Burning of the Stores

The Burned out Stores,

with pictures from Skip Tanner.

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Susan's two sisters, Louise and Frances, both blonde, to the right of her. The two kids standing to the left lived on Mc Ardle's block. I think.

C'mon people, help me out here. Don't be shy!

I think the kid with the long hair on the left is Donna Hourican's brother. The store, straight ahead was Pete Simenetti's Candy Store and everybody hung out in there at one time or another.

The woman facing the camera is Mrs. Glock, Freddie's mother, from B section. This corner store was Jimmy Shaw's office. It was rumored that the fire started here and once it got into the crawl space with 50 plus years of tar on the roof it was all over. Around the corner, where everyone's gathered was the Farrell Brothers (Paul and George) Hardware.

This was the Deli, owned by Skip Tanner and Wally Frazier.

Mrs. Frazier, Wally's mother, in red. Eugene Walsh, far left. Annie's sister, Ruthie, in front of Eugene, peering into the remains of her mother's laundry.

Mr. Frazier, right, maybe Wally next to him and Eugene Walsh again, to the left of them peering into the window. I think Gene worked for the Corp at this time, along with Tom (Tutty) Deickman.

This store, I believe, was a workshop for pottery.

The store on the left corner was Angelo, the Shoemaker when I was growing up. At the time of the fire it was the Edgewater Stitchery, owned by Janet Rispoli. The store to the right might have been the Cleaners at the time of the fire.

If anybody knows about these stores, or who owned them at the time of the fire, let me know.

Photos below courtesy of Skip Tanner.

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Shots of the Stores after they were boarded up.

Got any idea who these two people are?

The wall we played boxball on waiting for the schoolbus when we were kids.

Jimmy Hooks (Hooksie) peers into Farrell's Hardware while Paul Farrell and Donna Hourican talk to the left. Click for larger photo and click on that for full size photo.

The destruction was complete. Note original tin ceiling.

A box labelled EAA sits on a cabinet.

Thanks Skip!

If you know who any of the people are

in the photos please let me know.

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Thanks!