THE FAMILY during the 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's & 50's .>>>. lived successively in Houlton ME, 412 Newbury St, Boston MA; Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA & at 344 Market St (where trolley cars during the 1930's traversed Market St, beginning-to-end, battery driven electric trucks delivered goods to stores, the McKinney family maintained in Brighton Center a horse stable & a horse auction business, and, where in North Brighton, cattle pens, slaughter houses and a 'loud' stench permeated the locale whose cheerleader "sloganeering" members sang "1, 2, 3, 4, We're The Boys From The Abortior, Stink, Stink, Stink"), 588 Cambridge St (interim) & 17 Henshaw St in Brighton (final, then the family disbursed).

In the 1920 National Census, the family is living in Houlton ME. John Patrick Costello had establish a funeral business there & had introduced the motor hearse to the local industry. Martha Haggerty (pregnant w/Peg) & John are living w/family on Elm St w/kids: Louise & Mary (later moved to Court St) .>>>. The Costello family soon returned to Boston as daughter Mary developed some kind of intestinal telescoping obstruction that was, according to the then family doctor, Dr Joe Donovan, only curable by Boston medical specialists

In the 1930 National Census, the family is ensconced at 344 Market St in Brighton .>>>. in Brighton where the Chinese controlled the retail laundry trade, the Italians the retail mens barbering/shoe repair & the Irish had all of the pubs & retail liquor outlets. Charles A Lindbergh, the aviator with his airship, "Spirit of St Louis" was all the rage. .>>>. John Patrick Costello, age: 49 years, was exempt from service during WW1, is self employed as an Undertaker, we have a radio (a "required to answer" question under 1930 census rules), mother is 44 years old, a home maker; Louise, Mary, Margaret, John Jr, & Richard are attending public school; Thomas & Edward are at home & Daniel has'nt been born yet.

