Sorry Warren, but I just have to ask Joe G. something…To Joe G. I was curios to know if the Isabell you mentioned in the above paragraph is the same Isabell that I know of who now lives on Staten island. she went to Lourdes and she should be around your age…she is a dark hair girl, but I don’t recall her last name…she has a beauty shop around the corner from my house..she use to hang out on De Sales Pl at the time…
JOE G. THE GUY WHO DIED IN NAM WAS RUDY’S BROTHER PETE…RUDY WAS GOING OUT WITH A GIRL ON THE SAME BLOCK WHERE I LIVED, I THINK HER NAME WAS CONNIE…I REMEMBER WHEN HE DIED…ALAN NORRIS DON’T REMEMBER THE NAME BUT I DO REMEMBER A GIRL CLASSMATE OF MINE BY THE LAST NAME NORRIS….BUT DO YOU REMEMBER A GUY BY THE NAME OF ALAN BURSACK…HE USE TO GO AROUND BREAKING INTO SOME OF THE NEIGHBOR’S HOUSES AT THAT TIME…AND NOW THAT YOU MENTIONED IT JIMMY THE ICE CREME MAN DID LOOK LIKE MICKEY MANTLE…LOL. I’M SURE I SEEN YOU AROUND BACK THEN…
JOE, I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE STATUE OF ST. PETER’S. THAT WAS A BIG HEAVY STATUE. I FEEL BAD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT BEAUTIFUL CHURCH. I REMEMBER GOING SHOPPING ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH MY MOTHER AT KEY FOOD, COMMING OUT OF THE STORE WE CROSSED THE STREET HEADING HOME, WHEN I SAW A MAN WITH A GUN POINTING IT TO A WOMAN ON THE GROUND LIKE HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT HER…I WAS ABOUT 14 AT THE TIME BUT THAT ALWAYS STAYED IN MY MIND… MY MOTHER AND I RAN AND TOOK OFF THE OTHER WAY TOWARD BUSHWICK AVE. THAT WAS IN THE LATE 60’S.
THANKS JOE G. I ALSO MOVED AWAY LABOR DAY WEEKEND 1971. SO LOUIE WAS IN YOUR CLASS. HE ALSO HAD A SISTER A COUPLE OF YRS OLDER THEN ME HER NAME WAS JOYCE. I WAS IN HE’S OTHER SISTER’S CLASS HER NAME WAS DONNA AND SHE HAD A TWIN BROTHER NAMED KEVIN…YES NOW I REMEMBER THE FRANCISCAN BROTHERS HOUSE ON ABERDEEN ACROSS FROM THE SCHOOL. I MUST HAVE SEEN YOU AROUND WAY BACK THEN.. AT THAT TIME THE BOYS WERE SEPARATE FROM THE GIRLS, WE HAD NUNS TEACHING US AND YOU MUST OF HAD THE BROTHERS. DO YOU REMEMBER FR. SMITH? REMEMBER THE FIRST HAMBUGER PLACE CALLED MR. TOPS ON BUSHWICK AVE. ACROSS FROM THE CEMETERY ENTRANCE? DONNA AND I GOT MUGGED THERE ONCE A FEW KIDS TOOK OUR MEAL. DO YOU REMEMBER THEY USE TO CALL THE MEN THAT USE TO PATROL THE CEMETERY AT NITE “CHICKIES”? A FEW OF THE KIDS ON THE BLOCK WOULD GO INTO THE CEMETREY LATE AT NITE AND THEY WOULD COME OUT RUNNING SAYING THE CHICKIES ARE AFTER US. THERE WAS ALSO A DELI ON THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND DESALES PL. I DON’T REMEMBER THE NAME BUT ALL THE KIDS WOULD GO THERE FROM SCHOOL AND BUY THERE SNACKS. REMEMBER THE BAZAARS THEY HAD IN THE SCHOOL YARD, AND THE SCHOOL TRIPS TO THE WORLDS FAIR AND RYE BEACH? DID YOU KNOW THE LOVETT’S FAMILY THEY WENT TO OLL. I THINK THERE WERE ABOUT 7 KIDS, THE OLDEST WAS TOMMY AND A SISTER NAMED PAT. I STILL HAVE A FEW OF THOSE CLASS PICTURES. I’LL TELL YOU, I HAD A GOOD TIME GROWING UP THERE. WHEN I WENT BACK THE OTHER DAY IT WASN’T THE SAME. I ASKED SOMEONE HOW MUCH THE HOUSES WHERE GOING FOR AND HE SAID IN THE 400..AND TO THINK MY FATHER PAYED ABOUT 7,000 BACK IN 64. I’M 52 SO YOU MUST BE 55 NOW RIGHT?
