This almost brought me to tears.I was born in Philadelphia General Hospital.Raised in South Philly.Passyunk Homes.Penrose avenue.I remember walking to the lakes.The Spectrum.The Vet.Penrose Diner.The first AND second Arco oil refinery explosions.Walking to Vare Junior High School looking at Phil"Chicken Man"Testa's blowed up porch.(It was kept taped off for a long time).-The Phillies AND the Sixers championship wins.WE WENT CRAZY!!!!--The hoagies,the cheese steaks,water ice,cheese fries,on & on---...Oh so many memories.I'm no longer in Philly.But Philly will ALWAYS be in me.
I grew up in SW Philly around 58th & Kingsessing Aves., moved to the Northeast in the early 70s and have lived in South Jersey since ‘87. It’s hard to comprehend that so much of what you remember is no longer there or has deteriorated so drastically that you can’t recognize it. I miss the feel of shopping on Woodland & Chester Ave. during the holidays and playing at Myers Playground, the Benn & Benson movie theaters, Most Blessed Sacrament, family owned grocery markets on every other corner, running down alleys, the fruit & vegetable hucksters, playing in the street under the the “fireplug”, stepball, wireball, getting yelled at by all the Moms on the street when you acted up..... it seems like another life. These photos just make me sad and nostalgic for a childhood that was idyllic in a lot of ways, though not always. 50-55 years have passed since I lived in Southwest, but it will always be home in my heart and where I’m from when asked.
I feel the same about parts of W. Philly( Carol Park). But I've said this to some of my own family members. You all lament some of the decay. But you all left for the suburbs. So it's all of our faults that the decay happened.
@@yvonneplant9434 I can’t say you’re wrong about that. Not that any of us had any say in the matter when we were children. Now that we are all adults, would we do anything differently than our parents? We still live in a segregated country and have difficulty when we attempt to coexist. I wish our leaders and responsible citizens could sit down and speak about this in the open and find a way to iron out the mistrust we all seem to have for any of us who don’t resemble us. I’m 66 years old and wonder if we’ll ever overcome our country’s original sin (the enslavement of millions of Black people) and earn the right to call ourselves the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. I’d like to be hopeful, but it seems as if half the population refuses to accept anyone different from themselves. And it’s not improving as I enter my twilight years. I wish I had a solution.
I just love those old pictures:). As a child, my Grandfather would drive me to Frankford Ave., where we would shop at Pliner's Shoes for my brother and myself for our school and religious services. I remember when the Phillies won the World Series in 1980 with Pete Rose being on the team when I was in Elementary School and of course we all remember the not too distant World Series Win of 2008:). Lovely videos with many of days long gone, like before my time with the Milk being delivered to the front stoop.
Side note: The 8 or 10' high wrought iron fence from the old Philadelphia General Hospital was reused by CHOP on 34th Street along the Seashore house & Wood buildings. Can anybody remember the Convention Center? Graduated from there in 1970 and went to a few shows there. Used to go to the Elis movie theatre below Bridge Street along with the Mayfair, Merben, Devon, Bennett & the Roosevelt movie theaters. Shopped at Rual's & Edco for our clothes.
Lovely images from around the city. I lived across the street from the Harbison's Dairy. I was amazed to find out a couple of years ago that the building had been turned into condos and offices and the entire area has picked up. And the giant milk bottle has been repainted! But my childhood home is still there and the memories are still here. But whoever said that it's gone is so right. Especially Kensington and particularly K&A. But that's more other more dismal videos.
I remember Gukin Manson next door to Ascension Catholic School. I was friends with one of their daughters and we would run around downstairs in the funeral rooms. It was so creepy and they lived on the second floor as the main home. I also St Anne's School when they had carnivals bizzares with games and prizes. Good memories for sure.
We spent a lot of winter afternoons playing roller hockey in the old horse stables at the Guckin Funeral mansion in the late 1980’s .,Most of my family were laid out in that building, and they did my moms funeral or handled the cremation of her remains in 2008 . The one daughter had taken over for her father by then but because Mr. Guckin knew my mom so well he attended her funeral mass along with his daughter. I had thought he passed away well before 2008 but he was alive and well in 1/08. A lot of people don’t know the original Guckin Funeral home was located on the corner of F and Westmoreland Streets on the Southwest corner. A guy I grew up with and knew most of my life grew up in that house after The Guckin funeral home bought the mansion off of the Ascension church who sold it when they had their rectory built in its current location which is next to the burned down Ascension church which breaks my heart to see that in the condition it’s been allowed to fall into . I was baptized, made my communion, and was confirmed in that church as was most of my friends and family members. It was also are personal playground and made a great place to play Freedom where the place we kept the captured players from the other team or prison as we called it was either the F Street side steps or the wooden steps for the trailers they had on 700 Cornwall Street.
