Many years ago I was on the boardwalk with my mom (aunt Honey) Aunt Mae Aunt Kass and Marilyn. We were in ocean citywalking along the boardwalk, shopping and seeing the sites(I was probably around 14 years old maybe a little younger). When all of a s
Okay I'm ready to embarrass EVERYBODY. There was some movie we ALL went see at the Braca - the Knomes, or something and after the movie on the way home walking to 48th Street we were ALL singing the KNOMEMOBILE, the knomobile, we're riding along in t
My Father, Daniel Francis Casey, was an airplane mechanic serving in France in World War I along with my Mothers' brother William Waples, who later had a jewelry store on Samson St in Phila., where each of us three girls worked at one time or another
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Ok, here's one that just hit me the other day...
Do you guys remember how Grandpop had only half a thumb on one hand? I can't remember which hand, but I remember as a kid always asking about it. I remember the kitchen on Magee street had a fan in the
Anyone remember the old Cocktail Parties in the back of the Ford house on 48th Street? I remember someone dressing up as a fortune teller and all the adults going in one at a time getting their fortune told. I think it was Uncle Bill Faunce who was t
I've got a little history on Grandpops family that Aunt Mae relayed to me yesterday;
Daniel (Grandpop) had two older brothers John (Oldest), then Lawrence, then Joe, then three girls, Maggie, Ann (Mahoney later), then Kate (Doran later). (I'm not su
Someone mentioned Pam in one of the discussions. I ran into her at Wegman's before Christmas. She's working there part time and during the summer, on her off days, she and Tom go to the shore. She didn't mention why she wasn't down there last year wi
I don't remember who was with me, usually it was Kathleen and Coleen or maybe Michael, but the year we had the floods. We drove my 68 Camaro into Ocean City, parked it, opened the doors and the water poured in. We thought it was funny. We left the ca
Marianne, do you remember the baby parade in Sea Isle. We thought it was so cool that Aunt Honey had twins that we tried to get her to put you guys in the parade. Do you remember if she ever did? I used to love watching it.
i don't remember what year it was but it is a special memory for me every year down the shore the family had a big party lots of food drink and laughs.....i remember at one party uncle dan was singing and dancing to the song "me and my shadow" when g
remember uncle larrys thumb trick we all believed he could pull his thumb apart and then squirt water too, we were also in the ocean for that one too, always in water, i guess it was hot.
My mother roars with laughter (as dol the rest of us) when we talk about the Mosquito truck that used to drive through the street of Strathmere with a huge cloud of white smoke behind it to kill the bugs. My mom used to open all the windows in our re
Do you guys remember Grandmoms German Potato Salad. I used to love it, but I'm sure it was very bad, health wise. It was full of bacon grease, wasn't it?
How bout the green slime that one summer. There was an oil leak somewhere I think and the ocean bottom was gross. Our feet were black and we all had to use rafts to swim. It was disgusting. Does any one know what that crap was? We didn't care though,
anyone remember uncle bill and aunt eleanors dogs uncle bill smoking a stogie and uncle putz while those dogs pulled them to the beach on 48th st. we need to get pam on the site she has really had a rough time of it in her lifetime she used to come t