Got these comments via email and I'd like to share them with you.
From Odette Alfafara :
Tommy, thank you so much for getting back to me. The message was lost....seems once I typed my comment and went to enter I had to select a profile. Had no idea what to do. Anyway, I wanted to let you know how much I truly enjoy all your blogs. You always take me down "memory lane" and so many happy memories.
My husband and I visited NYC this past June. Jon had never been there. We never got around to visiting the old neighborhood. Truly wished we would have been able to go there.
Regarding, my sister, Angie, and Bill Devlin - sadly, Bill passed away April 2006. His younger brother, Jimmy, passed away approximately two years later. Bill's oldest brother Buddy passed away many years ago. The youngest,his sister, Mary, also lives in California. Angie still lives in Buena Park, California, which has been her home with Bill since 1963. She is familiar with more people from the neighborhood than I am. She is not on the computer. I have printed some of your blogs and have sent them to her.
We lived at 517 on 135th Street. My sister, Carmen, always lived there until she moved to Washington, D.C., for a short while, then married Bob Leach (from Kentucky) who has since passed away. They lived in the Bronx, then Medford, Long Island. Growing up, Carmen dated Tommy Rehill who had a brother, Vinny. Carmen now lives in Cape Carteret, North Carolina.
My oldest brother, Jerry, also lives in Buena Park, CA. He was friends with Sonny Grasso. Always have enjoyed the "French Connection" and "The Seven-Up" knowing Sonny Grasso was a part of all this.
Regarding the Padians (516), there were Joe, Jackie, Tom and Kathleen. Kathleen was Angie's closest friend. Tom passed away just over a month ago.
The "Belmar's" (510) - Marcia, Everard and his brother (name ?) who was in the seminary and he, too, has passed away. Everard and Dickie were very close friends and never lost touch with each other. My husband and I visited Everard in 2005. He lives in San Antonio, Texas. I know Everard is in touch with Millie Thompson (512)....brother, Willie who worked for the New Jersey Fire Department. He, too, has passed on.
Snoggy McCabe dated one of my best friends, Jeanie Lagos (134th Street). Jeanie eventually married John Flynn (worked at Annunciation). Jeanie passed away many years ago...I believe she was 34 years old. Jeanie, Eileen Flynn and I attended St. Vincent Ferrer H.S. (1955-1959). The "Knights".....I so remember them with there black & white sweaters with the big "K" emblem. Hadn't heard the name "Baby" in a long time. Remember him so well. Pete Henriquez...I was his high school prom date. Believe it or not, I still have that prom night picture.
Remember so many of the names on your blog, but not too much information about them. So glad we have you as the Vinegar Hill Historian. You do a great job keeping the neighborhood ALIVE.
My husband, Jon, and I have been married for seven years and retired here in Laughlin, Nevada. I had a home here for many years where we spent long weekends and vacations. We bought a new home just over a year ago and live here permanently. In 2004, after 35 years, I retired from the Simi Valley Unified School District in Simi Valley, California. I was Administrative Secretary to the district superintendent (all that good Dominican nun training at St. Vincent Ferrer's). I have a daughter, Micheline, who lives in Bonners Ferry, Idaho (5 grandchildren and 1 great-grandson). If ever you're out this way, please get in touch with us. Laughlin is approximately 95 miles south of Las Vegas. We have 10 casinos on the Colorado River.
Again, thank you.
Warm regards,
Odette Safranek
And from John O'Rourke I recieved this :
Re: ".........and then a younger brother whose name escapes me."
I am John O'Rourke. I also went to Regis after Annunciation. Graduated from Regis in 1962, then Manhattan College, etc., worked as engineer and executive at Bell Laboratories and Hewlett-Packard, lived in Silicon Valley for many years, currently living in Red Bank NJ.
Enjoyed your blog
Thanks.
And from John Keegan I got this:
Hi Tom I have been reading the blog again. It has brought back many great memories. Mary Ellen O'Brien who was a nun at one time. Married Ann Marie Sullivan husband. I received that information from Mary Donohue who lived on 134th. She had a couple of sisters and her mother used to work in the store on the NW corner of 133rd & Amsterdam. The store was where would buy our altar boy collars. Mary is presently a Dominican Sister and has been the principal of Saint Augustine school in Ossing for many years.
The store on Broadway was White Tower instead of White Castle.
The McIntyres as you said were Charlie Tommy and his sister Mary Ellen was also a nun. She was at one of the little runions at the hall. She looked the same.I believe she came with her brother Tommy. Charlie I believe died atragic death.
Jim Considine went to All Hallows after Annunciation and graduated after 3 years. A relative of his belonged to my parish in Long Island. His sister had a lot children. I don't remember how many.
The Cunninghams lived down the block Mary ,Eleanor, Robert & Noreen. Mary got married in 1963 to a guy from Acension. Eleanor was married to Ed Kneafsey. She passed away from cancer a few years ago. Mrs Cunningham died a few years before Eleanor.
I remember Mattthew McGarry.
Het when you go to Florida next year let me know. I would love to get together with everyone. My daughter lives in West Palm and I usually visit her.
I rember Walter and his wife.
Do you remeber old man Carroll who along with MR. Zinzi who were the sponsors at confirmation.
Marchiony Ice Cream was Msgr. Quinn favorite ice cream and he would send me to get it when I worked in the rectory.
THe Fericks Margaret,Eileen ,I can't remember the other sistername she was married to Donald Donoughe who was 134th Strett. He died a few years ago. Like the old irish I check the obits . I saw Donalds when I was on a plane going somewhere.
That's it for tonight.
If anyone wants to share any comments just send me an e-mail and I'll pass it along via this blog.
I'd love to hear your updates and comments.
Tommy Read
tomyread@aol.com
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