The Google Earth maps are awesome! the street view anyways,I looked up 185 North 11th St. and the red cobblestones are gone...lol Also I guess parking got so bad they took out all the front bushes, yards, etc. and made cement driveways up to the houses? wow! also noticed around the block on 9th st. the same thing! and some of the houses also have garages where garages weren't lol. I see they fixed the double parking issues. I wonder what that cost Newark to re-construct all that. I imagine it isn't limited to just these 2 streets. Can anyone else add to this? I also noticed a lot of stores either gone or something completely different. Are there any bars left on Park Ave. anymore? Are there any bars at all in our area of Newark anymore?? take care all!
Yes, i lived 107 so 10th st. thought it was gone till i figured out how to manipulate the google arrows. my old apartment (in victorian house) is still there. looks pretty good. the house to the left is still there but they are building something on the corner where the bar used to be. can't figure it out it is a strange looking building. funny, i thought my house would be gone. had storage bins in cellar cause had old furnances & they used to deliver the coal thru the basement windows. we were afraid of the 1st bin in the front of the house. always dark, locked, deep. so 1 day i said to siblings, they are going to find a body in there some day. sis called me about 2-3 months or more ago & says guess what star ledger has? then proceeded to tell me they arrested some guy living in one of the rooms there (must have broken up the floors into rooms. remember these old houses had humongous rooms). he is accused of murdering his girlfriend. found her body in a storage bin in the cellar in the front of the house!said it was in there about 2 weeks. imagine that smell? see! i KNEW there was a reason i & rest of us were afraid of that bin.Now if i could just predict 6 numbers.............
Our house, 61 North 11th Street has been changed from a victorian to an updates model. The front lawn and it's wall are gone. It has been replaced by a cement drive with a car parked there. The upstairs porch is now fully closed in apparently turned into a room. The front of the house has been changed. There were bay windows on all three floors with a lighting rod on the roof. Now only 2 of the floors have bays and they so very different. The third floor front flat with no bay windows.
The Bradberry's house still has it's bay windows. It is painted darker colors. It was white back then, The Bagdonis house looks good.The DaSilva's house looks a little run down. Mrs. Wickets house is gone. The Peterson's house still has it's front walls. The house were Bobby Regan lived is different. All of the windows on the front of the house are gone. But it still looks good.
I'm surprised at not just minor changes, I felt like I was travelling in the twilight zone...lol. Maybe because occasionally with a population as large as Newark's you only occasionally see a person or two. Combine that with some real nostaligia, top that off with, some weird, some cool, changes to our old neighborhoods and you'll know how I feel! The most shocking to me was:
1). Foodtown, replaced with some kind of market.....Foodtown you could always run into a friend!
2). Mac Avoy Court (I Lived there for years) I believe it is officially condemned! I loved that place! It looks ghostly now! and of course the White Castle and the stores across the street are gone!
3). Nick's and the steps on the side wall he used to always sit on is gone! and the really good Italian deli across the street from Nick's, gone! the Pharmacy on Park Ave. across from Nick's...gone! On 6th and Park Ave. the Butcher shop and the cool little candy shop next to that....gone, Firestation still there. Geno's is replaced by a KFC. I imagine the White Circle? just before Branch brook park is gone. My old school Garfield is now Dr. something, but not in really bad shape from the front anyways.
4). Lastly, living in Orange County, Ca. where it maybe rains about 25 days a year and water at times is scarce, no city holds back on keeping everything green and beautiful, on the other hand I was hard pressed to find the beautiful green lawns, even trees were rare! in the beautiful Newark I grew up in!! But all in all, it still is the best place in the country to have grown up in!!! (never a boring moment!)
i know how to get googlemap.com and look at things from above....how do you really get a street view i clicked on street view and still had the view from above.........
you really get a street view???????
Marilyn, Try this, when your at Google maps type in an address in the search box then when it comes up, hit street view (box to the left) then full size that. Then you can use the arrow keyes to simulate walking down the street, left and right arrow keyes to turn 45 degrees. Good luck.
