Comments about memory

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Keith Bernstein: The actual title is: Vintage Film of Brooklyn Trolleys Circa 1930s It is a great video memory of a bygone time. I remember trolley tracks on Utica Avenue into the 1950s, before they were paved over,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Rick: Matty: You reminded me of the full-court basketball games that sometimes took place in the 241 schoolyard. On occasion, on the court would be Connie Hawkins, Roger Brown, Doug Mo and Billy Cannon (who lived......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Rick: Willie/Doc - I, too, was a fan of Tung Sang (first tasted egg foo yung, there). I was even a bigger fan of Busches' hot fudge sundaes. As I recall it, however (and my memory......

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Doc S.......: .....ahhh, Miss Kenny!!! now THAT brings back many "auditory memories"! Even now, I can hear her bellow: "GET ME YOUR CONDUCT BOOK!!!". Does that stir up th' old memory pot for any of you???? Great teacher......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

mitch: I remember being scared going into PS241 in the early grades. Those old city elementary schools are so imposing and physically out of scale for the kids attending. To this day I remember climbing the......

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mitch: Davida, Rich, Kim, Kenny ... my mind is racing with all the thoughts and memories from so many years ago and it is so wonderful to hear from you all ... and that we can......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

mitch: Hi Rich... What an amazing thing ... All through jr. high, high school and part of college I worked in my dad's store (Maiman's Pharmacy) and of course I knew Johnny and Herbie really well. I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

pauline curran : mun remembers your mother and family. at 86 she has a better memory than me. i should know your mother....

in response to: Castle Balfour by barry

Rich: Great pictures, I've walked along those same streets many years ago and most of the stuff looks the same especially the armory then again they don't change. BTW the place where you said you would've......

in response to: Two Neighborhoods by little ukraine

usmcsniper1: Yes, we all went to PS167 and then to IS210 John Marshall JR High. Our homeroom was the girls gym on the fifth floor. When you are a kid things always seemed larger......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Allan: Julia A, Don't recall seeing when you graduated from 167 and attended Wingate? You probably posted this info but refresh. It's funny, I can remember names if I hear them, or faces in photos, from back......

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Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): I agree,this is really a nice site.It is nice to think back on Memory Lane. I remember the "field days", in Boys High Field on Maple Street. In my day,it started in fifth grade.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Richie Rubin: JANE;wowie!.YOU got some memory!.now;it ALL iz comink back to ME! I lived on St.Johns pl.nr.Utica ave.& am 7[seven]yrs YER SR,ergo, YOU were a`squirt'when I bowled @`da Pit'& danced @ many`affairs' @`President Chateau'& consumed `tons'of pickled herring & chopped livah......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Susan Schofield nee Hibbert: My Dad Charlie and his twin brothers Roy and Donny Hibbert were brought up on Melrose Avenue, Verdun their Dad was a police Seargant in Verdun from 1924 to 1936 am trying to find out......

in response to: 45 Minutes in Verdun by CE

Keith Bernstein: I also remember two basement areas in PS 167 used as gymnasia and remember receiving polio vaccine in the east basement area, probably in 1955. Esther has brought up an old memory. During the 1952-53 school......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Allan: Sanford, I think we were in the same grade. In the summer of '55 I would have just finished the 4th grade. I think I had Ms. Hines that year. A memory that just came to......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Malcolm: Enjoyed many evenings at Rockheads. He handed out roses to the ladies. If my memory serves me rightly he was targeted by the Catholic church because he was a Jehovah Witness. They shut him down......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Keith Bernstein: Hi Richie--a trifecta between two Tilden guys. My father took me to the St. George pool during the 1950s and once to Betsy Head pool around 1960 and to the Coney Island fireworks several times. Here's......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Viv Shackleton: My dad is 80 on 8 November. We are taking him on a trip down memory lane. He used to live on Liverpool Road and his uncle worked on the Barton Road Swing Bridge and......

in response to: Barton Power Station by Dave

Alan Kupperberg: I’m terribly gratified that some of you enjoyed my reminisces. Richie Rubin is correct in that I sure don’t have Alzheimer’s. I live in Greenwich Village and I haven’t been back to that......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories By Alan Kupperberg Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for......

