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Great job Clint!
Great Website. It's wonderful that there are people like you doing things like this. My Dad moved his family from Tustin St. to Willow Ave. about 1947 after the war and built the house at 4127 Willow Ave. with a GI loan. He started his own family there as well. The house is no longer in our family but we have many great memories. The pictures of Castle Shannon are amazing. History is so interesting and important as well. Thanks, I really appreciate your posting and sharing this material.
Still talk a lot of Brookline. There was no place like Brookline. It will always have a soft spot in my heart. Keep up the great job.
I moved to brookline when I was 5...left when I married and moved back to buy a house. Divorced but stayed in brookline...moved to brentwood for 15 years then came back to brookline to but a house...re married and am still here...guess you could say this community is in my blood!
I am James Szolis and have 3 brothers and 3 sisters who grew up on Mayville Ave. We spent our summers at Moore Park. Loved West Liberty and all my friends. Moved to West Virginia in 6th grade when my dad retired. Best friend was Bill Jones. Most of my friends probably graduated from Brashear High school in 1983. It would be nice to reconnect with some of my long lost friends.
Grew up on Seaton St. Lived in Whitehall for 2 yrs. Came back to Brookline to raise our family and have been here ever since. Al Sesto was my Grandfather (Sesto's Barber shop). Sadie Sesto was my Grandmother (Ritz Beauty Shop). MY Great Uncle Ralph had the bowling ally under his barber shop. My Aunt Rosary's husband, Bernie is still cutting hair.
Thank you for this site!
Your Skybus page is a wonderful collection of memories to add to my own. I was a 12-year-old boy when Allegheny County "took" our home on Castle Shannon Boulevard to make room for the skybus in the South Hills. At the time, I really resented losing my home, although the county did well, providing us with a very nice home on the far side of Castle Shannon. I still remember that old home - with a dirt floor in the garage, pipes that would freeze in the winter if we didn't keep the water running, the haunted attic, and that secret cave under Castle Shannon Blvd. that we weren't allowed to enter. I have a front page photo from "Boro News" in 1973 of the wrecking-ball crashing into our house, beginning to clear the way for the skybus that never was.
Any pictures of the Open Pantry market? and the pharmacy next to it? Thank you! NOT RIGHT NOW, BUT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING.
What a great page. It is wonderful to see my old home town doing so well.
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