I checked my old house on Park Ave., it's still there. I checked Gail Gilmartins house on Myrtle, still there then I checked my gransfathers house(where I grew up) at 25 North 7th St.and it's a vacant lot. Tht was really sad. I have so many good memories of that house.That Google is a great thing for traveling through the old neighborhood.
Hey cuz. Can you believe our old house is gone. I have lots of great memories of that house. And the very sad one I remember very clearly. All the other houses are still there. Wish I knew what happened to my Grandads house.
I was telling my sister to go to the site to look, she told me they are tearing down roosevelt stadium to rebuild. i have GREAt DRUM CORPS memories of that stadium. it was even better that we could walk to it if we really had to. i hope, don't know what the neighborhood is like, that they have dc shows there again.
I googled down past the stadium and noticed a fence around it, I guess thats in preparation of knocking it down. Do you remember going there for July 4th fireworks when you were a kid?? Do you remember the Jersey Jays semi-pro football team?, I believe they were affiliated with the Cleveland Browns pro team. It's good to know they have a reason to rebuild it! Doesn't Barringer's Football team play there? Yes, it's sad to see a house that you were a part of gone. What do you think the reason is, one house, here and there is gone and the next door houses are still intact? a fire maybe? Maybe they picked it up and moved it to Florida?? LOL. Now thats sentimental! today I travelled down 3rd ave and Peck Ave. wasn't that the street where we got all the chestnuts?? remember making Chestnut pipes? lol not for smoking anything....lol, just make believe. Ciao.
Toby,
That fence has been up there for years. Remember the big wall around the whole thing? They knocked that down a few years ago and put up that fence.
REJ, I do recall the wall, was there a problem with graffitti or just old age? are there any supermarkets in the city? all I see is little markets, and what about Wal-marts and K-Marts, Target, etc. I'm shocked at the limited resources, where do people in Newark go? TY
Tobie, you mentioned you lived at 185 north 11th street. I lived at 181 north 11th st (first floor flat in the schmidt's house) from 1958 to 1968 yet I have no idea who you are. I think Carol Petrillo lived on the first floor of your house--she was younger than me--I'll be 60 in September.
Hi Maureen, We moved to 185 N. 11th st from the other side of Park Ave, we lived at 42-44(?) N. 12 th St. between 6th and 7th Ave. around 65/66 . We lived on the top floor, The Petrillos lived on the 1st floor (Neal and Carol were the kids) and the Rallos (who owned the Rallo's Rest. on Orange st) were on the 2nd floor and were our actual landlords. The Petrillos were their family members. Johhny boy (not sure last name) lived around the corner he was a cousin to Neal and Louie Caloia. The 4 of us at one time were in the Cub scouts together (7 yrs old sounds right). I never knew why but Carol hated me and never missed a chance at yelling at me for something lol. The whole clan about 2 yrs later packed up, (including my Stingray bike lol) and moved to Orange, Calif. They sold the house to a black couple (who were the nicest landlords I ever met!) "The Yorks", they let us have the 2nd floor. As fate would have it Louie Caloia and I were like brothers and in 73 he moved to Orange, Cal. re-uniting with the Petrillos, Rallos, and Johnny boy's family. In 74 I graduated and Louie talked me into moving out there, so some years later on thanksgiving day 1974 I meet up with Carol again........and she was still rude to me!! LOL by that time the elder Rallos passed away. Louie and I moved to Tustin, Ca and I'm not sure what happened with the Clan after that. I had two older brothers, Carmen and Augie (Augie would have been your age), do you recall them? and you must have heard my mom yelling for me, I could hear her on 9th st...lol I also had a couple mini bikes, recall them? I'm 8 yrs younger so you probably looked at me like another punk kid lol. Bobby Reilly and I were best friends and I used to even visit him in Hackettstown, you must remember the Reillys.
Tobie, yes I sort of remember your bikes, and of course, I remember the Reillys--I think the father was a fireman. My mother and
Mrs. Reilly were originally from Pennsylvania so they had something to talk about. 181 apparently had a fire a few years back so the front of the house looks different. Do these names ring a bell with you? Donna Emery, Laura, Gregory and Steven Guyan, Debbie and Bobby Kerr, Jerry and Judy Schmidt, we all lived in just 3 houses -- 179, 181 and 183.