Not to mention the Betsy Ross house which is in center city. This should be called a walk through Kensington and places south. The pics were pretty cool though. Just a bit unrecognizable to somebody who's spent his life in NE Philly.
I was born at Philadelphia General Hospital back in 73' & was raised back in West Philadelphia because I've never seen these parts of the city before until I was then in my teens since I was always riding Septa all around the city & had seen how all of the neighborhoods started to decline & having all of these drug addicts hanging around Kensington & all then seeing so many businesses close down & leaving elsewheres & all but these pictures are the only things to remember the city from the past .
I'm about to post this on the Philadelphia History and Memories Facebook group, but DAMN! your map of the Northeast is really F'ed up! You must've went to North Catholic. LOL!
We had Harbison's as our milkman. I can still see the truck coming down Devereaux Ave., stopping in front, the milkman coming up the steps with his metal bottle carrier, picking up the empties and leaving us the fresh milk, in glass bottles with the foil caps. Before the milk was homogenized, we could pull the caps off and sip the cream that had risen to the top of the milk. Good memories of a time and a city long past. My heart will always have a fondness for Philly, though I cringe every time I go into the city now. Sad what has become of it over the years. BTW: Thomas Slavin, were you from Lawndale/Lawncrest?
I grew up at Howard in Lehigh I went to shepherd elementary on Howard and Cambria , the boys club on Howard and Somerset the lighthouse on mastering Lehigh then Elkin elementary on the in Allegheny then Stetson B in Allegheny while my sister's went to conwell and Masbaum high. For high school I went to Edison on 8th and Lehigh then for the last year the new Edison on front and Luzerne. Kensington was a fun place to grow up in believe it or not on York and dolphin were a lot of stores to shop clothing and sneaker stores then you had the penny arcade and and Kelly's corner where they sold everything. A little past Lehigh and Kensington you had the bike store denneries sporting goods and fills appliances a little further down at Kensington and Somerset going up to Kensington and Clearfield you had Ritz camera shop and levens furniture and appliance store across the street on the same block there was a RadioShack and record spot Ben Humphries pharmacy on the corner down the street a little was my favorite pizza restaurant FOUR sons across West Tom McCann shoe store and a bunch of other stores to shop at. Kensington and Allegheny was a great place in the 80s you can buy almost anything there all of the drugs work further down Kensington between Kensington and Lehigh Kensington in York now it's pushed up front and Indiana all the way up to erie and torresdale. I remember as a teenager working at impact services right off of front and Indiana. There were more stores at front and Allegheny to front and Westmoreland where the police station was. I saw crack when it first started before then it was heroin and people used to sniff glue and take pills. Although it was a lot of ugly it was a great place to grow up very diverse and fun.
I’m back. 6 years later. I just noticed the picture of Farmers Pride. The one way signs are messing me up. Because the store I went to was at FKD n Sellers and FKD is 2 way and sellers is one way but going west. Unless this was another location.
This is nice nostalgia for everything about the area about the El and sports, but as a N E native, I don’t see much beyond these sites. What happened to the Oxford Circle, Castor Gardens and development of Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Mall development? There were some great opportunities to view some beautiful homes, landscaping and parkland
Oxford circle along with Tacony , Mayfair east of Frankford Avenue is a getto. They closed the once very busy McDonalds @ Oxford circle. Not the once great Northeast. Morons that pretend to run philly public schools are cutting high school crime in halve. Yep replacing a school that had 3,000'students with a smaller school that only holds 1,500 kids.
I remember Harbison's dairy, with the huge milk bottle on the roof. We used to rob them, young and dumb, when we were kids, they had a lot down Kensington ave from the old main building, they used to park the trucks there during the 80's. They would never lock the rear doors, we would cross FKD creek where the tunnels were, they would back the trucks to the fence, we'd get yogurt, eggs, milk, etc.
