Embarrassment? Yes! Did you know that one of my coffee drinking buddies – not naming him, but his initials are “L.T.” “L.T.” told us that one day at the casino in Charenton, he walked up to one of the slot machines and there was a little old lady sitting there playing. There was a large …
Back in the ’20s, things were really tough. The wages were 12-1/2 cents per hour – top wages were 25 cents an hour at the Oyster Shell Plant in Berwick. This was a life-saver by the two Ackerman brothers from New York. In those days, you worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. …
Remember the Nehi drinks that were distributed and bottled at Mancuso Bros. Bottling Plant? That’s when the ladies started dressing with their skirts “Nehi!” I’m surely glad that nobody ever named a drink “Waisthi!” Mancuso Bros. was also the distributor of Jax beer. Jax beer was a big seller and very popular in those days …
I was in the grocery store the other day and meet someone by the name of James Harvey. We got to talking about Morgan City when his daddy, George Harvey, owned the first theatre, which was under a tent on Front Street near on next to where Mr. Orfanello had his place of business. This …
Did you know that from out little town of Berwick we had five doctors who came from here within one block of each other on Pacific Street? They were Joe Granado, Sam Granado, Vincent Bella, Dr. Berwick, and my own son, “Bobby” Guzzetta. Dr. Berwick used to play his phonograph outside of his drug store …
I received a letter the other day from an old acquaintance of mine who use to live in Morgan City, Lloyd Guillory, who now resides in Columbia, Mo. He is now an author, an artisan, and an architect. He says that he read one of my articles that I wrote in The Daily Review that …
Someone asked me the other day what happened to Front Street in Berwick. This person said that when he left Berwick in 1950, Front Street was alive. There were 35 business places and they stayed open every night until at least 10 o’clock. There were parking meters, so you could find a place to park. …
Remember the days when we grew real sugar cane – soft and sweet as sugar? There were many kinds of cane – red cane, stripped cane and coffee cane. You could peel them with your fingers they were so soft. We used to go to the sugar house in Glenwild and eat the brown sugar …
I saw Alden Vining at St. Stephen Catholic Church in Berwick. He came over to tell me how much he enjoyed my column in The Daily Review. He said my writing was so different from other writers and he wished that there were other people who wrote as I did in the Morgan City-Berwick area. …
Another experience that my wife and I had was on a trip to Medjugorje in Yugoslavia. We stayed with a Yugoslavian family who lived in the surrounding area of Medjugorje, which was under Communist rule. These people were very friendly, but were also very cautious of what they would say or do. After being there …