Friends of the North End News and Notes

By Dom Piso

Best wishes for a full recovery to Joe Blazo’s sister and condolences to Charlie Coppola’s family. 

Congrats to the bocce ball champs.  Your article discussing “At Home Shopping”, triggers lots of memories for me during my early youth, two in particular!  The first was during the Ice Man’s delivery.  In the very hot summer months, as the ice man sometimes struggled to successfully separate the chunks of ice, ice chips would be left behind on the floor bed of his truck. 

As youngsters, as soon as he was out of sight, we would scoop up the chips and suck on them until they melted and refreshed our parched mouths.  If there was enough left over, rub whatever remained on our foreheads and backs to cool off.  The other memory was of the watermelon delivery you mentioned.  Nick D’Amore’s father would travel down Salem Street with his horse drawn carriage yelling, Watermelooow, Watermelooow, in a very prominent Italian accent. 

Thank you for triggering those memories!!  Look forward to our FONE get together here in Florida.

Fond Regards,

Domenic Piso”

You all must have memories of growing up in the North End, or if not in the NE wherever you grew up.

If you send me your memories I will post them in the Friends of the North End Newsletters. They do not have to be in story form, just send a paragraph or