Comments about jack avenue

There are 47 comments about "jack avenue"

jack: hi joey, its been almost two years since you asked for a story about the beat generation in the village. well its better late than never, so here is a short one. my......

in response to: Blue Note Lounge by jack

jack: shizen, could it be the sadist, 'lockinglear decrebided' he was in southern france and would take pictures of people and reproduced them onto models and used them for, (you know what) they were life size......

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

jack: the root word for prostitute comes from two sources, 1- stitute- to be situated, stature, a place of being, one who stands in a place. then pro, naturally we know it to be a......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

jack: nice shot, johnnie pumps were all the rage back in the 40's and 50's, the city would attach a hose and hang it on the fence at the schoolyard at boody jr. high on avenue......

in response to: Heat Wave by Peter

jack: you know, 86th street, under the el, in the summer, hot, sweltering days, but the shadows of the el always kept me cool, that was my area for awhile because all my family was housed......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

Bob Salmon: Hi rob Yes I remember Len Jackson; my mother got her daily pinta from him for a few decades. One of his employees on the milk round was a good friend of mine, his name was Ivor......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

jack: i'd like that, smart idea, we should get the empire diner on 10th avenue and 16th street, very famous diner, in many movies like home alone 2, too bad for me i've been sick and......

in response to: Empire Cafe by groovehouse

Ezera: I remember meeting Democratic Congresswoman Edna F. Kelly in the Andrew Jackson Club near Utica Avenue. It was considered helpful to meet her if you were considering applying to a service academy like West Point,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: good grief, you must come from my neighborhood, and be about 65 now. the kingsway theatre is gone, so is everything else that was great about the area. i lived on highlawn avenue......

in response to: Coney & Surroundings by kricket

Dick: The neighborhood during the early 40's was fabulous. PS 241 on President Street was new. In the schoolyard, softball center & right field were along the fence to the BMT trench. A home run hit......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

jack: peter you bring tears to my eyes, the old brooklyn-manhattan transit, the sea beach express, the f train and others, i rode them almost everyday, i would walk to school and pass under the el......

in response to: Coney Island, Stillwell Avenue Station by Peter

EvilGentleman: Gotta love bikinis.... mmmmmm..... I know, jack. My Sexe Cite post is right through the roof, and Super Sexe and Sex Appeal are doing pretty good, too. Sex sells. Too bad you never got to see the......

in response to: The Time I Almost Saw the Beatles. by jack

jack: good grief, i have no idea of the name of these streets are but it looks like down by atlantic avenue, somewhere near the old navy terminals? can't guess, it looks really great, not......

in response to: Anyplace, Brooklyn by CartLegger

jack: nice pic's, is that atlantic avenue line?...

in response to: July 13, 2007 by upfromflames

jack: iman you sound like a smart kid, in the 50's in brooklyn there were little street gangs on every other corner. a gang then were just a group, a clan, kids from down the......

in response to: But There Is No Other Door for the over 50 Year Old Gang by jack

jack: will do, its been many years since i roamed atlantic and utica avenues, there was a club called the 2000 club in the 60's, always fights, booze and crazy women. i went out once......

in response to: Bushwick: The Fire Woman by upfromflames

jack: looks like around 7th or 8th avenue. great shot. but i'm confused, is it kosher or non-kosher?...

in response to: Who Can Resist? by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

amnda fouracre: do you remember julie anderson at number thiteen ,,and karen and marie cunningham that lived at number three,where you with us when the jarvis's went on holiday and we snooped around their house after finding......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

Peter: jack, that last photo is heading north on 8th avenue, towards {columbus circle} ;)...

in response to: Hells Kitchen by jack

Peter: the westway diner is on 9th avenue, and i used to live right across the street, a block up. to the right of the diner, you can see the victoria supermarket (now closed, though the......

in response to: Dinner and a Bed by jack

Dave (a Bushwick native): I see it more as a class war than a race war. I'm from the last generation (born mid-1960s) of German-Americans from the Ridgewood/Bushwick area before the Great Exodus of the 1970s. If I claimed......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

jack: looks like something out of an old post card. i'm very impressed with this pic. the golden glow of the night hours. 4am is a great time to cruise manhattan. you can......

in response to: Coming Home at 4 A.m. by Biff

jack: if your interested in purchasing a citinoise u sweater i sell them on the corner on 48th street and 8th avenue. i sell mostly to the bimbo university crowd....

in response to: Lost in Thought by Elicar

jack: pete, if i had known you would be there i would have met up and we could have snapped pics of you and i shooting each other. thx for the pic's. i used......

