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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2596
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 12:47 pm: |     |
My family moved here in 1963. |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 272
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 1:14 pm: | |
Been here since 1971 - first an apartment for a few years, then a house - which was a "handiman special" we were going to fix up and sell in a couple of years - we stayed instead. |
les
Citizen
Username: Les
Post Number: 42
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 12, 2004 - 7:56 pm: | |
My grandparents moved to Maplewood in 1942 from Irvington. My father, the oldest of 4 siblings, said he went from being one of the smartest in his 7th grade class in Irvington, to the dumbest (his words) at Maplewood Junior High. My husband and I bought my grandmother's house and have been happily raising our children here in Maplewood. We are especially pleased to have kept the house in the family for just over 60 years. |
NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1144
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 11:12 am: | |
19 years so why do I still feel like a newcomer and answer New York when ever someone asks where I am from? (Believe me, I love South Orange and am so proud to live here,otherwise I'd move). But still, I am FROM New York and live in South Orange.
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it. |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1718
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 5:18 pm: | |
Been here since June 2003.  After the younger daughter has graduated from high school (2010), my wife and I just might move back to NYC. Of course, there's no point in discussing that too seriously yet. I'm not sure how I feel about that prospect.
NCJanow, "where are you from?" means either "where do you live?" or "where did you grow up?" so New York is not wrong for you (or me (upper west side)).
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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flugermongers
Citizen
Username: Flugermongers
Post Number: 132
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 5:39 pm: | |
Well welcome, prissy pants!
Do they still give those welcome-to-the-neighborhood packs?? |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1721
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 5:40 pm: | |
Um, if they do, they're not memorable. There's a newcomers club, which we've been meaning to go to but find we don't have the time for. It sounds nice, though.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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sac
Citizen
Username: Sac
Post Number: 865
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 7:45 pm: | |
I think Welcome Wagon (the people who came with the packs of coupons, etc.) went out of business a few years ago. |
ffof
Citizen
Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1813
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 12:55 pm: | |
I still have the yardstick they gave me from 1991. Good for spanking measuring the kids with. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4303
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 1:08 pm: | |
Erasmus K was the first of our family to settle here in 1763 when he arrived as a 13 year old indentured servant to the Ball family who he faithfully served maintaining their apple orchard on The Mountain. |
Lizziecat
Citizen
Username: Lizziecat
Post Number: 129
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 5:10 pm: | |
We have lived in the same house since 1969. |
jamie
Moderator
Username: Jamie
Post Number: 421
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 11:27 pm: | |
1937 - same house. (I've been here since 1969) |
porthole
Citizen
Username: Porthole
Post Number: 10
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 1:40 pm: | |
Big ups to A.Bella, Porthole legend from Shaeffer Road. Now that kid could play two hand touch football in the street. |
bella
Citizen
Username: Bella
Post Number: 416
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 11:51 am: | |
Which A.Bella, Junior or Senior?
Or, as I asked when younger and answering the phone, little Alan or big Alan? |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 3477
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 1:29 am: | |
Since 1946 in the same house which was built in 1840... |
happyman
Citizen
Username: Happyman
Post Number: 242
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 10:07 am: | |
15 years next month . . . ask me again in 2050, I can't wait to sound like some of you guys!
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sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 1818
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 9, 2005 - 5:36 pm: | |
I'm a short timer.
My spouse and I are the first generation to live in Maplewood, although we have been here almost 19 years now so it seems like our whole lives (well at least most of our adult lives.) However, my maternal grandparents lived on Wyoming Avenue in Millburn, but very close to the Maplewood line, when I was growing up. So, in some ways, I feel like I returned to an ancestral home. (They moved there from Orange after my mother was grown and living elsewhere.) |
Joe Meola
Citizen
Username: Maplewoodexile
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 7, 2005 - 8:56 pm: | |
Ancestral home indeed. My great-grandfather, an Italian immigrant, bought a house on Franklin Street sometime between 1910 and 1915. Ever since, some member of his family or another has always lived in Maplewood. His son, my grandfather, did not graduate from CHS, since he dropped out of school in the 10th grade.
