I was born in Newark and  lived on Peshine Avenue.  I went to  Bergen St. school, Badger Ave. - Peshine Av. school; went to Weequahic, moved to Calif. before graduation ('57).  On Peshine Avenue I went down to the cellar to shovel coal, it was scary.   Ships candy store was on the corner.  Anyone know the McGouphs (sp?) of Peshine Avenue?   Ann-Marie and John, mom Aurella? and the Adams family who lived across the street from me, lots of kids.  I think Barbara Adams. 

        Sledding down the "hill" on the corner near the jailhouse.   Going to the jailhouse at Christmas for a gift toy from Santa.  (Alan Barnett, my mom's friend's son.)   I remember Clinton Avenue and the movie theater, Saturday matinees w/ lots of cartoons and the continuing mystery.   The 5 &10, fun to walk through, the Jewish orphanage, and Tertzis ice cream parlor on Clinton St. (my mom would meet us at Bergen St. school and take us there.  What a treat!  Downtown, I remember Bambergers, and S. Klein on the Square.  Chock-full o nuts where I waited for the bus to go home to Badger Ave.  I worked at Lerner's part time in high school.   The Christmas store windows, animated.  on the bus I would look out the window and see a sign on a window "mail me monday"  what did it mean??

        Anyone remember Stash's Tavern on Hawthorne?

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