Anyone have memories of downtown Clementon in 50's or 60's?

My sister told me about this site so I thought I would respond. My e-mail has changed to joasage78@yahoo.com. We used to live on Woodland Ave off Erial Rd and on Berlin Rd, across from the ball park. Lived just under 2 miles from school and had to walk. Loved to ice skate on the lake with a fire on the shore. My favorite hangout beside the train station was Petes Cigar store where we mixed our soda fountain drinks. A special hi to Jerry Chandler. May the Gods watch over you.
Blessed Be,
Ed Bevan

Kathy wrote:

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Hi Jerry, do you remember me? I was very small, but I remember you! I'm Eddie Bevan's little sister. You should write to him, he would be happy to hear from you. His e-mail address is joa1431@verizon.net. I won't tell him that I was in contact with you. Let it be a surprise!

Ed Bevan! My god, can it really be 41 years ago? I am so delighted to see that you, and a bunch of other folks, are still around. What memories of Clementon are flooding back, it seems almost a mythical place now, so unlike the world today. I'll contact you by email, mine is gerrychandler@lycos.com. And a big hello to everybody else mentioned here!:-)

Don - are you related to Charles Worrell, Cass's late husband? Their children are Mildred, Margie & Joyce. They are my aunt and uncle. Cass was my mom's sister - she passed a couple of years ago. We might be semi-related.

Lorraine

Tom Connor wrote:

FYI
across from the old Ski Mountain / Now Pine Hill Golf Club and across from the Mansions / Chalet apt. on W. Branch ave. from what I'm told they are building a Hotel for the Golf course on the Signal Hill site / the large sand hill they already started.
http://tinyurl.com/mpbo8k
Another FYI
Clementon Elementary school has Solar panels installed on its roof
as does the Atlantic City Convention center
The Fastest growing Company in the Phila/S.Jersey area was a Solar panel installation company based out of Turnesville.
Vineland is looking into building Solar Panel energy farms.

Pete was my step-dad. We lived in the house right next to Petes Cigar Store. He retired and moved to FL back around 1974.

Ed Bevan wrote:

My sister told me about this site so I thought I would respond. My e-mail has changed to joasage78@yahoo.com. We used to live on Woodland Ave off Erial Rd and on Berlin Rd, across from the ball park. Lived just under 2 miles from school and had to walk. Loved to ice skate on the lake with a fire on the shore. My favorite hangout beside the train station was Petes Cigar store where we mixed our soda fountain drinks. A special hi to Jerry Chandler. May the Gods watch over you.
Blessed Be,
Ed Bevan
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Hi dmk

Yes - I remember vividly because I used to go there every weekend. Two pairs of my skates burnt down with the rink. I used to keep my skates in a locker there. I was devastated. I still love to rollerskate. My son became a world class artistic roller skater. My daughter used to compete for a while also. It runs in the blood, I guess.

Lorraine

dmk09 wrote:

Does anybody remember the roller skating rink that almost everybody called "Watsontown Skating Rink"? Its real name was White Horse Skating Rink. I spent many a Saturday or Sunday there as a child, and many a Friday or Saturday night as a teen. Then, someone burned it down in 1971.

I was 4 years old when the plane crash occurred. I was in the backyard of our house right on Silver Lake. I was about 20 yards from the plane. All I remember is watching this plane slam into the lake and then someone quickly taking me into the house. Does anyone know where I can get a newspaper reort of the incident? Thank you.

First off, the watsontown skating rink was arsoned by a motov coctail flying out of a pick up truck.
Tommy meade used to stay over our house many times.
What a goof ball he is. The eve of trout season, the pies were accosted from Pathmark.I also was in mrs bove's class, and one day her son, who played Mark on the Rifleman, showed up.I remember getting milk in bottles delivered to the house. Miss you all and hope to write more later.

About that plane crash in silver lake. The pilot and a woman were the only passengers and she kept screaming about her baby, well, after several attepts to find the baby, it came to pass that the woman was pregnant and didn't want to lose her baby.

