Linda (Spink) Emmart emmarts@carolina.rr.com

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"After your reply I checked out the rest of the site. Memories came flooding back like crazy. Whole belly clams, Steamers, neighbors yelling "Who's yer motha?" when we did something wrong and got caught, Champs Diner, The Rustic drive-in and just down the road the Milk can (lived just up Sayles Hill Rd. from there, now there's Menard Ford I think and the can moved north of there still closed) for ice cream. Hot fudge sundaes at Woolworth's on Main st. in Woonsocket. Rte. 146 when it was a 2 lane rd into Woonsocket. 12 family Tenement houses with the row of garages in the back. Bobby sox and poodle skirts on catholic girls. Gansett and Knickerbocker. Memere worked at Royal robes. Pepere worked at Bonin spinning and Janell truck bodies. My Aunt worked for Finkelsteins coats. Another aunt worked at Royal Rubber. Later years hanging out with friends from "You are high" (URI) and Johnny's Clam Shack. Wright farms for the family style chicken dinners. And the butter and sugar corn that was so fresh and sweet. Too many to list here. I still have a gallon jug of Autocrat coffee syrup in the fridge and no one in Oklahoma understands what the attraction is. And to think I was only looking for a meat sauce recipe for gaggahs when I stumbled on the site. Came to it from a link that mentioned a friend of mine's hot dog cart in Denver. Biker Jim's gourmet dogs. Best reindeer dogs south of Alaska and MA's cart on 4th Ave."

David "Grizz" Lavimodiere dlavimod@sbcglobal.net

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"I heard from my cousin David. Thanks to you!!! Still not sure what he's doing in Austin, but, that's not unusual from him. He's moved more times than anyone I have ever known. I use to write his address and phone numbers in pencil so they could be erased...So, thanks a bunch for getting us in touch once again."

Janet Ricci janetricci@embarqmail.com 

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"I really have to tell you what a great web site you have. I lived in NY State 20 years ago, and have been in California for many years. I have great memories of RI, my parents were from Woonsocket, and moved to NY when they were first married. I have great memories of summers at Block Island, Jolly Charlies, Rocky Point, swimming at Narragansett, my brother drinking a coffee cabinet, eating clam cakes, going with my aunt to Ye Olde English Fish and Chips on Friday at 9 am, when the line was out the door. Your web site just brought back a lot of good childhood memories."

Gary T. Fiscaletti g.fiscaletti@sbcglobal.net 

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"I found your website today, and it made me smile till I hurt!! I live in Alaska now, and as beautiful as it is, sometimes you still get homesick, for that little bitty state. Thank you for settling my homesick heart!"

Rhonda (Charron) Weinrick Rhondacharron1@aol.com 

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"I was born at Cranston General hospital back in 1956 and 19 years later my Daughter was born there also. I am sorry to hear that it is no longer there. My mother worked there as a lab tech for twenty years and as I grew older she would take me to work with her. I use to go to Roger Williams park to kill time until she got off work. We left RI in 1976 and moved to California. This is a great sight, It really brings me back in time. Thanks for the web sight.
P.S. I would love to see a picture of Cranston General on here so I could show my daughter where she was born."

