Comments on: 1968-1991 Montgomery Square Wonder Years http://montgomerysquare.org A Community Full of Enthusiasm and Pride Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:19:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peg Vinson Chapman http://montgomerysquare.org/about-montgomery-square/history/1968-1991-montgomery-square-wonder-years/comment-page-1/#comment-16666 Peg Vinson Chapman Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:19:51 +0000 http://montgomerysquare.org/?page_id=123#comment-16666 Whew! You've taken me for a ride down memory lane. We lived at 12300 Old Canal Road! I was a little bit ahead of you in school (graduated from Churchill in '72) and we started out in Beverly Farms Elementary. Yes, Mrs. Field! My brothers and I (and assorted friends) used to go and feed the pony and goats carrots we'd stolen from the frig'. I got dared once, and climbed the fence into the field and was promptly kicked in the midsection by the pony. I had to hide the horse shoe shaped bruise for weeks! My best friend lived at the end of Jeb Stuart, and we used to walk the path from her house into the woods and to Kunkle's field. The Kunkle's let us sled there in the winter. The place is now an Islamic school of some sort. In the summer, we spent lots of time at the pool, and enjoyed the dances they would throw in the Rec. House. We also attended St. Raphael's and Mons. Duffy was a golfing buddy of my uncle's. He was a good man. Great memories!!! Thanks! Whew! You’ve taken me for a ride down memory lane. We lived at 12300 Old Canal Road! I was a little bit ahead of you in school (graduated from Churchill in ’72) and we started out in Beverly Farms Elementary. Yes, Mrs. Field! My brothers and I (and assorted friends) used to go and feed the pony and goats carrots we’d stolen from the frig’. I got dared once, and climbed the fence into the field and was promptly kicked in the midsection by the pony. I had to hide the horse shoe shaped bruise for weeks! My best friend lived at the end of Jeb Stuart, and we used to walk the path from her house into the woods and to Kunkle’s field. The Kunkle’s let us sled there in the winter. The place is now an Islamic school of some sort. In the summer, we spent lots of time at the pool, and enjoyed the dances they would throw in the Rec. House. We also attended St. Raphael’s and Mons. Duffy was a golfing buddy of my uncle’s. He was a good man. Great memories!!! Thanks!

]]> By: Chuck Anziulewicz http://montgomerysquare.org/about-montgomery-square/history/1968-1991-montgomery-square-wonder-years/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 Chuck Anziulewicz Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:53:46 +0000 http://montgomerysquare.org/?page_id=123#comment-1838 WOW. So many things in this little memoir really resonate with me. Like milk boxes! My family didn't have one, but I had friends whose families had milk boxes on their side porches next to their driveways. It's my understanding that there are a few dairies here and there in the U.S. that will still deliver milk that way, but probably not in the DC metro area. ICE CREAM TRUCKS! One of the most cherished memories of my childhood on Jeb Stuart Road! Sometimes an authentic Good Humor truck (with the little rack of bells in front) would stop by Captain Smith Court, and all the kids would crowd around, deciding what to spend a little money on. Years later there was the "Baker Boys" ice cream truck that would drive through the neighborhood, and they had the BEST snow cones, handmade on the spot, not prepackaged and wrapped in plastic. The old Horizon Hill mansion was VERY mysterious. I've been trying to track down information about that place on the internet, to no avail. But it always seemed a rather gloomy and spooky place. The neighborhood that eventually sprang up on that land is called (you guessed it) Horizon Hill. Mrs. Tolson, the "Crossing Guard Lady," had to be well-known to literally thousands of Ritchie Park Elementary students over the years. I remember she also served at the school's playground monitor during recess. I once got into BIG trouble with her after accidentally ripping one of my classmate's jackets. Her daughter, Kim Tolson, was in the same year as me at Ritchie Park. And of course, who could forget the little farm near the big water tower, where the famous shortcut connected Aquaduct and Kimblewick? There were actually HORSES there at one time (mid 1960s). THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! WOW. So many things in this little memoir really resonate with me. Like milk boxes! My family didn’t have one, but I had friends whose families had milk boxes on their side porches next to their driveways. It’s my understanding that there are a few dairies here and there in the U.S. that will still deliver milk that way, but probably not in the DC metro area.

ICE CREAM TRUCKS! One of the most cherished memories of my childhood on Jeb Stuart Road! Sometimes an authentic Good Humor truck (with the little rack of bells in front) would stop by Captain Smith Court, and all the kids would crowd around, deciding what to spend a little money on. Years later there was the “Baker Boys” ice cream truck that would drive through the neighborhood, and they had the BEST snow cones, handmade on the spot, not prepackaged and wrapped in plastic.

The old Horizon Hill mansion was VERY mysterious. I’ve been trying to track down information about that place on the internet, to no avail. But it always seemed a rather gloomy and spooky place. The neighborhood that eventually sprang up on that land is called (you guessed it) Horizon Hill.

Mrs. Tolson, the “Crossing Guard Lady,” had to be well-known to literally thousands of Ritchie Park Elementary students over the years. I remember she also served at the school’s playground monitor during recess. I once got into BIG trouble with her after accidentally ripping one of my classmate’s jackets. Her daughter, Kim Tolson, was in the same year as me at Ritchie Park.

And of course, who could forget the little farm near the big water tower, where the famous shortcut connected Aquaduct and Kimblewick? There were actually HORSES there at one time (mid 1960s).

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!

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