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Mary Ann: Hi, I attended Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School which was the girls Catholic High School at 260 Eastern Parkway right near Prospect Heights girls high school around the corner. These blogs bring back memories,......

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Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner : Does anyone remember Edie and Al's candy store on Kinston Ave, corner Stereling Place, and the rival store across Sterling Place owned by Izie and a fatter man? There was a cigar store on the......

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Janet: The conversation has taken an interesting turn. We were poor, but we never thought of ourselves as poor. We had less than others, more than some, and expected that in the future we......

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Ramona: I lived on Park Place between Buffalo and Ralph Ave 1957-1964 (PS 191)having real lemon ices with the lemon pits included, Knish store on St John's Place, Congress Theatre on Saturday's, Walking to Eastern Parkway,......

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Jay Oshinsky: I think Friedman's was a small department store or variety store on St. John's place.I can picture the store and know I have been there. I lived on President and Schenectady , but think for......

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Janet: Jeff--Honey's was near the corner of St. John's and Troy when I lived on St. John's Place. I wrote a message describing what I remembered of it in an October 2008 posting here. Many......

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Robert: After reading so much about St. John's Pl., let me say that I lived on another side of St. John's Pl., just a building away from Washington Av. from 1958 to 1959. At that time......

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anon (c-76-98-70-135.hsd1.nj.comcast.net): We lived on the other end of Eastern Parkway. We lived on Carroll St off Utica Ave. So we used Eastern Parkway at Utica Ave. My grandfather lived on St. John's place, and......

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Stan: Janet: Do you mean the BOVE sisters with long blond hair? Their cousins, the Sterman Boys, lived across St.John's Place from them and were friends of mine...

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Janet: 167--I don't remember Miss Cohen, but I do remember the two elegant curving staircases sweeping to the Eastern Parkway entrance that no one dared use, each flanking Mr. Lodato's office on the first floor. ......

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Janet: Memory rubs away the sharp edges of bad experiences. I walked around the corner from P.S. 167 for lunch every day though I was reminded not long ago that 167 served hot lunches in......

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Marie: I remember Dubrow's cafeteria on Eastern Parkway at Utica Ave, and Friedman's on St. John's Place, the Utica theater on St. John's Pl, the pickel barrel on corner Schenectady ave at Lincoln Pl, the library......

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Esther (Herschman) Rechtschafner: I remember going to s roller skating ring on the other side of the Parkway, not far from New York Ave, (possibly on Union Street).I went there with Brenda Patterson. Barbara, if Mrs. Gradstein was your......

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Barbara Ehrentreu (Levine): I'm so happy that I got on this site! I went to PS 167 from 1950-1956 and JHS210 from 1956-1958. I graduated from the 6th grade and was in the SP there. I remember the......

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Esther (Herschman)Rechtschafner: I remember these names: Joyce Davidson, Marcia Katel, Jill Rhine, Enid Dunne, Judy Rubin, Anita Seldes, Natalie Schliefer (who had a cousin Nathan}.They were in the same grade as me. If my......

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Janet: I went to 210 in the late 40's and graduated in 1949. From there I went to Tilden High (I believe Wingate was about to be built--and Wingate became the high school serving the St.......

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Mary Ann: Memories are made of many of above comments. I graduated from St. Matthew's on Lincoln Pl at Utica Ave and St. Matthew's church in the 50s, then attended Bishop McDonnell Memorial High which was......

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Julia Astralla.: To: Larry Prusak, I think I remember you, from 167, it was my 50th. reunion, too bad some of us all over the country, did not know any of it !aso: for Paul G. 1367......

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Deanna (Baime) Tibbs: Hello fellow landsmen and women. I grew up in a lovely apartment at 1225 Eastern Parkway, across from the park. I went to PS 191 in the 50s and John Marshall 210 in......

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Hal G: I was born in 1953 at Unity Hospital on St. John's Place. We lived at 1420 Eastern Parkway (between Ralph and Howard) in a 3 bedroom apartment across from the Eastern Parkway Arena and Brooklyn......

