lenquixote66

I enjoy reading your posts.

Barry Lewis passed away last year. I used to watch the show on PBS too. Are you familiar with Brian Merlis ? He is a historian who writes books about different neighborhoods in Brooklyn.He is also an accomplished photographer and travels into the neighborhoods that he writes about taking pictures.I have several of his books .

I would get the J train at Broadway Junction transferring from the L train.

We had friends living on Woodhaven Blvd in an apartment house across the street from Forest Park in the 60’s.

The very first time I ate pizza was in Jamaica at age 16.

I took the Green bus from Brooklyn to Rockaway Beach.I remember the straw like webbing subway seats too.I believe they were the seats on all trains in the 30’s .Later on only a few subway lines had those types of seats.I remember the subways that had fans and being 6’5 I had to bend down if I did not have a seat. The trains that I was on most often were the IRT and BMT .I was very rarely on the IND .I remember the days when my parents and I took the Long Island Rail Road to visit relatives in East Meadow.That was the only are of LI we ever went to. When I was 19 I had a girl friend living in the Bronx and I would go from the first stop of the IRT in Brooklyn to close to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. In those days even on the hottest days/nights guys wore suits and ties .Can you imagine a 90 minute subway ride on a July night in a wool suit .When I arrived it was as though I swam there

Parle Italiano ?

Sorry for the loss of your co-worker

Bonnie,do you recall two years ago when I asked you if you ever knew Estelle who lived at 530D and you said you do not recall anyone with that name ? I have two more things about her.She graduated Seward Park in 1962,her last name was Engel and she had red hair.

Yes

Were you on the L train ,the E or the A train ? Did you ride for 30 or more minutes ?

I have lived in NY my entire life and never once drove in Manhattan.We used to vacation in New London in the 70’s and several times drove to take the ferry.The interesting thing about Long Island is that one can drive from West to East and vice versa without getting on a highway.

Manhattan should ban automobiles and trucks.

Just some of the things that I threw out because people aka my parents told me I will never need and there is no need to keep them: Games from my childhood that now have great value My Luke Easter baseball glove My transistor radio’s So many other things that I got rid of

I was there but never in the pool.

We were in the St.Francis Hotel in the summer of 1970.I still have the brochure that they gave us when we checked in.We were there for a week . I love SF.

There was an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn in the 40’s and 50’s named Sorrentos .I was never there but it was supposedly a very popular place to go.More recently there was a restaurant in a LI mall food court by the same name.

The only hotel that I remember where kids went to swim was the St.George in Brooklyn.I almost never went to Queens.I think the 6th.Ave.line became the F train.

When I was 2 my parents rented a house in Coney Island near the beach .I was there all summer and probably ran to the water but I was not a beach baby.Four years later they rented a house for the summer ,same beach but a different location.I probably ran into the water but I was not a beach kid.

The summer prior to my negative pool experience my father tried to teach me to float in a Brooklyn pool but it did not work.

I put this on my list to watch .

We were there several years ago.A friend living in Georgia was in NJ to visit family members.We drove to NJ to meet him and his wife ,we never met her previously and he suggested the restaurant .The food was great.This was his wife’s first ever time in NJ .

If cruising with your wife do not take your girlfriend.

The high schools in my area all used the pool in a hotel for their swimming meets .The hotel was many miles away. .

Her father died during the time that we were dating.Toby was 21.It was a very difficult time for her and her sister.