The Market St residence, |**PIX: Bill of Sale**|, tel no.: STAdium 7312 (subsequently lost to the mortgage holder, 1940) .>>>. a Federal style brick structure historically dated from the very early 1800's .>>>. once belonged to the Sparhawk family, an early Brighton family .>>>. and where Richard Joyce, Thomas Augustus, Daniel Joseph & Edward Daniel were b: .>>>. had 8 rooms: living, dining which contained a print of the 'Horse Fair', kitchen, 5 bedrooms, 8 kids, 2 parents , 1 bathroom , a half busted furnace & an "ice box"; it also had hot water heat, electric toaster, radio, vacuum cleaner, telephone, a disfunctional washing/ironing machine, a single bed for each kid & 2 automobiles (preowned) .>>>. where P&G "laundry" soap was preferential to "ivory" for family use since it lasted longer, it was akin to "GI" soap which lasted for "the duration" .>>>. & where the 3 girls had the big bedroom, w/Queen Anne 4 posters, at the front of the house, 4 boys bunked in 2 smaller BRs in the rear & Tom was stashed, to keep him out of the way, in a mid-level room over the bathroom between the 2nd floor & the attic .>>>. & where dinner was the noon meal & supper the evening one, they served up shredded wheat w/ banana's, oatmeal w/ banana's, boiled dinners, roast beef or leg-of- lamb, & an occasional batch of brown bread from Annie Meikle's Bakery to go with the family baked beans, all served on Blue Willow plateware .>>>. & where ice cream was served only on one's birthday or when one was sick & at no other time .>>>. & where one phone dialed CAPital 1000 for the correct time-of-day if all of the family clocks were exhausted .>>>. & also where most of us, since it was a family business, experienced our first funeral wake .>>>. where John & Dick shoveled snow from the driveway every winter .>>>. where neighbor Mrs Sullivan of Bently St gave us kids money for odd jobs, snow shoveling, leaf raking .>>>. where all of us kids sold magazines to Dr Fitzgerald who would always buy the "Saturday Evening Post" but not the "Womens Home Journal", he a retired MD living in a house to the rear of our house with his sisters, .>>>. where brother Dick was allowed to borrow the family car to transport the rest of us & neighboring kids on evening swimming excursions to Lake Walden, now in elitist fashion, known as Walden Pond .>>>. where, in the field next to the house, Italian immigrant women hunted & picked wild dandelions, mother had tried cooking them for the family, but they were a little strong or pungent .>>>. where during Boston's very cold winters, Mr Cusack, a native of Ireland & our USPS mailman, during his rounds was assured a cup of hot black coffee with a shot of whiskey .>>>. where, during "spring cleaning" (every one did it, then) with few vacuum cleaners available, everyone beat their rugs with metal beaters .>>>. where, during the Holy Season of Lent, the entire family recited the rosary on their knees every night; & then, during the autumn, Catholic Missionary priests visited each parish to preach & sermonize the local parishioners every day for a full week; all were obligated to attend .>>>. then the Ryan's lived on one side of us, the Sullivan's on the other .>>>. Mr Ryan was a carpentry contractor (put 2 kids thru Harvard) & Mr Sullivan (aka "Son Sullivan") was a competitor Funeral Director/Undertaker. Across Market Street were the Smith's (he was an independent job printer, son Red Smith once saved neighbor kid Buddy Foley from drowning in the Charles R, one could swim there then); the O'Donnell's lived next door (he was a news printer), downstairs from the O'Donnell's, a two family house, lived the Vail family (they lost a son from TB which rendered them exceptionally distrought & resulted in them succumbing to alcohol; the Foley/Kiernan's were next door (totally poor, had nothing, WPA employed @ $7per week with 8 kids to house, cloth & feed), Wright's & Vanelli's were next, the Vanelli's (grew grapes for wine making, but did'nt share) & Billy Wright exited his priestly study's for the rough & tumble of the retail Pharmacy world .>>>. also across the street, as in most neighborhoods, was the neighborhood candy store, where there was a pay-telephone available to the neighboring residents since many homes were without telephones, this candy store, which at one time was operated by Eddie Kiernan, who 'drank' a little & sold a little, followed by Hymie Rudolph, who was somewhat stout & finally Harry Fershpan, a somewhat meek guy, who followed the Red Sox faithfully & had a daughter named "Frenchie" .>>>. Father Coughlin, the radio priest, active radical Socialist & anti-semite could be heard on any Sunday afternoon in most any Boston/Brighton household, but not ours, father did'nt think much of him; the RC Hierarchy, meaning the Catholic Church, belatedly shut him down .>>>. during the 1930s, unemployment peaked at 25%, +/-, of the workforce; most men, that is, those who had jobs, worked 5.5 days per week, while most women were homemakers; after the start of WW2, everybody, man, woman & child was employed in either industry or the armed service .>>>. our radio fare (no TV then) was generally conservative, an occasional broadcast by President FDR, his "Fireside Chats", so called; Lowell Thomas w/Blue Sunoco (gasoline) & the 6:00 o'clock news; Bob Hope with his comedy; Kate Smith w/"God Bless America", but no "Gangbusters" or "shoot-em-up" serials/programs, bad for kids --

At the Henshaw St residence |**House Listing**|, there were 10 rooms , less people but still only 1 bathroom although mother had her own chamber pot and where for varing periods of time Aunt Mary Haggerty & various Haggerty cousins Alice, Jack&Alice (Jack d: in Boston from an ulcer operation at Boston City Hospital), Louise & Margaret-Mary came to live, work, get educated & acculturated in Boston preparatory to transiting to the real world) & where, coming to visit, was Rev. Canisius Abbott, OFM (AKA Cousin or Father Bill), he was then stationed at a Catholic Shrine listening to "confessions" that may have been rather earthy & related by those who would'nt dare relate them in their home parish's, his Superiors may have thought he needed the wordly experience, he was a little "sissified".

