Positively Meriden

[Tino3]

Things I like about Meriden: Hubbard Park, Daffodil Festival, holiday lights, diversity, the mayor, volunteers, educators' efforts to improve education, affordable housing, the Red Bridge trail, the library, the potential of downtown...
Anyone care to add to the list?

[collie]

the friendly people who for the most part are kind and giving, the low crime rate, young people's smiling faces, the local NAACP branch, reading old newspapers on microfilm in the library, the can do spirit in face of obstacles like Cox Cable removing TCM from its basic lineup ...

[eds]

South Meriden's Christmas in the Village. At no other time can you close the road and walk Main St in SM without worry.

[jma]

The Spirt of Giving, the Meriden Humane Society, and Hubbard Park!

[Golden Gooch]

All of the friends I have made over the years , Castle Craig one of the best places around town here .pools to cool off in during the summer on hot days, West Main Street by Centennial Avenue which has gotten even better ,hmmm . . . what else ? Oh yes ! where the Hub used to be that open field

[leherissierm]

Guifreida Park, Ted's Steamed Cheeseburgs and Les's Ice Cream!

[tjohnl]

anyone remember 'Bonazinga's' italian bread when they were on Springdale Ave? that was the best bread

[collie]

It sure was - in my family, it was a ritual that my father picked a loaf up every Saturday morning and we had it with spaghetti that night - toast the next day ... A good memory!

[jma]

I lived next door and loved to smell the bread baking. My siblings and I would sit on the back porch with a warm loaf of bread, a stick of butter and finish it off! Henry Bonanzinga used to make pizza on the weekends for us, too. When we weren't eating bread, we'd walk down the street to Bettina's for penny candy. I remember being a little scared of Rose, and thinking Fran was the nice one. Anyone remember the brother's name?

[collie]

My father might but he's no longer with us - my grandmother lived on Windsor Ave. Actually, I remember Bonazinga's from Centennial Ave (?) or was it South Meriden from when they moved from Springdale to when they closed. I did't have to realy worry about the logistics; I just got to eat the bread!

[tjohnl]

we used to go to Eddies on Broad St just before the monuments. nice old guy. anyone remember the guy that used to sell peanuts at the football games at Ceppa field? i think he used to be the crossing guard too.

[Chriss P]

Yes John I remember Peanuts (we would wave to him from our bus from Washington MS along Parker Ave) , seemed a great guy and was quite touched when he passed on. A great Meridenite he was.

We need a memorial (a Meridenite Wax Museum) for these distiguished Meridenites from the past who touched us in our family lives.

Anyoe remember the guy at the Meriden square with the long fingernails (back when the PK was at the front of the square).

[tjohnl]

in the late sixties my first job was at Dunkin Donuts on west main. i remember LOTS of characters. worked there to the early seventies and rember all the 'brother julius' followers that used to come around.