I very well remember Thanksgiving day begging. I grew up on Montgomery St. Jersey City. Halloween was for trick of which I remember one very much. Some boys got together and lifted a Voltzwagon on to a porch and the resident had a surprise package when they woke up in the morning. The mayor was Hague but can't remember his first name. I moved out of JC in 1950 so it was a long time ago to remember how great Thanksgiving was for us. Justine (Teena) McCormick - Ferris High class of 1847. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: [NJHUDSON] Remembering > Hello All, > > I was born and grew up in Weehawken, NJ. I was wondering if anyone else > out > there from Weehawken remembers that we went Begging on Thanksgiving? I, > myself never even knew about Halloween until I was about 12 years old > when a > friends father told us about it. Each Thanksgiving we would wake up, > make > ourselves up a ragamuffins and go Begging for Thanksgiving. I was > wondering if > anyone out there remembers these days? If so please share it with me. > I went to Roosevelt Grammar School and WHS. Lived on Highwood Terrace, > #82 > and have such fond memories of those days. Back then the Mayor was Mayor > Meister and he was succeeded by Mayor Krause. Those were the days! > > Sincerely, > Lois Segall Friedman > Delray Beach, FL > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I was born in Jersey City, lived on Van Nostrand Ave when I dressed up for Thanksgiving. Graduated from Henry Snyder High School 1944. Married 1950, now live in Hyde Park,NY. Would love to hear from someone of that era. Margaret Schmitt Hinz Justine Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: I very well remember Thanksgiving day begging. I grew up on Montgomery St. Jersey City. Halloween was for trick of which I remember one very much. Some boys got together and lifted a Voltzwagon on to a porch and the resident had a surprise package when they woke up in the morning. The mayor was Hague but can't remember his first name. I moved out of JC in 1950 so it was a long time ago to remember how great Thanksgiving was for us. Justine (Teena) McCormick - Ferris High class of 1847. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:51 PM Subject: [NJHUDSON] Remembering > Hello All, > > I was born and grew up in Weehawken, NJ. I was wondering if anyone else > out > there from Weehawken remembers that we went Begging on Thanksgiving? I, > myself never even knew about Halloween until I was about 12 years old > when a > friends father told us about it. Each Thanksgiving we would wake up, > make > ourselves up a ragamuffins and go Begging for Thanksgiving. I was > wondering if > anyone out there remembers these days? If so please share it with me. > I went to Roosevelt Grammar School and WHS. Lived on Highwood Terrace, > #82 > and have such fond memories of those days. Back then the Mayor was Mayor > Meister and he was succeeded by Mayor Krause. Those were the days! > > Sincerely, > Lois Segall Friedman > Delray Beach, FL > [email protected] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.

On 10/24/06, Justine Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > I very well remember Thanksgiving day begging. I grew up on Montgomery St. > Jersey City. ..... The mayor was Hague > but can't remember his first name. I moved out of JC in 1950 so it was a > long time ago to remember how great Thanksgiving was for us. > Justine (Teena) McCormick - Ferris High class of 1847. Justine, The mayor of JC was Frank Hague. 'Ferris High class of 1847' --- did you have a long day? I presume you meant 1947?? My parents grew up in the Heights (Manhattan, Terrace, Carlton, Liberty). They told stories about Thanksgiving, my Mom even admitted they were really big 'boobs', since they continued the practice well into HS. <g> I got the impression, most looked like hobos, dressing in father's old clothes. They would each take a sock, fill it with cinders from the coal furnace, stove, etc. If some household didn't come through .... they wacked the sock, leaving gray/black ash marks on the house/stoop. Mostly pennies, some fruit, and there was a doctor, up on the Blvd, I think, that gave quarters. They tried to time visits there at the very beginning of their travels, and again, at the end, on the way home for Thanksgiving dinner. <g> At least with the kids out of the house, the mothers had sanity while preparing Thanksgiving dinner! I know, by the mid 50's, my cousins in JC were doing Halloween, not Thanksgiving. My Mom was Dickenson, class of 1933. Dad attended St Michael's UC, didn't finish --- the depression made other things a priority. By the way, there was a bunch of Halloween/Thanksgiving stories on this list, at this time of year, maybe last year or the year before (??) You may want to check the list archives. Maureen