Tape # Audio Content/Dialogue Video Shot/Description/Type
  BEGINNING  
  Crackle from Fire Tape Fire fades to
  Piano: Take Me Back to Manayunk Schuylkill River from NS RR Bridge to PennCoyd Bridge. Caption: Manaiung - the Lenni Lanape Word for Where We Go to Drink
    Pan of Canal to towpath to buildings. Caption: Manayunk was annexed by the City of Philadelphia in 1856.
    Manayunk Club photo. Title: Video Scribe Center and Manayunk Neighborhood Council present
    Caption: THE MANAYUNK CLUB
    Fade in to Manayunk Club photo.

Caption: Built as 'Fairview Cottage' by Mill Owner, John Campbell, circa 1857.

    Fade to: Window on Fleming St
    Window, Mary, . . .
    Mary hand on piano
  NEIGHBORHOOD  
2 Mary: I was born and raised in this town on Cresson Street not far from here. I've lived here all my life, as did my mother and my grandmother. Mary walks down Fleming Street. Caption (4 sec): Mary Turtle, Longtime Manayunk Resident
2 Mary: My grandparents parents came from Czechoslovakia and settled here in the late 1890's 03.jpg Grandmoms

02.jpg Mom & 3 kids

2 Essie: A very diverse neighborhood. My friends were Italian, they were Polish. I was saying Ida do domu podstawa. Essie & Mark

Caption: Essie Blount, Lifetime Manayunk Resident

2 Mark: Ida do domu podstawa! Essie: Yeah, go home and go to bed. Mark: That's Polish? Add Caption: Mark Turtle, Longtime Resident
2 Essie: It's a beautiful neighborhood. It has a lot of history. . . Essie
2 Mark - Remember Chuck on his big tricycle coming down the street with a case of Ballantine beer on the back? Essie & Mark
2 Mary: This will be the fifth generation that has lived in our town. 13.jpg Mary & family (50's)
6 Sandy: In Manayunk a lot of times you hear the Yunkers & the Yuppies as 2 groups that live in Manayunk. I guess I'm a Yuppie. Sandy in front of house on Rector Street. Add Caption: Sandy Sorlien, Resident for 13 Years
6 Sandy: I'm a photographer, I photograph buildings I photograph Main Streets and houses. Sandy's photos

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6 Sandy: I wasn't born here and my parents didn't live here, but I chose Manayunk, I chose to live here 13 years ago. Sandy's photos

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1 Dan Neducsin: My name is Dan Neducsin. I came to Manayunk 16 years ago. I started down on Main Street, worked my way up the hill. Caption: Dan Neducsin, Developer
1 Dan: I saw in Manayunk a great location, strategically located, right off the expressway Green Lane Bridge, cars
1 Dan N: There were a number of vacant stores so it left the door open for me to start doing something, and I saw an opportunity. Cotton and Main, Bus, Banana Republic, people, cars
1 Dan Neducsin: I like Manayunk for many reasons Continue: Main St.
1 Dan Neducsin: It's an area that has a combination of the river, the canal, and then it has hills reminiscent of San Francisco so it has so many advantages over other areas and there's many things to do here, cultural things.. Photos:

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1 Bonnie Quinn: I've lived in this area my entire life. I was raised in this house and we're still here. And now my grandkids are coming back to this house. Jack and Bonnie Quinn on their steps. Caption: Bonnie & Jack Quinn, Longtime Manayunk Residents
2 Essie: You basically knew everybody. Essie
2 Essie (continued): So our parents went to school with the people that lived here. Fleming Street, porch front w/flowers
  Essie (continued): It was a generation of grandparents knowing each other, parents knowing each other and the children coming up together. Continued: porch front w/flowers
2 Kids: "We're all friends Kids: "We're all friends
2 Kids: I live over there... Kids pointing
6 Sandy: I grew up in the suburbs of Phila, in King of Prussia Sandy
6 Sandy: When I was a kid we would drive by on the Schuylkill Expressway and I remember looking over as a young child and seeing Manayunk and seeing the hill side, church spires, and narrow twisting streets and thinking that looks really interesting over there. Montage of Sandy's photos

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Sandy: I moved from another neighborhood in Philadelphia. I chose Manayunk because I always liked the way it looked. I chose it for its physical beauty. I chose it for its old house and old streets Montage of Sandy's photos

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Sandy: The first house I lived in Manayunk was one of the oldest ones in the entire neighborhood. I think they called it the block house, it's on Ogle street. Montage of Sandy's photos

