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Dan O’Flaherty remembers the experience of growing up in Roseville and being able to walk wherever he needed – to school, to church, and to the park:

“Without crossing any streets I could walk to school, to two doctors, to a dentist, to a bar, and to a candy store named Ratner’s that sold egg creams. There was also H&B, a grocery store, on the same block as Ratner’s. If we were Presbyterian, we could go to church, too.

“A little bit further, we walked to church at Saint Rose on Gray Street. I got my tonsils out at Baby’s Hospital (between Sussex and Market on the east side of Roseville). And I walked to the library, too. We voted at Roseville Presbyterian and walked to Branch Brook Park.”

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Roseville Avenue Public School on August 21, 1960

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April 22, 1962

Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“I went to kindergarten and first grade here. Kindergarten was south (left) of the entrance on the first floor, and first grade was directly above it on the second floor. Playground was to the south (left) of the school. Pig Tail Alley ran behind the school, next to the fire escape. One day the bigger kids had a card game on the fire escape. I tried to play. Could not master holding the cards. Have not tried since.”

August 22, 1960

August 21, 1960

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W side Roseville Ave looking SW from NE corner Orange St on July 2, 1961

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Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“At the corner, at the right, is the Wonder Bar. Next to the Wonder Bar was a vacant lot where there were beer kegs. That’s the turn in Pig Tail Alley. Roseville Avenue School is visible further south on Roseville, to the left.”

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S side Orange St looking SW from NW corner North 13th St on July 2, 1961

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J Muse (Anne’s Grandbaby) writes:
“Absolutely fabulous work. I can only imagine the time and dedication and research it took to make this site a reality. I wasn’t even born at the time these majestic buildings and stores were intact. Even still, it felt like a trip down memory lane. Thank you for your time and devoted effort. This should be done in all urban cities across the nation!!!”

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Lackawanna Railroad under Roseville Ave, looking east on June 9, 1962

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Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“This is where the station was. It closed around 1985. In the fifties, on Thanksgiving, the Mummers band disembarked here and marched down Roseville Avenue to the Bamberger’s Thanksgiving Day parade. I think that was how Santa Claus got to Newark.”

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“Pig Tail Alley” – Looking NE at E side Myrtle Ave, #55, on June 1, 1964

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Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“There’s a guy named Jack Cashill who lived at 29 Myrtle as a kid in the 50s, right across Pig Tail Alley from me, and he says we hung out together. (We lived at 62 Roseville.) I believe him because he was older and we moved when I was 7, but he remembers things and people that jibe with my hazy memories. Like how I got a 6-inch scar on my left arm.”

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Roseville Masonic Temple, #65-63 Roseville Ave, on April 26, 1962

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Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“Yes, the Masonic Temple was across the street from my childhood home on the 3rd floor of 62 Roseville Avenue. It was beautiful (and huge, like everything else on Roseville Avenue to me). I remember looking out the 3rd floor window at the blue globes with the stars on them. I never saw anything going on there, though.”

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#56 & 60 Roseville Ave on April 22, 1962

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Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“From the left, Richie and Ronnie Giuliano lived on the second floor (I think) of the 3-decker. They were older than us but we played with them. They were cousins of the two Anthony Giuliano’s who were city councilmen at large in the 60s and 70s. Patsy Madera, about their age, was on the third floor. Her father Al )Eldo) Madera, was an inspector for the City. My parents knew him and I got to know him in the 80s. The next house, the 2-story, was where the Gibbons brothers practiced dentistry and where we went for dentist visits. You can see a sliver of our house, 62 Roseville on the far right. Pig Tail Alley ran behind all these houses.”

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#62-64 Roseville Ave on April 22, 1962

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Dan O’Flaherty writes:
“I grew up in this house. Wow. Thank you. It’s so small! Dr Samuel Fortunato owned the building and used the first floor for his practice. Very convenient for me. I don’t remember a sign, but I would imagine he did. This suggests that by 1962 he had stopped practicing there.”