Bob Certo sends in this Roseville artifact: "I was going though some boxes of my grandparents and found this photo envelope from F & M Drug Co.," he writes. "I would have to date this envelope to the mid Fifties." I must confess I don't remember that store on Fifth and Orange.
Ahhhh the Deckle Edge! When ever I find an box of old photos I get this urge to sort them and get the old 'rolls' back together. I usually start sorting by B&W or color but then THE DECKLE EDGE or feathered-look edge, then size or format, processing number on the back, and finally content.
CROW! Would you send Bob Certo a message asking him to peruse those old photos he found for something we might use in the calendar project?
I believe the store relocated to thge corner of Orange and Roseville Ave. The pharmacist name was Matarazzo (spelling?). The same building as Whelan's,Rexall. Moy Bing's original restaurant was above on the second floor.
Yes, Phil and Charles was my dad's favorite spot. How different taverns or gin mills as he liked to say, were in the 1950"s. There was a bar with stools and shuffleboard in the front and a back room with tables. Women, who were escorted by a gentleman, were relegated to the back room. Women could not be served in the bar area: house rule. Pretzels and potatoe chips were free. I remember drinking many a glass of birch beer in that back room. I think on Sundays beer had to be put in a cardboard container for take out sales. Things have changed, haven't they? I drove past there today coincidentally. And now there is a "Gould Avenue", a "Gould Place" and a "Service Road" running between Sussex Avenue and Orange Street.
Back in the early fifties, when I started attending St. Rose, I remember this being an ice cream parlour - I think it was called the Lombardy. It later relocated for a little while to the corner of Sixth and Orange, diagonal to the old Fifth Precinct.
Was that Leos tavern on 4th and Orange? I was a small kid but my parents knew Leo Serra I beleive. How about Boyle's?? That was my godfather Uncle Emmet!!
John C and dick evans are both correct . After F&M moved under Moy Bing the store reopend as a Lunchenette Called the Burgandy. Spent a lot of time hanging out there with Pat Purcell'S brother ED.
Indeed it was the Burgundy it was operated by a gentleman name FRANK KURTZ who lived in spottswood also Beans Simbolli Ray Prezlumski who lived acrossed the street by the railroad tracks hung around once in a while with Eddie [my love]
The F&M Drug Store was located on the corner of 5th Street and Orange Street during the early 50s. Silvio, my father, moved the business to the corner of Orange Street and Roseville Avenue around 1953-1955. It was the largest Rexall drug store in Newark during that time.
