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Philly's Port Richmond section still has a number of excellent places for authentic kielbasa - Czerw's, Swiacki Meats, Krakus Market. In some of those places, depending on when you go, you have to order by pointing at what you want because hardly any workers there speak much English.

 

Two things I really miss about living "back east". The aforementioned kielbasa and live lobster (lobstah). Back in 80's, I was a systems manager in a plant that made automotive disc brakes. We had a disc brake piston supplier in Maine who shipped using their own fleet of trucks. Once a month we would give their driver some cash and he would deliver live, fresh lobster to us on his next run.

After a few months, more and more people from the plant would get into the act. One time, he delivered over 30 of them. We painted numbers on their backs and had lobster races on the table in the conference room. Losers paid for the winner's lobster.

 

Ill second that or third it whatever number we are on with it. Not sure if it was my Grandfather or Dad who first made it for me. My Grandfather served in the Korean War as a cook and my Father served in Vietnam as a supply Sargent. Either way its good stuff.

 

I'm not a fan of kielbasa for the most part. That being that once you had some good kielbasa then pretty much every other kielbasa is of inferior quality.

 

Chargers set to announce move to L.A. before their deadline.

 

wow Lyman, you're 1 old Browns fan! You're probably the founding Father of Browns Nation!

 

do they just take over the stadium the Raiders played in if they move to Vegas? Or are they getting a fatty new stadium??

 

that's awesome! if they only knew that was their last race bf their death and dinner!

 

My Dad, his 5 siblings and all my surviving cousins now STILL live there. It's very bad now. Sad to see it go bad. My Dad left PR for the suburbs I grew up in for 1 main reason - he was tired of looking for a parking space and parallel parking! He wanted his own driveway and he got it. That was in 1959! He brought his brother with him in 1959 to house hunt but my Uncle didn't like all the land and the fact you needed a car to get around. He liked city life where you could walk to school, church, the corner store etc. My Dad wanted out. However when my Uncle would visit, he loved our big backyard and patio and wiffle-ball field etc. To me city life was not for me either. I'm glad my Dad move a decade or so bf i was born!

 

It was never a really good neighborhood - rough and tumble, right on the edge of Kensington.

 

well it was in the 80's. and im sure it was nice when he was a kid in the 30's! and that half is next to Kensington, which was never good. My Dad and cousins live off of Alleghany Ave by Miller and Mercer Streets. It's bad there too. Somehow all my cousins could've left and they all stayed and got houses there. Little rowhomes with no backyards etc. I don't get it. The suburbs is where it's at.

 

I worked in PR in the early 1990's (on the corner of Richmond & Westmoreland), and dated a girl from PR then. You're right - it wasn't "bad" then, but it was definitely rough around the edges.

Philly's a damn provincial town - which can be a blessing and a curse. Families and friends stay together in the same neighborhood or parish for generations (which is great) but to pull them out and do something other than going to the corner tappy on the weekend or to the Jersey shore is like pulling flippin' teeth.

 

awesome summary Axe-it's cool that you know this area and my Dad's family is from it. Yeah, my Dad was raised in PR his whole life on Miller Street. Once he graduated college at LaSalle and got married, he knew the city life was not for him and he left it in 1959. Years later he was taking my older brother Tom to LaSalle for a college visit in 1984 and was stunned on how bad it was or had become. Again he went there in the late 40's! haha. Times did change for the worse around Broad And Olney!

 

My Dad was born and raised in Camden - obviously back in the day when it wasn't like the damn OK Corral. He got out around the same time as YOUR Dad - after a stint in Korea he went back and got his degree from Penn.

We had cousins who lived in Port Richmond, and for holidays we always made the trek from the Northeast to do shopping for real Polish food...although my grandmother always made the pierogies. Still the best I've ever had.

 

What ?? Their moving to LA, Not Oakland.

 

They're going to share the fatty new stadium being built in Inglewood with the Rams.

They're going to play in the Galaxy's stadium until the new one is done.

 

30,000 seats ???? This is going to get ugly.

 

A Penn grad/ Ivy League-nice!