| Date: Wed 12/13/06 9:57PM From: Mary DeStio (Simeti) Email: Muse409@aol.com Message: Spent the first twenty-five years of my life at 662 Jamaica Avenue, between Norwood Avenue and Logan Street. What a great neighborhood and a great block..... We would sit on the stoop until the wee hours of the morning listening to the radio on hot summer nights. There was always some activity going on as we had the pleasure of having Wetzels Bar on our corner, you could hear the jukebox playing (Summer Wind by Frank Sinatra) or the pool balls clicking against each other, while the bar owner (Butch) was given the talented gift of whistling full songs for his patrons!! What great memories for a kid playing in the dark on the concrete with the street lights glaring and the dead calm of the cemetary right across the street.... If we were not getting chased by (Butch) for playing handball against the bar wall; we were getting chased by Dr. Silio for making noise. Then there was always Zirkels Funeral Home and Joe & Jean Mazzios Deli on Norwood and Etna to keep us busy. For a while there was also a soda shop on Norwood and Etna; they had the best jelly rolls, three ring pretzels and chocolate egg-creams. Talking about snacks I can not help mentioning the fish store on Norwood and Fulton where you could get a bag of the most delicious french fries and then cross over to Cordes for a jill. Gee, thanks for the memories! Mary |
| Date: Wed 12/13/06 8:53PM From: CAL CLASSI Email: calclassi@aol.com Message: great site... I'm going through my albums and hope to have some St Michaels photos soon. ..funny thing, Im still close with so many true friends from back there.. |
| Date: Wed 12/13/06 5:20AM From: Tom Johnston Email: tjohnst1@rochester.rr.com Message: I am guessing that Rick Gomes may read this. Your brother Bruce and I were friends through grade school and Stuyvesant HS. I was at your house many times.I found Bruce through another friend from then, George Caravanos. I remember your mom and dad and your brother Dennis. I think you were in my brother Rory's grade, or my 2 sisters' class. Bruce said you put this site together. wow. the old neighborhood. take care. Tom Johnston Linwood St., then Warwick St. |
| Date: Tue 12/12/06 12:41PM From: Jim Raia Email: jraia@rha3.org Message: I grew up in East New York..P.S 159, P.S. 218 and 171...lived on Pitkin & Crystal,Pitkin & Chestnut(over Kordy's Bar) and down the old Mill on Pine St....left in '72 to join the Army and get away from the street...hung out on Crescent & Pitkin (C&P)...an old Crescent Boy...hung out at P.S. 214 and on City Line;Liberty Ave....my world and blood are on those streets from Linden Blvd to Jamaca Ave/Pennsylvania Ave to Grant Ave. I lost alot of friends early and unexpectedly...thanx for the memories... Raia |
| Date: Tue 12/12/06 11:47AM From: carrie blanda Email: cblanda@ftci.com Message: frank l: i remember going to some met games and booing them. anthony and i did, anyway. i think the school got the tickets from con ed for us inner city kids! my pic is on the top of the class foto. my cousin rosemary has the dimples! i was the soothsayer in the 8th grade production of julius caesar - didn't you play casca or some other notable? i remember sal gambino knew absolutely NONE of his lines - and he was marc antony with that long oration...somebody kept feeding him lines from the curtains. |
| Date: Mon 12/11/06 9:10PM From: Frank Lombardo Email: flombar1@nycap.rr.com Message: Eddie G - still waiting for an answer to the e-mails and the pizza recipe! (You remember the broken window up near Cypress Hills Station - I should have run with the rest of them!!!!!) Carrie, (are those dimples I see in the class picture?) hanging out up on Linwood St, near 108, if there were more then a couple of Yankee fans they weren't saying anything. Anthony G. lived across from me on Cleveland St. We used to play the Strat-O-Matic Baseball Board Game. Jose Cardenal was the card to have... |
| Date: Mon 12/11/06 7:14PM From: Jim Beck Email: jmbbeck@yahoo.com Message: GREAT WEBSITE !!! I was a Woodhaven kid ( almost 60 now) who grew up on 76 St. near 91 Ave. ( the end of Fulton St.), and spent lots of time traveling that route to the Cresent St. station,Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, Embassy Movie , Hamburg Savings Bank , Tilotta's 5 & 10 , Long Ice Cream Parlor , Ben's Drug Store , Polly-o's , Cypress Pool , etc.. I am still in contact with many friends who attend school at FK Lane , St. Sylvesters , Blessed Sacrament and PS 171. I will let them know about this wonderful site... ASAP. Thanks |
| Date: Fri 12/8/06 4:21PM From: carrie blanda Email: cblanda@ftci.com Message: hi margaret hentschel! i remember billy marino very well; he was in drum and bugle with your brother jimmy and me. i think he lived around arlington avenue someplace. i recall he had a great sense of humor.... to the 2 franks - pasqualo and lombardo - shame on you, there were other Yankee fans in the midst of you Met bums! i was a joe pepitone nut and anthony giametta was for horace clarke. i saw them both at old timers day last year; i often wonder what anthony thinks of the yankees today. hope all are well and buon natale! |
| Date: Fri 12/8/06 2:08PM From: Therese Email: tere19@aol.com Message: Marie, yes, I remember the song. I used to sing it to my daughter when she was an infant for her to fall asleep (even though she was born in June.). One of my most memorable songs of the old days.. |
| Date: Fri 12/8/06 2:07PM From: Therese Email: tere19@aol.com Message: Marie, yes, I remember the song. I used to sing it to my daughter when she was an ifant for her to fall asleep (even though she was born in June.). One of my most memorable songs of the old days.. |