You can take the kid out of Gloucester but you can’t take Gloucester out of the kid!
Monday, June 16, 2008
I am one of the "geezers" who attends the monthly
Breakfast Club meeting at the Dining Car Depot on the last Saturday of every month.
It is the one day of the month that I have to reconnect with my boyhood friends from Gloucester City.
I was a lifelong resident of Gloucester City. I am 70 years old and prior to moving from Gloucester I owned two businesses and owned various real estate, "apartments" and homes in the city.
Photo: Bill Yeager, right and Joe Miller at the April Breakfast Club meeting
When I retired I bought a little farm in Southern Delaware. When I come back to the Dining Car Depot, I can see my grandfather's house on Foundry Row on Paul Street. I can also think about all the sports we played at the "logs." Looking the other way I can see Chu Chu Murphy's boyhood home and Charlie Dutcher's too. Charlie died when I was in the third grade. I was one of his pall bearers.
I lived out by Martin's Lake and belonged to the Pond gang. As an adult, I was a union construction worker and a business man.
If you could only know the camaraderie us "geezers" have when we get together once a month.
We are now spread over many states such as Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Florida and others. We even had one geezer who came from Japan to have breakfast with his buddies.
We are friends and enjoy each others' company. We are in our second childhood and will have fun any way we damn please.
You can take the kid out of Gloucester but you can't take Gloucester out of the kid.
I would like to clarify a few points from Daisy Daly's article. First of all, it was purely fictional. We do not throw toast and no one dropped their pants. We respect everyone's feelings.
Also, we are grateful to Mustafa and his wife for having our group at his restaurant. We thoroughly support Mustafa in the success of his restaurant and congratulate him and his wife on the birth of their baby girl.
The "geezers" chose the Dining Car Depot as a way to help the restaurant succeed and to have a meeting place back home.
Bill "Wibby" Yeager, Milford, Delaware