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Nothing was better than waking up early on summer vacation to spend the day, well every day at Marine Park. We would ride bikes around the ring until we couldn't move and then lie on the grass in the middle to rest and stare at the clouds. When we were rested we would ride across Ave. U (Mom would have killed us if she knew) to the creek. At the creek you could catch minnows and jellyfish. But the most fun was stomping on the sand to get the piss clams to shoot up. They were always too deep to dig up. When we got home, we always had to wash the creek mud off our sneakers and jeans so Mom would never know we were there.
Winter at Marine Park was football. We weren't allowed to play organized football with the Hurricanes but were allowed to go the park to play without equipment. On a Sunday afternoon the game would start at about 1 o'clock and go until it got dark or someone got really hurt.
What a great place that was.
24 May 1997
summer days, a subway ride on the d train from park slope to bay eight st. a nathans hot dog to start. swimming with seaweed and coney island whitefish. ouch you look burned better get noxema. the cyclone, salt water taffy and the first car on the ride home. sitting on the stoop getting sand from my keds. vinegar bath for relief. stickball and mr. softee, summer days in bklyn
25 May 1997
Sheepshead Bay, walking and talking. Coney Island, dirty but a thrill. The BMT aka the D train. Take the local, the express takes longer.
Nathans, pizza, Good Humor . . . Fudgie Wudgie Man on the beach, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
You could ride the train into the city, without fear. You could play on the streets to 10 pm, your parents didn't worry.
Movie palaces, life on the street. Neighbors and neighborhoods. Family and friends. Little cash, but who cared?
It's all gone . . . we moved out we died we hide.
26 May 1997
I was born on Lynch St. in the Williamsburg section. I grew up in the Bushwick/Ridgewood Area. I remember taking the trolley to Canarsie; the good smells of Coney Island when you got off the train and walked down the ramp to Surf Ave. My buddies were Bob, Richie, Charlie, Mike and Frankie. I lived near the 83rd Precinct on Wilson Ave. I worked across the way in Serro's Pastry Shoppe. My first real girlfriend was Marcia; her friend was Norma who married Ray. Marcia had a friend named Marilyn. We used to go to the Loews Pitkin. We hung out around Newport and Powell St. When I got older I worked for Tip Top Bread and married a girl from Ditmas Ave. My grandfather owned the Sunbeam Ice Cream Company, which was sold to Dairycrest and later became Hagen-Daz.
I used to sell pretzels on the avenue; I picked them up around Delancy Street. I remember the RKO Republic, the Commodore and the Marcy. I remember the Lindy, the Sun, the Loews Broadway, the RKO Madison the Rivoli Theatre.
I used to go nightclubbing at the Enchanted Hour.I remember the great Italian feasts on Suydam St and Wilson Ave. I went to St Joseph Church.
Some of the girls were Josie, Jeanie, Rosie, Linda and Chickie. I remember Knickerbocker Ave. where you could buy almost anything. I remember my great Auto Shop teachers Mr. Schiller and Mr. Scheyer.
I remember P.S. 74 on Bushwick Ave. Mr. Brande, Mr. Bergman, Miss Zuill, Mr. Fleischman the Principal.
I have a lot of good memories of Brooklyn and the wonderful people there.
27 May 1997
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