Newark Talk

Shirley · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:

Hi Tony:
When you were hanging out on 10th Street and Central Ave. I was living on Ashland Street near South Orange Ave. I got married the day after Christmas, 1953 and had my first baby girl on December 9th 1954. So you can see I wasn't in the area of Central and 10th. We moved to California in 1959 and we lived in the San Fernando Valley for 42 years. Six years ago we decided to move to Henderson, Nevada. We love it here and have made a lot of new friends. We live in an area called "Green Valley Ranch" and we are 17 miles away from the Strip in Las Vegas. We don't go there much because its mostly for the tourist.

My husband and I retired in 1994 and have been enjoying our grand children and now a beautiful great grandson (3 years old) who loves Nascar and "Jeff Gordon."

Sorry I couldn't give you any information on friends that you might have known.

Take care
Shirley

Shirley · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject: Jule

Hi Jule:

I'm sorry I didn't know the Lennon family. But I do remember the Chinese Restaurant on 8th street and Central Avenue. Wow, they had the best Chinese food. When we took a trip to Jersey in 2000 I was very shocked when I saw the old neighborhood. I like to remember it the way it was. You also mentioned a car dealership on the corner of 12th street and Central Avenue. When I lived there it was owned by Malon. They used to let me and my girlfriends skate in the show room when the cars were not parked in there. The was a candy store across the street "Freddie's" where we could get an ice cream cone for a nickel. Newark will always be very special to me and my husband!

Take care Jule

Shirley

Jule Spohn · 10 Cups Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 1452

Hello Shirley. Ashland Street. WOW!!! I had a lot of friends who lived there at the same time you did. What is your maiden name? Do you remember Dottie, Ann, and Edith Slinger and their mother Annie - they lived in the second or third house in from South Orange Ave. How about the D'Alesseo's - Frankie, Joey, Gloria, and the rest of their brother's and sisters. Frankie always had the big Harley motorcycles and they used to hang out in Terry's Sweet Shoppe on the corner of South Orange Ave and 12th Street. Their father used to own the vacant lot which he sold to St. Rocco's in 1955 so that they could build the school there. How about Sonny, Joe, and Grace Rinaldi - they lived closer to 14th Ave. Sonny later - in the mid 60's - owned the Parkway Lounge which was on South Orange Ave and Gladstone Ave.

Other people on that block were Walter Ennis, Mary and Joe Bevilacqua, Betty and James Nemmo, Artie Hilser and his brother "Bumpie," and Marilyn and Betty Ulrich and their mother Helen who won three million dollars in the lotto. And on the corner of Ashland Street and 14th Ave was the old Italian Social Club which was across the street from the large apartment building on the opposite side of the corner.

I always loved all of the little houses on the east side of that street.

Jule Spohn · 10 Cups Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 1452

Hello again Shirley. Central Ave and 12th Street - do you remember just a few blocks west of there on Central Ave around 15th Street or so was the old famous Zig's German Restaurant and then a few blocks past there around 16th or 17th Street was the old PACKARD (remember them) auto dealership. Both buildings are still standing. Zig's is now some sort of store-front church and the PACKARD building has been closed up for years but you can still see the PACKARD sign very clearly on the front of the building.

Shirley · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:41 am Post subject:

Hi Jule:
The Packard place that you're referring to was the Malon car dealership when I lived there.

About Ashland Street, I don't know any of the people you mentioned. I was already married when we lived there, and it was only for a very short time. I was busy taking care of babies (2). Then we moved to California.

I do remember Zig'z Restaurant and if I remember correctly there was a place called "The Talk of the Town" or "Town Talk." The only reason I remember that is because of the song "Talk of the Town."

Sorry, we don't know the same people......but you surely have a good memory and know a lot of people. How you connect with them.

Shirley

Jule Spohn · 10 Cups Joined: 10 Feb 2005 Posts: 1452

Hi Shirley. I don't remember any restaurant by that name - Talk of the Town, etc. Back in the 1940's and 50's there were a lot of Germans living in that section - Central Ave area between 10th Street and 18th Street and going back toward Orange Street. My grandparents on my father's side lived on 13th Street a few blocks in from Central Ave.

I'm still in touch with a few of the people I mentioned from Ashland Street - namely Dotty Slinger and Gloria D'Alesseo.