Posted by frank garcia on the Park Slope Message Board:
i lived on 14 st bet 5 and 6 ave
i went to ps 51 and then to manuel training high school
i rember germains dept stop on 5 ave and 15 st
there were 3 bars on 9st 5ave
smittys
owned by a man called screamer smith
next to him was dinkys
owened by a retired cop from the 72 precent named eddy
next to him was the round town
at times they served free snacks
then there was a great stake bar called the dixie traven on 20st 5 ave owned by a man named toddo marino
as a young boy i also raised pigeons
hope to hear from some people that rember this
on the Park Slope Message Board
Hi, Theresa P and Sarafina P were in my class. I remember visiting both at their home. But as I got older I stayed with Linda on the other side of the Street. I never knew what happened to Theresa and Sarafina. Years later the 1st floor in the Building where they lived on 21st Street, became a Spanish Church.
I don’t know if you heard about the Alumni for St. John’s School before they closed. There, it was great to see Margaret H (Dritto) and Ronnie J. Now we keep in touch via email.
They had a tour of the school and refreshments. The Auditorium was roped off because is was unsafe and the top floor was closed because the floors were soft from termites.
But I was glad to go where I could go. I was seeing in my head all the things that use to be. On the balcony I saw the nurse giving shots to children. When I looked down from Balcony I saw the girls dancing after the Sodality meeting. I remembered being on the stage in a kindergarten play. Later on in life winning at Bingo.
I took a coat hook and an old pencil sharpener. I needed a souvenier. I was sad about the Condo’s taking over. One went for over a million dollars.
The Church was in the Red, before they sold it for Condo’s, they were doing movies in there. Did you see Big Daddy? Well that was done in St. John’s.
I use to go to the 40 plus club there until I moved to NJ in 1999. It should have been called 70 plus. LOL it was a day of crafts and I liked it. I moved to 29th Street in 1977 then here in NJ 22 yrs later.
The area changed so much but the houses have sky-rocketed. I miss how it used to be. Remember the 72nd Precinct on 15th Street. & 5th Ave(now on 29th St and 4th Ave.). Sanf’s Mens store on I think 15th Street across from 72nd. Prect., Parker and Megna Drugist, The Army and Navy store, Daniels Florist on 9th Street.
Well this was fun. Till later, Santina
HI AGAIN, I KNEW JACKIE PRICE MY SISTER IN LAW JOANS SISTER HELEN MARIANNI USED TOGO OUT WITH HIM, BOY WAS HE CUTE. ALSO I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH CATHERINE PALLADINO. SALLY EARS I’M SURE WAS MY MOTHER’S GOOD FRIEND ROSIE ARGANO’S SON. PAT MIELE IS MY SISTER, BUT THE ONE SOMEONE JUST SPOKE ABOUT FROM MELODY LANE IS MY NIECE WE CALL PATSY. GETTING BACK TO 2OTH STREET 4TH AND 5TH, BESIDES THE SMELLY CHICKEN MARKET, THERE WAS THE STABE AND BLACKSMITH WHICH ALSO STUNK ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMER U WOULD HAVE TO HOLD YOUR NOSE ALL DAY ON THAT BLOCK. DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE SHOE MAKER ON THAT BLOCK. ALSO THE SEAFARER UNION HALL WE ALWAYS PLAYED BUNCH BALL IN THAT LOT. IT’S AMAZING HOW MANY THINGS U THINK U FORGOT UNTIL A SITE LIKE THIS JUST BRINGS BACK ALL THESE GREAT MEMORIES. LOVE IT.
SANTINA, CONNIE MIELE WAS MY MOM AND YES SHE DID VISIT ANNA PAGANO ALMOST EVERYDAY ON22ND ST. AND I WAS ALWAYS THERE WITH HER AND MY SISTER PAY. DO U REMEMBER CAROLINE AND KELLY IORIO THEY LIVED A FEW DOORS AWAY FROM ANN PAGANO. GREAT FAMILY AND GREAT MEMORIES. MY GRANDMOTHER ALSO LIVED ON THAT BLOCK MANY YEARS AGO.
