Last updated July 4, 2020
A couple of short memories:
I was unable to determine how Joe met Delores, but I do remember that Joe was vying for Delores affections with Christy Dorsch. Guess who won?
Joe used to hang out at the Mobile station on the corner of East Street and Tripoli St. . He had a couple of reasons , he had a girlfriend who lived on Madison Avenue whose grandmother lived across the street in the building next to the building Judi lived in. He could meet her on the way to or from the grandmother’s home. Because he station was owned by some one named Fritz or Frisch, and Joe was friends with the son he and others such as Bobby Texter and Charlie Saar hung out there . He had a passing acquaintance with Judi.
Rusty tells the story of Joe and Butchie Saar using an electric drill to turn back an odometer. The car was pulled up a little on the unpaved section of Bly Street and they had run an extension cord from one of the houses. They took turns, lying on their back holding the drill against the connector on the back of the speedometer. Because the drill did not have the latching device to keep the drill on, they had to keep spelling each other.