I grew up at Howard in Lehigh I went to shepherd elementary on Howard and Cambria , the boys club on Howard and Somerset the lighthouse on mastering Lehigh then Elkin elementary on the in Allegheny then Stetson B in Allegheny while my sister's went to conwell and Masbaum high. For high school I went to Edison on 8th and Lehigh then for the last year the new Edison on front and Luzerne. Kensington was a fun place to grow up in believe it or not on York and dolphin were a lot of stores to shop clothing and sneaker stores then you had the penny arcade and and Kelly's corner where they sold everything. A little past Lehigh and Kensington you had the bike store denneries sporting goods and fills appliances a little further down at Kensington and Somerset going up to Kensington and Clearfield you had Ritz camera shop and levens furniture and appliance store across the street on the same block there was a RadioShack and record spot Ben Humphries pharmacy on the corner down the street a little was my favorite pizza restaurant FOUR sons across West Tom McCann shoe store and a bunch of other stores to shop at. Kensington and Allegheny was a great place in the 80s you can buy almost anything there all of the drugs work further down Kensington between Kensington and Lehigh Kensington in York now it's pushed up front and Indiana all the way up to erie and torresdale. I remember as a teenager working at impact services right off of front and Indiana. There were more stores at front and Allegheny to front and Westmoreland where the police station was. I saw crack when it first started before then it was heroin and people used to sniff glue and take pills. Although it was a lot of ugly it was a great place to grow up very diverse and fun.
This almost brought me to tears.I was born in Philadelphia General Hospital.Raised in South Philly.Passyunk Homes.Penrose avenue.I remember walking to the lakes.The Spectrum.The Vet.Penrose Diner.The first AND second Arco oil refinery explosions.Walking to Vare Junior High School looking at Phil"Chicken Man"Testa's blowed up porch.(It was kept taped off for a long time).-The Phillies AND the Sixers championship wins.WE WENT CRAZY!!!!--The hoagies,the cheese steaks,water ice,cheese fries,on & on---...Oh so many memories.I'm no longer in Philly.But Philly will ALWAYS be in me.
I grew up in SW Philly around 58th & Kingsessing Aves., moved to the Northeast in the early 70s and have lived in South Jersey since ‘87. It’s hard to comprehend that so much of what you remember is no longer there or has deteriorated so drastically that you can’t recognize it. I miss the feel of shopping on Woodland & Chester Ave. during the holidays and playing at Myers Playground, the Benn & Benson movie theaters, Most Blessed Sacrament, family owned grocery markets on every other corner, running down alleys, the fruit & vegetable hucksters, playing in the street under the the “fireplug”, stepball, wireball, getting yelled at by all the Moms on the street when you acted up..... it seems like another life. These photos just make me sad and nostalgic for a childhood that was idyllic in a lot of ways, though not always. 50-55 years have passed since I lived in Southwest, but it will always be home in my heart and where I’m from when asked.
I feel the same about parts of W. Philly( Carol Park).
But I've said this to some of my own family members. You all lament some of the decay. But you all left for the suburbs. So it's all of our faults that the decay happened.
@@yvonneplant9434 I can’t say you’re wrong about that. Not that any of us had any say in the matter when we were children. Now that we are all adults, would we do anything differently than our parents? We still live in a segregated country and have difficulty when we attempt to coexist. I wish our leaders and responsible citizens could sit down and speak about this in the open and find a way to iron out the mistrust we all seem to have for any of us who don’t resemble us. I’m 66 years old and wonder if we’ll ever overcome our country’s original sin (the enslavement of millions of Black people) and earn the right to call ourselves the “land of the free and the home of the brave”. I’d like to be hopeful, but it seems as if half the population refuses to accept anyone different from themselves. And it’s not improving as I enter my twilight years. I wish I had a solution.
What a dump I miss my hometown
I just love those old pictures:). As a child, my Grandfather would drive me to Frankford Ave., where we would shop at Pliner's Shoes for my brother and myself for our school and religious services. I remember when the Phillies won the World Series in 1980 with Pete Rose being on the team when I was in Elementary School and of course we all remember the not too distant World Series Win of 2008:). Lovely videos with many of days long gone, like before my time with the Milk being delivered to the front stoop.