Does anyone remember the bakery on 5th Av between 21&22nd st. on the same side as Rocco’s closer to 22nd st? You had to go down a few steps. I think it was next to the Gas Company on the corner of 22nd and 5th. GREAT JELLY CRUM BUNS !!!!! Sally Ears is in PA., Stan and Eddie Kozinski also. The lab on 21st St. is now called LabCorp. Was Kings County Research Lab when it was in Bklyn. Now it is the second largest in the US. Remember “Blind Johnny” always was in Benny and Ida’s Cozy Kitchen.
Hi.Carol.Helen Marianni lived two stoops up from me.She had an oldre brother Carl.Helen and I where childhood friends.I recognise so many names but Iam having a hard time putting faces to them.Its a shame about ST. Johns so many wonderful memories.I hear Coney Island is also going.Anybody know where Sally and Stanley are?Anyway everybody be well. MICHAEL.
carol, sally ears was ida and beny’s son on judy’s block. they were like family. judy called them aunt ida and uncle benny . the seafarers union my sister lori and brother carl worked for next to my house on 20th street. the seafarers had another building down by you. charlie siciargo also worked for them. my sister and brother rolled out of bed and went to work next to our house which is xyz car service now. the stables and chicken market remember how we used to run by thre because of the smell. by time i got to your house for work in the morning i would be ready to vomit. cousin terry
MICHAEL, CONEY ISLAND IS BUILDING UP. STEEPLECHASE IS NOW ASTROLAND. THE BROOKLYN YANKEES HAVE A BASEBALL FIELD THERE I THINK SPONSORED BY KEYSPAN THE OLD BKLYN UNION GAS CO. THE RUSSIANS ARE HERE NOW. REMEMBER WE WOULD SAY THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING GUESS WHAT????THEY ARE HERE. BRIGHTON BEACH, MANHATTAN BEACH, SHORE PARKWAY, BAY PARKWAY, SOUTH BEACH S.I. WHERE EVER THERE IS WATER THEY ARE THERE. IF WE KEEP SENDING THIS TO EVERYONE WE KEEP IN TOUCH WE MIGHT FIND OUT WHERE SALLY EARS IS AND THE KOZINKY’S. I EMAILED ANTHONY MEI DO YOU REMEMBER HIM FROM 6TH AVE. HE WAS AT AN OLD CAR SHOW LAST NIGHT RALPHIE MARSELLA WAS NOT THERE. MY BOYFRIEND HAS AN OLD CAMARO AND HE GOES TO THESE SHOWS EVERY WEEK. LAST NITE I SAID IF YOU HAPPEN TO SEE ANY OF THE GUYS I KNOW FROM PARK SLOPE GETTHEIR EMAIL ADDRESS. I CAN NOT BELIEVER ANTHONY STILL WORKS FOR THE LAB THAT WAS ON 6TH AVENUE. IT IS NOW CALLED LAB CORP. IT IS ALL OVER THE US AND SOME PARTS OF EUROPE. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT ALL THESE YEARS WE WOULD GET BLOOD TEST AT LAB CORP IT WAS THE LAB FROM 6TH AVE. TILL NEXT TIME TERRY
SANTINA,
I AM STILL VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH MARGARET DRITTO. I AM JEALOUS. I WISH I HAD A PIECE IF ST. JOHNS. I THINK WE MAY HAVE A SCHOOL DESK SOME WHERE . MY MOM WOULD MAKE THE FRANKS AND HAMBURGERS FOR BINGO. MARGIE ANGELO..SHE WAS ALWAYS IN THE KITCHEN. SHE WOULD PLAY JOKES ON THE MEN WHO WORKED BINGO. BIG CHARLIE SICIARGO AND MR. KLAYPAC. ONE TIME SHE PUT POTATOES IN THEIR JACKET POCKETS AND WENT HOME. THE NXT DAY THEY WANTED TO KILL HER. THEY HAD SO MUCH FUN RUNNING BINGO. IN THE 70’S WE LOVED TUESDAY NIGHTS SHE WOULD COME HOME WITH THE LEFT OVER HOT DOGS. SOGGY BUT SO GOOD. THAT WAS A TREAT FOR US. I STILL CAN SEE THERESA P HER MOM AND HER GRANDMA WALKING ON 5TH AVENUE. I AM GOING TO EMAIL ONE OF MY COUSINS WHO STILL KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH THE FLORIDA COUSINS AND ONE OF THEM IS SARAFINA. TERRY