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rick: Doc - I think we all got our first basebal gloves and all of our sneakers at Circle ("Spaldeens" too, as I recall). Yes, your memory serves - Barton's was, indeed, across Franklin. Also, on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Doc S.......: Yo, Rick - What a memory!! I think I got my first baseball glove at "Circle". The "other" store for upscale chocolates was Barton's, on the north side of Eastern Parkway and Franklin Ave., if......

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The Public Animals - Street Level Nine: This was one of the most inspiring and graffiti-Décollage rich sites I have ever visited in my life. As a young member and founder of The Public Animals, I used to wander in here early......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Chanzizr / Rapper From The Brick: My Name is Chanzizr, I grew up in Newark.....South Ward...Hey I can remember my Mom taking me Down Town, to Mc cory's to get pizza and Stride Rite for my Shoes and Boots,all grown up now......

in response to: A Walk Through Brick City by Peter

kelly: i just wanna say september 11 was a sad and scarey day for everyone and i just wanna say that im sorry to all the familys and friends who lost someone that day. It would......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

WinstonSmith: Great image and yes it was once the world's tallest. My most profound memory of the Woolworth Building was being on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade late on the night of 9-12-01 and seeing the......

in response to: Was World\'s Tallest by Peter

Francine Cammarata: What a childhood in Bushwick!!! I think my passionate Italian background which was deeply rooted in tradition surely played a major part. What strength and power we had. I was born 1947 in Greenpoint Hospital.......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

zagg: Must keep the Memory Rock happy!...

in response to: Things Seen Prior (2) by chiamattt

Bob: If you would like to see some oldie goldie pictures of Brooklyn neighborhoods check out BrooklynPix.com.Might get a memory from this site....

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

mami: I.S49 in bushwick.i atteded 49 from 1994until1997.i had so much fun in that school.i still remember mr witney ms morrinson ms bostic ms raina mr lango ms love mr fernandez and mr rodriquez,did any one......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

eliza: been visiting since the 1960's.......a step back in time. A fond memory is a day where we began the morning with breakfast at new ideal diner, followed by lunch at the Big M, down the......

in response to: New Ideal Diner by EvilGentleman

Marie: I grew up in LaJunta and when I hit college, I learned that I had gotten a great education. I was far ahead of the other students in math and science and history. ......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 8 by Scott Sargent

LUCKY: hairsy ......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

TRANS KOF 2008 : Hey all this talk about Paterson brings back alot of memories I grew up in Paterson on Main st. and Wiess St.a block from St.Josephs hospital. my neighborhood was known as little San Juan......

in response to: paterson factory - may 2002 by adam

JOSEPH BRIDGE: great games, awsome memory..but what about lawyers...you lost me ...

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

adam: i have vivid memories of driving on the cross bronx with my family in the 80s and seeing cars piled up on the sides of the road. could just be youthful interpretation of a lesser......

in response to: A Sign of Past Times? by CartLegger

martin mahony : I have many happy memory's of parkslope i spent every summer visiting my sister each summer...

in response to: Park Slope Throwies by Peter

EvilGentleman: Jeez, and I had always thought that Eritrea was a country on Africa's Red Sea coast which recently (early 1990's) gained its freedom from Ethiopia. Capital Asmera, population around 5 million? And a former Italian......

in response to: Est. 1985 by Peter

Karlo: That really was a moving story sharon. Im so glad that you can finally put your anger to rest,a feeling that only serves to destroy the self. I fully believe that your son Karl would want you......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

futurebird: I just did a painting today (from memory) of the freedom tunnel-- so, of course, the graffiti is all made up-- in fact, it's YOUR FAULT I started thinking about this again and did this......

