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
Geri O’Brien
Hi, Frankie and Richie Letteri are my cousins, they lived on 13th Street between 5th and 6th Ave. Both are living in Caifornia now doing well. frankie is still married to Carol who also lived on 13th Street. Richie is still married to Jeannie. I will call them and tell them about this site. Donna
Donna Maxil – Thanks so very much for the information. My brother (John Gagliardi) and I were talking about the old bneighborhood & he was asking if I knew where the Letteri brothers were. He went to school with Frankie & I with Richie. Haven’t seen them in years. I always loved their mom & dad they were such sweet people. Are they still alive?? Here is my brother & my e-mail’s in case the boys would like to contact either of us……..
[email protected]
[email protected]
Thanks again,
Geri
Christina Oliver
Hi, I’m Laura Marsella, I don’t know if I know you, but I did go to school with one of your brothers and I think it was Anthony. I’m looking for my grammar school pictures from St. Johns. My maiden name was LaTorre and I married Joey Marsella, his mother is Rose Marsella from 6th Ave between 20th and 21st. She know your mother. I blogged your brother Anthony and asked him if your father was a pharmacist or worked in a pharmacy in the neighborhood. I’m not sure if I have the person., but let know. Anyway, I hope to see you at the reunion and we’ll all get together and find out who’s who.
GINA RICHES:
Where are you, have not seen you on the blog for a while.
Love Laura
FRANNY LAGRECA:
Are you going to the reunion. You have to remember me, I know you do. Love to see you. How is everyone.
Laura
Who remembers playing double dutch? Christina O you were great at it. Does anyone remember the pigeons across the street from me at Whitey’s house (danny). Sometimes he would sell watermelons out of a truck.
I didn’t see anyone mentioning POPS Bazaar on 19th and 5th.
Boy if you every need anything you couldn’t find they had it. The store was so messy but they knew where everything was.
Remember the underwear hanging outside the store. LOL!
Hi everyone, finally!
I don’t have regular access to a computer or I would have written sooner. This sight is awesome. How can you guys remember all those things. Thanks, Terry for bringing me down memory lane. Thanks to Maria & Carol for bringing me to this site. I will write soon.
Love,
Donna
Ann Marie Walton
Do I know you, I grew up on 6th ave and 19th street. I hung out on 21st and 6th with Judy Occhiogrosso, Joey Ciappetta, Eddie Bradley, Joey Marsella (my ex husband) and the rest of the gang. Please refresh my memory. Maybe at the reunion, I will remember you.
Laura
Lisa Friedland Esposito – You don’t know me , but I know your mother Dee & I just love her to death. In fact I just got off the phone with her. I just wanted to let you know that you, your sisters & all your cousins came from a wonderful family. In fact there were hundreds of wonderful families in South Brooklyn!
To all on this site – Thanks for a wonderful walk down memory lane. The stories are great. I know it was said before, but I need to say it again! We had the best neighborhood ever!
Geri
christine olive,
YOU ARE FUNNY YOU ARE TAKING ANTHONY AND PAULIE’S HUMOR AWAY FROM THEM.
the problem is people dont read and everything is getting repeated. the administrator said for every 1000, blogs we get kicked off. he had to i guess ,get us back on awhile ago. we had problems writing and reading and reaching out to each other. so alot of memories are being repeated by alot of people , the new bloggers. yet marilyn and alot of others are bringing new people and great info to us about people and some are just repeating sorry just shouting out my opinion which people are probably going to get pissed off about. YOU AND KAREN MY ASSISTANTS NEVER WOULD I GET MAD AT YOU LOVE YOU TWIGGY alot of the old bloggers are not coming on because they already read alot of this info. love terry
DONNA PALMA,
email me michele wants to email you and i will give you her email and phone number. you were such god friends as i was with margaret.
The two dentist’s that I remember were Dr. Singer and Dr. Felder
The best time at St. John’s was Christmas time….the assemby, the plays and we always got a box of hard candy.
Wednesdays were the best….half a day….those pretzels and milk.