ANTHONY, SO GREAT TO TALK TO YOU ON EMAIL. I AM SO THINKING OF THE CRUMB BUNS ALSO. I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME. IT WAS NEAR THE GAS CO. REMEMBER WHEN MIKES BAKERY WAS ORIGINALLY NEAR D’AMICOS AND THAT STORE HAD WINDOWS ON THE SIDE WITH THOSE HARD BREADS WITH THE PEPPER IN THEM. SOME ITALIAN IAM I CANT THINK OF THE NAME OF THE BREAD. YOU ALSO HAD TO GO ALITTLE DOWN INTO THE STORE I THINK THAT WAS IN THE 50’S MAYBE EARLY 60’S. THAT WAS HIS ORIGINAL STORE. THEY LIVED ACROSS THE STREET FROM ME. MARIE WAS THEIR DAUGHTER AND 2 SONS. MY DAD HAD A TOY STORE ON TOP OF THAT BAKERY. WE WERE VERY YOUNG WHEN HE HAD THAT. THERE WADS A FRUIT MARKET CLOSER TO 20TH STREET. THE SCHIANO FAMILY. MAN I CAN REMEMBER ALOT FROM THEN BUT ASK ME WHERE I LEFT MY KEYS I COULD NOT TELL YA. HA HA LOVE TERRY HEY WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TEDDY WOZNY WE WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS. I KNOW SOPHIE DIED. LAST TIME I SAW HIM IN WAS IN FLORIDA AND WE WENT TO HIS HOUSE. THAT WAS IN THE 70’S
Terry I remember Mikes bakery next to the pastry shop. Marie was the daughter, Anthony was the older son and Michael was the younger one. Teddy is in Colorado now.
Audrey,
Did you live near the house with a green picket fence? Do you remember Cavallo Plumbing? Was that near your house?
Do you remember an older lady named Anne? Everybody knew Anne on our block. Do you remember twin girls on your block?
marie,
did you live on 22nd street? i remember cavallo plumbing. the twin girls we knew were the lentini twins up 22nd street. down 22nd street between 4th and 5th avenu was annie schralli who we are still close to. we got this web site from her son michael he is my sister lori’s age. i think i am much older than you. annie is still on 22nd street lovely as ever and she is around 86 years old now. i do not know if this is who you are talking about. joanie red lives on the same block. she wrote a book about her life years ago. she had a few kids, johnny, paula who was missing i forget the rest of the kids names. they originally lived on top of the candy store on 5th avenue and 20th street many years ago. terry angelo sherman
Hey.TERRY. Yes Iknew Anthony Mei and his brother Joey. Their mother was Idas sister. Sallys MOM.I think Ida had another sister who lived on 21 between 5 and 6.She was Joey Fucies MOM.There was another girl that lived on the same sideof the church just a couple of houses up.Her name was MARIE.She was my CONFORMATION partner. Bye for now. MICHAEL.
Yes, Terry, I did live on 22nd street! I knew the Lentini twins as well! I’m glad to hear that Anne is doing well. Do you remember Jimmy Chiacciaro (I don’t know if I spelled that right?) What a man named Jesse?
