When Judy McCann Weiner of Lansdale saw that The Reporter was doing a special Remember When section in August, she just had to send in a photo.

Although it didn’t quite fit into that section, we could not resist using it today, plus a second photo she just dropped off.


In the one photo, Judy and Jimmy Covelens, who was her neighbor back in 1951 when these pictures were snapped, are just “hanging out in Memorial Park” in Lansdale, as she said.

They decided to pose on the cannon in Memorial Park, and in the photo where you can see more of the park in the background, it appears that a nativity scene may have been set up.


At least that’s what we’re guessing, because you can make out some camels and a small stable.

But Judy and Jimmy can be seen sporting their Lansdale Huskies sweatshirts. The Huskies, she said, were her school mascot back then.

In the other photo, where the kids are seen more face-on, the other person in the photo is her friend Nancy Harrar. Guess they weren’t quite as brave, because they aren’t seen “straddling” the cannon in this shot.



Judy noted that she and neighbor Jimmy lived in the Moyer Building above a store at the corner of Main and Walnut streets, now the North Penn Florist.

She also noted what a small world it is, saying that she was talking to her landlord’s son one day and showed him the picture of the cannon and he mentioned that his best friend’s father was Jimmy Covelens.

Yes, the same Jimmy.

Judy also remembered some of the other old hangouts in the area, noting that she met her husband, Richard, at Bunton’s Barn in Lower Salford, where dances were held, being introduced by Frankie Pier from Ambler in 1959.

They also used to go the Rec in Lansdale and the Hatfield Speedway. She also used to work at the R&S Diner, and she and her husband used to patronize the Big Pixey.