[mass55th]

I grew up on Immel Street, near Jay and Ames Street. My Dad worked for the NY Central Railroad. I went to Madison High School (the original one), and graduated in 1965.

I went online the other day, and viewed one of those 360 degree scenes of the street, where you can go up and down, and see the front of all the homes. I didn't even recognize it. Back then the street had big, beautiful Maple trees on both sides of the street. We had one in front of our house. Those trees are all gone. The funeral parlor, a grand Victorian mansion on the corner...gone. What a wasteland.

My brother was working at Kodak on Elmgrove Ave. when he passed in 1995. My sister-in-law had worked there too. That's how they met. They were living on Colvin Street, off Jay Street. Our old grammar school is right across the street from there. It's long been a resident for senior citizens. When my sister-in-law's mother died, she had the option to buy out her two sister's shares of the family home in Ontario, NY. I told her to do it, and get the hell out of the city because it was really getting bad. We're both in our 70's, and I'm glad she took my advice when she did.

[Mears]

My cousin,from MA,went to Nazareth College in Rochester——way back in the mid-fifties. It was a nice place then.

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[oh8eleven]

You and your family were the backbone that made the city great. Once you were gone, pfffft, it was all over.
My mom grew up here, met my Dad after WWII at the Brooklyn Navy Yard where they put down stakes. Finally sick of commuting into Manhattan, they moved us to Rochester.
I worked 35 years @ Kodak ... about 15 years at Elmgrove and the rest downtown at KO.