I like the new format.

Terrific, glad to hear it. Wil is de-kinking as we speak!

__________________
--

www.taxgirl.com

Hey there! Just read the posts on Roxborough Manayunk. I grew up there - lived there for 35 years - heck my parents still live there! My mom who is 82 was born in Manayunk - on Krams Avenue and just last year I contacted the new owner of the house and took Mom to see her childhood home. Neat experience. Anybody remember Consolo's bakery? Best hot bread in the world! Really miss Roxborough and the way it was - just cannot get that kinda neighborhood feeling out here in the burbs.

Hey, thanks for stopping by. Roxborough is still verrrry neighborhoody.
Consolo's isn't one I've heard.
Do you remember the Howitz bakeries?
I'll bet your mom knew my mother-in-law, she grew up on Terrace Street. When did your mom leave the hood?

__________________
--

www.taxgirl.com

Consolos was right at the bottom of Hermitage Street the bakery was brick oven and the house was on Smick Street.

Mom grew up on Krams Avenue - as for leaving the "hood" - she's still there living for the past 50 years on Monastery Avenue.

Interesting. I live about a block from there, and I can't picture where a bakery would be. Its all residential on Smick, nowadays. Was Consolos in that tiny 2-story brick building on Smick St., that is now boarded-up? Its right in front of that unusual property with a long driveway and garage. I always wondered what that builing was. It looks too small to be a house.

Consolos was at the corner of Smick and the street where Dobson School sits. It was right smack dab at the bottom of Hermitage Street Hill. You'd go in plop down $1.05 and get a warm loaf of bread - we always got two - one to carry home and one to eat on the walk up the hill! I used to live on Smick right off Fountain Street in the 80's - back when Alden Walk was a bunch of decomposing millworker's housing - with rats and really big cockroaches - heck you could strap a saddle on em and call em a pony - in fact my father was raised 2 houses down from where I lived. It's probably the property you described but it was a house too and they lived there as well. How long have you lived in Manayunk? Consolos closed its bakery in about 1974.

I have lived in full view of the intersection of cotton and fleming for the past eleven years and there is never a dull moment. It was quiet when the bar was shut for a while after a guy got killed there but now that it reopened there is usualy some noise from that corner. But not as much as before operation sunrise a few years ago when the cops made their presense known, that cleared out a lot of the drug dealing and the constant parade of thumper cars. I cant complain too much, when I had roomates we had many parties that were very loud and sometimes turned into downhill scootscate races at three in the morning and no one ever called the cops although I think we did drive out my next door neighbor. Now that i'm married with a three year old some times the neighorhood annoys me and I wish I lived in Mt Airy where the kid goes to school but we will probably stick it out here.

Wow, I wasn't even born until 1974. Actually, I've only lived in the neighborhood about 4 years (before that I lived in Germantown and Powelton Village). I always thought there was once a business in that building, but never thought of a bakery. I though it was a mechanic because of all the garages attached to it. The building that faces Smick Street is now boarded up (I think this is where the bakery entrance was(?). The kids often vandalize it with graffiti, but then it gets covered up with red paint. There are 3 houses attached to it, that all appear to be occupied by 1 elderly man. I never see anybody enter or leave the 2 end houses, but they appear to all be internally connected to the middle house .

You were born in 1974! God I feel ancient! LOL! It's a shame about the graffiti - When I lived in Roxborough you couldn't throw a stone without being related to the person you had flung it at! so much has changed. When I come over to visit my parents - who have lived in the same house in Roxborough for 50 years, I realize how much the neighborhood has changed. My daughter is related to the Consolos through her father. Then again the Consolos were related to the D'angelos who owned the Summit and on and on it goes. My mother was born in a house on Krams Avenue off of Silverwood Street. she is 82 now! The house was built by her great grandfather- Last summer I met the new owner and took my mother down to see the house - We stood in the front bedroom of this tiny house and she said this is the room I was born in as well as my father and his 3 brothers. My family has been in and around Manayunk/Roxborough since 1875.