ONE MORE THING DO YOU REMEMBER THE CANDY/SODA SHOP AT THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND ABBERDEEN ST. ACROSS FROM THE SCHOOL…I REMEMBER AFTER SCHOOL OR CHURCH GOING IN TO BUY PENNY CANDY OR HAVING A LIME RICKY WITH FRIENDS…DON’T REMEMBER IF THEY HAD BOOTHS IN THE BACK…I KNOW THEY HAD STOOLS…
BY THE WAY FAND R’S WERE SOME KID OF GANG FERMAN AND ROCKAWAY BOYS I THINK IT MEANT…THE NEIGHBOR WAS STARTING TO GO DOWNHILL WHEN I MOVED OUT BACK IN SEPT.71 ALL THE OLD NEIGBOR’S MOVED AWAY ALREADY…I THINK THERE WAS AN OLD FACTORY UP ON THAT BLOCK WHERE YOUR PARENTS WERE GOING TO BUY A HOUSE…
HI AGAIN…I HAD IT IN MY HEAD TO VISIT THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD AND SO I DID…I DRAGED MY SISTER WITH ME AND I WENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON…I HAD TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY FROM STATEN ISLAND BUT IT WASN’T SO BAD…TOOK THE BELT AND GOT OFF AT PENNSYLVANIA AVE. AND TOOK THAT STRAGHT UP TO BUSHWICK AVE. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, ONE OF MY BEST GIRLFRIENDS GROWING UP THERE LIVED AT 1561 BUSHWICK AVE. RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM DESALES PL. HER NAME IS DONNA MASSARI AND SHE HAD AN OLDER BROTHER NAMED LOUIE AND HER TWIN BROTHER KEVIN. I REMEMBER ALL THE KIDS FROM THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD ALL COME AND PLAY ON THE BLOCK, STICK BALL ECT. I HAVE TO SAY THE BLOCK SEEMED SO SMALL TO ME COMPARED TO WHEN I LIVED THERE…I SEEN AN OLD NEIGHBOR FROM ACCROSS THE STREET FROM MY HOUSE AND HIS MOTHER SHE REMEMBERED ME AND MY FAMILY…I DROVE DOWN TO BROADWAY AND AROUND THE OLD SCHOOL BUT IT WASN’T THE SAME WITHOUT THE CHURCH THERE. I HAVE TO GO THERE AGAIN BY MYSELF ONE DAY AND TAKE THE TIME TO SEE THINGS MY SISTER WAS RUSHING ME…THE NEIGHBOR TOLD ME THEY HAD A BLOCK PARTY JUST LAST WEEKEND…I REMEMBER THEM THEY USE TO ROAST A BIG SIZE PIG OUTSIDE. BUT I CAN’T GET OVER THE BLOCK HOW LITTLE IT LOOKED…EVEN THE HOUSES LOOKED SMALL…THEY SEEM SO MUCH BIGGER BUT THEN…I SEEN THE ENTERANCE OF THE SUBWAY STATION, THE BUSHWICK AND ABBERDEEN STATION. I DONR RECALL THE NAME OF THAT PARK ON ABBERDEEN ST…USE TO GO THERE ONCE IN A WHILE…NEXT TIME I HAVE TO GO EARLY SO I CAN LOOK AROUND…I FIND IT HARD TO LOG INTO THAT WEB SIT…AFTER I LOG IN HOW DO I GET TO BUSHWICK BUDDIES?
Hi all,my name is Lisa,
I’m glad I found this blog. I use to live at 65 De Sales Pl. around 1963 to 71. It was a dead end block because of Evergreen Cemetery. I also went to Our Lady of Lourdes school, I graduated from there in 1969. It was a beautiful church. I felt bad when I heard it was demolished back in the early 1970’s because of a fire. I remember the Key food supermarket on Broadway and the Bargain Town store. Does anyone remember the Bohack store on the corner of Broadway and De Sales? I remember being in school and the kids talking about the F&R’s. One of the girls in my class said she new some members, she also told me she was in the gang. I remember the ice creme man who came to my block about three times a day, he had strawberry blond hair and us kids called him “Jimmy the bungalow”. I remember him arguing with the good humor man at times. I also remember one of my girlfriend’s mother who lived on the block would take us for a stroll and picnic in Evergreen Cemetery. That cemetery was like a huge park. Some of the older kids on the block would go into the cemetery at nite but the security men would chance them out, but I remember the kids would refer to them by the name “Chickie”. Does anyone recall that? A big treat at the time was being allowed to go to Cypress Hills pool. I would love to go back and see the old neighborhood. I live on Staten Island now. I had a great childhood there playing all the street games like, ringo-livio, do you remember the game skelly? At that time you would know the name of the neighborhood cop. The one I remember, I think his name was “Murphy the cop” as he was called back then. He was nice to all the kids.