in response to: The Freedom Tunnel by Peter

Peter Creer: G'day Eric Teal,from memory,there were a few Teal brothers and your dad about 1959 There are a few ex Irlam people in the Wollongong area about 60 miles South of Sydney. We keep in touch with John......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

upfromflames: More to the point, you are confusing problem with solution, and memory with history The cameras by Maria Hernandez park are part of the [[6459:Bushwick Initiative]], the latest in a long line of projects to fight......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

joey: it's been over 3 years since this article first appeared. have they built the 30 story condos in memory of the two stray cats that used to live there?...

in response to: Stray Cat by ian

anonymous: It is a shame the cops have pretty much hassled the boys at kensington and rorer that the no longer are out. Their dope, last stop, was the most consistantly good heroin in town.(btw i......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Dean Ogden: Hi Cyril, ive been on Google Earth its great isnt it? And i still pass the house quite often (I somtimes cut accross the moss to get to work if the traffics bad. My aunty......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

ROB WALLS: i think irlam is great, i have lived and died here in this sunny suburb. But the sadest thing i have ever watched with no power over is the demise of the fish population of......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Miss_1989: I had lived in hutch for 12 years growing up as a child, but my family ended up moving due to my parents job transfers and also because Hutchinson (even in the middle class neighborhoods)......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Deb Simpkins (Massey): Hi Stuart, no need to apologise, it was all done in good fun - at school on my last day. (and you are right - it was probably all Gaz!!). You and Garry ran off with......

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Deb Simpkins (Massey): Hey Hi Stuart!! I sure do remember you - since finding this site I dug out all my old keepsakes and found my autograph book in which yourself and Gary Siddall contributed to! My......

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

Julian Austin-Seal: Hi Anne, thanks for your reply, tried replying earlier, but found problems posting my comment, im glad you have simmilar opinions about the film 'stand by me', now its summer and i would like to......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Joe: I still wonder if my fond memories of growing up in Kensington are real or simply a product of youth. It is striking that most people I encounter have such a favorable memory of their......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

janet: I don't remember the pretzel man outside of P.S. 167, only the knish man (and that most fondly!). Yes, the pickle lady . . . with her half-and half gloves, the palms covered but......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

NewYorkDave: Hmmm, I just realized that that route wouldn't have made any sense considering the number of blocks involved. The pretzels surely would have been cold by the time he reached Onderdonk--unless he were running the......

in response to: Bushwick 77: The Casusos of Harman St. by upfromflames

Sheila Vaudrey: Hello Cyril. what a memory!! spot on with where we lived, I do seem to recall the greengrocer my mother used, but I always thought he was from twenty row, that maybe because she......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Peter: are you crazy, or just seriously uninformed? nothing rebuilt, nothing touched? thats not true at all! i commute through the WTC site/station every day, and theres so much going on there... sure, its a slow......

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God: It would be great if they just left it as a memory place. Last time they showed it on the news, was about 3 months ago. And it was still nothing rebuilt, nothing touched. Just......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Josefine: hey, I´m frome sweden and at our english lesson were going to work about ground zero. I would like, in all respect, to know something about what is going on there today. are some new......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

Mitch: Hi Marjie, I can't believe it. My wife and I got together with my cousin Linda and her husband Larry tonight. She remembers you quite well and was so pleased and surprised that, after all this......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Sammy Perez: antblack, you are definitely hitting some memory chords with the go-carts and nunchucks. As for 111, the one thing I remember is playing handball in the morning and at lunchtime. Besides the two main......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Martin Kavanagh: Thank Rob, my only memory of Neville Drive was a short cut to school through the estate and most puzzling I seem to remember a shed at the front of the house?? I've looked......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

UK JA OK: We heard JA 3000 miles away! I got myself over to New York recently and I saw a couple of JA throw ups in the Underground tunnels there. His shit never gets old! JA is gettin his......

in response to: JA: A True NYC King by Peter

Linda OConnor nee Watson: Hi Norma, think we were in the same year at Irlam High, still see Linda Booth, Deb Hill think they told me you went to Oz wow what a good memory you have, nice te......