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Sandy: This is the kind of house I really love. This old fieldstone its from Pennsylvania. Sandy in front of Rector Street house
2 Bill Braunsberg: We met here at the Harmonie Hall in July 1946 Braunsberg's Caption: Fran & Bill Braunsberg, Lifetime Residents
2 Bill B: It was an after dinner club I believe After hours club, drinking and singing club. Used to sing and play instruments. I wasn't a member. I was a member of the Manayunk Club and not Harmonie Hall. CU good shot of Bill with zoom out to include Fran
2 Bill Braunsberg: I made a date with her in July of 46 and we got married in October 47. Braunsbergs
1 Bonnie Quinn: The street had trees then, and there were hardly any cars, I think maybe two cars on the street. LS Pan from Palonial Hall parking lot to St. John's
  MANAYUNK CLUB  
1 Dan Neducsin: There's also some great old buildings and the neighborhood itself you look out to Manayunk, Dan. Caption: Dan Neducsin, Developer

1 Dan (continued): you're going to see five churches that if you were travelling you would go out of your way to see these churches so the there's something that most areas don't have. Pan of St. John's steeple
2 Mary: My memories of school are going to St. Johns Mary
2 Mary (continued): where I was taught by women in black who were very mysterious but very loving. St. John's sign & front of church
1 Bonnie Quinn: When I was a child the Manayunk Club was a social club for St. John's. Continued
1 Bonnie Quinn: You had the families sitting there with the kids getting sodas. Bonnie
2 Bill: I moved here in 1950. I joined the club in 1951. Living so close They used to be open 6 to12 weekdays. I'd go back there at night and get a couple beers. 10 cents a piece Draft beer. The best you could ever get. Bill
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2 Bill: Also they had at least once or twice a year a clambake. Which were fantastic clambakes. 9905Entrance.jpg
2 Bill: Clams on the half shell, a net bag with all your goodies in it. To put in a big pot to roast or cook Bill
2 Essie: The Manayunk Club was right over here on the rocks, Essie and Mark
2 Essie: but when I went over, I'd be going to the florist. Because on the right hand side of the Club was all the plants and flowers you wanted. Fade to photo

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2 Essie: The Shleyers owned that. That was their name. If you needed flowers for a funeral or a graduation... Fade to shot of Nob Hill w/Caption: Nob Hill built on the site of Shleyer's Nursery.
1 Bonnie: They did rent out the Club for weddings & parties Photo: Chris' sisters wedding at M Club or Turtles
1 Bonnie Quinn: The grounds were pretty with roses and lilacs. Photo of club
2 Bill Braunsberg: I was president in 59 and on the board of directors for 3 years. I was very active in the club. Bill at Harmonie Hall
2 Bill Braunsberg: Saturday night was a big night for shows and dancing. Fran & I and several other couples went back there quite a few times and enjoyed ourselves. little zoom out about 50:26 Caption: Bill & Fran Braunsberg, Lifetime Residents
2 Bill Braunsberg: I liked a few beers. Not anymore but I did then. Bill chuckles
1 Bonnie Quinn: Everybody knew everybody back then..You'd listen to the juke box, dance, talk, have some drinks. Interior Photo
1 Jack Quinn: Having the Manayunk Club close was nice because whenever anyone stopped by we could take them out for a beer. It was just fun it was fun having the place there. It was a nice place to go and enjoy Bonnie gives Jack a squeeze. Caption: Jack & Bonnie Quinn, Longtime residents of Manayunk
2 Bill Braunsberg: Joe Rumsey was the bartender of note. Nice guy. Interior photo of bar
2 Bill Braunsberg: Cozy Morely was back there on a few occassions entertaining. That was interesting Cozy Morley2 pic - Do we need to get rights or a release?
2 Bill Braunsberg: It was nice. They had a pool table down the cellar. Also a ping pong table which was very nice. Dart board. It was a nice club.Very nice. Photo: Young guys at table from 50's?
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Sandy: I photographed the Manayunk Club on some of my walks around the neighborhood Sandy
5a Christina: My name is Christina Eisenhart. I've lived in Manayunk for 31 years. My first experience at the Manayunk Club was for a St. Patrick's Day party, I was 17. My friend Phyllis came with us. It was fun, we just danced and danced. The DJ was good. They always played a lot of songs I liked. Christina climbs the steps, Caption: Christina Eisenhart, Lifetime Resident