ok Joe G. I will…
Sorry Warren, but I just have to ask Joe G. something…To Joe G. I was curios to know if the Isabell you mentioned in the above paragraph is the same Isabell that I know of who now lives on Staten island. she went to Lourdes and she should be around your age…she is a dark hair girl, but I don’t recall her last name…she has a beauty shop around the corner from my house..she use to hang out on De Sales Pl at the time…
yes a reuion would be great…i went to lourdes between 64 to 69
JOE G. THE GUY WHO DIED IN NAM WAS RUDY’S BROTHER PETE…RUDY WAS GOING OUT WITH A GIRL ON THE SAME BLOCK WHERE I LIVED, I THINK HER NAME WAS CONNIE…I REMEMBER WHEN HE DIED…ALAN NORRIS DON’T REMEMBER THE NAME BUT I DO REMEMBER A GIRL CLASSMATE OF MINE BY THE LAST NAME NORRIS….BUT DO YOU REMEMBER A GUY BY THE NAME OF ALAN BURSACK…HE USE TO GO AROUND BREAKING INTO SOME OF THE NEIGHBOR’S HOUSES AT THAT TIME…AND NOW THAT YOU MENTIONED IT JIMMY THE ICE CREME MAN DID LOOK LIKE MICKEY MANTLE…LOL. I’M SURE I SEEN YOU AROUND BACK THEN…
JOE, I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE STATUE OF ST. PETER’S. THAT WAS A BIG HEAVY STATUE. I FEEL BAD ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT BEAUTIFUL CHURCH. I REMEMBER GOING SHOPPING ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH MY MOTHER AT KEY FOOD, COMMING OUT OF THE STORE WE CROSSED THE STREET HEADING HOME, WHEN I SAW A MAN WITH A GUN POINTING IT TO A WOMAN ON THE GROUND LIKE HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT HER…I WAS ABOUT 14 AT THE TIME BUT THAT ALWAYS STAYED IN MY MIND… MY MOTHER AND I RAN AND TOOK OFF THE OTHER WAY TOWARD BUSHWICK AVE. THAT WAS IN THE LATE 60’S.
THANKS JOE G. I ALSO MOVED AWAY LABOR DAY WEEKEND 1971. SO LOUIE WAS IN YOUR CLASS. HE ALSO HAD A SISTER A COUPLE OF YRS OLDER THEN ME HER NAME WAS JOYCE. I WAS IN HE’S OTHER SISTER’S CLASS HER NAME WAS DONNA AND SHE HAD A TWIN BROTHER NAMED KEVIN…YES NOW I REMEMBER THE FRANCISCAN BROTHERS HOUSE ON ABERDEEN ACROSS FROM THE SCHOOL. I MUST HAVE SEEN YOU AROUND WAY BACK THEN.. AT THAT TIME THE BOYS WERE SEPARATE FROM THE GIRLS, WE HAD NUNS TEACHING US AND YOU MUST OF HAD THE BROTHERS. DO YOU REMEMBER FR. SMITH? REMEMBER THE FIRST HAMBUGER PLACE CALLED MR. TOPS ON BUSHWICK AVE. ACROSS FROM THE CEMETERY ENTRANCE? DONNA AND I GOT MUGGED THERE ONCE A FEW KIDS TOOK OUR MEAL. DO YOU REMEMBER THEY USE TO CALL THE MEN THAT USE TO PATROL THE CEMETERY AT NITE “CHICKIES”? A FEW OF THE KIDS ON THE BLOCK WOULD GO INTO THE CEMETREY LATE AT NITE AND THEY WOULD COME OUT RUNNING SAYING THE CHICKIES ARE AFTER US. THERE WAS ALSO A DELI ON THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND DESALES PL. I DON’T REMEMBER THE NAME BUT ALL THE KIDS WOULD GO THERE FROM SCHOOL AND BUY THERE SNACKS. REMEMBER THE BAZAARS THEY HAD IN THE SCHOOL YARD, AND THE SCHOOL TRIPS TO THE WORLDS FAIR AND RYE BEACH? DID YOU KNOW THE LOVETT’S FAMILY THEY WENT TO OLL. I THINK THERE WERE ABOUT 7 KIDS, THE OLDEST WAS TOMMY AND A SISTER NAMED PAT. I STILL HAVE A FEW OF THOSE CLASS PICTURES. I’LL TELL YOU, I HAD A GOOD TIME GROWING UP THERE. WHEN I WENT BACK THE OTHER DAY IT WASN’T THE SAME. I ASKED SOMEONE HOW MUCH THE HOUSES WHERE GOING FOR AND HE SAID IN THE 400..AND TO THINK MY FATHER PAYED ABOUT 7,000 BACK IN 64. I’M 52 SO YOU MUST BE 55 NOW RIGHT?
