Monday Daily Delawhere [6.11.12]

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1. jpconnorjr says:

   June 11, 2012 at 7:15 am

   The Middle of Middletown……. the place is called…. oh wait:)

2. walt says:

   June 11, 2012 at 10:00 am

   West Main St. The Everett. Middletown’s own Big Silver. Had a blue neon clock that hung to the right of the screen. Marvel Argo was the bouncer there for years, and he’d shine his flashlight on you as a warning if you were acting up. A job as an usher was a right of passage for older boys in the town. Had to wear a tuxedo. Mom’s popcorn was always better. In the cool months I’d smuggle it in under a coat in a wax paper bag. African Americans still sat in the balcony back in those days. Not because they had to, just out of tradition. I always liked the balcony better anyway.

3. walt says:

   June 11, 2012 at 1:45 pm

   Amos Stanley had a television repair shop in the brown brick faced store front you see to the right of the theater. That was back when you could make a living fixing radios and TV sets. A hundred years ago my great-grandmother’s brother had a hardware store in that same store front. To the left there is now an art gallery, but for years it was a NAPA auto parts store owned by Kendall Messick until his untimely death. He was a nice man. Oh how Middletown has changed from the days of one redlight at the “four corners” (Main St. and Broad).