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paul g.: I haven't visited the neighborhood for decades but went by recently. I used to live at 1367 St. John's. When did they put that firehouse across the street on the corner of Schenectady?...

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larry prusak: Hello to all you 167 Alums. I was amazed and amused to read all these comments about the old school and the surrounding neighborhoods and eateries. I thought some of you might be interested in......

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Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Please send the site about rown Heights pictures, that is written about inthe last comment. I am not smart enough to understand what you wrote. My baic education was from PS 167. Pleae do write......

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anon (cpe-66-65-255-99.ne.res.rr.com): Well, this helps! Ring-a-leevio has been in my mind as a recollection without name of running and chasing and being chased by other kids, and not just randomly. Thanks for the rules--that's......

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Danny Fuchs: Don't know how I came upon this blog? Think I am older than most of you. My family moved around a lot. I was born on St.John's Place at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in 1939. One......

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Ron: Hello again Teri, I had to smile when I bumped into your posting here. Something I didn't mention in my recent long e-mail was one time when I was playing on the Eastern Parkway mall and......

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bob: I like Tish lived at 350 E 92nd St. I remember so many things John's Candy Store's must have hamburgers after a night out. Also remember Linda peeling potatoes after leaving shool at OL. No frozen......

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Doc S.......: Howdy again Willie: It's interesting to know the Franklin Avenue shuttle is running - when I was by there last year sometime it looked abandoned (President Street/"Botanic Garden" entrance)-all boarded and barred-up & overgrown with......

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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......

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Julia Astralla: to Allan: I graduated 167 in 1958, Wingate in 1962 ! the last paramount show was 1961 - 1962 ! (MAYBE .......) I know we had some elaborate plans of escaping the......

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Rich: The fourth picture is of a church (or it used to be one), it was originally the Savoy movie theater on Bedford btwn Lincoln and St. John's there's a convent on St. John's it's been......

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Rich: Please excuse me for questioning the location in your picture of Steve's Deli and Grocery, but, isn't that a picture of the corner of St. John's instead of Sterling?...

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Julia Astralla: Does anyone remember that Mr. Abramowitz was the principal @ 167, in 57-58 ? I lived on st. john's place, off utica ave. Did anyone like......

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Jane: I had to comment. This is awesome. I was born in 1949 and I lived at 1587 Carroll Street which is between Carroll and Schnectady. I lived there until I was 12 years old.......

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Richie Rubin: ALLAN,I went to PS 167 w/Roger Brown,I wonder where HE is now? in fact,I gave HIM HIS 1st taste of a Knish[from Greff's on st.John's pl.&`Skin-Neck-Titty'..it was a Potato,..& HE did like it!..in fact,Juan Clemente was w/US..but it......

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Esther Herschman (Rechtschafner): Mrs.Gradstein was my sixth gradeteacher in 1955-6. I remember the old furniture. I never new it had been changed up till now. Therr were fruit and vegetable stores across the street from the school on Schenecktady......

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Keith Bernstein: I would like to add some comments about Mrs. Ida Gradstein. I thought her to be an effective teacher and a sweet lady. The mention of her name brought back some memories of my sixth......

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Esthr Herschman (Rechtschafner): I enjoyed this site very much. I graduated from PS167 in 1958.Now i will try to list yu some of my memories. Kindergarten teacher Miss Shapiro. (there was another kindergarten class and teacher -Mrs. Pinkerton.......

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Janet: What a collection of memories--things that surely resonate throughout this remarkable site. Just a few comments, Alan, though the Rochester-Buffalo-Ralph neighborhood from St. Johns to Eastern Parkway was not our neighborhood. The Congress......

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Janet: Before Honey's moved to Eastern Parkway, the store was on St. John's very near the corner of Troy, right next to a little Jewish tailor who worked at the window on his Singer. Once inside......

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Janet: The luncheonette on the corner of Lincoln Place and Schenectady Avenue sold charlotte russes at the window--all fluffy whipped cream and a cherry over sponge cake (half as much cake as one expected because of......

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Janet: Well, the adage 'the more things change the more they stay the same' does not apply to the old neighborhoods or the old movie houses where those of our generation got a colorful taste so......