Side note: The 8 or 10' high wrought iron fence from the old Philadelphia General Hospital was reused by CHOP on 34th Street along the Seashore house & Wood buildings. Can anybody remember the Convention Center? Graduated from there in 1970 and went to a few shows there. Used to go to the Elis movie theatre below Bridge Street along with the Mayfair, Merben, Devon, Bennett & the Roosevelt movie theaters. Shopped at Rual's & Edco for our clothes.
love the background music. thanks for posting. Philly has so much history
none of what was shown is considered NE PHilly
thank you. saw a lot of kensington in there.
Sometimes it feels sad growing up and leaving behind what will never be again.
Oh yeah the old America. I miss it. The current state is very sad.
Not much of the Northeast was included !
Lovely images from around the city. I lived across the street from the Harbison's Dairy. I was amazed to find out a couple of years ago that the building had been turned into condos and offices and the entire area has picked up. And the giant milk bottle has been repainted! But my childhood home is still there and the memories are still here. But whoever said that it's gone is so right. Especially Kensington and particularly K&A. But that's more other more dismal videos.
I know you went to Phillips steaks , being so close by ...👍👍👍
It hasn't been the Northeast in ages.
It's a shit hole anymore.
very good work
Great stuff. You skipped Leo Mall and so much more. I'm a krewstown kid.
So much for progress.
💘 FLASH BACK.. AWESOME..THANKYOU
I remember Gukin Manson next door to Ascension Catholic School. I was friends with one of their daughters and we would run around downstairs in the funeral rooms. It was so creepy and they lived on the second floor as the main home. I also St Anne's School when they had carnivals bizzares with games and prizes. Good memories for sure.
We spent a lot of winter afternoons playing roller hockey in the old horse stables at the Guckin Funeral mansion in the late 1980’s .,Most of my family were laid out in that building, and they did my moms funeral or handled the cremation of her remains in 2008 . The one daughter had taken over for her father by then but because Mr. Guckin knew my mom so well he attended her funeral mass along with his daughter. I had thought he passed away well before 2008 but he was alive and well in 1/08. A lot of people don’t know the original Guckin Funeral home was located on the corner of F and Westmoreland Streets on the Southwest corner. A guy I grew up with and knew most of my life grew up in that house after The Guckin funeral home bought the mansion off of the Ascension church who sold it when they had their rectory built in its current location which is next to the burned down Ascension church which breaks my heart to see that in the condition it’s been allowed to fall into . I was baptized, made my communion, and was confirmed in that church as was most of my friends and family members. It was also are personal playground and made a great place to play Freedom where the place we kept the captured players from the other team or prison as we called it was either the F Street side steps or the wooden steps for the trailers they had on 700 Cornwall Street.
Germantown? Sugar House Casino? pretty broad definition of NE Philly
Not to mention the Betsy Ross house which is in center city. This should be called a walk through Kensington and places south. The pics were pretty cool though. Just a bit unrecognizable to somebody who's spent his life in NE Philly.
I was born at Philadelphia General Hospital back in 73' & was raised back in West Philadelphia because I've never seen these parts of the city before until I was then in my teens since I was always riding Septa all around the city & had seen how all of the neighborhoods started to decline & having all of these drug addicts hanging around Kensington & all then seeing so many businesses close down & leaving elsewheres & all but these pictures are the only things to remember the city from the past .
I'm about to post this on the Philadelphia History and Memories Facebook group, but DAMN! your map of the Northeast is really F'ed up! You must've went to North Catholic. LOL!
Sad what is become today.
We had Harbison's as our milkman. I can still see the truck coming down Devereaux Ave., stopping in front, the milkman coming up the steps with his metal bottle carrier, picking up the empties and leaving us the fresh milk, in glass bottles with the foil caps. Before the milk was homogenized, we could pull the caps off and sip the cream that had risen to the top of the milk. Good memories of a time and a city long past. My heart will always have a fondness for Philly, though I cringe every time I go into the city now. Sad what has become of it over the years.
BTW: Thomas Slavin, were you from Lawndale/Lawncrest?
