10904 Bernard Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio
Growing up on Bernard for the
Pat/Helen McCafferty Clan
Places
we knew:§ George's: ice cream 3 cents a dip, 2 for 5
§ Bertaud's: W. 105; pop and ice cream
§ Wilbur Wright School: baseball
§ W. 110th Hill: sledding
§ Bakery at 105: poppyseed and nut bread
§ Kresge: W. 110--glass of water and straw
§ Almira Show: 5 cents and 2 features
§ Variety and Lyric Shows: 10 cents
§ Jack's Bar: meeting place W. 110
§ Library: 85th and Lorain
§ Baker's Bakery: date & nut bread
§ Sears: Saturday night shopping for dad
§ Street car barns: W. 98th
§ Bernard: Street off 110
§ St. Ignatius: Elementary School & Church
§ Guardi: shoe repair
§ West Side Market
§ Behind Sears: ball diamond
§ Goldie's: pepsi, pretzels, juke box, Stork Grill
§ 4 garages in back yard
§ Garbage cans by back field in back of garage
§ Dust chute in kitchen
§ Coal Cellar, potato cellar
§ Clothes chute off hall
§ Attic bedrooms (4)
§ Furnace, radiator registers
§
Back
yard fences
§ Front porch - up and down
§ Shoes under the davenport
§ Linen closet (for linens and whiskey)
§ Flour bin (great for hiding Easter baskets)
§ Real marble on walls of bathroom
§ Leaded glass in bookcases/dining area
§ Basement: skate around poles
§ Pull down ironing board in kitchen Milk chute (Fr. Bob crawled through this)
§ Golden rimmed glassware in cupboard given by Aunt Clara (wedding gift)
§ Assortment of vehicles: large and small trucks, Studebaker, Packard, with running boards
§ Yard flowers: peonies, tulips, 7-sisters roses, hollyhocks, morning glories, spirea, lilacs
§ Frank got hit in the head with a statue of Mary
§ Rose almost got decapitated when horse she was riding went into barn (she ducked!)
§ Frank getting hit by a car in front of the house (I can still hear dad going after the driver)
§ Bob getting a doll for Christmas
§ Joe's only reading: comic books
§ Jim and Frank wrapping their guns in newspaper and going on the streetcar
§ Mary and Rose working at the playgrounds
§ Bob dressed as a girl for Halloween
§ Tom being hauled around in the little red wagon
§ John wearing braces to straighten his feet
§ Tom knowing what everyone was going to get for Christmas
§ Pat playing football in the West Side Senate
§ Pat and John having a costume party
§ Tom having a birthday party
§ Bob climbing through the milk chute when no one was home and the doors were locked
§ Tom coming home with a broken leg
§ Jim falling out of the jeep
§ The boys taking turns delivering the Plain Dealer
§ Celebrating the Indians winning the pennant; celebrating V E day
§ Saturday night visits to the West Side Market
§ Going into Tom McAnn's and looking at your foot through the X-ray machine
§ Dad taking up collection at 5:30 mass and eating a big breakfast afterwards
§ Listening to the radio: Hermit's Cave, Radio Theater, Fibber Magee and Molly, Jake and Lena, Amos and Andy, Jack Benny, First Nighter, Grand Central Station, Tom Mix, Jack Armstrong, Little Orphan Annie...
§ Taking a streetcar to the art museum on Sundays
§ K of C Christmas party at the Hollenden Hotel
§ Summer evenings: My Father Owns a Grocery Store, Hot beans, baseball in the street, relieval
§ Meals --boys sat down first
§ 3 hour services on Good Friday
§ Menu for Christmas/Thanksgiving: turkey, mashed potatoes, fruit salad, dry dressing and dessert
§ First Fridays-going to communion and confession
§ Oldest 5 going to camp at Kelly's Island
§ Boys serving weddings on Saturday mornings and getting paid to do so
§ Caddying in the summertime
§ Having paper drives; coming home for lunch every day; May crownings
§ Throwing water on someone when it was overtime to get them up, or telling them they were wanted on the phone
§ St. John Hospital calling to say to pick up son (didn't know which--was Tom)
§ Sunday night supper: soup and chicken
§ Fire department:
Ø Getting the kids out who were locked in the bathroom
Ø
Kettle
left on stove and burned
Ø Fire in the dust chute
§ Getting smashed fingers getting balls out of sewers
§ Watching fireworks at Edgewater
§ Ice skating at Edgewater and also on 105th Fidelity
§ Saving candy all during lent and advent
§ First T.V (1948) Wow!
§ Dad visiting the job every Sunday morning
§ Boys going to the yard (warehouse) on Saturdays to help
§ Streetcar rides at 2 cents
§ Throwing pigeon eggs off the roof
§ Going through the field when the cops came because someone called them
§ Ringing doorbells on Valentine Day and going begging on Halloween
§ Reading the Books of Knowledge
§ Looking at plans for Edgewater House (Never built because of depression loss)
§ Children's mass every Sunday in downstairs church
§ Family Doctor--Scherz on W. 98, family Dentist--Dr. Wagner (never sent a bill)
§ Hucksters--paper rag man, ice man, egg man
§ Associates of Dad's-- Bricklayer Pete Dever, apprentice Marty Kelly, plumber Hugh Ginley and Eddie Collin
§ Neighbors--Kohler (Bud and Spud), Yaranos (Granes), Finns, Morans, Danleys, Grossers, Kline, Corrigans, Kerrigans, Chambers, Toth, Sweeney, Guenther, Conways, Malones, Lasby's and Martinko's, ...
§ Tree went up on Christmas eve
§ You got to open one gift before midnight mass
§ Everyone got coal in his/her stockings
§ Someone knocking down the tree while trying out the new bike
§ Dad not home one Christmas
§ Uncle Tom coming with toys on Christmas Eve: shooting crows, hockey game, peeking out from bedroom when they were setting up things
§ Big breakfast after midnight mass
§ Playing I Spy with the ornaments
§ Putting note to Santa in Flue
§ Setting up train
§ Hanging up pillow cases instead of a stocking
§ Hiding bikes in potato cellar
§ Trying to untangle lights