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janet: Richie--Thanks for the "Gref" reminder. I've been trying to remember the name of our corner deli (the only deli on St. John's until you got to Rochester (or was the next as distant as......

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Sam: Anyone here from Emerald & Dauphin, Emerald & York, Arizona St..there was a trucking company on the corner of Emerald & Arizona called "Becker Bros...Yarrington Mills was up on Arizona between Emerald & Coral...John's candy......

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Mitch Vernace: Grew up on the "other side" of Myrtle Avenue, on Knickerbocker between Putnam and Madison Street between 1961 and 1978. Went to St. Martin of Tours and we always felt our competitors were from......

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Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

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Pat Fleming (nee Brannan): What a great site!! Just spent a morning reading through the messages and re-living my youth. I lived at 93, Lyndhurst Ave until I was about 5 years old. I remember a lady called Phylis......

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PJS: These posts are so fascinating. I grew up at Lawrence and Huntington. Went to John Welsh Elementary, then Girls' High. Mos.t of my friends went to St. Edwards at Seventh and York. I remember the......

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janet: Alma--Back to your memories of the old neighborhood. I remember the butcher shop, the one on Schenectady right near Lincoln Place (and next to a wonderful hardware store with long passage between loads of......

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upfromflames: t'aint so, my friend. Though, he did ramble round these parts back in the day, part of the F & R gang. He is buried in St. John's Cemetery, on the other side of the......

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janet: Alma--I think I left 167 at the end of the 6th grade in '46 or '47. I*'m vague because I went on to John Marshall JHS (JHS 210) on Rochester & Park Place, finished......

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joe caiola: y grew up on willoughby between wilson and knickerbocker. went to st. joseph patron on suydam st and st. john's prp on lewis ave. those great days in the sixties hanging out at......

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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......

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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......

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Len Lipner: my email is StoryLen@aol.com ...my memories are of attending PS 167, being Mr Lodato's lunch-getter, living at 1212 Lincoln Place, near Troy Avenue, and of course a million more things. Can still *smell* the knishes from......

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Ezera: Stepha, The "711" Chinese restaurant I think was on Flatbush Avenue, directly across from the Patio movie theater. I also remember McGovern's bar near St. John's place had a nice steak & chop section. During the......

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janet: Jeff--I lived on St. John's between Schenectady & Troy and went to John Marshall JHS in the late 40's--I have ten years on you and so our teachers might not have been the same. ......

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Jeff: I was born in 1946 lived at 1444 Park Place across from John Marchall's JHS until I was 16 moved to Sheep's Head Bay. Does anyone remember the Delli on St. John's ...

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janet grayson: Well, Franklin Avenue was out of our immediate neighborhood, but my mother always bought her chickens from a store on Schenectady (between St. John's and Lincoln). I disliked these visits. The floor was covered......

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does it matter?: If you view Winnipeg from the south, so that Osborne Village is to your left and Fort Garry Plaza is to your right, you can see Winnipeg from a much more complimentary angle. Unfortunately, most......

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JS: We saw a turkey this evening by St. John's University in Staten Island - Grymes Hill. Wonder if it was the same fellow as the one seen last year by the hospital....

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Anne M. Berger: I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties. It was truly the melting pot. I went to St. Joseph's on Sydam St. My Irish friends went to St. Lenords on Toutman?......

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K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with......

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Chris Erb: The controversy is starting to pour in so here are my reasons for excluding some cities that I was considering: **Ottawa:** For a city its size and importance, the skyline in't very impressive. The Parlement......

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EvilGentleman: Hmmm... With your fetish for painted wooden siding, perhaps you should consider eventually moving to St. John's, Newfoundland or Copenhagen, Denmark....

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ROBERT: THE BUILDING WHERE I LIVED IN 1958-59 IS STILL THERE AND THAT IS 446 ST. JOHN'S PL. NEAR WASHINGTON AV. (HOPE THE NUMBERS HAVEN'T CHANGED), ANYWAY IT'S ONLY TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM YOUR PLACE. YOU'D SURELY MAKE ME......

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