STEVEN SUNDSTROM RIP
Steve was a good guy. A surfer dude who trucked around Ocean City and Somers Point with a six pack in a back pack.
He always had something nice to say about me and what I wrote about, and always complimented me on my writings.
For awhile, when he was down and out, which was pretty much all the time, Walt Gregory gave him a job doing odd work around Gregory's, like folding up the empty carboard boxes and cleaning out the trash bins in the back. That was just to keep him going.
God Bless Steve Sundstrom.
If anyone has a photo of him I'd like to post it.
SUNDSTROM, STEVEN 53 - of Atlantic City, passed away on 2/14/2010 at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City. Born on April 13, 1956 in New Brunswick, he was formerly of Ocean City for many years before moving to Atlantic City. Mr. Sundstrom was a graduate of Ocean City High School, class of 1974 and attended Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA. After college, he lived in Hawaii, before returning to Ocean City. Upon his return, he worked as a Lifeguard for the City of Ocean City, working at 7th Street Beach and had worked at the Cherry Hill Skateboard Park along with Shore Memorial Hospital and Greate Bay Country Club. Beloved son of the late James and Elsa Sundstrom and beloved brother of the late Jimmy Sundstrom. Surviving are his brothers and sisters, David Sundstrom and his wife Dianne of Northfield, Scott Sundstrom of Ocean City, Susan Sundstrom of Malibu, CA, Kimberly Sundstrom of Egg Harbor Township, Jean Sundstrom of Bradenton Beach, FL, Mellisa Sundstrom of Bryn Mawr, PA, and five nephews, Shaun, Kyle, John, Kevin, and Kesun. Private services will be held April 13, 2010 in Seaside Cemetery, Palermo, NJ and at the 7th Street Beach in Ocean City, NJ. To email condolences, visit www.godfreyfuneralhome.com
Published in The Press of Atlantic City on March 18, 2010 print
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Flanders Ghost
When Jim Dwyer owned the Flanders he remodeled the Plate Room and renamed it the Board Room.
Here's a photo of the Board Room with one of the Flander's Ghosts.
While "Emily" is more popular, there's also a photo of the Board Room that has a waiter in vest and bow tie in the mirror.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Lizanne Kelly Le Vine RIP
Elizabeth, Grace, Margaret "Peggy" Conian and John Jr.
Lizanne Kelly Le Vine
http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20091126_Elizabeth_Kelly_Le_Vine__76__Grace_Kelly_s_sister.html
Posted on Thu, Nov. 26, 2009
Elizabeth Kelly Le Vine, 76, Grace Kelly's sister
By Sally A. Downey
Inquirer Staff Writer
Growing up in East Falls, Lizanne Kelly and an older sister, Grace, acted in productions at the Old Academy Players in Philadelphia.
Grace would go on to become an Academy Award-winning actress and a princess.
Lizanne would become an accomplished athlete, a community volunteer, a wife, a mother, and devoted "Aunt Lizzie" to Grace's three children and other nieces and nephews.
Elizabeth "Lizanne" Kelly Le Vine, 76, died of cancer Tuesday at the Quadrangle, a retirement community in Haverford.
Though she chose not to pursue an acting career, Mrs. Le Vine did experience Hollywood's glitter. She spent summers "chaperoning" Grace on movie sets and had her photo taken with Alfred Hitchcock, who directed Grace in To Catch a Thief, said her son, Chris, an investment adviser.
Mrs. Le Vine, whose father, John B. Kelly Sr., and brother, John Jr., were Olympic rowers, was a star hockey player at Ravenhill Academy in East Falls. She also played basketball at Ravenhill and was president of the student council.
She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where she captained the varsity hockey team. Wearing her hockey uniform, in 1955 she was one of the first women to appear in a photograph in Sports Illustrated, said her son.
After graduating from Penn, Mrs. Le Vine married Donald C. Le Vine at St. Bridget's Church in East Falls on June 25, 1955, her 22d birthday. Grace was her maid of honor.
Mrs. Le Vine was not in the wedding party when Grace married Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956. She couldn't travel to the wedding, her son said, because she was eight months pregnant with her first child. She named the girl Grace.
Mrs. Le Vine and her husband, a stockbroker who became a horse owner and trainer, raised their two children in Gladwyne. They later took over the Kelly family's summer home in Ocean City, N.J., where they often hosted Grace and her husband and children.
Mrs. Le Vine was active with local charities and was past president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
She and Grace had breakfast in Philadelphia in April 1982, when her sister was honored for her films at a gala at the Annenberg Center. That September, the Kelly family received word that Grace had been seriously hurt in an automobile accident in Monaco.
It was Mrs. Le Vine who answered the phone call from Grace's daughter Caroline, who told her, "Mommy died."
A year later, Mrs. Le Vine told a Philadelphia Daily News reporter, "Naturally, there's been a terrible void. I don't think it's been as hard for us here in the States as it has been for Rainier and the children. We don't have the thing where every day you turn around and have a constant reminder. It's not easier, but not quite as hard."
Mrs. Le Vine told a reporter that she kept busy following her husband wherever his work took him. He spent part of the year at Atlantic City Race Course, and for eight months he was at Turf Paradise, a racetrack in Phoenix.
"I had never been in the Southwest. I didn't know anybody. I had to work and meet people and it took my mind off the tragedy a little bit," she said.
Mrs. Le Vine and her husband also spent time at a racetrack in Tampa, Fla. She enjoyed horse racing, her son said, and played tennis and golf.
Mrs. Le Vine's husband died in 2000, and her daughter died in 1999. An older sister, Margaret Kelly Conlan, died in 1991; brother John Jr. died in 1985.
In addition to her son, Mrs. Le Vine is survived by three grandchildren.
A Funeral Mass will be said at noon Saturday at St. Bridget's Church, 3667 Midvale Ave., where friends may call after 10:30.
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