I’m sorry, I meant to say
***”What about a man named Jesse?”
michael hi, helen marianni is well and living in new jersey, and carl is fine i think he is in brooklyn still, bay ridge, there sister joan much older was my sister in law my brother matthews wife loved her, she passed away about 8 years ago. terry, i knew sally ears who was rosie argano’s son they lived on 5th and 22nd near aunt neddie . there must be another one u are talking about. also do u remember caroline negri from the bar, she also was a crossing guard for st. john’s for many years. anyone remember chucky devito, danny lorenzo, fat danny, pete auletti, nancy savarese, grace cohen, fran bruno, patt helen?
My friends, Maria Taglianetti & Camille Liguori and I use to hang out with Jimmy Chiacciaro in 1966/1967. Also with Richie and Billy Catalano, Nicky Bruzzese, Stanley Wezak.(Can’t remember how to spell all the names). I remember all of us in Jimmy’s house listening to the Rolling Stones. Santina
Karen, I had a Joseph Perrotta in my class, are you related to him? Santina
I think I remember you with your mom. And yes now I remember Patsy -that was her name. I also sat on the front with Kelly Iorio, he said his real name was Pasquale. And Annie Scharalli lived next door to him. Funny story – my Mom met Annie when they were both in the same room in Methodist Hospital- Maternity ward. Diana and I were born in the same week in January. Poor Diana died about 11 years ago. The Manzione’s lived next door to them. Next to them were Eleanor and Joanne. I was on that block from 1963 to 1970. Santina
Did you know a Diane Wozny? She was also in my class. I wonder where everyone has gone?
HI.CAROL. Thanks for the update on Helen and Carl.Shame about Joan They were all so nice.The Sally Ears Iam talking about is Idas and bennys son. Wegraduated St. Johns in 1960.They had a candy store on 21 and 6 in early 50s.Across the street on the same side lived another friend of mine Johnny Matula.Everybody be well. Michael.
hi guys,
i am trying to keep up here. diane wozny is my friend teddy wozny’s sister she was married to anthony m who wrote in the other day. diane is still on 21st street so anthony told me. god bless annie i call her every couple of weeks. love her to death. i want to be like her when i grow up.. ha ha i went to school with dee dee and lori is still very good friends with michael schiralli as i wrote before. i don want uou to thin im geting old and repeating myself like my kids say i do. lol. franky manzione died awhile ago. his sister still lives next door to annie. oh my god i forgot about e,eanor she was a big lady and joanne had a son. my mom knew her well. that neighborhood everyone knew everyone. having the store on 5th ave. my mom had so many friends. karen is my cousin she has two sisters annette and diane they are younger than us. richie catalano married judy occhiogrosso they live in florida. her computer is down but she will be on soon. jimmy lives i think in brooklyn his daughter just got married and judy and richie were up from florida. i visit her once in awhile in fla. me, carol, judy franny are still ver good friends……..MARIE DID YOU KNOW SQUEAKY MARGARET PALMA AND HER SISTERS DONNA AND FLORENCE? i also went to school with domenic bruzzesse and they had a sister nicky was older. terry
Hi my friend Terry. Thanks for the site.. I don’t know if anyone remembers me. I first lived on 5th Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets.
My grandparents lived on 20th street between 4th and 5th avenue.
i moved to europe for 4 years and came back and lived on 6th avenue between 15th and 16th street.. the house that was slanted and maybe the one people taught it was haunted..
I moved to 19th street between 4th and 5th avenue. then away and then back again to 32nd street. lived there and married Phil Santoli..we moved to staten island in 79. loved to hear back if anyone remembers me.
(i know you do Terry)
gerry
Some of the stores I remember on 5th were Rosa’s Beauty Parlor near 22nd, the Lourdes shop, where we bought mass cards, Rocco’s candy store, Anacreante (sp?) funeral home and Lockwood’s funeral home, Negri’s bar, Danny the buther, the St. Ann’s club, D’Amico’s, Atlas Savings Bank, Jack’s Deli bet. 21 and 20th. Margie’s Beauty Salon, the Laundramat, bread store. There was a children’s clothing store on or near 15th, Rosette’s, I think, that my Mom would get my dresses when I was a child. Later, as a teenager, I shopped in Miracle Corner.