Gail A. Manley GlMnly@aol.com

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"Aside from 4 years spent in the Navy (two of which were spent stationed in Newport!) I have been a Warwick-ite for all of my 51 years. It never occured to me to move from Rhode Island. I attended Hillsgrove School in the first grade, St. Francis School grades 2-4 and Hillsgrove School again grades 5-6. (they were 20 yards apart) St. Francis still stands but Hillsgrove was razed in the 70's. I have a deep desire to see some pix of that old school (which I believe was over 100 when I went there in 1961.) So if anybody has any, let me know!!!!! Teachers included Mrs. McKenna, Mrs. Dunham, Principal was Mrs. Cram, Mrs. Mullen, Mrs. Titus, Mr. Blanco, Miss. Hohler, and Mr. Leylegian. Music teacher was Mrs. Wheeler. (not bad for a guy who can't remember where he left his keys) I met my buddy Jim there in the fifth grade. He was at my house the other night. There was a kid named Bill Roy who was a super artist in the 5-6th grade who drew pictures of the Peanuts characters, which gave me a lifelong love of that comic strip. We exchanged cards in the box at Christmas and Valentine's Day. "Gym" was held (when not outdoors) in the cellar which was a highly varnished concrete floor, with a ballet barre all around it. I remember fondly, "Midland" Mall with its original stores including Stanley Green's (sort of a Lum's/Hot dog place), The Country Store, Orange Julius, Bookland and the anchor Stores were The Outlet (I think) and Shepard's. Prior to that I have fond memories of going downtown at Christmastime (not "the holidays") to see Santa at the Outlet, with my Mother, Grandmother and Sister. We took the bus. Peerless and Gladdings were other stops. In the neighborhood, we played "army" or "guns", not too politically correct in those days but somehow we survived and so did the Republic. We also played "The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (our favorite tv show). We skated at a place called "Pitzy's" or Pitzee's" Pond, which for the life of me, I cannot remember where it is (or was) thogh I live only a mile or two away. Somewhere near Wethersfield Commons I think. My greatest memory (for some reason) was visiting the Santa's Village at Ann and Hope. It was a red and white striped (go figure) house at the South end of the front of the store. They gave away this comic book (each year though that didn't diminish my enthusiasm) about Santa in a Space Ship. There were a lot of games in it. I have been searching for it on eBay but to no avail. I still LOVE candy canes at Christmas to this day. At the back of the Ann and Hope parking lot, was a hill that we used to slide down in sleds and saucers in the winter. The parking lot itself would be pretty frozen and you could sail for a good distance after you went down that hill. Interestingly though, I drove by it the other day and it seems to be 3 ft long. I must either have been REALLY small or they changed it. My dad, 81, still lives in the same house which is now across from the Sheraton Tara across Post Road. Where the Airport Plaza stands, used to be a Miniature Golf and Go-Cart place. I think there was a smaller plaza there as I remember the Mayfair Lounge there. The six-story parking garage at Green Airport used to be Al's Pitch and Putt. We went there when we were older but in our younger days it was where you got your chestnuts to tie on a shoestring and play "Chestnuts" with the other guys. There was also a duckpin bowling alley where the new airport grounds now stand. Down the street a bit was Sholes Skating Rink. I was never into that, but I was mighty impressed when people told me it had been opened in the 1800s! We used to go to the Greenwood Inn to eat. I started going there again back about 2000. It is like walking into a time warp. (I mean that very positively). They STILL serve great parfaits and great chicken wings. It looks the same inside. I love that. We used to get ice for beach trips or picnics from Johnson's Ice House. There was an Ice Cream place called "Cool Corners". (I don't remember exactly where that was located) I remember you could hear a spring-loaded screen door slamming from Vanderbuilt Avenue to Pell Avenue. Those were the days."

Richard A. Dunn, Jr. Instructor, Gibbs College, Cranston, Rhode Island
Residence: WARWICK! rdunn6@verizon.net  

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"Though I was brought up in Central Falls and attended Central Falls High, I lived also in Lincoln with my folks and sister. My mothers folks lived in CF and my fathers in Lincoln. I was born in a farmhouse on the property which ended up belonging to the YMCA. The barn still stands and the basement to the house is there though now a ranch house has taken the place of the farmhouse. Whenever we drive down Breakneck Hill Road I yearn for the memories of the past. At one time horses from Lincoln Downs were boarded in the pastures there though grandma must have prayed for forgiveness constantly because of it. She was against betting and gambling and was a superintendent of Sunday school and spent Sunday morning and evening in church and also one other evening during the week. However it was the only way of saving the farm outside of selling vegetables and eggs. (the good old days). I've lived in Connecticut for many years but miss RI so very much."

Nancy Farnsworth Morin nancymorin7@comcast.net