Karen and All, I remember Mrs. Pfeiffer, but I didn't attend Kindergarten at Glenside. My school for Kindergarten was Elm & Moss. That school burned down the year we moved to Glenside. Mom had to assure me that all my former classmates weren't in the school when it happened. I was so sad. I did attend Glenside from 1959 thru 1965. I had Mrs. Webber for first grade (did they still teach reading through the ARA cards_I think I have the correct initials there)? Mrs. Webber probalby retired before you started school. I had Mrs. Campbell for 2nd, she was my favorite!!!; Mrs. "B", can't remember her name for third, though it might have been Bixler, but I thought also, her name could have been Badorf, or was there a Miss Vath? (though these two could have been teachers from North West Jr. High), don't know why I can't remember my 3rd grade teacher's name, that's where we learned the multiplication table, and I can almost see the poster on the door of the closet in her classroom. I had Miss Quattrock for 4th grade, she got married the year after we had her; Mrs. Caferelli (sp?) for 5th grade, she always wanted me to do the decorating for any parties we had; Mrs. Shank/Shenk for 6th grade, I was either in her class or Mrs. Cafereli's class when President JFK was shot, as I remember looking at the sound speaker in total disbelief; we were dismissed to go home, and not a kid was outside playing; we were all plastered to our TV sets. For living in the housing project, that was unbelievable not to have one person on the streets. I remember those air raid drills!!!! Did you ever have to go to that room with the lockers in it? I still have nightmares about that room :o) Remember the sound of that air raid siren that was, I believe, on top of our school? I'm a bit vague on that, or was that at the Reading Airport? I remember seeing the search lights going round and round in the nighttime sky. Weren't they at the school, also? I don't see any now-a-days. You might have been very little when the Shimaleski girl was murdered on the playground, at the school. She was raped, tortured, and then tied to the lounge chair, and thrown into the Schuylkill River. I was so scared after that to go to the playground at the school. I know we have the article here, somewhere, unless it was in the stuff Mom threw away when she had her brain cancer. It was a very eerie feeling for us after that. I remember Mom warning me to come RIGHT home from school, with NO playing around at the Glenside schoolyard, or playground. I LOVED that big field next to the school, where we played baseball at two different diamonds, actually three, if you counted the one right NEXT to the school. The bank next to the school was where we could drive whiffle golf balls, and they NEVER reached Rt. 61, though I did hit one over the fence, and stopped right before the by-pass. I spoke of this not too long ago, too, that we could stop at the old shoemaker's shop, just across Schuylkill Avenue, from the edge of the field at the school, and he would let us rummage through his leather trash out back, to find the most PERfect hop-scotch heels in the whole WORLD!!!! We could take our bikes to Pete's Hardware and he would help us figure out what we needed, and then take them to his gas station right next door and pump up our tires, and at that time the air was FREE!!!! There were also the Consoli Brothers, and their workers, at A.T. Consoli, down toward the Tulley Creek, who would fix our bikes, if something went wrong on our travels around Glenside, and boy did we travel around, on foot most of the time, but many a time on our bikes. Some of the adults believed we walked over 10 miles a day, easily, just talking away, and meeting friends along the way who would join me and my friends, Peggie and Dory. On the way down the side of Schuylkill Avenue, where the shoemaker was, just across the bridge that went over Rt. 61 (or Warren Street By-Pass which it was called back then), we would stop at our favorite candy/drug store called Caddy's_that's the one I believe you were talking about, with the penny candy, and old-fashioned soda bin, where you slid the door open from the top and pulled out your soda, opening it on the side of the bin_I still say soda tasted better coming from those glass bottles!!! That's where we got our first ever Dr. Pepper!!! I remember being very disappointed when Mr. Caddy (which is what we called the owner) stopped selling Dr. Pepper because he said they pulled it from all shelves due to it actually having ingredients in it that were in medicine, causing addiction to it. WOW, that's going back a bit. He had a Pharmacy in that little store, also. That's where we got the "Stop-A-Cold" pills, and if you caught the cold early enough they did work!!! I have a question. You said you crossed the street to go there? Did you live in the housing project, also? Maybe along Schuylkill Avenue, at Avenue A? WE lived at 621 Avenue B, right across from the Boiler House, where the maintenance men worked out of, and right across from the big parking lot, that led to the railroad tracks. Carpenter Steel was visible from our front porch. Getting back to the school. Did they still have such GREAT "Music Day" programs when you went there? I remember practicing so much for the big day. The one music day, all the girls in my class were wearing Pinafores. I really didn't think Mom could afford one for me, but one of the women she worked with made the most beautiful Pinafore I ever saw. At least I thought it was :o) I have a picture of me in it, right before going to Music Day. Glenside was where I learned the song "Let There Be Peace on Earth". Remember singing