Terry—where is Michelle and Carl…would love to hear from them.
Judy
Terry I need your email address
it would be nice [email protected]
I think there was a Dentist over Anncreante funeral parlor I just can’t remember his name
Laura email me I’ll send u pix if the girls
Vinny B email me I’ve got some pix of You
[email protected]
Jackie Reitz Where are you? Donna tell your brother to get on this I called him twice
JUDY GIORDANO,
CARL AND MICHELE READ THEY DO NOT WRITE. I DONT KNOW WHY. WHERE THE HELL IS KAREN DIANE AND ANNETTE I HAVE TO CALL THEM. HOW IS YOUR MOM SEND HER MY LOVE. LOVE TERRY
Mike the Ice Cream man was mentioned earlier on in the blog. Does anyone remember the name of the soft ice cream truck? Sometimes they would both pull up on the same block. Couldn’t decide on soft ice cream or hard ice cream. That was until Mike started making milk shakes and selling hot dogs & knishes.
Just more wonderful memories.
RUDY,
WAS IT MISTER SOFTEE OR JOLLY ROGERS I AM DATING MYSEF WHY ARE YOU NOT WORKING AND ON THIS BLOG.
DONNA MAXIL,
marilyn horan wrote she saw richard years ago and he is a therapist now. i told her i could use his services now. lol
Was the other ice cream truck custard king????
Hi All, especially the Palma girls,
As some of you so affectionately called her, I am the cookie lady’s daughter……..22nd street….
Margaret, I remember sitting on your front porch, also, for hours…and how many wonderful hours our moms spent on that porch, with Angie and Rose D’Lessio and Marguerite Brady…does anyone hear from Joe Brady?? I think he lives in Texas…
I live in Jersey and Elaine is in Texas and my brother, of couse, still lives on 22nd street.
Someone asked the name of the bar on 4th Av between 17th & 18th St……my brother said it was The Rustic Tavern…….???we used to live on 18th street before we moved to 22nd street (close to the Spinatos…..Henry, Guy, Joey & Anthony and their 2 sisters, Susan and Patricia).
Doris
judy, franny, bobby o and richie catalano
received your 10 dollar checks today. b.spencer paid in full thanks
Who remembers the park right next to the Prospect Park Express Way bet 6th and 7th? It was just a bunch of benches but we would hang out there a lot of nights. Also, does anyone remember a guy named Joey Dee? That’s what we called him anyway. He was the first in our crowd to have a car and I remember there was a very short, dead end street somewhere in the vacinity of Prospect Ave. above 7th and we would all get in this car at the start of the block and then he would gun it and then hit the breaks right before we hit the end. We all would close our eyes for the rush! I can’t believe we did that. We must have been out of our minds!
Hi Old & New Comers,
Someone mentioned the Crosby’s many, many entries ago. They lived next door to me at 682 – 6th Ave. They (Charlotte, Virginia, Salvatore & Joey and their respective families) had all relocated south (maybe North Carolina?) before I moved to SI (about 16 yrs. ago). I think the only one left in that building is their cousin Anthony Panzera. Hmm, I wonder if he’s still there??
Karen Dritto
hi Doris Ceely How is everything? My sisters will be so happy you are on this site. So many great memories Donna
Christina O I lived on 22nd street across from the at that time was St John’s convent. It was the house with the porch. I went to St. John’s with your brother James. My father was friends with yours, I remember you Mother and Father he worked in Parker & megna Pharmacy on 5th Avenue. The wedding was Jacqline and Arthur’s. send my love to all.
Doris Its been a while, how is Johnny and the boys, I miss your Mom there wasn’t a day that went by without her being at my house with my mother or just sitting outside. I talk to Billy every Christmas we make our yearly call. Florence and Donna now live in Florida how I miss them. My girls are all grown now Donna got married in October and the twins are 21 already. send my love to Elaine. Hope to see you at the reunion.
Terry Its jolly Rogers — yes we are showing our age now lol —
waiting for that call
Donna/Florence Miss you can’t for you to come up in October — xx x x x x x x x call you later
TWIGGY! Thanks for the shout out about me being the first one on here. I really never thought it would take off like this!