I’m not sure, but I think there was a ice cream parlor, where you could get malted and such, on 16th and 5th ave. back in the late 50’s or early 60’s. I remember going there with my Dad. Does anyone else remember it?
Remember the RKO Prospect and the Avon? Back in the day, no one checked a timetable to see when a movie would start. Whenever you got there, you’d sit and watch the movie, even if it already started, then wait for it to begin again and leave when it came to the part where you came in. My family would do this on Sunday afternoons, then go to Loft’s Candy Shop on the way home, for a box of chocolates
margaret,
oh…rosas beauty parlor. i could just see her. the lourdes shop what was the owners name i want to say mrs. mauriello i could see her also she was a heavy set lady. lockwoods still there the sons we went to school with run it now. danny the butcher my mother always shopped there. i worked in lady fair in the late 60’s and 70’s. jacks deli was next to my dads store i remember buying devil dogs and eating them on a little stoop outside his store. years later he closed the deli and he became a barber. the other jacks deli was the clean deli near d’amicos. he was such a nice guy he had two sons i think. it was a very narrow store. i remember the ice cream parlor also.lofts candy store and there was another candy store i cant remember the name. someone might have mentioned it earlier. what about years later the mens clothes store capri i think it was called on 9th street and 5th. also how about the fruit market i want to say around 18th street maybe prospect ave the boys went to st johns. there last name i think was maresca not sure. the bobs record and camera shop. i bought my first 45 in the 60’s rag doll by the four seasons. now im showing my age. terry i got to get a life im always checking this site. lol
Hi All, I’ve been reading the comments and loving the memories. My sister Margaret sent this to me, Terry Angelo Sherman sent it to her. Someone mentioned Sally, don’t remember which guy it was, but if you remember Sally than you must remember my cousin, Charles Cirillo. I sent this site to my dentist George Bambara, another St. John’s graduate who lived on 21st St. near 4th Ave. I have to admit I don’t remember the bakery between 21 & 22nd Sts. but do remember a bakery next door to Totto Marino’s Dixie Tavern. How about Towbins Furniture and Frank the Butcher. I also remember shopping in Miracle Corner on 13th St. I know the Lentini twins, Anne & Louise and their sister Susan. Marie P – do you mean Jesse Lombardo (and his brothers Blaise and Bobby)?
Rosa’s Beauty Parlor started out near Mike’s first Bread Store ( either above it or above next door to it. on the 2nd floor. I got my hair cut there for my sister’s wedding in Dec. 1960. Then it moved to the other side of the street on 22nd St. Did anyone ever go to the Paradise movie theatre? I saw Rodan, King Kong and all the religious movies with st. John’s there. Later on it became Paradise Lanes. Ten years ago it was Kentucky Fried Chicken.
I remember Towbins furniture, bought my first living room there. Even went back and bougth my second one after canceling from Hoffman Krus.
to bad no one continued that store. My favorite memorie was the lemon ices from d’amico’s. I do remember RKO when the dave clark 5’s played there. If i’m not misstaking the movie was the three stooges before the band went on. I remember going to St Rocco’s feast and winning a bottle of wine.. How did they let me take that home?? Remember drinking it warm with a straw..did not remember the rest of the night….LOL
lived on 32nd street then..which i could go back.
My inlaws still live in the Garden Appt. on 4th avenue between 23rd and 24th Street.
talk soon
Hi. Karen. Sure I remember Charley. Me and Sally would try to tickle him all the time he had great reflexes We all graduated St. Johns in 1960.Son of gun I just remembered George Bambara.WOW.Anyway there was a candy store on 5th. between 21 and 20 I think her name was Angie she had a son who worked there named Burt.Again. does anybody remember the Globe Thearter Just above 5th.I think on 16 st. With Matrons and Flashlights.Bye for now.
