, 'Strawberries! Get your strawberries! Women came running!

Anyone from the Heights in the 50s-60s remember AL E Hines? He was a war vet that kind of lived on the streets. Shell shocked I think but everyone loved him.

Getting your new school clothes from Sam's, who also sold one of the first Barbie dolls ever!

The doll hospital that was near the library

When you got everything up on Central Ave before malls!

When PS 28 only went to the 5th grade and we were all transfered to PS #8

Wow! How interesting. When was this that he left the priesthood! I didn't attend St. Paul of the Cross school as I went to PS 28 but I did go to Sunday School there. Fr McKenna was our family priest. I always remember the long lines to his and Fr. Uleski's confessional. The kids all loved them.

How life changes!

Love this post. I was a child in JC in the fifties and I remember

~Everyone shopped at my grandmother's store on Palisades Ave - Josie's.
~PS 28
~North Street Park
~Woolworths on Central Avenue
~Roller skating down the steep hill on Congress Street and ~Palisades Ave down to Ogden Ave
~ 95% percent of the neighborhood was Italian
~The "haunted house" on Ogden Ave
~My principal was my dad's teacher!
~Mr. Softee on hot summer nights
~Yoohoo was the drink of choice
~St. Paul of the Cross' annual Sunday School Picnic
~Father McKenna and Father Uleski rocked!
~Going to Journal Square
~Watching the guys play stick ball on Ogden Ave
~Trick or treating was done by 5:30 pm!
~No A/C in summer!
~Fudgsicles were a nickel!
~Walking all over safely and alone when you were a kid
~Getting your meat from the butcher not the grocery store
~PF Flyers or Keds which was better?
~Working Nana's cash register in the store!