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Growing up in Old Delray / Re: Growing up in Delray in th...

Last post by MagyarMan - October 17, 2011, 03:55:27 pm

What memories , i to was born in 1955 but at Delray General Hospital remember all that pollution  from Solvay, also remember playing in the few trees at Delray General in the 60,s, Mom visiting patient..Do I remember Delray Bakery getting hungry already keflies, nut-rolls , and the bread..Also playing in the pond at woodmere cemetary, where Dad and Neni and the Uncle are buried. Christmas in Delray was the best time, and Tony's meatmarket the artwork of Pigs.. Thanks for the Memories

AT LAST! Someone remembers Tony's meat market. That place is burned in my memory forever. The huge slabs of Szalonna and salami's and smoked kielbasa hanging from the ceiling. Sawdust on the floor. I can still remember how it smelled! The art work inside and out side. Real butchers behind the counter. This place was pure magic to me. Delray was magic itself, and a great place to call home. Places like this are gone forever, and live only in the minds of a few of us old timers who knew Delray in it's heyday.
I also remember vividly (don't remember it's name) the market on Dearborn near Jefferson where you could buy all manner of LIVE animals in wooden cages there. Pigs, lambs, geese, chickens,  goats, etc., and they would butcher it right there for you; and wrap it up to take home. Now that is what you call FRESH!
I also vividly remember a small Polish butcher shop on Leigh (sp) street near the tracks. My grandma would pick out a live chicken, the butcher would chop off it's heat right there at the counter and throw it into a barrel and let it just flop around until dead. The butcher would then dress the chicken for you, and you got the whole chicken to take home with you. Even the feathers if you wanted them. It was great to grow up in Delray.

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Growing up in Old Delray / Re: Growing up in Delray in th...

Last post by sammy davis - October 14, 2011, 02:42:34 pm

I have posted numerous posts, what a Great site I've said many times.. Cherish memories of delray..

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Growing up in Old Delray / Re: Growing up in Delray in th...

Last post by sammy davis - October 14, 2011, 02:40:37 pm

What memories , i to was born in 1955 but at Delray General Hospital remember all that pollution  from Solvay, also remember playing in the few trees at Delray General in the 60,s, Mom visiting patient..Do I remember Delray Bakery getting hungry already keflies, nut-rolls , and the bread..Also playing in the pond at woodmere cemetary, where Dad and Neni and the Uncle are buried. Christmas in Delray was the best time, and Tony's meatmarket the artwork of Pigs.. Thanks for the Memories

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Growing up in Old Delray / Re: Growing up in Delray in th...

Last post by jhugley - October 11, 2011, 12:45:41 am

Well Louis, I remember You taking me up to the ice cream joint. Me on the handlebars of Your bicycle. I'll never forget. I also remember The flying saucer candy, If only the communion wafers only had those tasty beads in their centers. Paper drives at Holy Cross  were fun, if only it were as much fun to recycle stuff now. I remember catching bees in the alleys. And the music the Gypsies played when there was a wedding or funeral across the street. I got my first kiss from a girl in Szilagy's back yard. Mrs. Horvath would give us cookies for flowers we brought next door to Her, so would Mrs. Bandi. I remember Soter at Holy Cross and the National Guard there too during the riots. People still had coal delivered to thier basements.Father Jacob would walk Rocky while enjoying His cigar.

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Old Delray Website / Re: ancestry

Last post by pal - September 26, 2011, 12:00:51 pm

Hi,
So far I've only traced as far back as my grandfather, on my fathers side, who came to America in the early 1900's from Szendro, Hungary.  If you have ancestry that goes back further, let me know, and thanks in advance.

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People / Looking for family information...

Last post by MagyarMan - September 25, 2011, 03:07:28 am

Posted on behalf of Liz Vos of Magyar Marketing: Reply to: liz@magyarmarketing.com
Looking for family information on the Janos Ladanyi family, formerly of Delray.
Liz  said:

We have just figured out that a family that lived in/near Delray is
related to us--did you know the Ladanyi family? We just found Steve (the
grandson of Janos) on facebook. His grandfather and my great grandmother
(Klari) were siblings.