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

Voide: Haha I remember that half pipe brings back some memorys when I sucked ass at graffiti if anyones wondering its up on the mountain by bruce trail...

in response to: Graffiti in the Hammer by TIMDOG

bunni: I also remember the Deluxe theater on 20th avenue and Bath ave. a few blocks away from ps200. Also, on 86th st. was a cafeteria called the FAMOUS. Great tuna and chocolate pudding. I am......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

Deb Simpkins: Hi Norma, as I remember it, Oak Ave wasn't very long so I wonder if our grandparents knew each other? I will ask my dad and see if he remembers Tommy and May.. Bolton... was......

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

Kensington H.S. Vice President: Hello to all Kensingtonites.I lived at 5th & Leigh Ave and attended Kensington High School for Girls from 1958-1961. Even though I have not been to Philly for many years, does anyone have suggestions of......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Anne Priestley (nee Rigby): Hi Cyril I didn't hear about the lightning strike it must have been frightening. You have a good memory. Do you cope with the heat out there? We get a couple of hot days in......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Sheila Hilton: My children talked about playing on "the Jezzies". I didn't realise at first that they were talking about the jerry works. It was always the jerry works; never the jezzies when we were younger. We......

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

Philly Phil: I was glad to find this blog I was born & raised in Kensington 2800 N Hurley a block from the Hissy Playground I got out in 72 I have been a filmmaker since 84......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

janet: Hello Again Len--Do e-mail me that knish recipe. (The very memory of them makes me faint with pleasure.) We never had a TV, but when Uncle Miltie came on ("We are the men from......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Len Lipner: For Alma (Weinstein) Scull: C'mon, toots, I didn't answer your emails 'cause I didn't get 'em! You know I still love you, and would've answered every one. The funny thing about Tommy's was that when it changed......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Cyril Bagshaw: Hi Anne, My youngest sister is just peeping over the edge on the right has the original photo, a copy of which she sent to me. I will ask her what the occasion was for the group......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Joanne Amorello-minor: Hello Cyril they are great pics..just how I remember it then...do you remember the nursery there just further down...I went there... My deepest sympathies for the loss of your son Brian...I didnt realise it was so recent...bless......

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

David: I lived at G & Tioga with my Grandparents in the early 60's. They had a corner drugstore (Ben's) over which teh house was built and I would serve soda's and sandwiches when old enough.......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Rob Tynan: Joanne, Your story certainly isnt boring!! Please keep posting. Would love to know the outcome. I just wish I could help. With the info you have found so far since your first posting just......

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

Joanne Amorello-minor: Sorry my intention was not to bore others I was just asking if anyone had heard of them I shall not post anything more about it...I will contact you instead thanks..Oh and Alison I remember......

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

Joanne Amorello-minor: I have this childhood memory.i must of been really young..but my dad used to take me to what seemed to be a nursery or playgroup next to or near the doctors surgery on liverpool road......

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

Alan Taylor: Hi Cyril et al, Yes now I remember and heck it was a short period as a flower shop :-) I remember only too well Cyril Bagshaw SENIOR and his chippy, was it 6d [six pennurth] of......

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

joey: wonderful pictures. memory lane for me - like the snows of my youth in cleveland, oh. faves are the 3rd from last, and last....

in response to: After the Storm by Elicar

A. Weinstein: Hi Stan, You got that right wow!!! you just made my memory kick in do you remember the Spero Potato Chips they had? I most liked the choclate covered Jelly candies they had on the counter......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi Rob, You may remember my brother Mike and sister Sheila from their time at the band? Mike has been in the RAF for 20+ years and plays for them whenever he gets the opportunity.......

