Wow! So many memories, went to NEHS graduated 1974, used to go to Country Club Diner when I was going to cut school that day. Hesh's, best Chocolate Chip Cake, Krewstown Shopping Ctr. great stores, Hot Foot, my shoe store, Steve Stein's Jewish Deli, Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips when they were real chips not the shit they serve now. Moved out of Pilly yrs. ago. It's so dangerous now. Thanks for the Memories!!!
Grew up in Wissinoming. Played in Valley Park playground . Walked over halve a hour to swim in nice Max Meyors pool. Listened to WIBBAGE ( WIP ) 99 on the AM channel.Went to the Ellis, Mayfair & Merben movie theatres. Roller shaketed at Concord. After we were in high school would pay around $1.50 to swim at the Blvd pools.
I was born at HUP, but rushed out to the suburbs. I returned in the 70's, and got my radio dream job at WYSP. I took Leann Dennison to her prom at Lincoln High. I miss those days. We all felt safe there.
Alot of Mayfair and other areas are still nice clean neighborhood s where residents clean their homes and streets themselves and don't skimp on repairs to their homes.i lived all over the north east and for the most part if you stay away from the ghetto by places like Solly av and Frankford av your generally ok .
Hoping to see a pic of the Four Chefs sign. Grew up on Hellerman. The pic of Kiddie City blew me away. Currently living in Phoenix AZ...seems like a million years ago.
Sadly once wonderful & great Amerika is in a cataclysmic decline because of your liberal Progressive Leftists who have destroyed your nation from within Yuliya ✝️🇷🇺
Thank you for this, brought back so many goos memories, I grew up on princeton ave across from mayfair elementary school in the 70's and to the mid 80's. Lincoln high class of 86. I miss those times and the area it was!
I lived in the Northeast from 1949 to 1969. I didn't realize it at the time, but it was a nirvana for growing up in a safe, caring community. No one had guns, there was no violent crime, the worst we could see was occaisional graffiti. When my parents talked about "the war" it was always about WWII, when fighting for what was right and decent was understood without question. During the earliest days, you could count the number of cars parked on each block with the fingers of one hand. Everyone took transit or walked. In those days, Northeast High competed to see how many students got National Merit or Mayor's scholarships. I can vivdly recall buying 15-cent hamburgers at Ronnie's as a reward for finishing my paper route, and nearby smell those wonderful hot dogs (with "the works") at Lenny's. Who could ask for anything more?
These scenes of Philadelphia were really great ! It’s a shame that the background music so obnoxious and aggravating. I’m not sure what it has to do with Philadelphia.
The northeast can be this way again. Stop selling to the Chinese and hk99 just cuz they paying cash. Sell to people you know, friends family etc. it takes a movement. If it can happen in fishtown it can happen in the northeast. Stop fleeing and get people to move in. Thats how bridesburg is still going
Lot of memories, thanks for this! I would go to my grandmom's every Christmas Eve, she lived on Cottage Street. (There was a HUGE Xmas light display a few blocks away on Jackson St. near Magee). My dad would always take Cottman to the area, wow...I remember that classic Dunkin' Donuts. Just loved that area when as a kid period, lot of great times. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Plenty to do back in the day. Concord, Playland , Mayfair and the Merbem. Wall ball, stick ball, hand ball, wire ball, step ball , jailbreak and buck buck to name a few.
Went by on Tyson today, looks like a third world country. All foreigners, Muslims gathered around a mosque, blocking traffic Felt like I was in Mosul or islamabad!😢
We grew up in olney (near rising sun &olney ave) but moved to NE 1984..to st Vincent &Frontenac..I miss those days I still crave Charlie's pizza! ...we went there most Fridays..it was a great time to be alive..thanks for posting
I grew up in the 80’s in Large & Fuller…Datillos Deli a block away,Solly Playground,Pennypack park right there,Great place to grow up in the 80’s…Goodtimes!
EXTREMELY Racist Irish, Polish, German, and other CAUCASIANS. African Americans or Puerto Ricans couldn't live in multiple communities, except for dirty Frankford in the 70s and 80s. You were TORMENTED severely ,if you moved there , without knowing the behavior of those Klan followers. F all of them meth heads and pcp lovers . They can all burn in hell. The new beginning arrived years ago
It made me tear up too! I was there last Sunday 7-16-23. It's a huge Target now, but the original Kiddie City entrance on the left side of the building can still be made out. Not sure if it's coincidence, but this Target has the biggest toy section of any Target I've been in! It's at least 12-15 aisle long. That made my 9 and 12 year old kids and me of course happy to be there. We had to buy a few 2023 retro HE-Man figures and Barbie's like the good old days before online shopping.
My uncle Vince Worked at the Bulletin for 30 years. It was a great truthful paper. NOT like the Enquier...a piece of yellow journalism that made up stories as News!😊
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I was born in the 80’s, lived on woodhaven rd, and used to play with friends in the neighborhood next to my apartment complex. I didn’t moved to the Verree rd area till I entered high school, but most of my good memories are from back then. I had woodhaven mall for abit, but then we got Franklin Mills mall ( will forever be that, not this Philadelphia Mills Mall crap. Met a couple of great friends back then, to bad most of them I’ve lost contact with. These days Northeast Philly don’t have the same feel as it used to, but at least better then other areas of Philly.
The city especially the Northeast used to be a nice working-class blue-collar neighborhood. Trying to put it nicely, I will say section 8 ruined it. When people owned their homes they took care of them, when renters started coming in they didn't take care of the properties and it went to shit.