to the old Auto-harp, and then being able to have a turn at playing it? I wanted one so badly when I grew up, but all I could find was an OmniChord, which plays very prettily, but I miss the Auto-harp. I mentioned it before on the list, and someone sent me a site to go to for ordering one, but Mike is going to actually get me a harp someday, when things slow down with the house. Hmm, Mrs. Monk might have been there when I was there. She may have been the other 1st grade teacher at that time, and quite new, if I'm remembering correctly. When I was in 6th grade, they brought the kids from Lauer's Park, and Thomas Ford Elementary schools over, because they had too many kids, and we had two extra rooms near the principal's office. So they were bussed every day to Glenside. The school dentist I believe was located in one of those two schools, can't remember exactly which one, but believe it was Thomas Ford. For getting our eyes checked, I memorized that reading chart, too!!!! I never needed glasses until a few years ago, and they were for reading only, but I got them so I can wear them all the time. I was cutting the tip of my nose too much, during storytime I have for the residents of the local nursing home, here in Columbia. I remember the block parties, in the Glenside School yard. I had one of the little kids from Avenue A follow me, asking me to protect him from someone. He followed me all the way to the block party, and I hid him under the White Elephant stand. Poor kid was terrified. He might have been in your class. His name was George Arms, and yes, he was the one hired to scare Steve Warunek because Steve was dating Richard Cohen's girlfriend, and Richard paid to have him shot near, but George shot him to death at Bernhart's Dam? He is buried at Forrest Hills Cemetery just down from where my mom is buried. Hah, maybe I played box hockey and roof ball with you at the playground, though I really belonged to the playground in the Glenside Housing Project. But I did play box hockey a lot, during recess. You may know of the one I'm referring to, called North Court Playground, right outside the back of the Housing Authority Building, there on Schuylkill Avenue. And you spoke of the Northwest Branch Library!!! We spent so many afternoons there, it was like a second home to us. We probably walked the Schuylkill Avenue bridge more than once a day, after we started going to North West Jr. High. I rmeember the time we tried to go there on our roller skates. If you held onto the bushes along Mary Mount's grounds, you were okay getting down that hill, but I missed the bush and went skiing all the way down!!!!!!! When I reach the bottom, I jumped becasue I didn't want my skates to catch the curb. I went flying across that little macademed area, almost all the way to the beginning of the sidewalk to the bridge. My girl friends were laughing so hard they had to take their skates off and walk down, though one may have kept trying to skate down carefully. They were so glad to see that I was okay; only a few brush burns on the knees. They put their skates back on and we made our way across the bridge to the Library, where it was kinda hard to keep from laughing at what had just happened, but we did, because we definitely would have been kicked out of the library, and didn't want that. I can still picture May Day celebrations. On year Mom saved up and got me a really pretty dress, made of lace layers. I was running late for school, and ran across the bridge over the Warren Street By-Pass. Remember, it had a chainlink fense going across it? Well, the edge of the bottom piece of lace caught the fence, and the rest of the dress was history, as it tore about 3 of the layers off. I was so sad. One of the teachers sewed it back together for me, as best she could, because it was MAY DAY!!!!!!! Remember those great recesses we had out in the school yard. We loved to go up there after school, and on weekends, to use the hop scotch areas, but after the Shimaleski girl was murdered, I wasn't allowed, not that I didn't stop for a couple minutes right after school at times, to play. I'm just glad time didn't get away from me :o) We would also just sit on the Monkey Bars, or swing from those swings that went out over the bank, and then jump off, and see if we could make it past the bottom of the bank. Remember the Easter Egg hunts, where they dropped the ping-pong balls out of the helicopter every Easter season, and you could go to Boscov's and trade the ones with special marks on them in for some kind of toy? That brought out the crowds, didn't it!!!! You spoke of Brownies at Christ Lutheran Church at Lehigh and Luzerne Streets. That was my childhood church, and where my mom was still a member up to 20 years ago, when she passed away. I went all through Girl Scouts there. In fact, my friend, who came this past Saturday, was a Girl Scout with me. Big John's was first Cassel's Food Store, then Cioti's, then Big John's, and Big John also had his Ice Cream shop a few doors down from the grocery store, in one of the houses on Schuylkill Avenue. That was after Mr. Caddy closed his store_which was a very sad day for us all :o( There was also Cambria's Sandwich shop, along Lehigh Street, and Lambi's next to the railroad bridge going toward Reading from Glenside. And, then the historic Showboat, which was just recently torn down. And, the drugstore called Chapman's. I loved that store, too. That was on Schuylkill Avenue, where Avenue B, on which I lived, met it. Well, better stop typing, and get this off to the list. Hope this brought back even more memories of good old Glenside!!! for anyone who grew up there!!!! :o) Lynn