WHEELING — All hail Henry, Freddie, Mousey and Fish.

“I look at that doggone thing every day and I still laugh,” Ed Gorczyca said Friday morning. “After all these years.”

At 88, Gorczyca still isn’t the oldest member of the Polish American Patriot Club in Wheeling, but he’s getting there.

“Four guys ahead of me,” he said.

The club for generations has been nestled like a pierogi at 4410 Jacob St., on the south side of this working-class town that’s just a girder’s length from Pittsburgh.

South Wheeling is where all the Polish immigrant families like his settled after finding work in the mills that gnawed and glowed 24 hours a day.

Said families, though, made sure their first-generation American progeny kept the ways of the Old Country alive, you’d better believe it.

Polish was still

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