Some of the hunt for him was spurred on by another great granddaughter in
Hungary who was looking for the siblings of her great grandfather Karoly.

Janos died in the coal mines in KY in
1933 and we were trying to figure out where his wife went to with the
kids. At some point they apparently were in the Delray area. We are
connected with Steve Ladanyi now but I just wondered if you knew of or
remembered them.

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Chit Chat / Feast of the Exaltation of the...

Last post by Tressa - August 15, 2011, 04:13:11 pm

Holy Cross Hungarian Roman Catholic Church is having a fundraising dinner for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Sunday September 11, 2011 @ 12:30pm

Solemn Mass will be at 11:00am with Dinner following at 12:30pm

Tickets are $ 15.00 for adults and $ 10.00 for children (3-11yrs. old)

The menu will consist of Breaded Pork Chops, Rizi-bizi (rice), cucumber salad and dessert. Cash Bar available as well as a raffle drawing with a first place prize of $1000.00.
Please contact the parish office @ 313.842.1133 for dinner & raffle tickets.

Take care and thank you for your support!
Tressa Komara (Hornok)

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Growing up in Old Delray / Re: Growing up in Delray in th...

Last post by lhornok - August 07, 2011, 10:16:27 pm

Hello I was born in 1955 at the Lynn hospital. My parents were Andrew & Elizabeth Hornok. Tressa Komara is my niece.  I lived on Melville street and remember watching the orange DT&I locomotives switching boxcars at the whiteway warehouse across the street. There was a dock where they unloaded damaged boxcars and gave away some of the things that were in damaged cases. I attended Holy Cross shhool from kindergarten to the third grade, Morley elementry from 4th. to 6th, Mcmillin from 7th. to 8th and southwestern high. I remember fedency's market on South street where you could buy everything and put it in the book until it was paid off on Fridays until it closed and then going to Szabo,s market and do the same. Nobody could make smoked kolbas better than Steve Szabo!! I also remember going to Mrs. Aders store on South & Yale and buying the flying saucer candy that had the consisancy of communion wafers.
I also remember Fox hardware where you could buy almost anything from appliances to weed killer. i also remember; John Karr bottling company, Nisners, Kleins shoes, Solosy funeral home, Marko"bar', Al's bar,  West End bakery, Delray bakery, Sara's store on Westend & South John Molnar funeral home, just to name a few.

  I also can't forget the day the Wayne soap company blew up!!I was in the hall at Morley when I heard a wooshing sound , glass breaking, kids screaming & smoke comming through the doors!! I think that only a 1st. grader wea hurt at the school & almost every house on that side of Darborn ave. had at least one window blown out.


These are only a few of my memories of old Dolray.

Thanks for the memories.                                              Louis Hornok

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Chit Chat / St. Stephen of Hungary Commemo...

Last post by Tressa - July 18, 2011, 10:49:04 am

Holy Cross Hungarian Roman Catholic Church will be hosting a Commemoration of St. Stephen of Hungary Luncheon Sunday August 14, 2011 @ 12:30pm.
Donation: Adults $ 15.00 Children (3-11yrs) $ 10.00

Please contact the parish office for tickets @ 313.842.1133

Thank you for your support!
Tressa Komara (Hornok)

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Growing up in Old Delray / Re: Searching for Farkas Relat...

Last post by MagyarMan - July 17, 2011, 05:46:13 pm

It is so wonderful to read everyone's memories of Delray! I am searching for any information about Farkas families from the Delray, Wayne County, Belleville areas. My family separated in 1956 and I was put up for adoption at 8-months-old. My birth name is Coren Dee Farkas; born 1955. I know that I have a sister who was born in 1954. My parents were married very young...my Irish mother was 15, and my Hungarian Farkas Father was 17. My father would have been born around 1936 or 1937.

I am eager to connect with any of my relatives or to hear any memories from residents of Old Delray about Farkas families. It is my understanding that my grandparents/parents lived in Delray...and may have moved to Belleville, MI.

Thank you so much. Keep writing your memories of Delray...they are magical! 

C. Farkas

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