I was born in Manchester at Sacred Heart Hospital. My family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida right after I graduated second grade. Thank you for this video. I don’t remember any of these places but I loved seeing them.
I was born at Elliot and grew up in Litchfield. We were about 3-4 miles from Grenier field as the crow flies. I remember jets taking off and the house shaking. I remember the abandoned rollercoaster at Pine Island Park. We used to shop at Alexanders. Going over the Granite St bridge was scary on my motorcycle! Bradlees on Elm moved to South Willow and the Elm St location became an Allen Bradley factory. Saw many movies at Bedford Grove. My friend's father owned Caesar's pizza, I remember going there sometimes after hockey.
Louise Bowen Worrell I lived in Manchester for many years. Went to Webster Grammar School and Central High School. These videos I am watching bring back many memories.
Louise Worrell. This is Rick Staszyn. I recall your name from Webster Grammar School and Central High School We did grow up together. I can't recall how You looked like. I left Manchester in 1985 and moved to Maui, HI. Say "Hi'. rksmaui@hotmail.com
I grew up in Manchester in the 50's. I liked the pictures of the buses on Elm St. because I used to ride them a lot. My parents bought tokens for them. It was very convenient for kids to be able to go downtown on their own. For example, I took swimming lessons at Rock Rimmon pool, so I took the Pinard bus downtown and the Rimmon bus (I think) to the pool.
Very cool to see what this city once was as well as depressing and sad in a sense . I'm 46 and was raised on Cartier street on the West side near St . Mary's church . My parents built a home in Goffstown when I was 10 and we moved in 1986 . But my grandparents " the Augers " owned the tenant building and we lived on the 2nd floor , my grandparents were on the first . Most of the tenant buildings during this time period still had the owners living on the first floor of the buildings as well as most of the properties were still kept up . The neighborhood was clean , quiet and had a great French Canadian , Irish and German community . Many of the small corner stores were still active such as Saindons market which was always fun to go into and was always busy with people conversing and such . I recently moved back to Manchester after a 35 year hiatus due to needing a place to live really quick after living in Florida for 6 months and not liking it . Needless to say I'm old enough to remember the absolute tail end of what this great city once was . The city has become the complete opposite of what it once was . Slumlords and investment companies have bought up all the old tenant buildings , they do not maintain them at all and let anybody move in . The city is littered with trash , almost weekly shootings and stabbings , homeless drug addicts roaming around everywhere , homeless camp sites in any and every patch of woods , crime , drugs , loud music and very annoying exhausts from every honda civic that drives bye , scumbags everywhere . All the corner stores are owned by Pakis who most of the time ignore you when you say hello . It's turned into the slums of Massachusetts and will only get worse . It's very Sad that the community let this happen .. as there's no reversing it .
Yep, even though I grew up in Manchester later, in the 80s and 90s, I feel the same way. I moved away in 2006, but still visit family several times a year, and the inner city started to become a real dump around 2004, and only got worse from there for the reasons you state: absentee landlords who don't care who they rent to. I noticed Manchester really took a nosedive in 2013 when the heroin epidemic was in full swing, and it simply never receded. I still am proud to be from Manchester and think the City has a lot to offer, but if City Hall doesn't get tough on crime, vagrancy, and absentee landlords, then the City will permanently become North Lawrence.
@@bjkarana Considering our mayor is notorious for taking money from the fire dept and putting it towards more Narcan for the junkies, you know what direction we're heading in. Too bad I couldn't see manchester in it's glory days.
@@ArdillaLoco Well, drugs and crime may have been a lot less widespread 20+ years ago, but Manchester was stagnant and boring when I was a kid. At least downtown came back when the SNHU (Verizon) arena was built, and the schools were better funded once Mayor Weiczorek was ousted (although, to his credit, he was instrumental in re-developing Manchester Airport). I hear you on the Narcan bit; my younger brother worked nights at the Elliot for a few years and he'd see the same people coming in for OD's within hours of being discharged and it was their entitlement above everything else that really irked him the most. But I digress.
I liked your video, but I had a suggestion. I think you could enhance some of these pictures like Pine Island Park by having a few of the old timers giving us a verbal description of what Pine Island was like during its grandeur days. Soon all those people who lived during that time will be gone and we need to hear what some of those special places were like! You could also include what it was like to work in a mill with a lot of immigrants who spoke different languages!
@@dangarrity7449 I named the wrong state and was bonked on the head with the cardboard map back in the early 70s by the one and only Uncle Gus. Popeye,Dick Tracy and Mr Magoo were the cartoons I remember on the show
I was born in Manchester at Sacred Heart Hospital. My family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida right after I graduated second grade. Thank you for this video. I don’t remember any of these places but I loved seeing them.
