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Memories of Rhode Island!

Marieville Elementary School 1959
3rd Grade
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"I really like your site, my being a RI resident for 51 years. Living in East Providence, we had two hot wiener joints close by so I practically grew up on them. And Salty Brine...what a role model he was for we kids of the 1960s. I loved to watch the Shack. And it was a big thrill for me to ride a mini-fire engine with him and other kids at Rocky Point in 1960 when I was six. Decades later, I worked with him on cross-promotions (I work in The Providence Journal Promotion Department). He was still a world-class guy. I really miss him. His son Wally has a great morning radio show in Boston.
Please keep watching our site. Lots of great features still to come."

George LaCross, Editor www.laffinthedark.com

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Rhode Island Italians, that special breed unlike "Soprano" Italians. Outgoing, generous to a fault, happy, wooden-spoon wielding Mom's singing in the kitchen (my friends' Moms; not mine, we were a nest of "wasps"). How I envied them, the "Free for all" family gatherings with a roast pig.
Federal Hill, home of a supersized ice cream cone when I was little. In the 40's, Lincoln Woods - The other "Mecca" of the ice cream cone. In the summer, Dad would say, "Let's take a drive to Federal Hill and blow the heat off our bodies", (no air conditioning).
Buddy Cianci, my favorite felon. (My sister, an attorney, used to regale me with Buddy stories, as she was privy to insider political news, being the Asst. Atty. General at the time).
NJ is one major politically crooked state; finally caught up with RI, where long years ago, the Pawtucket City Hall was built too close to the river, and was flooded the first year. Graft upon graft in those days.
How I love my home state!!

Geri Nelson gerinelson@optonline.net

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My sister just sent me your site.. I have desktop it so I can check in ... this is so great... I have been looking for Fava bean recipes. And the Kale soup. My mom use to make it all the time. But guarded her recipe. Thank you, thank you......Am I Portuguese? with my head hung low, and a frown, ...and quietly saying no.... But loudly I say....My husband is half.... I have half Portuguese grandkids!! and lots of friends who are Portuguese... and my sister-in-law is...!! does that count? And I LOOOOOVE Portuguese food.
I sent the website to my girlfriend... we graduated from Rogers.. the class of 57, she lives in North Carolina... My sister who lives in South Carolina is the one who sent it to me.. And I also forward it to my daughter-in-law in Olympia, Washington.... All of us from time to time, have seen things from R.I. and most of us have a daily sent to us from one of the tv channels... and we do fine... get the read the latest... but that is it......BUT this one... well, we are all emailing back and forth today and crying..... we are homesick!!... and you did it.. lol...You bet I will be checking back again daily... and if you don't update daily, then I will check back weekly.
Got to go, just remember two more...to forward your site to..my cousin and niece..they are in Florida. So you are making the rounds
And Ray...... thank you... for a lovely day of home.
Love your site...a misplaced Middletown, Rhode Islander... in Idaho....

Cis Gors (Visit her Blog at: www.wordtosser.blogspot.com) A Must Visit!

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Thank you for the remembrances of the 60's...though I'm not that old, I do remember some of these as a young child. Not for nothin, but you left out three very important parts of childhood in Rhode Island in the 60's...
1. Luke's downtown (usually called "Poison Luke's). A dollar for a chopsuey/chow mein sandwich!! Ordered as, "Ok, I need two chopsueychowmeinmixsangwiches..." And for mom and dad, the Luau Hut. RI's only tiki restaurant.
2. Vallee's Steak House, Airport Road. You got dressed up to go eat there. Big leather booths.
3. Brodsky's toy store, right next to Bob's Big Boy in Garden City (where Chelo's and Panera bread is now.) The logo of Brodsky's had a big B in the shape of a baby's butt!
Ahh, good times...

Edward McGinley ed.mcginley@gmail.com

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"What a great site. I received word of this site from my wife (NH) who got it from my sister (FLA) who got it from her son (Tenn). I have been living in NH for the past 16 years, having lived in RI for previous 37. I still visit RI many times a year but was still brought down memory lane by your website.
I lived in Providence for the first 20 something years of my life. Went to St Michaels for 8 years and on to La Salle for High School. Cole's Ice Cream Parlor. Bessies right next door. The Jewish Deli ?? on Broad St right next to the Jewish Temple with the Havah (sic?) candies and big barrels of pickles and PICKLED GREEN TOMATOES!! Thorpes Drugstore with Coffee Cabinets and Oreo Cookies. Riding bikes to Roger Williams Park. Jumbo the elephant, and the monkeys and crocs, and the smell. The museum, bird house, Japanese gardens. Free concerts at the Temple to Music in the early 70's. Hookying the freight trains that used to run by the elephant house on down to Allens Av. RI Reds games at the Auditorium. One of the previous entries on your site mentioned Ten Years After and Humble Pie. I was at that concert. RI Aud. Someone threw a bottle or something at one of the members of Ten Years After and Alvin Lee started singing "I'm going home, to see my baby, I'm going home and I ain't ever coming back to this two bit town." and walked off the stage. What a letdown... Also saw Steppenwolf, Santana, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, and Chicago at the Auditorium. The day after the Chicago concert they played a free concert at the Roger Williams Projects. I was there and remembering being one of the only white people, save the band, in attendance. I did grow up in that neighborhood.
Well, I just wanted to let you know how your site effected me. Even though I still go back to RI probably 8 times a year, I have not really reminisced. I still drink coffee milk btw but it is not Eclipse."

Thanks,
Bill Maguire

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Congratulations on a "most excellent" website. Since someone emailed the address to me, I've emailed it to many others. I cannot begin to tell you about the flood of memories it brought on! Thanks so much!

Wig Sherman
Cranston HSE '64 wig@mac.com

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