My Brooklyn

I've been compiling a list of movies and songs about Brooklyn. There's that wonderful love song that Frank Sinatra sings to the Brooklyn Bridge in "It Happened in Brooklyn"; there's the song "B apostrophe K no apostrophe l-y-n" that Jimmy Cagney sings at the end of "West Point Story"; and there's the comedy "Whistling in Brooklyn" where Red Skelton, wrongly accused of being a murderer, hides out in Ebbets Field with Leo Durocher and the team (1943—actual footage of the ballpark and players!). A page on this with comments from other readers would be most interesting.

Sleighriding on the hill behind the Brooklyn Museum . . . ice-skating on the flooded tennis courts on (?) Carroll St. . . . "Park Fete" (we thought "fate") in Prospect Park . . . watching the boys, (it WAS the forties), playing softball in the P.S. 241 schoolyard . . . pickles from Ben & Sol's . . . a Charlotte Russe from the pushcart vendor . . . collecting used Ebbets Field tickets from the crowds on their way to the subway after a game . . . 5 yards of skirt on my graduation dress . . . Miss Kenney singing "Take me out to the ball game" . . . Miss Bradley's class . . . my grandmother crying at the window of 1001 President St on the day FDR died.

Any graduates of P.S. 103 in Borough Park circa 1959? My teachers were Mrs. Arenholz, Miss Carroll (chorus), Mrs. Bosch. Friends included Myra Turoff, Myra Fabian, Judy Ades, Betty Zweig, Peter Harkavy, Steven Glazer. The corner luncheonette sold gills of ice cream. Anyone remember the meaning of "gill"?

I intend to e-mail a longer report but for now . . . I lived at 1026 President St. All my friends resided at 1010. Jerry Price, Al Liberman, Roy (the goy) Geist, et al. We survived by eating franks at the corner deli, Ben & Sol's, and whiled away the time hanging around the candy store (Cohen's). I will elaborate further by e-mail so wait for the next episode of 1010 President Street.

My name is Wally Gobetz. I live in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. I have just started to make a Sheepshead Bay home page with complete info on Sheepshead Bay and some stuff on the borough of Brooklyn. I have a link to your site on my personal home page. This link is on the hypertext "Brooklyn" in the opening paragraph. I was wondering if you could put a link to my Sheepshead Bay site on your page? It is still in the beginning stages, but I hope to keep adding more stuff. Thank you very much and I wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your page. There is a shortage of web sites on the best place to live in the country and your page is the only one I have yet to see to serve it any justice.

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