Terry – yes, I started reading the blog befoer I left and could not stop and was late this morning!
To Barbara Spencer: The park was called Rheingold Park ( so named by all the “teens” who hung out and drank — the two streets between Prospect Ave. were Webster and Jackson.
The dentist over the funeral home on 5th Ave. was Pianpiano.
Squeaky Palma — how are you? Don’t know if you remember me — I came to St. John’s in the 6th grade — Ronnie Jackson.
SQUEAKY,
remember taking the bus to 14th street to hang out and your mother would send your father to follow us and he would be behind the bus. we used to go see elizabeth from bayridge hs i think. i know i wrote this already but remember going to school in a cab with judy because i never was ready. your father was so nice. he was like my dad quiet BUT our moms they could care less who was around they would yell no matter what. love terry
Geraldine Gagliardi are we related? How ironic that Uncle Sally Orlando lives in Florida. And Nilda, yes, I am still very good looking.
ROCCO ARE YOU IGNORING ME I LIKE IT BETTER WHEN YOU PICKED ON ME.
hi debbie Bonavita: i played double dutch and was pretty good at it as a child; i wrote on the blog above that this summer the children on 17th Street wanted to play rope, Tracy Hernandez purchased a double dutch rope, the children had a difficult time getting the hang of it, so i showed them how to jump in and showed them that it’s all about rythem. to my surprise i was still able to jump, other adults started to jump along with the children we all had a good time.
Aarons is no more, it closed down i believe last summer.
Geraldine Oliva: i have not seen u on the blog lately; miss reading u. take care. call me.
There seems to be an unusual fascination with dentists and funeral homes in this blog. Perhaps, the psychologist who is mentioned by someone could explain this phenomenon.
Now ice cream, that’s something I can relate to !
I am still waiting for someone out there (besides Roseanne and TAS) who know who I am (and vice versa). Hey Ice Cream Mike, if you’re out there, I’d like a fudgie wudgie.
Hi Donna,
So glad to hear your mom still lives in the neighborhood. God bless, 85.
I have to girls, Nicole 25, Vanessa 22. Both not married yet. We have so much to talok about we will do it at the reunion.( I will recognhize you). By the way how is Your sister,Mary lou? Hope to see both of you on Sept.21.
Yes it was Deb
FUDGIE WUDGIE OMG
Rocco Jr – No we are not related.. I come from the Philadelphia Gagliardi’s, but have lived in the neighborhood all my life. I am a lot older then you & remember your mom & dad well. I knew your uncles’ sonny & johnny too. Uncle Sonny used to call me “Jelly Beans” when I was small & your Uncle Johnny used to tickle me & Flossy so hard in the candy store that we used to pee in our pants from laughing. I also knew your Grand father & Grandmother too. We lived a few doors from the candy store in the house with the steps down to the basement store. Hope all is well with your family & I know your dad was loved & missed lots by many. He was a special character……….
Geri
Rocco Jr – P.S. I am related to Terry Sherman, Carol Miele Vallaro, and Patsy Miele Kirk… We are all cousins….
Geri
HI CUZ GERI SAL JUST MOVED THERE RECENTLY FROM GEORGIA I HAVE TO GET HIS PHONE # AND GIVE IT TO YOU:)
JANET HORAN I DO NOT SEE FLO ANYMORE SINCE SHE DIVORCED MIKE AND MOVED ON WITH ANOTHER GUY. FUNNY THOUGH, HER SON CHRIS IS STILL BEST FRIENDS WITH MY SON JASON. CHRIS LIVES IN FLA HE HAS 3 BOYS. HIS FIRST SON LIVES WITH HIS MOM AND HE HAS 2 OTHER BOYS WITH A GREAT GIRL ESA. THEY WERE UP FROM FLA THIS PAST JUNE FOR CHRIS JR’S 8TH GRADE GRADUATION. THEY STAYED WITH US FOR 2 NITES. CHRIS IS LIKE ANOTHER SON TO ME. GREAT KID 🙂 PAT STILL MARRIED T0 MIKE AND HAS BEEN LIVING ON LONG ISLAND FOR AT LEAST 30 YEARS NOW. FLO’S TWIN MARILYN LOST HER SON DANNY AT THE AGE OF 27 0R 28 ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO IN A CAR ACCIDENT. THAT WAS TERRIBLE.