OOPS.That candy store was Rosies and son Burt.
michael.
i remember the globe. my friend debbie’s grandmother a heavy set woman was the matron with the flash light. was it in the middle of the block and do you remember spinners. now im showing my age. terry
santina.
i spoke with judy occhiogrosso yesterday and jimmy catalano is her brother in law as i wrote before. i feel so sad he had a stroke while he was working at yankee stadium the other night he is doing very well thank god. terry
GERRY TORRES SANTOLI, (one of my oldest friends) ABOUT TIME YOU WROTE IN. HA HA TSLK TO YOU DURING THE WEEK LOVE YA…….OH WAIT PHIL IS ALSO ONE OF MY OLDEST FRIENDS FROM ST. JOHNS K TO 8TH GRADE. GOTTA GO GRADUATION PARTY WITH THE FAMILY. IM LATE BECAUSE IM ALWAYS ON THIS SITE I GOTTA GET BACK MY LIFE. TERRY
Terry, I sure remember the fruit market on 18th street. My mom always went there, and the camera store was where, I think, we all bought our records. He was such a nice guy. I went to school with Dennis Smith and Bobby Hubner, who lived over the camera store.
Towbin’s was where I bought my bedroom set when I first got married — still have it after 35 years. Husband says it’s the best set of furniture we ever purchased! One of the salesmen in there always reminded me of Ed Sullivan.
Don’t remember the Paradise and Globe theatres at all.
What ever happened to Pop’s Bazaar? Passed the old neighborhood recently and it was closed. I remember how crowded the shop was. You could never look around.
Does anyone remember the Rittenhouse family that lived on 22nd bet 3rd and 4th? They are my in-laws — married one of the brothers, Tom.
Hey Terry.Yes it was in the middle the.I saw the original movie called THE THING there. Scarred the hell out of me .Also seen The Creature From The Black Lougoon at the prospect. Take Care. Michael.
MARGARET,
RITTENHOUSE THAT SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH THOMAS SMITH AND MY MOM WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HIS DAD WHEN THEY WERE KIDS I THINK. POPS BAZAAR I THINK IS STILL THERE. REMEMBER YOU HAD TO WALK SIDEWAYS IT WAS SO CROWDED GOD FORBID A FIRE STARTED WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD. I USED TO PLAY WITH THE DAUGHTER WHEN I WAS SMALL AND I THINK SHE WENT TO BAY RIDGE HIGH WITH ME. SHE ALWAYS HAD REAL LONG HAIR. IT SEEMS LIKE WE ALL STAYED ON ONE SIDE OF 5TH AVENUE WITH ALL THE STORES. PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT ALOT OF STORES ON THE OTHER SIDE WHERE FELIXE’S WAS. THE OLD JEWISH BAKERY BETWEEN 19TH AND 20TH ST. WHAT WAS THE BEAUTY SALON CASA BELLA OR BELLA SOMETHING ON THAT SIDE YEARS LATER. WHAT ABOUT WHEN I WAS YOUNG LATE 50’S AND 60’S MICHAL MIGHT REMEMBER….THE PHOTOS OF ALL THE GIRLS HANGING UP ACROSS THE CEILING OF THE STORE AND THERE WOULD BE A BOX TO VOTE FOR THEM. THE REINGOLD BEER GIRLS. MY BROTHER CARL USED TO WORK FOR JACKS CANDY STORE THAT WAS HYMIE’s (dont know how to spell his name) when i was a kid buying penny candies behind the glass doors in the sore. THE LIQUOR STORE WAS ON THE CORNER OF 20th SREET RIGHT NEXT DOOR. THERE ALSO WAS AL TTHE PRINTER MICHAEL SCHRALLI’S UNCLE. I FORGOT WHO ASKED ABOUT JESSIE I KNEW HIM ALSO AND HIS BROTHER BLAISE HE WAS A FUNNY GUY ALWAYS MADE US LAUGH HE LIVED ON TOP OF ONE OF THE STORES ON THE SAME SIDE AS JACKS CANDY STORE. TERRY
Hi to everybody on this site
Just read all this wonderful memories I probaly can add somemore names and memories but havent got the time now. please keep this site going. THANKS TERRY FOR SENDING ME THIS SITE
REGARDS TO ALL
BOBBY OCCHIOGROSSO
Hi.again terry.Oh those Riengold Girls.Does anybody remember Raymond and Ronny Romensonto brothers. they lived on 21st. between 4th. and 5th.