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

Graham Bate: Hi Andy, This thread is a real blast from the past! so many names I recall, Brian Bagshaw, Roy Bamber, Steve Weir and all the history that goes with the town. I come from Irlam myself......

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

Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Hi everyone, I'm flitting between two sites here and loving all the reminiscing... I attended the Wesleyan Methodist Church as a kid (my parents married there and we were all christened there)and thought it was......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Michael Worsley: Growing Up At An Early Young Age My Idols Were Marvin Gaye,Stevie Wonder,Smokey Robinson,Maurice White,Philip Bailey,Reggie Jackson,Hubie Brooks,Did You Know Hubie Signed With The Mets On Tuesday June 6,1978?Three Weeks Later On Tuesday June 27,1978......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

janet: Hi Stan--You're probably close to my vintage. I'm trying without luck to call up a memory of Famous on Schenectady--I lived just around the corner and went to 167--so there it was during the......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

FRED MEGLIO: HI JIM I ALSO RECALL THE HALSEY BOBS AND ELLERY BOBS I RE CALL SINGING DO OPP MUSIC WITH A GROUP OF DUDES ON MY CORNER ANYONE RE CALL BRANDLERS BAKERY 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Flo Lindstrom: my mother was born in 1912 and raised on Barren Island. I'm 68 yrs old and my earliest memory is of a being attacked by a "giant" chicken. In retrospect, since I was......

in response to: Barren Island by CartLegger

stepha: rick, arlene tobin , yes yes, irene is not in my memory (at this moment) infact another name just came to mind, a Harriet... cant remember last name (grossman?) really important......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

rick: Elsie R. Kane was Principal at PS 241 until the early '50s when she retired and was replaced by Frieda R. Shprence. A seasonally timely memory came to mind. At an assembly in early December,......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

FRED MEGLIO: I LIVE IN BUSHWICK SECTION FROM 1946 TO 1979 THE 50S AND 60S WERE GREAT! LIVED 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN WILSON AND KNICKERBOCKER AVENUES WE NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS AT NIGHT TILL THE 70S CAME......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

K Teesdale: Growing up in Kensington, I knew I had to get out. The social environment was not one to be taken lightly. I learned everything I need to survive growing up in Kensington. I walked. I......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

stepha: I am tickled you are all trying to unravel the identity of the "mystery"building. ok, here's another memory, walking around the ebbets fied area one day my friend elaine and i came......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Natalie Waterworth (Brophy): THANKYOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So much has changed. Yes Rob, the old bandstand was at the bottom of where the old skateboard ramp is. Does anyone know whether the ivy covered *park keepers house* is occupied by......

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

Gee: I was a resident from 1962 to 1969 1230 North Burling Apt#802 (White buildings) The Greens will make you or break you. I Thank god to have come this far with my life, and to......

in response to: Cabrini Green [whats left of it] by corsakti

teri: your a strong and amazing individual keep the memory alive..god bless...

in response to: 180 Central Avenue: What Was Lost by upfromflames

Peter: you know, i really hate it when people repeat blatantly knee-jerk (and ultimately, meaningless) mantras like ##"Never Forget what happened that day!"## ...as if its going to just, you know, skip right out of our......

in response to: Ground Zero: lower Manhattan as it looks today by Peter

EvilGentleman: I still come back and look over this article every once in a while. This time, I followed a link on Wikipedia leading here. The memories have begun to fade, yet that last shot, the one......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

Andrew Smith: Shops in Irlam that no longer exist, but will stay part of my memory of growing up in the 80's. On Fiddlers Lane - Joyce's Fabrics, Bambers newsagents, King's sweetshop, Bates's hardware store, plus the Greengrocers......

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

Ladrena: Growing up as a child in 1847 W.Lake st.It was much love.Everbody knew each other and had love and respect for one another.I grew up with the family in the book Paul,the father Joe the......

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