The family churched & had "Field Day's", an out-of-doors carnival-like merry-making fund raiser, at St Columbkilles RCCh where Sundays at 9am were reserved for the childrens Mass followed by Sunday School at the local Catholic HS and again followed by more Sunday School at 2pm at the local church, following this, if one hustled, the local Egyptian Theatre, a cinema palace, featured a main attraction, a "B" pic & a couple of "shorts", all for 10¢ but one had to hurry to get it all in .>>>. schooled under a number of Principal's: Miss Barry at the Winship primary school, Mr George Gammon at the Thomas A Edison junior high school along with Mr Somebody (?) at the William Howard Taft school & Mr Rich and Mr Joseph Leary at the Brighton High School and I dont know who (?) at St Columbkille's school or at Boston Latin School... barbered by Frank Curatola @ 25¢ per head .>>>. tooth fixed, that is "fixed-for-a-fee" by Forsyth Dental Infirmary w/sidetrips to the MFA, a museum, which was next door .>>>. Sunday visited Benson's Animal Farm in Nashua NH, which, truly, had wild tigers & lions, but now GWTW, Franklin Park Zoo & relatives, (Costello's, Doyle's & Casey's ) in Franklin, Monson & Arlington MA & .>>>. summered in Houlton ME during the 1930's, a logistic monster that required the tranportation of 10 people, 8 kids & 2 adults, in an old Pierce-Arrow touring car, or something like that, with all of there summer belongings in one automobile a distance of 300 miles in a day & 1/2's time; the seating arrangements required that Dan be in the rear near a window because he suffered from "car sickness", the "regurgies", simply put & that Tom be put in a front seat near a window for the same reason & also because he battled with everbody else, Louise was suppose to keep him calm, while mother from her rear seat kept Dan's head out of the window & in her spare time kept eveybody else who were strewn about in "jump" seats etc referee'd/separated; the first journey leg took us to Old Town ME, just north of Bangor where we picnicked, looked for Indians, viewed the Penobscot River & bunked overnight. The next day brought us to Houlton where we searched for a summer place to stay & "settle in" which included the following: the McLoughlin's, a farmhouse on the Ridge Rd where we slept on canvass cots, cooked with a 3 jet oil stove, fished, swam & bathed in Bee Stream & roamed the adjacent country side, Haggerty's, also on the "Ridge", i.e. Ridge Rd, ("The Ridge" where mothers old boyfriend Walter Logan farmed & lived with his son Asel who was somewhat weird and referred to by the local & visiting girls as "Ass-el"), Donovan's, in nearby Ludow where we visited often for they had a very scarce telephone although an upteen party line where everybody in town answered it when it rang, Duncan Woodworth's cabin on the Wiley Rd, (where Bernie Mahoney summered with us once & ultimately served in the China-Burma-India Theatre of Operations in the USArmy; he also taught me to "tell time") Dora Adam's farm where Dan & Ed summered in ~1942 & learned to pick mustard weed, Aunt Mary's house "in-town" where all the family girls lived, sometimes to their mothers chargrin, congregated and competed for the available men, where Mary Costello first met Jimmy Rush, a swain (d:24Nov1999 in Houlton) & at Riley's cottage at Nickerson Lake where the Bermans lived next door & his kids: Malcom, Elliot & Charlotte summered, Mr Max Berman had a retail shoe store "in town", & nearby were the Frenchs, who owned a drug store "in town" & where Oscar & Jane French summered (he died young) .>>>. swam in Carey Lake .>>>. bathed in Bee Stream where everybody bathed .>>>. picknic'ed at Burnt Bow [aka as Burnt Brow] .>>>. picked choke cherrys, goose berrys & hunted for spruce gum .>>>. helped with the hay & potato harvests .>>>. went to the "lawn party" for the benifit of St Mary's Church & School fund .>>>. attended the Woodstock Fair .>>>. visited Laverty relatives in Benton NB .>>>. boated, swam & fished in Nickerson Lake, now suffering from overbuilding & soil leaching into the lake, 1995 .>>>. went to "town" every Saturday night where the men stood about talking "farmin" & the women shopped & talked .>>>. danced & had "refreshments" at the "Burdock" [in later years, that is, unbeknownst to any parents] which was a "roadhouse" located on Littleton Ridge where Jimmy Riley played the drums .>>>. churched at St Mary's every Sunday and visited its graveyard where many of the Haggerty bones reside .>>>. after church, went to Grand Lake or Birch Point at Pleasent Lake for swimming & picknic'ng with all the relatives .>>>. returned to Boston just prior to Labor Day each year (dodged Bostons infantile paralysis outbreak one year [mid 1930's] and stayed an extra 2 months at Nickerson Lake, very cold in November).