ONE MORE THING DO YOU REMEMBER THE CANDY/SODA SHOP AT THE CORNER OF BROADWAY AND ABBERDEEN ST. ACROSS FROM THE SCHOOL…I REMEMBER AFTER SCHOOL OR CHURCH GOING IN TO BUY PENNY CANDY OR HAVING A LIME RICKY WITH FRIENDS…DON’T REMEMBER IF THEY HAD BOOTHS IN THE BACK…I KNOW THEY HAD STOOLS…
BY THE WAY FAND R’S WERE SOME KID OF GANG FERMAN AND ROCKAWAY BOYS I THINK IT MEANT…THE NEIGHBOR WAS STARTING TO GO DOWNHILL WHEN I MOVED OUT BACK IN SEPT.71 ALL THE OLD NEIGBOR’S MOVED AWAY ALREADY…I THINK THERE WAS AN OLD FACTORY UP ON THAT BLOCK WHERE YOUR PARENTS WERE GOING TO BUY A HOUSE…
HI AGAIN…I HAD IT IN MY HEAD TO VISIT THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD AND SO I DID…I DRAGED MY SISTER WITH ME AND I WENT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON…I HAD TO DRIVE ALL THE WAY FROM STATEN ISLAND BUT IT WASN’T SO BAD…TOOK THE BELT AND GOT OFF AT PENNSYLVANIA AVE. AND TOOK THAT STRAGHT UP TO BUSHWICK AVE. I HAVE TO TELL YOU, ONE OF MY BEST GIRLFRIENDS GROWING UP THERE LIVED AT 1561 BUSHWICK AVE. RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM DESALES PL. HER NAME IS DONNA MASSARI AND SHE HAD AN OLDER BROTHER NAMED LOUIE AND HER TWIN BROTHER KEVIN. I REMEMBER ALL THE KIDS FROM THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD ALL COME AND PLAY ON THE BLOCK, STICK BALL ECT. I HAVE TO SAY THE BLOCK SEEMED SO SMALL TO ME COMPARED TO WHEN I LIVED THERE…I SEEN AN OLD NEIGHBOR FROM ACCROSS THE STREET FROM MY HOUSE AND HIS MOTHER SHE REMEMBERED ME AND MY FAMILY…I DROVE DOWN TO BROADWAY AND AROUND THE OLD SCHOOL BUT IT WASN’T THE SAME WITHOUT THE CHURCH THERE. I HAVE TO GO THERE AGAIN BY MYSELF ONE DAY AND TAKE THE TIME TO SEE THINGS MY SISTER WAS RUSHING ME…THE NEIGHBOR TOLD ME THEY HAD A BLOCK PARTY JUST LAST WEEKEND…I REMEMBER THEM THEY USE TO ROAST A BIG SIZE PIG OUTSIDE. BUT I CAN’T GET OVER THE BLOCK HOW LITTLE IT LOOKED…EVEN THE HOUSES LOOKED SMALL…THEY SEEM SO MUCH BIGGER BUT THEN…I SEEN THE ENTERANCE OF THE SUBWAY STATION, THE BUSHWICK AND ABBERDEEN STATION. I DONR RECALL THE NAME OF THAT PARK ON ABBERDEEN ST…USE TO GO THERE ONCE IN A WHILE…NEXT TIME I HAVE TO GO EARLY SO I CAN LOOK AROUND…I FIND IT HARD TO LOG INTO THAT WEB SIT…AFTER I LOG IN HOW DO I GET TO BUSHWICK BUDDIES?
Hi all,my name is Lisa,
I’m glad I found this blog. I use to live at 65 De Sales Pl. around 1963 to 71. It was a dead end block because of Evergreen Cemetery. I also went to Our Lady of Lourdes school, I graduated from there in 1969. It was a beautiful church. I felt bad when I heard it was demolished back in the early 1970’s because of a fire. I remember the Key food supermarket on Broadway and the Bargain Town store. Does anyone remember the Bohack store on the corner of Broadway and De Sales? I remember being in school and the kids talking about the F&R’s. One of the girls in my class said she new some members, she also told me she was in the gang. I remember the ice creme man who came to my block about three times a day, he had strawberry blond hair and us kids called him “Jimmy the bungalow”. I remember him arguing with the good humor man at times. I also remember one of my girlfriend’s mother who lived on the block would take us for a stroll and picnic in Evergreen Cemetery. That cemetery was like a huge park. Some of the older kids on the block would go into the cemetery at nite but the security men would chance them out, but I remember the kids would refer to them by the name “Chickie”. Does anyone recall that? A big treat at the time was being allowed to go to Cypress Hills pool. I would love to go back and see the old neighborhood. I live on Staten Island now. I had a great childhood there playing all the street games like, ringo-livio, do you remember the game skelly? At that time you would know the name of the neighborhood cop. The one I remember, I think his name was “Murphy the cop” as he was called back then. He was nice to all the kids.