Terry,
Pop’s was such a fire trap, but we still went in — usually just for green sox to match our uniforms. I sure do remember the Jewish bakery, my family would go there after church on Sunday to buy buns. There was always a line waiting to go inside. And, yes, there was a beauty salon on the other side of 5th Ave.
Michael,
Ronny and Raymond lived on my block. They had two sisters, Darlene and Renee. Renee was born very premature — she weighed about 2 lbs. –she made the newspapers. Don’t know what ever happened to them.
This site has really made me remember so much about our old neighborhood. It really was a great time to be a kid.
It’s me again. Just a quick question, wasn’t there a fish store on 5th around 20th street? I remember going in with my Mom, she always talked to the owner. I think his name was Louie.
Hey, I even remember the candy store Jacks! Yes, my borther worked there. I loved going to the back and sitting on the stools. My brother used to by my mom, two sisters and me our candy hearts there every Valentine’s Day. Did anyne mention the little grocery store next to the Pizzia place. It was inbwtween my Dad’s store, Michael’s lamps and gifts and the pizza shop. My borther worked there also. I remember the owner was a man, kind of looked like Mr. Rogers.
margaret,
me again. darlene was another one of my cousins. all my dads cousins lived on 21st street. the pintos and raymond’s family were related wasn’t her name rachel not ronny. i wish my mom and dad were alive so i could ask them. tootsie and tony, aunt fina and uncle raff all related to raymond, and the pintos. they all moved to florida when we were young. i am going t learn how to put the old photos on line. i have photos of darlene, sarafina etc in florida when they first moved we went to visit them. they are also related to joey and johnny leone. their parents were giggsy and jeanie. only brooklyn people would have these names. i cant remember the fish store. terry
Terry the Beauty Parlor was Bella Donna. Sorry to hear about Jimmy Catalano. I hope he recovers.
I think there was a Rittenhouse in my class, I’m not sure if her name was Paulette.
I remember Spinners. My mother used to shop there every Saturday. on Union St.?
Do you rmember J & D on 11th St(I think 11th)?
The donut shop on Prospect and 5th? Santina
Great stuff! Regards to my cousins Judy&Bobby Occhiogrosso.I will post some comments tomorrow.Good memories reading comments.My Grandfather was an ice and coalman raised 4 sons and 4 daughters on 15 Street between 5th and 6th Avenue.Good tmes growing up in Brooklyn.Have to run will return.Thanks to Therea and Alex for sending email.
Hi.Margaret.Yep. there was a fish market on 20th. and 5th.I also remember Renees premature birth.To the other Michael. I knew your cousin Bobby very well.Execpt back then we called him Archie.Great Guy. Everybody be well. Michael.
How about Pop’s Bizaar on 5th Avenue/18th St (if I recall correctly). They had a lot of junk, but sometimes good finds. I still dream of Lenny’s Pizza! I lived on 22nd St between 4th & 5th Avenues – went to St. John the Evangelist grammar school, Prospect Heights High, Brooklyn College and now live in California. Rocco’s Candy Store was a hang out!
michael boyle,
i remember the ice man was it the panza family? i remember a short chubby man with a cap on his head i was very young but i remember the ice truck. how are you related to judy and bobby. she is my childhood friend and we still see each other when she is up from fla. and i go down to visit. alex and teresa, i sent this site to teresa i just met her a few years ago in staten island through my friend sue ferrarra. i thought they would like this. do you remember the gils. they lived in the house on 19th street in the back. emiy was rudy’s sister. alex knows him. she is in her 50’s now. rudy and ariana were younger. rudy not that much but ariana is younger. terry
We called Park Slope — SOUTH BROOKLYN back then and we were Proud of It!!!