in response to: For Jack, 2: by Peter

jack: ok calm down. people who hate are a very small minority. ordinary people tend to keep silent on many subjects. this country is free for all peoples. but the laws must......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

jack: in our class there were mostly irish and italians. a few polish and a couple of germans. there was one boy we picked up on the way to school who lived down our......

in response to: The Meatball Caper by jack

jack: in brooklyn around cropsey avenue there is a tall tale of the ghostly garbage man who still comes around at 6am to collect the garbage. ...

in response to: Garbage Truck Eyes by Peter

jack: the brick work is beautiful. peter, there are homes on avenue t and east 4th street that have some beautiful brick work as well as one of them actually used in the godfather movie.......

in response to: Arched Entrance by Peter

jack: looks like the key food on cropsey avenue in besonhurst....

in response to: Key Food Blues by GGP

Peter: 4th avenue and 43rd. good one, jack....

in response to: Laugh It Up, Fuzzball by groovehouse

jack: by the way, i went to the manhattan high school of printing on 48th street and 10th avenue. now that was a wild area. its called hells kitchen....

in response to: For Jack: by Peter

jack: actually they are used for homes along 10th avenue in manhattan. you would be surprised to see two or three of these together for condo living with the homeless....

in response to: Barrels for Sale by Peter

kc: I rather like that clam with stick composition. And btw, since this is such an informative post: Mussel Shoals, CA: "If Rincon’s the Saks Fifth Avenue of California pointbreaks, then Mussel Shoals, located a mile south of......

in response to: Great Kills by GGP

jack: peter lets start a bike gang and lets have elaine as the gang leader. by the way this has nothing to do with it but i was on 3rd avenue and 33 street in......

in response to: Swarm of Bikes by Guy McLaren

jack: the village, little italy. my family lived on mulberry and also broome streets in the early 1900's. i remember many summer days sitting on a stoop on broome street looking at the asphalt......

in response to: A Few More Bits & Pieces by Lawrence

jack: there used to be trolleys on mcdonald avenue and 86th street in brooklyn. and yes we used to hang on them for a free ride to coney island....

in response to: Urban Decay by Chris Fuerth

jack: peter, you awaken many memories when you mention coney and stillwell. i grew up in 50's gravesend. my family moved from bay 13th and bath to gravesend. i walked many times from......

in response to: Brooding and Almost Disappearing, in Color by joey

Peter: jack: ever seen coney island in the snow? ive always wanted to, but never manage to get out there in a snowstorm... {stillwell} avenue seems like a million miles away in bad weather. but i......

in response to: Brooding and Almost Disappearing, in Color by joey

jack: wow that was great, but have you seen 17th avenue in brooklyn, the non-neon lights. how about court street's dazzeling display of red, yellow and green stop lights on almost every street! now......

in response to: Tokyo Neon by Chris Jongkind

jack: okay here are the facts: 1=the strike started jan. 1, 1965. mayor john lindsay was arrogant and wanted to break the powerful union boss then. but both were arrogant and wanted to be......

in response to: Transit Strike! by Peter

jack: crush the potatoes and then boil them andlet the steam run through a hose to a bottle. now tomatoes are different. theyre red and have a better shape. and when they rot......

in response to: The Bodegas of Washington Avenue by Peter

jack: are the baldies still around? i sat on the curb of my street in 1958 in brooklyn with a baseball bat because i wanted to help the coney island gang in the big fight.......

in response to: GANGS ON NYC by StripesA4

jack: the M inthe first photo is the old manhattan hotel. there were many great dances there in the 50's and 60's. it eventually changed to the milford plaza where i worked for awhile......

in response to: Midtown Manhattan Rooftop View by Peter

jack: i believe there were apartment buildings and cottages for summer renters at brighton beach. the hand ball courts are famous for some of the best games in the country. if you were travelling down ocean......

in response to: Luna Park: Coney Island by Peter

jack: you must live very close to where i grew up. i hanged out on avenue u one block over from ocean parkway....

in response to: Nice Parking Job by Peter

jack: so. thats the way we park in brooklyn. we want to keep an end up on things. peter, go to macdonald avenue up to avenue x and just as you turn to......

in response to: Nice Parking Job by Peter

jack: warm tomatoes', i ate warm tomatoes in my grandfathers vegatable garden with my dog spotty's head on my chest. i would take a bite and then let him take a bite. his bites......

in response to: sixy trolls under a bridge by elaine