I was born at Elliot and grew up in Litchfield. We were about 3-4 miles from Grenier field as the crow flies. I remember jets taking off and the house shaking. I remember the abandoned rollercoaster at Pine Island Park. We used to shop at Alexanders. Going over the Granite St bridge was scary on my motorcycle! Bradlees on Elm moved to South Willow and the Elm St location became an Allen Bradley factory. Saw many movies at Bedford Grove. My friend's father owned Caesar's pizza, I remember going there sometimes after hockey.
That blue 1980 Toyota pickup was mine!👍❤️
Louise Bowen Worrell I lived in Manchester for many years. Went to Webster Grammar School and Central High School. These videos I am watching bring back many memories.
Louise Worrell. This is Rick Staszyn. I recall your name from Webster Grammar School and Central High School We did grow up together. I can't recall how You looked like. I left Manchester in 1985 and moved to Maui, HI. Say "Hi'. rksmaui@hotmail.com
I live in. Virginia now but I miss manchester❤
I grew up in Manchester in the 50's. I liked the pictures of the buses on Elm St. because I used to ride them a lot. My parents bought tokens for them. It was very convenient for kids to be able to go downtown on their own. For example, I took swimming lessons at Rock Rimmon pool, so I took the Pinard bus downtown and the Rimmon bus (I think) to the pool.
oh geeze the children could of been us kids. oh my gosh. Good ol Manchester. we were on Uncle Gus too. WKBR we called all the time requesting songs.
Very cool to see what this city once was as well as depressing and sad in a sense . I'm 46 and was raised on Cartier street on the West side near St . Mary's church . My parents built a home in Goffstown when I was 10 and we moved in 1986 . But my grandparents " the Augers " owned the tenant building and we lived on the 2nd floor , my grandparents were on the first . Most of the tenant buildings during this time period still had the owners living on the first floor of the buildings as well as most of the properties were still kept up . The neighborhood was clean , quiet and had a great French Canadian , Irish and German community . Many of the small corner stores were still active such as Saindons market which was always fun to go into and was always busy with people conversing and such .
I recently moved back to Manchester after a 35 year hiatus due to needing a place to live really quick after living in Florida for 6 months and not liking it . Needless to say I'm old enough to remember the absolute tail end of what this great city once was . The city has become the complete opposite of what it once was . Slumlords and investment companies have bought up all the old tenant buildings , they do not maintain them at all and let anybody move in . The city is littered with trash , almost weekly shootings and stabbings , homeless drug addicts roaming around everywhere , homeless camp sites in any and every patch of woods , crime , drugs , loud music and very annoying exhausts from every honda civic that drives bye , scumbags everywhere . All the corner stores are owned by Pakis who most of the time ignore you when you say hello . It's turned into the slums of Massachusetts and will only get worse .
It's very Sad that the community let this happen .. as there's no reversing it .
Yep, even though I grew up in Manchester later, in the 80s and 90s, I feel the same way. I moved away in 2006, but still visit family several times a year, and the inner city started to become a real dump around 2004, and only got worse from there for the reasons you state: absentee landlords who don't care who they rent to. I noticed Manchester really took a nosedive in 2013 when the heroin epidemic was in full swing, and it simply never receded. I still am proud to be from Manchester and think the City has a lot to offer, but if City Hall doesn't get tough on crime, vagrancy, and absentee landlords, then the City will permanently become North Lawrence.
@@bjkarana
Considering our mayor is notorious for taking money from the fire dept and putting it towards more Narcan for the junkies, you know what direction we're heading in. Too bad I couldn't see manchester in it's glory days.
@@ArdillaLoco Well, drugs and crime may have been a lot less widespread 20+ years ago, but Manchester was stagnant and boring when I was a kid. At least downtown came back when the SNHU (Verizon) arena was built, and the schools were better funded once Mayor Weiczorek was ousted (although, to his credit, he was instrumental in re-developing Manchester Airport). I hear you on the Narcan bit; my younger brother worked nights at the Elliot for a few years and he'd see the same people coming in for OD's within hours of being discharged and it was their entitlement above everything else that really irked him the most. But I digress.
I do not remember the crash plane. But much I do remember, reminds me walks with my mother. Oh my gosh.
Thanks much for this video, brought back a few memories...
I liked your video, but I had a suggestion. I think you could enhance some of these pictures like Pine Island Park by having a few of the old timers giving us a verbal description of what Pine Island was like during its grandeur days. Soon all those people who lived during that time will be gone and we need to hear what some of those special places were like! You could also include what it was like to work in a mill with a lot of immigrants who spoke different languages!
My dad would feel honored, thanks
michele bernier I remember a teacher at Lincoln school and I remember your father , was on his show Dan G.
@@dangarrity7449
I named the wrong state and was bonked on the head with the cardboard map back in the early 70s by the one and only Uncle Gus.
Popeye,Dick Tracy and Mr Magoo were the cartoons I remember on the show
If I remember correctly, at Christmas Uncle Gus had an elf named Oogle
Do you know if the observatory is still standing today
Does WKBR still exist?
Thanks !
Uncle Gus !!!
the prices. 28.9 gasoline. oh boy
The music is horrible