You know you are from South Easton, Pa. if you remember –
1) The smell from the tannery on Ann St.
2) Condron Playground on Wilkes-Barre St.
3) Ruth Schinstine’s variety store
4) Transogram Toy factory
5) Paradise Club (original location)
6) Apricot St.
7) The Neighborhood Center on Philadelphia Rd.
8) Junior high dances at Shull
9) Stern Field soft ball games and Veterans’ housing project
10) Fleas Club
11) Taking the old smelly buses to town
12) The Berwick Theater
13) South Easton Memorial Day Parade
14) The Italian gardens that preceded the recently demolished Delaware Terrace
15) The snow cone man at the playgrounds
16) Zehnder’s Brick Works
17) Aerni and Hitzel’s coal breaker
18) The WEST tower
19) Korte’s
20) Castel club
21) Holy Cross Park
22) The Cedarville School
23) Swift Meat Processors on Canal St.
24) NIA Bakery
25) Barney’s Lunch Room
26) Korner Kitchen
27) Shapiro’s
28) Craft Rug Mill before the fire
29) Lou’s Shoe Store on Davis St.
30) Both American Stores
31) Your neighborhood elementary school
32) Pennsylvania Plush Weavers
33) King’s Bakery
34) Scher’s variety store – both locations
35) Straup’s Pharmacy – both locations
36) Jim Dervin’s WWII tank retriever turned tow truck.
37) All the corner stores that dotted that landscape
38) Sledding on Milton St.
39) The original Shiloh Baptist Church
40) All the great people of all races getting along.
41) Wildcat gardens where the 700 block of Williams St. was put through
42) Jim Lum’s candy wholesaler
43) Reverends Shafer and Buchanan
44) Royce Barr’s junk shop where Morris and Whildin had their warehouse.
45) The ice cream stand on the triangle @ Williams, Seitz, and Philadelphia Road
46) Brandau’s, Rinaldi’s, or Waterbor’s gas stations
47) Braun’s, Bob Ruschman’s, or Tindall and Ruschman’s junkyards
48) Cy Hunter the honey dipper
49) All the old volunteer fire companies turned drinking clubs
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