My grandmother, in contrast, grew up on a farm...in Irvington!
In fact, in 1985, by merely going to college, I was the first descendant of his to move out of Essex or Union County. |
Soulful Mr T
Citizen
Username: Howardt
Post Number: 297
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 - 9:36 am: | |
Happy Anniversary to us. We moved to Maplewood exactly ONE year ago - from Jersey City, of all places. |
Matt Foley
Citizen
Username: Mattfoley
Post Number: 181
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 - 10:58 am: | |
My fam moved to South Orange from Chatham in 1972.
I'm never leaving. |
Strings
Supporter
Username: Blue_eyes
Post Number: 482
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 4, 2005 - 1:10 pm: | |
My grandmother went through M/SO public schools and graduated from CHS in 1942 or 43... we've been here a loooooooong time - all around both towns. I've lived in 3 different houses in Maplewood and 3 different houses in South Orange. It's actually quite difficult for me to drive through any section of either town without having lived or been related to someone who has lived in that area. I like that - these towns really are "home" to me.  |
snshirsch
Citizen
Username: Snshirsch
Post Number: 357
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 6, 2005 - 1:18 pm: | |
My grandparents moved to Maplewood in 1941 and then two blocks over to SO in 1961. My grandfather used to own the ice cream shop at the corner of Cedar Lane and Ridgewood Rd (which unfortunately has been having a tough time holding a tenant lately). I'd love to put the counter back in and turn back time 50 years. |
bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1349
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 8, 2005 - 8:11 pm: | |
http://www.southorangevillage.com/cgi-bin/show.cgi?tpc=3517&post=47463#POST47463 |
tulip
Citizen
Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 2380
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 5:59 pm: | |
My husband's family moved to the region just south of us (Alexandria, Holland Township, around there) before the Revolutionary War. The Parker clan (on his father's mother's side) fought on both sides of the Civil War, brother against brother. Back before the Revolution, however, they were Tories. Many fled to Canada and back to England from Perth Amboy, to escape the American Revolutionaries. Another, James Parker, sold some of his land to Rutgers University. He started as a printer, apprenticed to Benjamin Franklin, and worked his way up through the printing business, and began to acquire land.
The other side of my husband's family is interesting too. His father lived in the Oranges as a child, I think West Orange, in a big Victorian house. They eventually moved to Morristown. Before that, they were farmers in Pennsylvania, then one became a Union General, which led to becoming governor of PA just after the Civil War. Then his son became the Solicitor General to Theodore Roosevelt. When he was "on the way up" they lived in Somerville. Lots of ties on my husband's side, to this region.
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kmk
Supporter
Username: Kmk
Post Number: 651
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 8:02 pm: | |
snshirsch,
I live near your grandfathers old shop. About 5 years ago, when the "deli" was still there I went in looking for ice cream because the sign on the outside (cedar lane side) still said "ice cream". The fellow working there looked at me like I had two heads.
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Psychomom
Citizen
Username: Psychomom
Post Number: 29
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 11:30 pm: | |
My family moved to Maplewood in 1960. Mom still lives there although in a different house than my childhood one. I grew up on South 4th Street, my backyard faced Underhill Field, we used to sneak into the CHS football games for free!
While I was in College about 1973, my family moved to South Pierson Road where my mom still resides. |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 795
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 6:19 pm: | |
We moved here from New York in 1980. We've stayed in the same house, and it is now the house that I've lived in the longest in my lifetime. (I was only in Brooklyn for 21 years!) |
Earlster
Supporter
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 1303
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 10:31 pm: | |
We moved here on Sep 1st 2001. 10 days later, nothing was the same. |
Twokitties
Citizen
Username: Twokitties
Post Number: 180
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 3:05 pm: | |
Just over one year. Maplewood.
