Great job of putting all these old memories together.

We tend to remember the best of times and forget the worst, as it should be! Thanks to all the military veterans with out your sacrafices this would be a very different World!
A special thanks to John Dyrek, for carring my sister home when she fell at school and hit her head.
Remember how many kids there were in the neighborhood? On 105th Place between Corless and Cottage Grove Ave. there was at least 110 kids and "god knows not very many televisions". Thats why everybody could go out safely and play all day.

Thanks...I lived at 113th Place and Perry Ave.,, went to St. Willy's Grade School and High School-graduated in 1966- this neighborhood was the best -

I left Roseland in Fall 1966. The last few times I saw Bennett Elementary School, Fenger and the home I grew up in, they all looked better than they had for many, many years.
It was very schocking & sad that the murder of the student was at Fenger, I believe this was the frst time I heard Fenger mentioned on the national news.

Hi to visiting Roselanders! I grew up at 113th and Stewart.

I enjoy reading and looking at this site. My dad and his family went to school around Roseland. It is nice to show him the pictures and have him talk about his childhood.

Hi all . Graduated Fenger High school in Jan 66 . Looking for people that graduated that year .

I did not live in "Roseland" but frequented it often. I lived in a neighborhood called "Cottage Grove Heights". I enjoyed looking at this sight and it brought back good memories.

Wonderful piece of work on this e-mail. Thank you to everyone that contributed to this. Memories can never be taken away from you!

My name is Joy Matthews. I grew up in Roseland.Went to Kohn grammer school, and Fenger High

Lived at 10018 S State St and 10113 S State between 1958 - 1965.Attended St. Helena of the Cross school at 101st and Normal.

Looking for anyone who grew up around 104th-107th & South Park, or Vernon ave.

Roseland was the best!!

Raised in Pullman at 704 EW 112th Street, and Roseland 11337 s Forest ave. graduated from st anthony and Mendel 9 1966. Loyola ( 1970 ). what memories I do have! Brings tears to a now old man's eyes> So many friends, some of whom died so young in Vietnam ( 4 of my closest), and one in a Corvair ( remember, Nader's Book, " Unsafe at any Speed" ?) on the Dan Ryan in 1964.
I am heart broken at what once was that can not be resurected and gifted to my children and granchildre. I have done very well and we live in an exclusive neighborhood in Up State New York. Still Roseland was safer and a lot more fun for we kids than where we now live. Never would we feel comfortable allowing our little ones to roam from early morning till dusk as our folks allowed us to do during the 1950's and the eqqrly '60s.

I can redily remember fi not the names then cdertainly the faces of so many dozens of folks. Roseland was that kind of safe, nurturing, and oh so warm and lovely place to grow up. I so miss it, at 61 years of age, I miss what i had when I was 6, there is a bit of sadness in that, I think.

God Bless you neighbor, one and all.



God Bless you all, neighbors!

I'm a 1958 graduate of St. Salomea and a 1962 Fenger graduate. Thanks for putting this wonderful, memory-filled, site together.

Nice to look at all the pictures and familliar names from such a wonderful place & time that will never/ever be forgotten. A town with unmatched character from all it's people, buildings, parks, streets and alleys. It can never be dupilicated (only in Heaven). It was such a great place to grow up, born and raised at 117th & Perry across from Scanlan 69/ Fenger 73. Learn to live, fight & love (all the stepping stones to prepare you for what would lie ahead).

I just learned of this website and doesn't it bring back fond memories. At one time my gradfather was Santa at Peoples Store.
I lived at 105th and Rhodes Ave. and went to Poe Elem and Fenger HS. The one thing I remember most of my life in Roseland....it felt safe and secure. I wish we could have that time back again.

I used to live on 100th Perry in the 50's and early 60's. Went to Kohn School and then Harlan High before leaving for school in Connecticut, then Massachusetts.
I have been living in Ohio since 1980 after leaving the U.S. Army.

If you've done an article on Roseland for the genealogical society, it would be really great to read it.

Absolutely loved the website and your recollection of Roseland was fabulous... I attended Poe, then Mt. Vernon and sophmore year at Fenger before moving to Thornton. Lived in north Pullman until moving to the burbs. Now I'm in Kansas! Husband #1 was from "bum town" and he attended CVS. Thank you for your dedication, what memories you brought back to me.
Veda