missing things

[JP68]

I was just thinking about things I miss
I miss saturdays downtown all the shopping and people and friends to see and meet
going downstairs in Quaks and getting a coke and fries with gravy maybe having them mix alittle vanila or cherry in with the coke
I miss walking home and stopping at the dairy queen for a malt or a ice cream dipped in chocolate or cherry
or even walking as far as Boonstra"s to get one
I miss the old neighborhood lemon ices
and the quietness that seemed to fall over the city on a Sunday morning
you could hear the church bells ring
I miss walking by a store and seeing the pair of shoes I wanted or the shirt and figuring how long i needed to work to get it.
I miss the guy in the butcher shop giving me a slice of the bologna or ham or cheese my mom was buying
I miss throwing a ball against a stoop
or throwing rocks over into the falls
I guess I miss my friends from Paterson
and the good times
things change some for the better some for the worse
it was good to leave paterson for the time had come for us to move on
but what we moved onto didnt have the same
feeling as being young and alive in paterson
and friends that you will always remember and you will always miss.
thats what I miss most

[Bernard]

I miss the hot dogs w/ toasted rolls at Kresge's,
the balconies in movie theaters,
cars that had character,
45 rpm records,
soda fountains,
the tar bubbles on a hot day,
wax juices,
10 cent comic books,
my hair,
my youth.

But for me the past lives on.
Yesterdays are real to me.
Tommorrow I won't know until it becomes yesterday

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[Robinob]

Girl Scout meetings at the Pres. Church on Paterson Ave.
Playing in Old School Five's playground.
The willow trees that were in New school 5's playground
The deerpen
The wading pool where JFK is built
Molly Anne's Brook
Frank's Market on Crosby Ave.
Ice Skating on Bullen's Lane
The Library on Union
The Plaza Theater
Mary's Candy Store on Totowa Ave.

I could go on.........

[JP68]

I remember I use to go to the library on grand street
it always seemed so nive in there
and it always seemed so large because I was so small
and the deer pen inthe park that was nice and now I have a herd that roams my property
I watch them as they come out of the woods at night and the wild turkeys leave
or the bear that roams or the coyote
never would have guest I would wind up seeing that when I stood in front of that deer pen
and the fountain in the park what a welcomed relief that was on hot summer days
and standing in front of the submarine
then years later painting it yellow
good memeories.

[jamesbouse]

Of all the things I've lost in life, I miss my mind the most.

[Pete Redner]

The Paterson FD opening the Hydrant on Passaic St. in the summer so the kids could run through the spray.
The LaSalle Diner on Market St.
The stores staying open until 9PM on Thursday & Friday Nites.
McNairs Bowling Alley on Paterson & Market
Sears on Market St.
The Garden,Majestic,Fabian,US,Plaza,Regent,Rivoli & Capital Movie Theatres
Drive In Movies
Kiddie Land in Lodi
Palisades Park & the "World's Largest Salt Water Pool"
25 cent hot dogs at Teddy's,Toby's,Falls View,Libby's and all the other Texas Wiener joints in the area
Donohue's in Wayne
Carlo's Lemon Ice
Tree Tavern Restaurant
The Paterson Middleweight Basketball League
Watching Antonino Rocca & Haystacks Calhoun rassle at the Armory.
Wathching Boxing Matches at the Armory & Hinchcliffe Stadium
Packing Hinchcliffe with 10,000 people to watch Eastside-Central on Thanksgiving without a fight,riot or mugging taking place
CYO Dances
CYO Basketbaul Leagues
Uncle Sam's Shoes,Silverrod Drug Store,Flagg Flyers,Wurzberg Bros.,Larkey's and all the other great stores.
"Downtown Paterson Has Everything"
Great Abeeza from the Log Cabin,Sunray and Minardi's
Swimming at the Y
Swimming in the raceways behind the mills over by McBride Ave.Ext.
Eastside Park,Westside Park,Riverside Oval,Putnam Oval & Pennington Park.
The little Pizza Place under the trestle on Market St. up by the Post Office
Being poor and not knowing it and not caring about it either.
Paterson that was, I miss you.

[2k]

I miss the excitement ,Paterson is a town where you don't have to watch TV or go to a ball game or do anything else for entertainment. Paterson isssssss entertainment. You can just walk down the street and feel the excitement in the air, you might see a fight , somebody giving somebody"he-- "

Besides the excitement ,Paterson don't roll the sidewalks up at 5 pm like all these towns down south do. I mean you can actually go shopping down on main street after the sun goes down, well thats how it was when i lived there back in all the 60's.
And the food was out of this world, i love how the Italians cooked , the delicious spaghetti sauce, and Pizzas that make your mouth water.
And it was a fine place to work , thats the main reason i lived there, because my father moved there to make more money, he made 20 dollars more on his check working just 5 days a week there, compared to 6 days a week down here ,and that was 8 hours overtime in the south, doing the same kind of work but not as much work , the work load was a lot lighter up there.
Certainly i miss a place like Paterson, the business men up there believed in a man making a decent living ,they believe in prosperity,
down here the average working man barely gets by.
But I know its not like it use to be up there, i probably couldn't make it up there now, the whole city has changed so much.

I hope to here from some of you on here even if you don't know me.
bye