How i enjoyed all the memories that I read
here..I too remember this town.. Born, Lived and raised on the this
last block of Elm St...I remembered the ice truck..the times they
opened the fire hydrants in the summer hot days...was married and
lived in a big brick 6 family house that my grandparents bought
when they came here from Italy...how my grandfather walked to Bambergers
to save and pay on this house...i found all his pay stubs in our
basement..they saved everything..I married my first love in 1991..had
his daughter in St James Hospital in 62..another in 68..Newark downeck
has changed since them days...my memories still go back to them
good old days...but now we all have to be aware of the drug people
that come down here and sell it to our young...my husband passed
away in 1995,but seems like only a short time ago each day i awake..my
parents lived in this same house..and as newly weds we lived here
too..things have changed..but i still can sit on my front porch
and remember it all the same tree is in front of this house and
our names still carved in it..East Side High I graduated from ..now
looks like a factory..they don`t have them big steps in front anymore
..where us girls use to sit and talk about what we will do after
we graduated..I became a paralegal and worked for 2 Lawyers uptown...life
has changed for all of us..but some things can never be taken away...thats
our memories...I still love down neck..even with all the newcomers
from all other countrys..many don`t talk english...well we can`t
have everything... devoted to Newark's Elm St.
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