The Malt Shop on 15th Street and 5th Avenue was called Lorenzos.
Before 1959 it had a great ice cream counter and stools and Juke Box. After 1959 they put a pizza area and booths in the back.
Kids I remember:
21st St. – 3 & 4th Ave: Clara Castrogiovanni, Johanna Collao, The Rizzos, Angela Pazzaglia, Serina and Lena Foti, The Hendricksons – 14 of them, Louise, Katherine and Steve Misano, Maryann Pennachio, Linda Finamore, Camiell, Johnny and Bobby Marielli, Rosie Chappola, Elaine and Benny Calendreno, Sal (Jr) DeLeo
19th St 3 & 4th Ave: Chickie Arena, Bobby and Eugene Amandolla
20th st 3 & 4th Ave: Joey, Jimmy and Jerry and (Joanie?)Oniell
We went to Sodality at St. John’s on Thurs after school – prayed and then danced for an hour.
We went to Confirmation dances at St. Roccos but never danced with the boys. The boys just stood holding up the walls while the girls danced together.
The boys would also swim off the piers below 2nd Ave. One boy dove in and never came up. He drowned and that is why St Rocco’s Youth Center was built. I never went there, but 25 years later my children went there for Movies and skating.
21st Street had Italian feasts every year, St. Roccos had one. And there was also a small chapel on 22nd St. between 3rd & 4th and they also had a feast (all this was a long time ago).
I remember one year, my sister came home from Bay Ridge High crying the “Baldies Are Coming to Wreck Our School” They were suppose to be a motorcycle chain wielding gang (purely fictional) out to get the girls.
There was an explosion on the Bull Line Docks — down on 2nd Ave somewhere between 27th and 22nd sts. It shattered the glass 20 blocks each way.
One special memory was of the whole neighborhood dancing and singing. We all brought our tables out in front of the houses and ate so that we could all br together. As small as I was, this memory stayed with me forever. I never realized why I was so happy that special day until recently when I mentione it to my family. They told me it was the day they announced the End of WWII. What a happy time!!!
Does anyone remember any of this?
Marie
I remember the explosion on the docks. I was sitting in my class at Bay Ridge H.S. and the whole building shook. And that was on about 63rd and 4th Ave. I remember the boy drowning off the pier, and my parents and neighbors used it as a warning to us about going near the piers. I remember the “baldies” — your sister must be my age!! I remember my father and uncles in their Navy uniforms and the block parties at the end of WWII and throwing me back and forth to each of them (a vague memory because I was only a baby). Does anyone remember the ice cream parlor on 9th and Pros. Pk. West? About 10 years ago I was back there from CA and saw it was a French restaurant, and last summer I went back again and saw that it was filled in and made into another apartment in the building. Marie, where do you live in Calfironia? I live near Riverside.
MARIE C,
I DON’T REMEMBER TOO MUCH OF WHAT YOU WROTE. WHAT I DO REMEMBER WAS THE EXPLOSION. I REMEMBER THE THE HOUSE SHAKING AND WINDOW BREAKING. I LIVED ON 20TH STREET BETWEEN 5TH AND 6TH AVE. I WAS VERY YOUNG. YOU MAY KNOW MY AUNTS AND UNCLES. THE ANGELOS MIKIE, AUGIE JR. MY AUNTS WERE MARIE, EVELYN AND RACHEL. SOME OF THEM WENT TO BAYRIDGE HIGH. I HUNG OUT WITH JOEY COLLAO HE IS ABOUT 59 YEARS OLD. CALENDRENO I REMEMBER THAT NAME. JUST READ THE END OF YOUR NOTES. YOU ARE PROBABLY A GENERATION BEFORE ME OR MORE IF YOU REMEMBER THE END OF WORLD WAR II. KEE THE MEMORIES COMING TERRY
LUCILLE,
I REMEMBER THE ICECREAM PARLOR YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. IT WAS ON THE CORNER. I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME IT WILL COME TO ME AND I WILL LET YOU KNOW. TERRY