|
|
Post by chris on May 9, 2009 8:58:00 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on May 9, 2009 15:49:10 GMT -5
 Clipper, according to my Mom I was a very quiet baby. As I grew older I had a stuttering problem till my teens so I didn't want to talk much. Kids use to make fun of me so I kept quiet most of the time.  In my teens I was given speech lessons at Children's Hospital and they were the ones who corrected my speech and created a monster.  Now, I'm merely making up for lost time and "no one" can shut me up. ;D Well, there we go again. At 13 I delivered newspapers at Faxton Hospital, ending with a walk through Children's Hospital where I sold few papers. Come to think of it, I do remember some loud girl the same age as me! |
|
|
|
Post by Clipper on May 9, 2009 16:34:19 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by bobbbiez on May 9, 2009 21:56:32 GMT -5
Dave, you are coming to the get-together in August, right?
|
|
|
|
Post by ninamh on May 22, 2009 13:55:01 GMT -5
I volunteered at Children's Hospital in 8th grade--that was part of Faxton, right?
Well, my earliest memories of Utica was in Oct. 1958 when we moved there. I was almost 5.
We moved into a two family house on Eagle St and Hammond Ave. Our family of 5 met the Vomer's for the first time...also a couple with three young children, plus their Italian grandmother, "Senora". The next day, Jo asked my mother is she'd like some tomato pie and my mother said "No, thank you" thinking it was an actual pie stuffed with tomatoes. Of course, tomato pie is still one of our family favorites and who ever goes to Utica gets boxes to bring home!
|
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on May 24, 2009 18:42:53 GMT -5
Dave, you are coming to the get-together in August, right? God willin' and the creek don't rise. |
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on May 24, 2009 18:52:55 GMT -5
I volunteered at Children's Hospital in 8th grade--that was part of Faxton, right?
Well, my earliest memories of Utica was in Oct. 1958 when we moved there. I was almost 5. Yes, as far as I know. As a kid I never for sure knew their relationship. I have to assume that Children's got crowded during the Polio epidemic in the 1950's, but it must have been built before that. Possibly as a Soldiers Hospital. The summer of '57 when I carried papers through there, it was not very crowded, or so I remember. Here's a quote from their website: "Faxton Hospital evolved from the union of two facilities, Children's Hospital and Rehabilitation Center (an outgrowth of the old Utica Orphan Asylum on Genesee Street, established in 1830), and Faxton Hospital, established by Theodore S. Faxton on Sunset Avenue in 1875." The quote goes on into nonsense: "Faxton Hospital came into being on January 1, 1989 when Faxton Hospital and Children's Hospital merged." More at: tinyurl.com/qh2ojc |
|
|
|
Post by jon hynes on May 25, 2009 1:02:07 GMT -5
 Faxton Hospital - Sunset AvenueFounded by Theodore S. Faxton 1875 |
|
Clipper, according to my Mom I was a very quiet baby. As I grew older I had a stuttering problem till my teens so I didn't want to talk much. Kids use to make fun of me so I kept quiet most of the time. 
