1977 Flood - I'm not sure which neighborhood this is.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Slice of Downtown Life
A reader sent in this one of a kind shot. In this - the background shows Glosser's and the wagon shows Penn Traffic.
Glosser's Bargain Circus
Another one of the old ad's on zinc plates - this time it's Glosser's Bargain Circus.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
The Cacicia's from Trabia
Meet my great-grandparents: Lucia (Scardina) and Onofrio Cacicia. This was taken about 1910 or so - most likely in Trabia, Palermo, Sicily. Onofrio made the trip over three times - each time to Johnstown where we had other cousins already here staying at a boarding house on Washington Street. Until the day his daughter Anna (Cacicia) Sunseri died at age 99 in 1989 - anytime Zia would talk about him - she would pretend to spit on the floor and give the sign for malocchio. It seems that around 1914 or so - he was in Johnstown once again. He supposedly was a fisherman back in Sicily - but not having much call for that here in Johnstown - from what I gathered he spent more time with the ladies - enjoying a drink or two.
Anna and her husband Frank Sunseri had a store at the bottom of Prospect Hill. Onofrio running low on cash - took $75 out of the till - quite a large sum for 1914. He ended up running off to Brooklyn - to lay low with some relatives there and that's the last that anyone ever heard from him.
And one more thing - there is still alot of family resemblance amongst all of us in regards to these two - whether we like it or not.
Anna and her husband Frank Sunseri had a store at the bottom of Prospect Hill. Onofrio running low on cash - took $75 out of the till - quite a large sum for 1914. He ended up running off to Brooklyn - to lay low with some relatives there and that's the last that anyone ever heard from him.
And one more thing - there is still alot of family resemblance amongst all of us in regards to these two - whether we like it or not.
Happy Birthday
My grandmother on the left - Helen (HanzeL) Lenz - would have turned 90 today. The youngster in the bunch is my cousin Marie (Toth) Edmiston - one of the funniest people I know. Next to her is her mother - Marge (Hanzel) Toth - still around at 96 and Clara (Hanzel) Pynkala - who is also still going strong. I think that is the back of my head - for some reason my hair was less curly growing up. And that is our old Plymouth Station Wagon - the best car ever! We used to fight who would sit backwards in the seat by the hatch.
Saturday, April 21, 2012
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