I grew up at Howard in Lehigh I went to shepherd elementary on Howard and Cambria , the boys club on Howard and Somerset the lighthouse on mastering Lehigh then Elkin elementary on the in Allegheny then Stetson B in Allegheny while my sister's went to conwell and Masbaum high. For high school I went to Edison on 8th and Lehigh then for the last year the new Edison on front and Luzerne. Kensington was a fun place to grow up in believe it or not on York and dolphin were a lot of stores to shop clothing and sneaker stores then you had the penny arcade and and Kelly's corner where they sold everything. A little past Lehigh and Kensington you had the bike store denneries sporting goods and fills appliances a little further down at Kensington and Somerset going up to Kensington and Clearfield you had Ritz camera shop and levens furniture and appliance store across the street on the same block there was a RadioShack and record spot Ben Humphries pharmacy on the corner down the street a little was my favorite pizza restaurant FOUR sons across West Tom McCann shoe store and a bunch of other stores to shop at. Kensington and Allegheny was a great place in the 80s you can buy almost anything there all of the drugs work further down Kensington between Kensington and Lehigh Kensington in York now it's pushed up front and Indiana all the way up to erie and torresdale. I remember as a teenager working at impact services right off of front and Indiana. There were more stores at front and Allegheny to front and Westmoreland where the police station was. I saw crack when it first started before then it was heroin and people used to sniff glue and take pills. Although it was a lot of ugly it was a great place to grow up very diverse and fun.
I remember Harbisons.
I’m back. 6 years later. I just noticed the picture of Farmers Pride. The one way signs are messing me up. Because the store I went to was at FKD n Sellers and FKD is 2 way and sellers is one way but going west. Unless this was another location.
6:56 looks like the Killer Staircase in The Exorcist
Harbison I use to sit on top of the milk bottle and smoke cigarettes as a kid not knowing my mom saw it all
This is nice nostalgia for everything about the area about the El and sports, but as a N E native, I don’t see much beyond these sites.
What happened to the Oxford Circle, Castor Gardens and development of Cottman Avenue and Roosevelt Mall development? There were some great opportunities to view some beautiful homes, landscaping and parkland
Oxford circle along with Tacony , Mayfair east of Frankford Avenue is a getto. They closed the once very busy McDonalds @ Oxford circle. Not the once great Northeast. Morons that pretend to run philly public schools are cutting high school crime in halve. Yep replacing a school that had 3,000'students with a smaller school that only holds 1,500 kids.
Parts of this look like SOUTH Philly, not "Northeast Philly." Also, Temple University (shown here) is NORTH Philly.
a lot of shots were kensington. including elkin & ascension schools.
Kind of random in both time and geography, but I recognize some sights--the grocery at 2:50 was right down the street.
nice music , hows is named ? nice picts too..
I remember Harbison's dairy, with the huge milk bottle on the roof. We used to rob them, young and dumb, when we were kids, they had a lot down Kensington ave from the old main building, they used to park the trucks there during the 80's. They would never lock the rear doors, we would cross FKD creek where the tunnels were, they would back the trucks to the fence, we'd get yogurt, eggs, milk, etc.
I'm actually working at harbison dairy now there turning it in to Commercial and residential spaces and adding two floors and Reviving the milk bottle
Were you in the Swoop Troop? haha
Great video, thanks! HATED the music! My dad bought me an American Flyer train set at Rose Auto.
Great video, but the MUSIC SUXXXXX ! Thanks...for the video!!
I grew up at Howard in Lehigh I went to shepherd elementary on Howard and Cambria , the boys club on Howard and Somerset the lighthouse on mastering Lehigh then Elkin elementary on the in Allegheny then Stetson B in Allegheny while my sister's went to conwell and Masbaum high. For high school I went to Edison on 8th and Lehigh then for the last year the new Edison on front and Luzerne. Kensington was a fun place to grow up in believe it or not on York and dolphin were a lot of stores to shop clothing and sneaker stores then you had the penny arcade and and Kelly's corner where they sold everything. A little past Lehigh and Kensington you had the bike store denneries sporting goods and fills appliances a little further down at Kensington and Somerset going up to Kensington and Clearfield you had Ritz camera shop and levens furniture and appliance store across the street on the same block there was a RadioShack and record spot Ben Humphries pharmacy on the corner down the street a little was my favorite pizza restaurant FOUR sons across West Tom McCann shoe store and a bunch of other stores to shop at. Kensington and Allegheny was a great place in the 80s you can buy almost anything there all of the drugs work further down Kensington between Kensington and Lehigh Kensington in York now it's pushed up front and Indiana all the way up to erie and torresdale. I remember as a teenager working at impact services right off of front and Indiana. There were more stores at front and Allegheny to front and Westmoreland where the police station was. I saw crack when it first started before then it was heroin and people used to sniff glue and take pills. Although it was a lot of ugly it was a great place to grow up very diverse and fun.