Did you receive a heartshaped box of candy on Tuesday? Maybe you just sent yourself one from your imaginary boyfriend, George...George....Glass?
While the flowers from Valentine’s Day are still fresh, let’s stroll down Memory Lane - actually, Rt. 70 - and visit a place that many chocoholics wish was still there...
Do the Wave
Part II
So, this is unverified and speculative, but we believe that our friend, Craig Burgess may very well be the last known person in The Retrospect area to still use a typewriter on a daily basis.
A while ago, some curious Collingswood High School students stopped in The Retrospect office after noticing the vintage 1895 Remington Standard No. 6 typewriter in the front window. We have a display of many old items once used to produce the newspaper including vintage cameras, print blocks, map plates, ink cans and the typewriter (which is missing its Q key).
You’ve got to nip it! Nip it in the bud!
“Collingswood had a ‘Mayberry’ feel when we were kids,” Tommy Williford reflected, likening his early childhood days living in the borough in the 1950s to the quintessential small town in television’s The Andy Griffith Show.
Part I
Church Mice
There is much scurrying happening underfoot at the Grace Episcopal Church, in Merchantville at this time of year. Below the 130-year-old floorboards of the chapel, creatures are stirring, engines are chugging and whistles are whistling.
Part II
Collingswood’s St. John School originally had just four classrooms when it opened its doors in 1921, but by the time Frank Hill and Tommy Williford got there in the 1950s, the upstairs auditiorium had been replaced with classrooms to keep up with the growing post-World War II student population.
Move over, Saturday Evening Post. The Weekly Retrospect can also boast to have featured artwork on its front page by Norman Rockwell.
Yes, Virginia, there really was a Santa Claus image, painted by the reknown American artist, gracing the December 15, 1922 edition of this paper.
Part I
Last week, we discussed a 1944 Christmas newsletter from St. John Church that Frank Hill brought in. This week, Frank rekindles his time attending St. John School in the 1950s. We also invited Tommy Williford, another 50s alum of the school, to join in the conversation and the two enjoyed recalling a few shared memories.
Opened 1921
