Posted on 09/19/2004 12:31:39 PM PDT by kellynla
If the snow was packed hard, the kids from Goosepatch could belly-flop on a sled all the way across the highway, across the railroad tracks and into downtown Raritan, N.J.
They had to dodge horse-drawn carriages, rickety cars and the occasional train, but if they leaned just right, they could make it. And that's about as far as the kids from Goosepatch could go.
The slightly higher elevation was about all the derisively named neighborhood had to offer – other than the wild geese, which outnumbered the people. It was the outskirts of town, the side of the tracks most kids didn't want to be from.
The Basilones - by 1932 there were 12 of them - lived in half of a wood-frame duplex on First Avenue. Downtown Goosepatch. Six boys, four girls, two bedrooms, one bathroom. They shared the house with the Bengivengas, a tiny family of four.
Goosepatch was made up of immigrant Italians and Poles, who, like their neighborhood, were known by less-than-flattering nicknames
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
If you're gonna post "to be continued" stuff, you need to ping folks who respond.
(It's kind of like the rule about pictures on threads about Ann Coulter!)
"you need to ping folks who respond"
geezzzz, and I thought Sister Mary Margaret was dead! LOL
I don't have any lists to ping...
btw, I quit taking orders in 1979...LOL
Manila John bump.
Be sure to sign the petition for the Basilone stamp!
Semper Fi.
Tet68
The stamp has been approved. Comes out next year.
Ping.
What a great article, please post all of them as they are published.
The writer gives good detail, a lost art.
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