Tobie... remember your bikes... my sister Patty and I grew up at 182 n11th st, remember the rest of you guys living across the street and to me, most of you were 'the big kids'... mom stayed in that house till the late 70's and the city codes put her in the position to have to sell the house... almost all of these houses we grew in were built before current newark building codes were in effect... most of them were built around 1910-1925...
All you North 11th streeters out there -- I visited the Vietnam Memorial in Washington in April and checked out Bobby Gerrito's name. He lived on the west side of the street in one of the few private homes on that block near 4th avenue. I felt so sad that he never had a chance to really live his life.
Hi Ellen, Just went to realtor.com and noticed 184 N. 11th st house is for sale (I was thinking might be the same layout as your home at 182) it is going for 189,000. Just thought you might to look at the photos of this place. Take care.
HI Maureen, Yes, my second bike my mom bought me (on Layaway..lol) was 240.00 and it was a cool limegreen CHOPPER! lol I removed the govenor and could do 55 miles an hour! lol. All with a 3.5HP Tecumseh Engine, never lost a race, it looked identical to a Harley chopper! I used to charge .25 to ride it around the block (9th st around Park ave thru 11th st to 4th ave and back to 9th st.) It was so cool looking, I was offered and accepted lol 5.00 from a friend just for him to ride it 40 yards past this girl he wanted to impress...lol. Gotta love free Enterprise. It wasn't without incedent tho' John Mangione and I were riding past Garfield school on 7th st and a Newark Policeman pulled us over and surprisingly put both our bikes in his cruiser, took us in and had to wai til our parents came, my mom chewed that cop a new one.....lol...a very devoted mom still to this day God Bless her!! Another time I was in a mini bike club and my partner Tony and I were riding at night and I didn't see this dip and went flying over the handle bars! all I said to Tony was is my bike ok?? lol I looked for hours at home and couldn't find a scratch on it!! My ribs hurt for weeks tho' lol. And yes I used to hang around Steve Guyan down on Park Ave for years. He was funny and crazy scary! last I heard he works in a toll booth?? I also was for a short while corresponding with Joe Doyle who lives out here in Cal. who says he was married to Steve's sister.
That is a very cool feature. I cruised around Newark, East Orange and Orange past all my homes and schools. Then past my mother's last apartment at 348 Central Ave. in Orange. There are THREE police cars engaged in business there!
184 was owned by the Gower family -- he was a fireman -- the kids were Mary Ann, Sheila and a little boy Jimmy who had Down's syndrome. Wonder whatever happened to them?
Mary Ann Gower was in my class, and was my date for the Spaghetti Supper one year. I was kinda sweet on her and gave her a necklace, but her mother made her give it back! I tried not to take it personally.
I wonder what happened to the Gower family too and John's Necklace! lol, I also had a friend Steven Presley who lived in one of those house across the street from us (185 N. 11th st), anyone remember the Presleys or Preslins (not sure)
To Maureen D - hi Maureen, good to see your posting, hope all is well with you. The cobblestones were removed by contractors years ago, and in a scene straight out of the Soprano's, they were sent up to Livingston, South Orange, etc. to a couple of the Goombas houses - those cobblestones were Belgium blocks - VERY expensive. I, too went to the Vietnam Memorial - one of the founders of the Memorial is Louis Vlahakis from No. 9th. Street, I was friends with his sister, Maria. Went looking for Bobby Garrido and Tommy Clarken's name and etched them out - so sad. I can remember playing "Hide and go Seek" with Bobby and the rest of the 11th. St. gang. Hey Maureen - remember "Camp Little Flower"?? I wonder where it is now. Take care, Deb. Hi to all my 11th. St. pals!
Hi, Debbie! I can't believe you mentioned Little Flower Camp!!!! You have some memory! It closed in the late 60's, I believe. I researched recently on the computer and the property is now Camp Olympic, filled with Brooklyn kids. The last memory I have of Bobby Garrito is of him standing on your porch, smoking a cigarette and talking to your mother and your brother. That was probably around April, 1968.
