Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

MILLIE,
I never saw any of it. I guess I was too busy talking as always. AH!!next reunion. Love Terry

Hey Deb: You're funny! Yes, you do have competition. May the best blogger win. Gee, I hope Ellen doesn't read this, she'll punch both our lights out(lol)

Debbie and the Rest of Us: Sorry about bursting the jelly donut bubble and didn't want to be preaching. Just wanted to point out a few things:
1) Look at the average survival age of people today versus back then; people on the whole are living a lot longer today
2) Not everything was as natural as you may think back then. Pesticides and preservatives were in a large percentage of our foods. DDT and Chlordane, for example, both of which were banned many years ago were used indiscriminately.
3) Here's a bit of trivia. Do you know which fruits are the hardest to remove pesticides from ? Strawberries and raspberries. Why ? Just look at the surfaces.....soft and with lots of nooks and crannies. Not like an apple which has a tougher, smoother skin.....and you can peel it. So, maybe you should go for the apple filled donuts.

Carol DL, Yes I do have a brother, Peter, 1 year younger than me at 56, I believe he was in the same class at 146 as Franny B and Bernadette V, etc. I was there from 57 - 63, K-6.

Barbara, thanks a lot, now I am turning red, and by the way you look great in the photos.

Debbie S, Is Butchie from the Court St. area?

OK.....one last comment on food etc. I have been going to China since 1994 and I have been seeing some disturbing things. I used to joke that there may be more Chinese but we (Americans out weigh them). Now I see McDonalds and all the other fast food businesses all over China.....and now the traditionally thin Chinese have more and more obese, little round children.

Debbie Siciargo

I sent you a e-mail Thursday that I burned the CD for Charlie. I will be in Brooklyn Saturday if you want me to drop it off let me know. I don't know if you got my e-mail. I am having trouble receiving some. Please let me know about Sat. and if you received my e-mail.

Thanks Ralph S.

Janet completed 301 miles of her trip home.

hola:

Francesca: You are 100% correct about the water in Brooklyn, but what taints it is the lead pipes.

fran, if you are you need to go to actions, junk email, junk email options, block senders tab, if anything is there from aol please click remove.

Fran, my bad, I thought you were helping him on the tele for some reason.

Ralph, hope I was able to help you out.

HI BARBARA

HERES A FLASHBACK REMEMBER WE COULD NOT EAT MEAT ON FRIDAYS

OR HOW ABOUT YOU CANT CHEW THE HOST ITS THE BODY OF CHRIST
AND YOU NEVER TOUCHED THE HOST

IF YOU CHEWED ON THE HOST THE NUN WOULD WACK YOU UPSIDE YOUR HEAD
I GOT HIT SO MANY TIMES

ANTHONY

To All:

Janet completed 634 miles. She would have made better mileage, but she had to make an emergency stop (Nature Called).

She has about 70 miles to go.... Horray Janet you almost made it... :cheers:

TERRY !!!!!! Did I read you eat 5-6 donuts at a time. LOL

You cracked me up with Mike & his FLAN !!
Some people like whip cream some flan !! I won't go there T

Hi All-

Safeway --yes I remember and I was also there when Joe Joe Gronick tried to suffocate his little brother because he was crying. That family lived on 24 street near my house. I remember everyone screaming at Joe Joe. We used to hang out by Safeway to watch them unload the trucks on to those ramps with the little wheels and all the stock used to go down to the basement.
Do you believe Joe Joe Gronick grew up to be a very famous male supermodel? Imagine that!

My mother ran a corking co. next door to Safeway, Mundette Cork. We saw it all.

The bakery on 24th & 4th was Gladys' Bakery. The B E S T cream doughnuts and great rye bread. I used to get extra cream in my doughnuts. Now I'm wearing the extra cream.

The candy store on 4th Ave was Panie's her husband was TOny and his brother was Joe. Remember you went into the store, one side was a candy case and the other side was cigarettes, tobacco and cigars.

The smell was hobbile in there! I have no clue what she was cooking, They used to eat dinner in the back room but kept the curtains pulled open to see customers.

They always drank alcohol while eating dinner so, if you timed it right, Panie would e washing dishes and TOny or Joe would come out and give us extra candy. While doing dishes, Panie would yell, "Hey, don't give them anything. Take the money. Don't give them anything."

Ahhh the memories!

Have a great evening.

Oh, Jesse Viggapiano's wife emailed me a few days ago and said She, Jesse, Viggie, Sid (Ciapettaand his wife want to coome to the reunion next year.