The guy who used to roam the tracks at all times was disturbed because he saw his whole family perish in that house fire you saw him sleep in afterwards.
The reason the tower in the middle of clementon lake went to just a diving dock is because one kid dove off the 40 ft tower and drowned by getting his head stuck in the mud!( was there that day)

Hello one of the lost ones, we did have the best of everything living in Clementon It was a different time then and the memories I have and the one's I read on this blog instill the same feeling in a lot of people from there. I was third in line on the diving board when the boy drowned and remember it all to well. I never knew that it was only 8 feet deep.but knew always to dive shallow I remember being in front of the park when the plane went down and running to see the crash site. A lot has been written here about Stanley Keel But he still reminds me to this day how hard he worked around town doing the things no one else would and I remember him in the park at the kat game with that funky throw of his knocking down kats and walking away with a big stuffed animal with a huge grin on his face and some young girl would end up with his prize before to long.Stanley had a good heart and did what he needed to do. and I bet he lived a better life than a lot of us have I think he had peace My fondest memory of trout night besides the pie caper was opening whistle of fishing where you saw mark williams in wadders in th e middle of the lake Joe Welsh with a fish hook stuck in his face with 6 inches of line attached to it, fishing like nothing was wrong, and pie floating all over the top of the water. Frank and Bruce Sayers behind the dam spearing trout and me looking out for the game warden.I remember seeing the glow of the fire from the skating rink while sitting on the pool hall steps and Mike Mitner telling us it was the rink.I remember that every day in Clementon was an adventure and somethingwas always going on. This summer i spent a lot of time up there renewing old friendships and swapping stories with a lot of the old gang.I still call it lacasta's and the strip mall the lot I miss the old dam and the back park gate where so many things happened and smile everytime i see the tracks that run thru town .And every time I pass the steps I recall everyone there

Barbara wrote:

Hi, I lived in Clementon most of my life and am now writing a memoir. I have so many memories of the Lake, the Park and the town but was hoping some of you would refresh my memory with your own.
I remember most of the shops, Sids Jewelry, the Triangle, the bank, Premier Toy Land, Frish's Dept Store, Pete's Little Cigar Store.
What do you remember?
Thanks!

remember the Acme on top of the hill,across from sandbergs nursey,right across from the gas station on the point.the store next to the old movies that had the soda fountain conter.remember sally star coming along with the three stooges. the awesome halloween parade downtown.clementon lake park was our babysitter, we ran around the park all day in between swimming.so many good memories

does anyone remember when the national guard came down clementon/berlin road heading for park,

I remember that small Acme on the hill leading to Chews Landing Road; my mother and I used to buy most of our food there. For a mid-sized supermarket, it carried a lot of different foods.
I used to enter the Halloween parade every year from 1963 through 1969. Afterward, I used to watch the parade from 1970 through 1973, before I moved to Blackwood, NJ (then Berlin, NJ, and later Collingwood, Lindenwold, and Haddonfield). I always loved dressing up at Halloween, and Clementon was a safe town to go trick or treating in the 1950s and 60s.

I lived behind the ACME so close we took a cart home. I remember when they closed it down we used to sneak inside and roller skate on the tile floors and hangout on the roof.
Then they reconstructed it into a smaller building and used it as a warehouse to store magic maker sets and those Flip signs they used to have in cars.
Then it burnt down a few years later, I was up in a tree across the street and could fill the heat from up there.
They ran a hose from the lake to the building all night long.
Days after we loaded up on thousands of magic markers in the burnt out rubble.
There should be News video somewhere on the fire I remember seeing it on TV later that day and night.

Tom,
I have over 100 pictures of the fire at the Old Acme. I was Asst. Chief at the time and it was on Halloween at 2:30 in the afternoon in 1978. I was eating at the Burger King on the pike when the pager went off. All you could see was black smoke going over the center of town. I worked at the Communications Center and never made it to work that day. We spent over 36 hours there cooling down all the hot stops. Once the fire got into the ceiling area you couldn't stop it.

send me some I can scan them and or put them on DVD/CD for you pcman@comcast.net

I was in a big tree on the hill near Sandbergs

Tom,
I sent you 55 photos of Pasker Sales fire. Do what you want with them. Don't worry about a cd. I have the originals.

Does anyone remember going to the basement of the W.T. Gibbs school in the early 60's for the Air Raid Drills?

Bob, I remember them well. We would lay down against the wall. It's strange looking back how these drills didn't seem to phase us in the least. Ahh to be young & innocent

I don't remember being in the basement Hmm ?

But I do remember Running the Film projector in the 4th 5th and 6th grades.
Used to watch movies all afternoon.and this during split seasons.
Also worked in the cafeteria got a free lunch everyday and a quarter a week.

Seems like I was a good boy back then LOL

Yes BOB thanks a lot for the great pics brings back many memories. posted them on the Clementon Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/group.php...