Caption: Gay Street steps

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5a Christina: And then when I was 21, I started going with my mom regularly to the club and a lot of her friends went there too. And it was good it felt like a safe place because I was with my mom and all her friends and it was always the same people every week. Photo: Chris-07kidsdance

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5a Christina: I loved the building, those steps were great it felt like I was going to a ball when I was going up those steps. I stood on the porch and I used to look up at the stars. Photo of Club Steps
  CHANGING  
1 Bonnie Quinn: The biggest change is that a lot of the houses aren't owned anymore. They're being rented. Photo montage: Sale & Rent signs
2 Bill Braunsberg: I see right now, today in this day and age, I see a lot of renters I have renters on both sides all over. My neighbors are half renters right not. It used to be homeowners before. 53.14 zoom out to include Fran
2 Essie: Now it's very congested because a lot of the homes were made into apartments. The people are nice it's just that it's kind of overcrowded. Any congested footage?

Use a photo of traffic on Green Lane?

1 Bonnie Quinn: Where there used to be a family, you have maybe 3 or 4 people going in to rent the house Photo montage: Sale & Rent signs
1 Bonnie Quinn: That adds to the congestion with parking and traffic, and you don't have the stability you had years ago Photo montage: Sale & Rent signs
2 Fran Braunsberg: It's not a family neighborhood anymore. There's nobody raising children now. 5.27 zoom to CU of Fran

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2 Mary: Many women took care of my brother and sister and I after my mother died. Greasers - continued
2 Mary: Now it's different (people) you don't know your neighbor. Photo montage: Sale & Rent signs
2 Bill Braunsberg: Primarily it's going to a lot of young people. When we were here it was all old folks. They all died off so, of course, naturally young folks are going to move in View of opposite side of Roxborough Ave. kids on porch and street
1 Bonnie Quinn: It's like a transient neighborhood now. People moving in and out constantly. Photo montage: Sale & Rent signs
1 Bonnie Quinn: You never know who your neighbors are anymore.  
1 Bonnie Q: People moving in and out constantly.  
2 Mary: They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well I think I'm proof of that I'm the person I am today because of my neighbors. They took me in their arms and held me when I needed to be held but I don't see that that would happen again in this day and age. I don't think people know each other or their stories, and if you don't know somebodies story than you don't really know them... Stand by Me, kids on train tracks

