This was his first visit to Citizens Bank Park in 2010 with Erika. He was so excited to go with her. This was his last game he saw at the park. Good use of the rally towel to did not want any mustard on that Phillies shirt.
He loved his great granddaughter and enjoyed his time with her.
He didn't time this one right.
He would always tell me the great things she did.
At the Kotyla's 3939 Donath ST.
My dad enjoyed having fun and chritmas cheer. He loved his egg nog with a little something in it.
John and Sophie
Julia had kept my father laughing for years over the time she was so excited and ran around naked looking for her bathing suit when it was time to go swimming at 3 yrs. old.
John found love and married Franceska Michalcyzk in 1965. To bad his parents were not there to see it they both passed in 1956.
He would say "you have beautiful daughters".
He was eyein up the red velvet.
The company name he said he would create if he hit the BIG ONE.
Hangin on the deck lookimg for deer, bunnies, turkeys, groundhogs or BOBCATS.
That is what he said everytime he talked to me about my daughters and he was right.
Anything to help his grandchildren. Here he is in the photo op when JohnPaul was running for Class President. He won and grnadpop said it must have been this photo that put him over the top.
"She keeps me going" he would say
He was a guy who liked to joke and laugh alot.
John would love sitting on the porch in Mullica Hill watching the birds and looking at the rose bushes across the street (Thanks John and Sarah Roth for giving him that view) reminding him of his mothers while drinking morning coffee on the weekends.
John said "when I started loosing his hair his mother was woried he would not find a wife get married and give her grandchildren so, she would rub warm oil on his head to stop hair loss."
I think I can see the horns.
Hangin at Cioci's
Touching these new soccer balls was like touching a feather. John said "When we played back then the balls were much heavier, and we did not have shinguards we would either put the Sunday newspaper under our socks or and old magazine."
He remembered playing against some great players that are now part of the US Soccer Hall of Fame like Walt Barr and Benny McLaughlin. Here is how the US Soccer Hall of Fame Started
The National Soccer Hall of Fame came to life in 1950 when a group of former professional and amateur players from the Philadelphia "Old-timers" Association took it upon themselves to recognize the achievements of soccer in America. - See more at: http://www.ussoccer.com/about/history/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame.aspx#sthash.RERNFMdi.dpuf
Sophie and John on Donath Street in Nicetown. He always said she was the greatest sister anyone could ever have had.
A birthday in Philly
Just chillin
Hitem over the head wit da schtick
While in the Korean War John was outside his camp and heard someone say "hey Russian". He looked up and it was Peaches, his friend who lived in Nicetown with him. Fighting a war thousands of miles away from home you still run into people you know.