One of my very best decisions ever. |
Me2
Citizen
Username: Me2
Post Number: 176
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 7:34 pm: | |
We moved to South Orange in 1986. Moved to Maplewood (bigger house) in 1995. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 3577
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, September 11, 2005 - 10:24 pm: | |
1989. We blew out of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn a few months after our first was born. "Moving out to the suburbs to spawn" was how I thought of it. Can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be, except maybe Pacific Heights in San Francisco. |
Brett Weir
Citizen
Username: Brett_weir
Post Number: 871
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 11:09 am: | |
Since 1947. |
Duncan
Supporter
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 4900
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 7:02 pm: | |
We moved here in the fall of 96. I have never lived in the same place as long as I have lived in this house. At least since becoming an adult (though some could argue, and successfully, that I have yet to achieve that milestone). Moving into our house was my 18th move since leaving home for college. |
Crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 846
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 7:15 pm: | |
Call me crazy, but my family has been here long enough- go back to Boca already, please! |
Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 11
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 - 11:50 pm: | |
Since 1982 |
Kiba
Citizen
Username: Radical_kiba
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 1:11 pm: | |
i moved here in first grade. Let's see, that was 1995, about 10 years ago? |
Arthur Gartenlaub
Citizen
Username: Artg
Post Number: 67
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 4:22 pm: | |
My parents bought their house on Midland Blvd. in 1930 and I've been in Maplewood (5 houses later) since 1943. So far, from the current postings, it appears that I'm somewhere in the top 5 for longevity in the great township of Maplewood.
Art |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11455
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 7:50 pm: | |
Art, you are not 62 years old. No way! |
Arthur Gartenlaub
Citizen
Username: Artg
Post Number: 68
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 7:36 am: | |
Tom,
The truth be known...62 1/2 (officially on Saturday). At least you didn't say "is that all!" Thanks, I think??????
Art |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 11480
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 7:39 am: | |
I would have guessed you are younger. Happy half birthday. Are you having half a cake? Inviting half your friends? |
Dobler88
Citizen
Username: Dobler88
Post Number: 77
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 4:49 pm: | |
art, what block of midland? I live on midland now! |
Arthur Gartenlaub
Citizen
Username: Artg
Post Number: 69
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 3:29 pm: | |
We lived at #36. Between Norfolk and Suffolk.
Art |
Jhcmom
Citizen
Username: Jhcmom
Post Number: 31
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 10:20 pm: | |
My family has been here (some in the same house) since 1947 or 48. |
Buttercup
Citizen
Username: Buttercup
Post Number: 16
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 3:00 am: | |
I think my family moved into S.O. in 1961 or '62. The town has never recovered. |
crossroads
Citizen
Username: Crossroads
Post Number: 112
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - 7:51 am: | |
My folks owned a house in Maplewood from 1965 - 1984. I lived there from 1965 until graduating CHS in 1978. Those were some great times. I still have an Aunt living in Maplewood - in the same house since +/- 1963. |
porthole
Citizen
Username: Porthole
Post Number: 13
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 9, 2006 - 3:53 pm: | |
Any Portholers? |
Hugh Snyder
Citizen
Username: Jersey_boy
Post Number: 1
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 11:43 pm: | |
Hello MOL! This is my first post.
We moved here this past June and my mother informed me that my Grandfather, who was a Scottish immigrant worked at 303 Montrose Ave. as a live-in butler/houseman. We have a letter of recommendation from his employers written on 303 Montrose letterhead! It isn't dated, but I'm told he worked there during the 1930's.
We live around the corner from the house where he was a servant. It's not continuous living in South Orange, but I think Tony Meola is the only one who has me beat on dates.
Also, it's not a bad American Dream story. (I'm not a chauffer/houseman. I own the house.)
Jersey Boy |
Waxwings
Supporter
Username: Waxwings
Post Number: 77
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 6:54 pm: | |
My Paternal Grandmother was born in a house on Elmwood Ave in 1861...I don't know how long her parents, my great grandparents had been living there previously... |
Stevef
Citizen
Username: Stevef
Post Number: 162
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 12:13 am: | |
What on earth is a portholer? |
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