Old reels of tape converted to digital files. Ciaramitaro and Curcuru families. Benny Curcuru, Auntie Annie, Captain Joe and Felicia Ciaramitaro. Stage Fort Park, Gloucester Harbor, the Paint Factory, The Dragger Fleet, Downtown, Rogers Street, The Gloucester House, Bearskin Neck, Rockport. I don’t recognize a lot of the older Italian women and men, feel free to leave a comment with the names you recognize and the time displayed when you see them in the comments on this video. Thank you
Gloucester MA Waterfront , Rockport, Bearskin Neck, 1959-1967 from Joey on Vimeo.
Good Morning Gloucester 
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this vintage video, getting a feeling for what Gloucester’s waterfront was like 50 years ago, identifying iconic buildings – Birdseye plant, Tavern, Paint Factory, etc. I think Joey inherited his interest in making a video record of the City, like watching fish being unloaded from a boat – his view from the dock. Captivating video.
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My mom had this tape in one of her closets but I don’t know who to attribute for the footage. There’s lots of the Ciaramitaro and Curcuru family in there including our Great Grandfather Benny Curcuru, our Grandfather Captain Joe, cool scees from the waterfront where you see the huge draggers tied up 3-5 abreast at every wharf around the city. We’re not even a teeny fraction of that as far as number of boats that size.
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Joey, who converted this video? Was it a local company or did you do it yourself?
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brianmoc had it done for me. I think he said color tech in his comment here.
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Joey, my name is Michael Matteo Moceri. Just watched your amazing video with my father, Joseph Moceri. His dad was Capt. Matteo Moceri, of the “Holy Family.” He thinks he recognized his Uncle Sam Cucuru at 3:15 mins. and his Godfather Benny Cucuru at Producers next to the oil truck. My dad Joe and my brother Joey Moceri live in town. My dad is on facebook. Thank you! God bless you and our families.
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Joey this is a treasure i recognized a lot of family. Uncle Red and his cadilac, Uncle Phil, my dad Unescle Charlie a flash of Auntie Mena your grandpa Joe and my Felicia, my dad took me to essex shipyards to see it being built everynight after supper. i will have to ask your mom if she has more of these wonderful pics.
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Any ideas on who can convert super 8 tape to digital files? Thanks Joey!
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color teck in boston
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That was awesome! I just love seeing all thoses old vintage boats!
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Bring back a giant wash of memories of a boy and teen growing up in a Fishing Family with other Fishing Families of Gloucester. Thanks Joey, will have to see if I have any VHS tapes I can convert to DVD of life back then.
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Fabulous footage! I first visited Cape Ann in late ’76, and it is really neat to see what it looked like a few years before. Great family film; wish I had known some of them. And a lot of wooden hulls, long gone. Folks, convert your film now. Soon you’ll be hard pressed to get that work done. I had some old 78’s (wax records, audio letters made by my dad in Europe in WWII) converted to CDs, and I had to furnish a 78 RPM turntable; the tech people couldn’t find one anywhere. Which makes me think I need to convert again, to MP3, before regular CD players go kaput.
Hope you can get everybody identified…a wonderful legacy for your kids!
Thanks for sharing.
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That was awesome! Seems so different then the world we live in today.
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This is great! My grandfather Guiseppe Moceri is on the Holy Family shoveling ice. My father Carlo loved this and called me to tell me.
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Joey so glad you got it converted. I loved it. What a beautiful Ciaramitaro, Curcuru family pictures. The boats, waterfront, harbor amazaing Thanks so much. love you mom
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Joey , That was awesome…Wow brought tears to my eyes ❤
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So loved seeing this video! IT was so awesome to see My husbands dad Sam”Red Top” Curcuru and his sister Josie her husband Mike Chiechi his aunts Grace Palazola and Auntie Rosie Brancaleone His Uncle Joe Ciaramitaro (Joey’s grandfather ) OMG this was wonderfulL thank you Joey for posting this video
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Hey Joe,
I remember as a young boy washing pen boards on my fathers boat the St. Rosalie taking out whiting at Capt. Joes wharf and later working on my brothers boat the Salvatore P. unloading while Capt. Joe watched the catch being unloaded.Capt. Joe’s in those days handled 1000’s of lbs of whiting that they processed at the East Main St. site.Great piece ,A reminder of the once great fishing fleet that once feed our nation,now we import over 90 % of our seafood,shame on our government.Let our fishermen fish.
Capt. Mike Parisi
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Giuseppe Moceri father of Busty and Carlo Moceri is at the 6:56 mark on the F/v Holy Family he is the man holding the shovel of ice.
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This movie brought back so many awesome memories of growing up in Gloucester in the fiftys and seeing all the women and men brought tears to my eyes. Those were the all my parents friends. My father worked on the RoseMarie. I remember going down to the pier while the took the fish of the boat.Thank you Pauline Puccio Stevens
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That is my mother in the red Mary marcantonio
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Got some names, will try to get more. Most of these were at our house, Tolman Ave. The water harbor scenes were off our boat, Aunt Annie. Cressy beach was a family picnic. 4:48 shows my father and his beloved Caddy. 13:20 I believe was cousin Libby Ciaramataro. 15:30 was grandfather Ben Curcuru. I will try to get more. I can’t believe these are still around. Brought back a lot of great memories as I watched with a tear in my eye. I saved this and will watch it many times. Thank you Joey.
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Glad you got to see them 🙂
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