FLO’S MOM DIED A WHILE AGO AND FLO IS RENTING AN APT. SOMEWHERE IN BROOKLYN AND HER FATHER LIVES IN THE SAME BLDG. THEY SOLD THEIR HOUSE ABOUT 11 YEARS AGO TO SOME NEIGHBORS FROM 16TH STREET. 🙂
ROCCO JR,
imagine my gagliardi family and yours being related omg
CLARA GAGLIARDI
where are you i miss you and your stories. hope all is well you have not been on since we met did i frighten you lol love terry
HI MARILYN AND ANY OTHERS WHO REMEMBER THE BIKE RIDES ALONG GREENWOOD CEMETERY UP TO BURGERAMA AND HANGING OUT ON MARILYN HORAN’S STOOP ( ON 20TH ST NEAR 7 AVE) SINGING SONGS LIKE “WHEN I FALL IN LOVE” AND “TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM” ,TRYING TO HARMONIZE AND PLAYING TRUTH OR DARE IN WHICH I REMEMBER SOMEONE CLIMBING UP THE LAMPOST AND ROWING IN THE MIDDLE OF 20TH STREET . WHO ELSE WAS THERE WITH US, MARILYN????
Terry Great memories of 14th street also remember my father saw us smoking I said omg terry thats my father over there eat that cigarette. do you know what happen to elizabeth, nancy or carol I would love to see then,
let me know where to send my money to,
donna reitz tanzillo said
hi laura, of cause i remember you. i thought you forgot who i was.
where are you in staten island. diane guccione lives in new jersey, still married and has 4 kids. i use to see her once in a while when her mother lived on 22 st but now she live in nj by diane. she adopted a boy then became pregrant with twin boys the had a girl.
i looking forward to seeing everyone but who knows how many look the same. i know i don’t. talk to you soon.
love, donna
donna reitz said
terry.
i don’t know who said it, but i think it would be a good idea if we had name tags. a lot of us have changed. i would be glad to help you with them if you want. we still have time. let me know.
love. donna
ROSEANN PERROTTI,
i remember your name and i did hang out with marilyn,georgette magnavita. i know the name i can not place you. i graduated with marilyn. MARILYN do you remember when we would go to that park someone was talking about that they took down near the prospect expressway. i remember we were on the seesaw and you jumped off and let it go. my a– was killing me for days. at that time i did not have the padding i have today so i really felt it. i never forgot that. love terry
hey nilda
i remember you doing doulbe dutch. you were good .
me not so good. lol lol lol nilda rember sockies the deli /candy
store . where he had penny candy and used to stand there and
wait for you to pick what you wanted. you used to have to stand
on a box to get to it. lol lol lol
linda
ronnie if you are the tall girl with reddish/blond and the cutest face than I do remember you — im so happy i do, but if this is not you describe yourself to me. how are you – talk to you soon
SQUEAKY,
i bet we ate those cigarettes we were so afraid of getting in trouble. i dont know what happened to elizabeth i know her mom died very young. what was her last name? what carol and what nancy? i am drawing a blank.
DONNA REITZ,
i think twiggy is going to make name tags or maybe we should just write them out as we come in i think that is easier or we can meet with carol castaldo and write them up a few nights before. what do you think.see ya at church sunday. what about kathy shannon and mickey for the reunion and marylou. love terry
ANYONE REMEMBER CECILIA VERBA FROM 21ST STREET? I ASKED BEFORE NOW IM SOUNDING LIKE ANTHONY WHEN HE WAS LOOKING FOR NEGRI.
PATRICK KILKENNY AND THOMAS ROMANDETTI??????
ronnie jackson another name i know but cant place