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My Brooklyn started November 12, 1932 at 149 Camp City (Camp City destroyed when the Belt Parkway built). Camp City, with small white houses in rows, a large barn for dances and community activities. We moved from Camp City in late 30s to 1828 Flatbush Ave. (corner of Ave. K). Attended P.S. 119. I was not a good student. My childhood "bittersweet" with a rough father but a soft loving mother. Stick ball, punch ball and baseball. Got tickets from the Police Athletic League (PAL) to see the Dodgers. What fun! East 37th Street made into a "play street" and, as the song goes, "girls and boys playing together". Great friends, both girls and boys!
I joined the Army in March '51 and spent twelve years on active duty. Married a girl from Mississippi (ex-WAC). Another 24 years in the Miss ARNG. Now live in Miss. Anyone remember Camp City please contact me. Great web page.
16 January 2000
East Flatbush. When I was a kid, I lived on East 59th Street between Beverly and Clarendon (nobody pronounced the first "n"). One of the great mysteries was how East 59th Street wasn't next to East 60th! All of a sudden you were in the 90s. Ah, Meyer Levin (outsiders thought we were saying "My 11" Junior High since final "r"s aren't pronounced in East Flatbush. With all these wonderful pronunciations, it's no wonder I went off to California and became a dialect coach in films. Teaching John Malkovich to sound like a Brooklyn thug is easy when you grew up on 59th Street.
17 January 2000
I grew up in Brooklyn on the corner of Prospect Place and Ralph Ave. That was forty years ago, the good old days I call them. I still remember the first school I went to, P.S. 191. There was a candy store right on the corner of Ralph Ave. where I used to buy my candies and ice cream soda. I also remember the market place that was toward Howard Ave. I have great memories of my childhood in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is and will always be my Brooklyn. Sadly to say I tried to visit my old neighborhood and I was told that is not safe to go there and the building I used to live is no longer there, but I have those wonderful memories as a child that I will always treasure.
18 January 2000
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