After spending kindergarten and first grade at Bingham public school, a new Catholic school, St. Teresa’s opened in 1953. Staffed by Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, It originally occupied four classrooms above the church. A few of my first grade classmates from Bingham moved with me to St. Teresa’s, but many more were…

Our little neighborhood was pretty typical of post-war middle-class suburbia.  Next door to the South were the Rudnicks. Mr. Rudnick was a pharmacist and owned a drug store in the neighboring town of Bellmawr. They had two boys. Alan was about a year younger than me and more of a scholar than an athlete. Alan’s Bar Mitzvah was my…

Sometime before 1955, we moved into a little house on Oakland Avenue (Number 60) . The house was situated about midway between Clement’s Bridge Road and Evesham Road, one block east of the Black Horse Pike. The map above shows the neighborhood as it exists today. The driveway and garage were added later and the space behind…

I’ve been working on building a family tree in Ancestry for a number of years. Now that I have a little time on my hands and I still have pretty good recall, I’d like to fill in some of the gaps so that interested family and friends might benefit from what I remember about the places…