The wonderful sounds of a winter evening in our Sears and Roebuck bungalow , on Hollis Street, Framingham, Mass. The family gathered in our small living room, around the radio, as Dad read the paper, and Mom knitted socks for the soldiers under the small lamp that stood between their chairs. Lights were probably out in the other rooms which we were not using. The lighting was not great at night. I would get in bed and when it got quiet take out my flashlight and read under the covers...Yes, I think I got caught, more than once.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Dean Martin - Let it Snow!
This song came out after the war . We would walk along Hollis street toward Memorial School, suddenly from a pile of snow plowed high off the road, on the other side of the street, Richie and Bobby Seriac would attack us girls with snowballs. We would run for our lives...as they threw everything they must have had packed in a pile and ready!
Small town America Old Shopper's World, Framingham, MA, where was?
Here is a video on Youtube, from a Framingham person that shows the end of the old Shoppers World.Wonder if there is anything showing the old drive in and Weston nurseries original location on Rt 9 before it went to Hopkinton. The sewer beds were between Weston Nurseries and Route 9...as my husband Howard recalls it, and as I recall seeing it as a child driving along Rt 9. The drive in theater was just beyond Shoppers World to the East. Can anyone pin point it? Maybe there is an old map around ?
Small Town America..Iron Framingham signs
We had an iron sign on the corner of Waushakum Blvd and Hollis Street for all my young years and even when I became an adult. It said Framingham, and a story of the town. That disappeared one day and no one knows where it went. Was it the only iron sign that introduced Framingham at its boundary with Ashland, or was there another steel sign up on Rt 135 at the other border with Ashland? I thought that there might be. Does anyone know? +Crispin Jachowicz says yes, there where signs also on Rt 135 at the town line.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Mambo Italiano: Sophia Loren
My best friend Barbara Volpicelli and I , like everyone in the world loved Sophia Loren, and Barbara even looked like her!
"You'll Never Know" (Vera Lynn, 1943)
A song that brings me back to my days of walking to school on Hollis Street, Framingham, Mass., or sitting at our small kitchen table with my brother Frank as we wrapped bandages for the soldiers with Mom by the heat of the kerosene stove.
"Something to Remember You By" (Vera Lynn, 1941)
A song that brings me back to the 1940's and our radio...was it a Philco? Songs of longing for the boys that were leaving for a dark awful war.
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