Readers Report
Though I've only been out of Brooklyn for a year and a half I'll tell you I already miss it. I now go to college in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and I'll let you all know that nowhere is like Brooklyn. For all of you who still live there, don't take what you have for granted. The grass is not greener elsewhere.
My Brooklyn:
Sheepshead Bay Road
P.S. 254
ShellBank
Kingsborough High School
Flatbush: East 26th St. between Newkirk and Foster. Went to P.S. 89. When I would go home for lunch on my way back to school I would go to the store for a neighbor and my tip would be a milk bottle three cents deposit . Then I would go to the candy store on Rogers Ave. and buy candy. Went to Erasmus, would have graduated 1962. Hung out in luncheonette on Flatbush Ave. and played the juke box and danced. Great times, clean fun. Went to St. Jerome's confraternity. Good old 40th St. Park. Foster and Flatbush: hang out outside the candy store. Lots of fun. Miss the '50s and '60s. Haven't seen one friend since 1960.
Ray
So glad I found this web page. I just read a few of the letters and my memories started coming back to me—and what precious memories they are. I grew up in Boro Hall (which is now known as Cobble Hill) in the '40s and '50s. I lived right up from the L.I. College Hospital. Does anyone remember swimming at the St. George Hotel, attending St. Paul's church, having to be there for nine o'clock mass, playing kick ball, stoop ball, and hopping fences? I remember the haunted church on Henry St. Boy, when I think back that church scared me. Roller skating was a real biggie. Summer nights sitting on your front steps with all the neighborhood girls. Boy, there were some pretty ones. Brooklyn was a great place. I'll always have the best memories of growing up there. People: continue writing the memories. Keep Brooklyn alive!
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