The Dead End Kids of Port Richmond, Philadelphia: A Memoir

by Ed Chrzanowksi


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 18/07/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 416
ISBN : 9781403306449

About the Book

During the 30s and 40s in Port Richmond, we lived in exciting times with interesting characters such as Beebo, Googoo, Maxie, Wanda and others. I was afraid those times and characters would be forever lost to posterity unless someone put them down on paper. This memoir is the result. It is primarily, but not exclusively, of my first eighteen years spent on the tough streets of Port Richmond.


About the Author

Ed Chrzanowski, the youngest of four sons, was born in 1929 in a tough, poor Polish neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, known as Port Richmond. At age 18, he entered the seminary. In 1957, he was ordained a priest of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. After teaching high school in Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, and Toledo, he left the priesthood in 1977 and married in 1980. He settled in Lockport, NY, about twenty miles from Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Since then he has taught high school, college, at Attica State Prison, sold real estate, insurance, and various other items. He wrote for two local dailies, The Niagara Gazette and The Buffalo News. At present, he works as a Legal Researcher for the Buffalo Law Journal, a sister publication of Business First, and has his own resume writing business.