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As a kid back in the thirties, my world was St. Johns Place between Troy Ave. and Utica bounded by Lincoln Place and Eastern Pkwy. I could travel on my own as a 5, 6, 7, and 8 year old with total impunity and safety. When it was time to come home I could here my mother's voice from our tenament window calling for me. I would always hear her and go running home except one time I couldn't respond because I had been smacked by a car while running across Lincoln Place. It took quite a while for her to find me but in a few weeks I was good as new. I attended P.S. 167—as did all the kids in the local area. I lived at 1284 & 1320 St. Johns Place and can recall Thelma Pelish practicing her soprano singing voice resounding throughout the streets. She later went to Hollywood and did make a few movies. I believe she died in 1988. I loved the movies and went to the Utica (itch) and I believe the ritzy Congress theater. Well I could go on but enough is enough.
5 July 1999
Was born in Bay Ridge on 59th Street, between 8th & 9th Aves.,on May 8, 1935. Then lived on 55th & 8th. Moved to 50th & 8th went to John J. Pershing Jr. High School, then William E. Grady at Coney Island. Moved to East 5th Street and Fort Hamilton Pky. Went to many Brooklyn Dodger games, loved swimming at Sunset Park. Coney Island was the greatest—Steeplechase, Nathan hot dogs (Nathan invented the hot dog).
Now Navy retired living in Va. Beach. Write me.
6 July 1999
As a kid back in the thirties, my world was St. Johns Place between Troy Ave. and Utica bounded by Lincoln Place and Eastern Pkwy. I could travel on my own as a 5. 6, 7, and 8 year old with total impunity and safety. When it was time to come home I could hear my mother's voice from our tenement window calling for me. I would always hear her and go running home except one time I couldn't respond because I had been smacked by a car while running across Lincoln Place. It took quite a while for her to find me but in a few weeks I was good as new. I attended P.S. 167 as did all the kids in the local area. I lived at 1284 & 1320 St. Johns Place and can recall Thelma Pelish practicing her soprano singing voice resounding throughout the streets. She later went to Hollywood and did make a few movies. I believe she died in 1988. I loved the movies and went to the Utica (itch) and I believe the ritzy Congress theater. Well I could go on but enough is enough.
6 July 1999
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