Wow … I know this thread has really gotten off topic but … I grew up around North and Hamlin and attended BVM in the ‘60s through early '70s. (I think they may have 'graduated’ me just to get me outta there in ‘73!) In the mid-60s, I saw Sonny and Cher at the Tiffin – I was only about 8 and didn’t really know who they were at the time! Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was the last movie I saw at the Tiffin, back in '74. I seem to remember the seats were dark red velvet. I also remember Vito’s Pizza near the Tiffin as well as a soda/malt shop(?) on the corner just west of Vito’s. And Auggie’s(?) Pizza on the northwest corner of North and Hamlin. Auggie’s closed down by the mid-60s. There was also a Gibson guitar factory across from BVM next to the railroad tracks. After school, some of us would go to Bruno’s, a small store near North and Monticello … or Tony’s – a small Italian store on Hamlin and LeMoyne – for a chocolate covered frozen banana or cannoli.
Kathy Lorek: I went to BVM with a couple of Lorek’s from Beach Street. From the looks of Google’s ‘street view’, it seems most everyone has put up iron-like fences around their homes from Humboldt Park all the way past Pulaski. Kind of a sad reminder why I left back in ‘74! Still, sometimes I miss the old neighborhood!
Liz Kilcoyne: I spent a lot of time in the Rectory gettin' chastised by the Pastor, Fr. Snieg about my classroom antics! He was a good guy, always cheerful!
Wow … I know this thread has really gotten off topic but … I grew up around North and Hamlin and attended BVM in the ‘60s through early '70s. (I think they may have 'graduated’ me just to get me outta there in ‘73!) In the mid-60s, I saw Sonny and Cher at the Tiffin – I was only about 8 and didn’t really know who they were at the time! Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was the last movie I saw at the Tiffin, back in '74. I seem to remember the seats were dark red velvet. I also remember Vito’s Pizza near the Tiffin as well as a soda/malt shop(?) on the corner just west of Vito’s. And Auggie’s(?) Pizza on the northwest corner of North and Hamlin. Auggie’s closed down by the mid-60s. There was also a Gibson guitar factory across from BVM next to the railroad tracks. After school, some of us would go to Bruno’s, a small store near North and Monticello … or Tony’s – a small Italian store on Hamlin and LeMoyne – for a chocolate covered frozen banana or cannoli.
Kathy Lorek: I went to BVM with a couple of Lorek’s from Beach Street. From the looks of Google’s ‘street view’, it seems most everyone has put up iron-like fences around their homes from Humboldt Park all the way past Pulaski. Kind of a sad reminder why I left back in ‘74! Still, sometimes I miss the old neighborhood!
Liz Kilcoyne: I spent a lot of time in the Rectory gettin' chastised by the Pastor, Fr. Snieg about my classroom antics! He was a good guy, always cheerful!