From your main page clicking on a tab at the top reveals the hand-drawn map of Delray, there is mention of a "pop company" near Zug Island. THAT location is John Karr Pop. He sold pop in red, orange, creme soda, root beer, and a 7-UP-type mixer, and ginger-ale. We used to buy the pop in cases in little bottles for communion parties, weddings, and christenings. We had to leave a deposit and made sure every bottle came back safe and sound. The pop came in wooden cases and the man who ran the place always gave us kids a free pop when we came with our dad to get the supply. The pops he gave us was hot/warm but free.
There were stores that gave you "credit" without interest so you could get the 1st Holy Communion suit or dress and not have to pay until PAYDAY.
Holy Cross Cemetery
My aunt Stella and uncle Stanley lived on Graham street with their three sons
My uncle Walter and family lived on Keller street where I lived to age 3 with my parents and grandmother (my grandparents came from Poland with their 3 children and he worked for years at Morton Salt in the mines)
My great aunt lived exactly across the street from SJC. Right on the northeast corner in a rental flat. I think the street was Polaski?
My uncle coached Carbon AC football (we called him Uncle "Chick" )
Carbon Works was a major employer
I remember Wayne Soap (hugely smelly and stinky Wayne Soap) - another major employer
I remember crossing over the enormous matrix of railroad tracks on foot and feeling so small next to the giant railroad cars right underneath the Delray Tower and seeing STEAM engines. Black, huge locomotive engines.
The Rouge River, and the lights on the gas tanks. I think they lit up with the name Rouge or Ford?
Seeing the man in the bridge tower who would raise and lower the bridge
The river water looking muddy/red from the Ford smelting plant
A few of my cousins attended SJC school and I remember the processions in May and the blessing of the Easter baskets in the spring.
I hope they saved the stained glass widows of that church. There were many families that sent lots of money to install the stain glass windows with their names on the bronze plates below.
My parents were married in that church in 1944. I think their reception was at Keller Hall?
Jefferson Avenue - busy and bustling and every Saturday we went shopping there.
DSR buses taking people to and from work
Morley School (not sure of the spelling)
