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I was born in Manhattan but at the tender age of four we moved to 1616 President St. (near Schenectady Ave.). When the depression took my father's restaurant we had to move to St. John's Place where I lived until I got married in 1953. P.S. 167 on Eastern Pkwy and then J.H.S. 210 and Brooklyn Tech.
These are all sweet memories: Nathan's, Ebbets Field, the Children's Museum off of Kingston Ave. The friends gathering at "our bench" on Eastern Pkwy at Schenectady. Summer at Bay 4, our bunch made our own flag and we would look for it when we got to the Boardwalk. Moved to Rockaway in 1964 and now reside in California. I MISS THE OLD BROOKLYN.
P.S. My wife went to Lincoln..
I grew up in an apartment house on Rockaway Parkway and Rutland Road. Up the street was the Sutter Avenue IRT station. At the foot of the station was a custard stand, Berger's Cafeteria, Dave's Blue Room, a deli, a luncheonette called the Snackery that fried fresh donuts. Further west on Rutland Road was Fried's candy store which sold mello rolls, a pickle store, Salerno's Pizza and Irving's Toy store. On the corner where I lived was Kalkstein's Drug Store, Slotnick's Appetizing Store, Teitelbaum Jewelers, Sol's Drygoods and Murray's Fruit Store and on 96th Street was a grocery called Rettig and Lehrers.
I used to buy knishes from a knish man pushing a small cart on Rutland Road. There were rides, mounted on trucks. The one I remember was called the "Hiya" because it was a large caged rocker with seating, manually swung by the operator, and all the kids would shout for it to be swung higher. There was Bungalow Bar and Good Humor Ice Cream trucks.
Sometimes I would hang out at the school yard at P.S. 189, and other times I would go to Lincoln Terrace Park with my friends. We used to go to the library on Schenectady and Eastern Parkway. The Brooklyn Ice Palace and the roller ring on Eastern Parkway were two other places that we liked.If anyone came from that area, between the 40s and early 50s, please drop me a note.
My Brooklyn begins with Farragut Pool for summer fun, and P.S. 198 school yard for stick ball, then to Ben's candy store at Ave. D and Albany Avenue for cokes and pretzels after every adventure, the Avenue D Movie across from Little Flower Church a great place to see a movie for only 10 cents "if one had 10 cents" also Von Dolan's ice cream parlor also the neighborhood notables . . . the Rizzo brothers . . . Bill Fagan . . . Jimmy Briscoe . . . Joe Oriano . . . and of course "our" Brooklyn Dodgers.
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