Proud To Be Ambler by Eddie Flotte Ambler pa.

Song and watercolors by Eddie Flotte about growing up in Ambler Pa....

Well I was born way way back in 1956,
in a long row of houses that was made of bricks.
by the Keasbey and Mattison factory 5 stories high
along the tracks with its smoke stacks and mountains of white.

Off the clock up the block in the Wyndham Hotel
in it's dimly lit tap room were its clientele.
Where your father sat along side of his father and mine
on a break they had to take from the assembly line.

In our white shirts and neck ties all us Catholics went
up the street to the Catholic schools where we were sent.
While all the public kids went piling up and filing into class
at the old public school .. no neckties and no Catholic Mass.

At the corner store up by your grand ma's house
we could trade in all the soda bottles that she through out.
for baseball cards, tasty cakes, caps for the gun
comic books, wooden airplanes or bubble gum.

Before there was a K-mart and before the mall
the seven eleven or urban sprawl,
uptown is where you found all the things you wanted and more
at the shoe repair the Sun Ray or the hardware store.

There was a country side just on the out- skirts of town
where corn fields and wide open spaces abound,
with chicken coops and rabbit pens and old wooden screen doors
produce stands, dairy cows and general stores.

Now these streets that I walk and I once called home,
still call out the names of all the people I've known
and the castle that still stands way up there on the hill
like a ghost it stands watching out and over us still.

And as I walk down these streets of the life of lived
and as I sail down the stream of all the things I did,
that Wissahickon Crick there still faithfully flows,
on it's way down stream to where everything goes...

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• animation
• short
• film
• art
• documentary
• watercolors
• Keasbey
• and
• Mattison
• ambler
• pa.

[eddiethebrush]

wow. This video is suddenly getting a bump up in the amount of views and comments... Thanks so much for watching and listening and understanding... I'd love it if you shared it with some one .. I really like knowing that people are seeing it...

[hippygram]

Hi Eddie, this is great and oh so true. I have quite a few of your prints and when Mom passed away I acquired a few signed prints you had given to her. This is the town where so much changes but more stays the same. Thanks for the memories. Sending you peace, love and tranquility.

[eddiethebrush]

@hippygram hi ,,, thanks for the comments,,, do I know you? I must... by the sound of your comment...

[hippygram]

@eddiethebrush You know my sister very well, Terry O. We lived on S.Main. You did a drawing of my Mom's store on Forest and Main with the paperboys. We have met a few times over the years.

[eddiethebrush]

@hippygram hi you are marion right?  all it says is hippygram on your reply... It was really nice getting to know your mom a little while she lived at the retirement place... I used to come and visit in your basement for a while a summer maybe... with dit and michael trofa and that crowd.. Thanks for the replys and letting me know who you are... Terri's son ..I think.... went to sublet from my neice in new york and was surprised to find my prints there...

[moezhouze]

Eddie, it's me Lynam. What a great song and video. I can picture myself so vividly walking around town back in the day by the words and pictures. Brings back so many memories of a time when life seemed so much simpler and the world a little bit more innocent. Thank you for the memories. Stay thirsty, my friend.

[photom1946]

Lived in Ambler from '53 to '66. You did the town proud, 'cept maybe that flyin' cow...LOL

[slashba1]

Loved it! I grew up in Maple Glen on Butler Pike, but everything we needed was in Ambler. My favorite place was Greshes Toy store. Thanks for bring back some great memories.

[aggie19541]

Great, reconized a lot of Ambler. Thanks

[ellenrichy]

Eddie, wow what a great song and pictures. You brought back so many memories. U are fab. thanks sooooo much from a S Main Street original.

[claro50]

I also grew up in Ambler. Love your paintings and music too. Brings back fond memories of small town life. I grew up on N. Main and Forest Av.

[claro50]

I also grew up in Ambler. Love your paintings and music too. Brings back fond memories of small town life. I grew up on N. Main and Forest Av.