tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post114412003791849726..comments2024-03-24T16:40:04.722-04:00Comments on Philadelphia Memories: Neighborhood Characters: The Duck LadyBrian R. Bennetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14081099589796225998noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post-40319171937393283772024-03-03T15:42:04.946-05:002024-03-03T15:42:04.946-05:00I was a Police officer in the 6th District.
I rece...I was a Police officer in the 6th District.<br />I received a call to check on the well being of someone at a boarding home. It was sometime in 1985. I believe it was on 12th st at Pine.<br />I was met by the landlord who told me that the women inside the front room was not answering her door. She opened the door and I saw an elderly woman on her knees against the bed with her hands in the praying position.<br />I check her breathing and her pulse but sadly she was gone. I felt something very powerful in that room at that moment. I kneeled next to her and prayed.<br />It was the Duck lady. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post-90064324656218825372023-04-09T18:44:45.297-04:002023-04-09T18:44:45.297-04:00I wonder if this is the same Duck Lady I saw many ...I wonder if this is the same Duck Lady I saw many times in the U. of Penn are in the. 70's. She had tin foil wrapped around her head. We thought she believed she was receiving messages. She'd quack as she walked along pushing her cart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post-52692439134442459052022-09-19T16:20:30.485-04:002022-09-19T16:20:30.485-04:00The Duck Lady had Tourette’s. She could not contro...The Duck Lady had Tourette’s. She could not control herself. She often cursed with the quacking. She was poor soul at heart and didn’t mean any harm. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post-8113069948018939042022-08-23T08:06:02.516-04:002022-08-23T08:06:02.516-04:00Yes, I remember the Duck Lady, Center City Sonny a...Yes, I remember the Duck Lady, Center City Sonny and the doo whop guys that sang in the Italian market.... Wonderful memories. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post-33050338745477179592022-05-06T17:57:37.308-04:002022-05-06T17:57:37.308-04:00I remember the Duck Lady very well. Sometimes she ...I remember the Duck Lady very well. Sometimes she would walk up to you very quietly then do her quack speak in your ear very loudly. A friend of mine said that she might actually be a secret investigator for the FBI, I laughed, but you never know Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24583005.post-3368402355918220842020-08-14T19:42:29.447-04:002020-08-14T19:42:29.447-04:00I remember the Duck Lady. I was born and raised i...I remember the Duck Lady. I was born and raised in South Philadelphia and encountered the Duck Lady during the two years a worked in Center City. There was quite a collection of eccentric folks who would congregate at various places in Center City. I worked at 17th and Ludlow in the early 80's and a few of these "street people" types would hang out there.<br />We even had names for these folks like Center City Sam and Subway Sam. One guy would have a shopping cart; the two wheeled kind like old ladies use for grocery shopping. Then guy had a pencil mustache and black hair that was pasted to his scalp with some sort of greasy hair gel in a comb-over. On warm days he wore burmuda shorts, black knee-high dress socks and shiny shack dress shoes, and a white "wife-beater" undershirt. He'd rant about stuff which made no sense. One day he was really stewed up about something and said that if he had a Thompson sub machine gun he'd mow them down. He ended that with a simulated machine gun bust that he imitated. I could go on and on about suck folks.hootinoutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440226980775945385noreply@blogger.com