| Date: Wed 02/7/07 7:16AM From: Yvonne Temann Email: yvmate@yahoo.com Message: Re the old waterworks property....about ten years ago, it was decided to build a new junior high school on the lot. At the time Blue Ridge Farms located next door was using the lot to park its trucks. If I recall correctly, the owner of Blue Ridge threatened to move the business out of state "if his parking lot were taken away". The new junior high school was to be the new IS 171 which had been overcrowded for many years. The original school on Ridgewood Avenue was to remain standing but contain only elementary grades. When I still lived in Woodhaven in the 1990s, I remember seeing the empty lot where the water works once stood, with a huge hole dug in the center of the property and a high mountain of soil next to it, supposedly the start of school contstruction. There was even a sign posted facing Atlantic Avenue announcing the construction of the new junior high school. After a lot of politics, the school was never built. I believe then-mayor Giuliani felt the location not suitable for a school. So IS 171 is still on Ridgewood Avenue and the elementary grades are in a new building, PS 7, built atop the old Cypress Pool on Jamaica Avenue. |
| Date: Tue 02/6/07 1:12PM From: Rosanne Meyer (Cereola) Email: Rosanne642@aol.com Message: Hi I lived at 219 Arlington Ave.My Grandparents owned the Nappo Bakery on Liberty Avenue. It was great to see a picture of my Grandmother in front of the Bakery I had never seen that one before. Thank you for the wonderful memories. |
| Date: Mon 02/5/07 8:07AM From: Yvonne Temann Email: yvmate@yahoo.com Message: My sister attended 149 for junior high (Class of 1958) and then Jefferson for HS (Class of 1961). |
| Date: Sun 02/4/07 10:52PM From: Pat Annunziata Email: Patannunz@aol.com Message: Matty. I remember Joe's Pet Shop. It was on Pitkin ave. Wilbur, Juju.......My dad was John Annunziata and my brother Billy remembers you! I remember that you could walk right into the indoor pigeon coops he hads etup. |
| Date: Sun 02/4/07 12:42PM From: JIM MINER Email: JLMINER96@AOL.COM Message: I keep reading about Willies Ices but I keep remembering the lemon ice place that was directly accross from Liberty park . It was between Elton & Linwood . I also remember one that was on Glenmore and Shepard . This one I THINK was a bakery as well but I recall it having great ices . As a kid I made homemade lemon ices for an old man "Tonys Lemon Ices on Glenmore between Ashford & Warwick . I would put chunks of ice into what looked like a pressure cooker with a crank on the top . You clamped the top down and churned for what seemed like a half hour . He would ad the ingredients and I would the rest .When it was done I got my 10 cents and a FREE ----SMALL-----one. What a guy . Then again the bus ride was 15 cents and you could but 3 LUCIES ( loose ) cigarettes for a nickle at POPA JOES. Today , cigarettes are what ? 30 cents each ? Talk about inflation !!!!!!!!!!! JIM |
| Date: Sun 02/4/07 12:21PM From: MATTY Email: MATTHEWSCELFO@OPTONLINE.NET Message: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER JOES PET SHOP |
| Date: Sun 02/4/07 12:05PM From: nancy Email: mangeo@optonline.net Message: Hi again Phyllis, Don't really matter which phyllis (its all in the family) but am glad you'll be giving my regards to paula. tell her i still remember walking around with her while she made bruce bender go nuts. hahah.....thanks...Nancy |
| Date: Sun 02/4/07 8:08AM From: PHYLLIS ISOLA SCOPPA Email: SCOPPACABANA@AOL.COM Message: NANCY, SO GOOD HEARING FROM PEOPLE FROM THE PAST. JUST NOT TO CONFUSE YOU, THERE ARE TWO PHYLLIS ISOLA'S. ONE IS MYSELF, PHYLLIS ISOLA SCOPPA, AND THE OTHER IS MY COUSIN PHYLLIS ISOLA. SHE ALSO WENT TO ST. MICHAEL'S HIGH SCHOOL BUT LIVED NEAR ROCKAWAY AND FULTON. SAW YOU RESPONDED TO HER AND THOUGHT IT WAS ME, THE ONE ABOUT VESUVIO. THATS OK...ALL IN THE FAMILY. I AM ACTUALLY HAVING DINNER AT MY COUSIN PAULA TODAY. WILL SEND YOUR LOVE. WILL BE HAVING DINNER WITH FRAN AND LOUIE ON VALENTINES DAY. SOME OF OUR FRIENDS ARE GETTING TOGETHER AND THEY WILL BE THERE. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. WILL ALSO BE SEEING MY SISTER CAROL THAT WEEK. CANT WAIT TO TELL HER ALL ABOUT THIS SITE. IT IS GREAT. THANKS FOR RESPONDING.... |
| Date: Sun 02/4/07 7:04AM From: JIM MIER Email: JLMINER96@AOL.COM Message: I lived on the corner of Glenmore & Ashford and directly accross the street was Mr. Marinelli, the Undertaker . He stored the statue of the SAINT that the men carried in the feast. Remember the people use to pin the CASH on it ??? The big shots in the hood would put $20.00 bills on it and all I could think at the time was to follow behind and hope for a wind storm. HA HA The feast at one time was on Glenmore Ave starting at Ashford and running to Shepard Ave. Does anyone remember that ?? And I very well remember Don Pepe on Liberty & Cleveland He had the best Lasagna in a big brown caserole dish that was so hot you had to wait 5 minutes to cool down before you could put it in your mouth . I graduated 6/57 from St.Michaels , my Sister Maureen from the high school in 1964 . Good times and great memories from that era . JIM |
| Date: Sat 02/3/07 6:22PM From: nancy Email: mangeo@optonline.net Message: Phyllis, Dom Pepe is still around., ate there last year and mikey is still there. the feast did have italian singers right on my corner (linwood and liberty)...i also stood with your cousin paula, give her my regards. thanks,, nancy |