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With great sadness, we report that Professor Schmuckler died very early on 26 December 2011. He was 84. Please check his profile - he is listed as a Guest at the bottom of class list
Have uploaded 63 photos, some old photos and much more in the Photo Galleries. Some of our mates from Class of 62 remember some times from Havertown - how many do you remember? Keep reading below - add your own.:
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Oct - 2011 Here are some memories from some HHS 62 classmates on their site: On the H'town homefront - not a lot to report. Most of you know the old 'bubblegum' factory has been leveled and they're preparing to construct a big "Y" on the site (not to be confused with the "big W" from Mad, Mad, Mad, World). The old Llanerch Quarry has been filled in and construction has begun which will result in a new Lowes (yay!!!) ; Genuardis or Giant I forget which; fuel pumps; and some sort of eatery. For anyone who attended St. Andrews Methodist Church next to the old Llanerch Elementary School, will find it interesting that the Church was officially closed yesterday the 5th. The building's future is unknown as it is on the historical register. We also have an 'end of an era' as Ray Russo's barber shop on Darby Road will be no more as of the 16th. Dee, Ray's wife, goes to settlement on the 16th. Anyone who frequented Llanerch Diner will be able to see it (or its interior) in an upcoming movie. They were filming there last week and real ly had Township Line traffic screwed up in the process. I haven't heard anything as to the name or 'stars'; if I do, I'll pass it on. We've survived our first snow of the winter - strangely in October - but it's really scary to realize that the same idiot drivers will be on the roads when the next one hits. In the category of 'stupid', we recently had someone...who had been sipping one to many...drive his car onto the P&W tracks off KaraKung Drive by the bowling alley. Instead of calling 911, he decided to call AAA for a tow and the end result was a trolley coming around the bend and hitting his car. A number of people were injured and this young gentleman will be speding some time before the judge.
50yrs is a long time and I'm lucky to be able to remember what I do. Dave Boyko and Cheryl especially have tweeked my memory bank and also Beth with regards to the Bubble Gum Factory. It's funny how associating one thing with another brings it all back.
Cheryl does remember Rick Strometz. I know he was the same age as me because I met him at Manoa Lanes sometime in spring of 63'. He was in his Marine uniform and I was Army and we talked and compared notes. He couldn't have been class of 63' or he would still have been in school.
Jay Marcellus and Armand Liberato were "County Line Boys", along with Angelo and his brother Frank Scavello. They were with John Salyer and I in Chestnutwald.
I guess I can't remember Rick Henderson after Sophmore year. I do remember Jeff because Ned Donahue and I used to go over to his place in Bryn Mawr to listen to Jazz. I know Jeff was older than us, but he was in a couple of my classes. He was a real spaced out Dude, always wore wrap around sunglasses and acted like he was hearing voices. He was really into Miles Davis.
Tony Accione, I just don't know. He was another Jazz man. He really liked Johnny Mathis and even looked a little like him. He liked to use "Man Tan" to make himself look darker and more like Mathis. Really knew his stuff on Jazz music. He wanted to be in show business someday. I even looked on the Junior class names and can't find him. Who knows.
Those of us from Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, County Line and not mainstream Havertown were kind of outsiders and didn't know much about the things the rest of you take for granted. For instance, I really didn't know who Ray Russo was. I never was in the Llanarch diner. So some of these people may be a little hard for you to place.
We'll keep working at it.
Wow, I never believed the "bubble gum" site would generate such a response. I showed my sister some of the comments and she just laughed and said, "It was worse than you think". She (and my brother) both worked there at some point in the past. She tells me she was a 'welder' and remembers observing an entire pot/batch spilling on to the floor. She watched as people simply grabbed some old shovels and scooped it up (along with the paint chips) and threw it back in the mix. After over 35 years in the pharmaceutical industry and being familiar with 'clean room' clothing and their purpose, it used to amaze me how I'd see employees walk over to the 7-11 in their 'scrubs' (booties and all) to get their coffee - then go back into the building to continue their sanitary processes. I even sent a comment of my observations to The News of Delaware County's 'Speak-up' page; but they never published it. Someone was being paid off I suspect.
Found out that two of the stars in the movie being shot at Llanerch Diner were DeNiro an Bradley Cooper (calm down ladies). It's reported that DeNiro visited the local McDonald's frequently (guess the diner's kitchen was shut down during the shooting - or the food was lousy). Here's a 'cut & paste' from a website about the movie:
Quote: Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper begin work on The Dark Fields Monday. In the thriller, Bradley Cooper stars as a struggling writer who takes a top-secret drug that has been dubbed Viagra for the brain. Robert De Niro co-stars as a mogul who is after Cooper's character. Unquote
To follow up on comments about Bill King (and his wife's) web site, I agree about the picture issue. How fun it is to have my '62 Greystones on my desk as I look through the profiles. So many of you look so great and have such interesting stories. Like Cheryl, the memories just start flowing. I think I have ALL the 50's music collections that were advertised on PBS during their fund raisers (thanks to my daughters) and that genre of music occupies the 1st button on my Sirius in the car. Certain songs bring back special memories, e.g. the gals I was secretly in love with but couldn't ask them out (no car); the Friday night dances in the gym; those Tuesday night hops at Chez Vous in 69th Street (on the 2nd floor across from the Bell Tel Building and the White Tower in Terminal Square) and the Sunday night dances at St. Alice's. I also spent some time jumping on the trolley in front of the - now Middle School on Darby Road - and going into Bandstand for maybe a year. Funn y thing though, I still can't jitterbug without looking like Elaine Benis on Seinfeld (but then, close slow dancing was always so much more fun).
A few more prods into your memory banks: Terry's Deli on Darby Road next to Petrella's Record Shop (remember going into the booth to play our favorite 45's?) in South Ardmore/Oakmont with the great hoagies; Max Factors at Brookline & Darby with the soda fountain and Fran's Hoagie Shop next door where Jerry Repp and Barbara Schmidt (I miss her) used to hang out; Weinbergs in Manoa Shopping Center; the frequent fights behind the library; pep rallies before our football games; Fisher's in Broomall (where Mike was heading the night he died) and their drive-in spots for food (and the other one in 69th Street next to the bowling alley - I think it was called the Hot Shoppe); Scotties and their 15 cent burgers up in Marple (and the drag racing out on the by-pass); the Dairy Cottage - my wife and I were just there a couple weeks ago - over on 420/Woodland Avenue in Springfield - where folks like Mike Davidson (and I'm sure others in our class worked at one time or another) the o ld Brookline Swim Club which was torn down to make way for our new high school; the 'stables' out on Darby Road between Marple Road and College Avenue and Art Tuttle (and his wonder dog) moving through the halls leaving behind a path for all to follow. I remember seeing him years later in 69th Street Terminal...with a cup. How sad that was; he was very talented. Ah, such memories!
Keep the cards and letters coming folks and dig into your gray matter files for some additional bits of nostalgia for us all.
Be well.........
