From the "CRIME-MORALS-SOCIAL VALUES" Folder, this graphic:
I will keep looking for additional information on this possible gang-related article in which a bomb exploded on Franklin Street in Chambersburg. An aerial view of 129 Franklin Street shows that the original buildings do not appear to be the same as in the aerial view.-
Ralph Lucarella said... - HI TOM....WE LIVED AT 137 FRANKLIN STREET IN 1937 AND I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THAT EXPLOSION FROM THE NEIGHBORS OR ANYONE ELSE. MY MOTHER, SISTER AND BROTHER LIVED THERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME AFTERWARDS.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
- SJBill said...
- Bombing of stores was pretty commnplace during the period. During the early 30s, thee was a dynamite blast at (about) 808 South Clinton (I think it was where Anderson's Floral shop was located in the early 50s) Apparently, the blasts were reprisals to businesses (mostly "beauty shops") for not paying protection to the mob. During the blast, there were three children upstairs that felt the full force of the blast - my father, my uncle and my Aunt Betty. Betty was very young at the time. She was covered in blankets at the rear of the apartment and was not injured from the glass fragments. My father and uncle were. My grandmother was severely injured from the blast and succombed to the wounds before her 33rd birthday. This left my grandfather to raise the three children. I have the article somewhere. It's too big for me to scan - a full page spread in the Trenton papers. Of the three kids, only my Aunt Betty is still alive. She lives in the Denver area.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
- Bombing of stores was pretty commnplace during the period. During the early 30s, thee was a dynamite blast at (about) 808 South Clinton (I think it was where Anderson's Floral shop was located in the early 50s). Apparently, the blasts were reprisals to businesses (mostly "beauty shops") for not paying protection to the mob. During the blast, there were three children upstairs that felt the full force of the blast - my father, my uncle and my Aunt Betty. Betty was very young at the time. She was covered in blankets at the rear of the apartment and was not injured from the glass fragments. My father and uncle were. My grandmother was severely injured from the blast and succombed to the wounds before her 33rd birthday. This left my grandfather to raise the three children. I have the article somewhere. It's too big for me to scan - a full page spread in the Trenton papers. Of the three kids, only my Aunt Betty is still alive. She lives in the Denver area.
- Omadf said...
- Hi Tom, Interesting article. Our family restaurant was on Hamilton Ave and Pasola's Barber Shop on Franklin backed up to our back yard. Billy Pasola (who must have been the grandson of the barber mentioned in the article) went to Villa Victoria with me. He also became a barber and eventually moved down to Pt. Pleasant and opened a barber shop. My granddad was also a barber in Trenton and he moved there from Pt Pleasant. Strange coincidence as Billy's barber shop in Point Pleasant was on the corner of the street where my granddad was born many decades before. Kind of confusing but proof that the Circle of Life continues. Billy & I were born in 1935 so the fire was long before our time.
- Bombing of stores was pretty commnplace during the period. During the early 30s, thee was a dynamite blast at (about) 808 South Clinton (I think it was where Anderson's Floral shop was located in the early 50s). Apparently, the blasts were reprisals to businesses (mostly "beauty shops") for not paying protection to the mob. During the blast, there were three children upstairs that felt the full force of the blast - my father, my uncle and my Aunt Betty. Betty was very young at the time. She was covered in blankets at the rear of the apartment and was not injured from the glass fragments. My father and uncle were. My grandmother was severely injured from the blast and succombed to the wounds before her 33rd birthday. This left my grandfather to raise the three children. I have the article somewhere. It's too big for me to scan - a full page spread in the Trenton papers. Of the three kids, only my Aunt Betty is still alive. She lives in the Denver area.
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HI TOM....WE LIVED AT 137 FRANKLIN STREET IN 1937 AND I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THAT EXPLOSION FROM THE NEIGHBORS OR ANYONE ELSE. MY MOTHER, SISTER AND BROTHER LIVED THERE FOR QUITE SOME TIME AFTERWARDS.
ReplyDeleteBombing of stores was pretty commnplace during the period.
ReplyDeleteDuring the early 30s, thee was a dynamite blast at (about) 808 South Clinton (I think it was where Anderson's Floral shop was located in the early 50s).
Apparently, the blasts were reprisals to businesses (mostly "beauty shops") for not paying protection to the mob.
During the blast, there were three children upstairs that felt the full force of the blast - my father, my uncle and my Aunt Betty. Betty was very young at the time. She was covered in blankets at the rear of the apartment and was not injured from the glass fragments. My father and uncle were. My grandmother was severely injured from the blast and succombed to the wounds before her 33rd birthday. This left my grandfather to raise the three children.
I have the article somewhere. It's too big for me to scan - a full page spread in the Trenton papers.
Of the three kids, only my Aunt Betty is still alive. She lives in the Denver area.
Hi Tom, Interesting article. Our family restaurant was on Hamilton Ave and Pasola's Barber Shop on Franklin backed up to our back yard. Billy Pasola(who must have been the grandson of the barber mentioned in the article) went to Villa Victoria with me. He also became a barber and eventually moved down TO Pt Pleasant and opened a barber shop. My grandad was also a barber in Trenton and he moved there FROM Pt Pleasant. Strange coincidence as Billy's barber shop in Point was on the corner of the street where my grandad was born many decades before. Kind of confusing but proof that the Circle of Life continues. Billy & I were born in 1935 so the fire was long before our time.
ReplyDeleteRalph, we must have been round the corner neighbors back in the day. I lived at 541 Hamilton over our restaurant from 1935 to 1945. Was born in St. Francis in 1935. You said you lived on Franklin at one time, not far from the Pasola house.
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