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1 Jack Quinn: The neighborhood's changed over the years. There are more and more people here, there's more and more traffic, Yellow Truck
1 Jack (continued): and of course the big change is right behind us with the apartments. Pan from Quinn's to Nob Hill
1 Dan N: One of my dreams for Manayunk is, I own property on Venice Island with the ex-Mayor Bill Green. Dan
1 Dan (continued): Carmella's is there now. I would love to build condos there with the River on one side and the Canal and the bridge, an icon for Manayunk and it's literally 2 minutes from the expressway. Pencoyd Viaduct & Canal
2 Fran Braunsberg: I think they're too high Fran and Bill in backyard
2 Fran Braunsberg: I miss my sunsets. That's all I can say. There's many a time I walk back to see it but many a time II miss it CU or Fran
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Sandy: It really makes me sad when we lose some of the old houses. View of Straughter Carter Post on hill
2 Fran Braunsberg: I've tried going up to my 3rd floor to see my sunset and I cannot see it because of the buildings. It's blocked 55.16 pan & zoom to Fran
2 Fran Braunsberg: I take a walk to the top of Gay Street and I watch the sunset CU Fran blend to sunset
  FIRE!  
1 Dan Neducsin: The Manayunk club was a special place in my mind. Probably the most spectacular thing was the overall view of Manayunk besides that, the club itself was beautiful. Pan of Manayunk from the Club site
1 Dan Neducsin: There was great stone work, there was great woodwork inside. My goal was to restore it to the original features. 1999 Manayunk Club photo
1 Dan Neducsin: It had a porch and you could look out over Center City and you could see the Ben Franklin bridge and Liberty Place. 1999 Manayunk Club photo. Caption: The Manayunk Club Was Added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places in 1999.
1 Bonnie Quinn: We've had trouble with kids coming up the steps & drinking and drugging Bonnie
1 Jack Quinn: It became an after hour bar it didn't even open up until 2 am. 2 am  5 am that was the hours.  
1 Continued Photo of Manayunk Club covered in ivy
1 Jack Quinn: The difference came of course when Joe Rumsey died. Continued
5a Christina: I stopped going to the club when in 1996, they started letting anyone in. Underage people were coming in and starting fights and the old timers stopped going and it wasn't a safe fun place to go anymore.  
1 Jack Quinn: The fire was actually on my birthday. It was about 11 on a Sunday night and a fire engine came up and, of course as usual, they had a hard time making the corner but the only thought was, oh well, the Manayunk Club is on fire. Fire
1 Jack Quinn: That place was engulfed in flames shooting up all over the place. Fire
1 Jack Quinn: It took the fire company a half an hour to get those deluge guns onto the building and by that time it was gutted. I guess it took 3 hours before they got it under control. Fire
1 Bonnie Quinn: There was no water pressure so they had to run a hose all the way from green lane up Fleming Street back here to fight that fire Fire
2 Bill Braunsberg: I was back there talking to a fellow that was thinking about buying the Club and making it into a restaurant - bed and breakfast Fire
1 Dan Neducsin: I had plans, we were going to restore it to its original look and then we were going to create 8 apartments. Fire
2 Bill Braunsberg: About 2 or 3 days later I understand some kids were in there playing around a little bit and they started the fire, supposedly Fire
1 Dan Neducsin: One of the rumors Fire
1 Dan Neducsin: People knew I was trying to buy the Club. There was an agreement of sale. Fire
1 Dan Neducsin: It came back to me that Dan Neducsin somehow was involved in the fire and it was upsetting because here I was trying to restore it to the way it used to look. It's the last thing I wanted next to my name. I never found out if they discovered the cause for the fire Fire
1 Jack Quinn: It was kids. They broke every lock on the place. Fire
1 Bonnie Quinn: The big rumor that night was that Dan Neducsin did it Fire
1 Bonnie Quinn: We were just waiting for that to happen cuz the kids had been going in there Fire
1 Jack Quinn: The alarm system they turned that off and a month after that the fire broke out. Fire
1 Jack Q: It was of suspicious origin and so it would go that the kids started the fire. Fire
1 Bonnie Quinn: I think it was more them than the other. Fire
5a Christina: So I stopped going and now it's gone. I'm so sad. Christina
  THE NEW SITE  
1 Mary: This is the site of the old Manayunk Club, What a loss. Close up of Mary in front of new houses
1 Dan Neducsin: After the fire, I owned the property next door and had put in the water, sewer, and gas. I wanted to expand Nob Hill. Nob Hill
1 Dan N. It's a great loss.  
1 Jack Quinn: It's a great shot of the Manayunk Club. Quinn's holding a photo of the Club
1 Jack Quinn: It really shows the class place that it was. It was fun to be there.  
1 Dan Neducsin: You really don't see buildings built like this anymore. Dan on Gay St in front of stone. Dan looks at Picture of Club. Zoom out to apartments complex.
  CONCLUSION  
2 Essie: I think we need more love in the world. That's for sure. And that's what I enjoyed about my childhood. Essie with little bit of zoom to include Mark.
2 Continue... Because I knew that the people in my neighborhood, there was always a lot of love.  
1 Jack Quinn: I think it's changing for the good. It's a thing every generation has to go through and eventually things will settle down. I think it will go more upscale than anything going down scale because of the apartments. Driving car down

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1 Dan has done a nice job back there. They'hre class A apartments. They'll be a higher clientele back there which is gonna, I think, bring the neighborhood back. Walking up Main street, Septa Bus, pan down main Street.
2 Mary: I never get tired of walking these streets  
2 Essie: It's always been a good area. It's a good area to raise children. I had a beautiful childhood.  
2 Kids: I like most about this neighborhood...We can play a lot of things... Kids on the corner
5b Essie: I wouldn't go anywhere else, this is home for me.  
2 Kids: I'm either staying here or moving to Florida.. Kids on the corner
2 Kids: This is a good neighborhood. I would rather stay here than any other place.... Not a bad one, a good one. Kids on the corner
2 Mary: After all isn't that what a community is? Just a collection of stories? woman with ice cream, woman with umbrella
    woman walking dog
    women on porch
    The Quinns show up and everyone walks away.they wave goodbye
  Take me back to Manayunk Little girl peaks out from behind a car and waves with big smile,
    Photo of the Manayunk Club. Caption: The Manayunk Club aka Fairview Cottage, 1857 to 2001
  Crackle and/or piano music Fire background with Credits

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