Family Trivia

Did you know that Uncle Jack and Uncle Billy shined shoes and sold newspapers outside what was once known as Shibe Park then Connie Mack Stadium where the Phillies once played?

Did you know that Uncle Jack once sold a newspaper to Babe Ruth and President Franklin D. Roosevelt at that same stadium?

Did you know that this stadium was located in a Philadelphia neighborhood called "Swamppoodle"?

Did you know that this neighborhood was where Aunt Ann was born and that the older children attended St. Columbus grade school before the family moved to Ridge Avenue?

Did you know that Uncle Billy was an excellent Baseball player in his own right who along with Uncle Gene played on the Midvale Baseball Team?

Did you know I attended some of their games?

Did you know that Uncle Billy was a Paratrooper during the Korean War who received two Bronze Stars and one Purple Heart?

Did you know that there was another local Philadelphia neighborhood called "Paradise" located around 29th & Clearfield?

Did you know that when I was a little girl living in East Falls, my older brother Michael found a stray collie roaming around in Laurel Hill Cemetery and brought him home?

Did you know that this same collie jumped out of the window in my mother's moving car on Germantown Avenue but still managed to find its way home all the way back to East Falls limping the entire way?

Did you know that this same collie wandered off to 29th & Clearfield in Paradise and decided to check himself into the S.P.C.A?

Did you know that this dog layed outside the S.P.C.A. and would not move even though its employees tried to chase him away finally prompting a telephone call to my mother for her to come and pick the dog up?