Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

I saw in The Staten Island Advance Obituaries last evening that a Matthew Horan who grew up in Bay Ridge Brooklyn has passed away. He attended John Jay High School. I hope he wasn't any relation to the Horan family of this board. I was just curious since there are so many Horans and he did go to school in the neighborhood. Anyway, I hope it's not the case.

namaste:

Warren (Old Goat) thanks for your imput, for a minute i thought i was crazy, u see i was young, and my cousins more daring or i should say full of life. You see they were from the Paladium crowd, for a second i thought it might have been reis (spelling?) beach, but at reis beach they had mucho latin music, but under the board walk at CI i remember my cousins dancing, laughing and having much fun. You see in order for them to go out they had to bring me, i was the mascot. Maybe that's where my love for music and dancing was ignited. Every time i hear "Under the Board Walk" i think of those days, but most people i speak to on this subject do not remember the dancing and fun under the board walk. there may have been "things" going on under the board walk, but i remember a lot of making out going on there.

As an adult, i remember taking my children, along with Pinky and son, Carol at times went, and their mother Anita we would go to Sunset Park, that was fun, sharing a day with friends. We would always sneak in food.

Hi carol and Pinky.

Linda Joy, wassup!!!!!

Joanie Red, Josephine, Joann and Sophie: Hola

Ralphie and Rosa: Have a great cruise

Terry: U2 have a great cruise, have mucho fun

peace and blessings

Barbaraspencer: Be proud of your age, so many of our parents and friends never made it to our age. It's a good thing to be alive. Thank God

HELLO

VERY SAD AND VERY UPSET

IN TODAYS DAILY NEW

LUNDYS WITCH HAD LANDMARK STATICS WAS BEING TORN DOWN
THE COMP. DOING THE JOB GOT A STOP WORK AND THEY DID NOT OBEY
THE ORDER AND KEEP ON RIPPING IT APART NOW THATS A REAL DAM SHAME
BY THE WAY ITS AN OTHER YUPPIE GROUP THAT IS DOING THIS JOB
PUTTING A A LARGE HEALT STORE THERE LIKE THATS WHAT SHEEPSHEAD
BAY REALLY WANTS I DONT THINK SO

ANTHONY U.

SORRY BARBARA


HAPPY BIRTHDAY MANY MORE AND GOOD HEALTH

LOVE
THE UMBRIA'S

Seems like I'm posting a lot today. (Not to busy at work.) Speaking of birthdays do you ladies remember the birthday corsages we use to wear? They were big bows with ribbons hanging down and they had sugar cubes, life savers, and I forget what else attached to each ribbon. I know there were certain things and colors for certain ages and you just had to have the right one. Imagine the girls wearing those today?

Janet M Horan wrote: Old Goat: I had almost forgotten the semi x rated scenes we saw when taking a forbidden glance under the board walk.

Shows you how naive I am. I only thought the guys were taking forbidden glances. :oops: :oops:

HELLO MILDRED


MILDRED ARE YOU BABY DOLL MILDRED ROMANO DID YOU LIVE NEXT TO LARRY BOY ON 20 STREET? IF SO I REMEMBER YOU VERY WELL
I HAD A BIGGGGGGGGG CRUSH ON YOU

ANTHONY

Carol DL - yes I live on SI - off of Huguenot Ave. I know the Holtermann's bakery is on Amboy not to far from me so I'll have to check them out. Thanks!! My hips (among other places) love you!! I haven't tried anything from them yet, but I understand the new bakery (I can't remember their name) on Forest Ave. near Jewett/Manor is excellent, out of this world. I might have to make a trip there.

On that note, I'm going to get ready to leave. Very quiet today so I'm taking advantage.

All - have a great weekend. Happy Birthday Barbara - good luck in AC!

Karen

Karen Dritto: The bakery you are talking about is Cake Chef -- it's been there a long time and it's great. The best jelly donuts are from a bakery on Long Beach Island at the Jersey Shore.

I'm with you sis!!!! I'm having a beer right now!!! Thanks to this blog I've been craving a Jelly Donut!!! But because I had minor gum surgery I can't have one.

ANTHONY UMBRIA

MILDRED was slim, long brown hair. I'm sure once you tell her where you hung out etc... She WAS my sis-n-law , married Elliot many yrs. back.

It's funny when you find out some one had a crush on you way back, that happened to me on this site "SaL"

CAROL,
I love Holtermans. LOVE that cheese crumb cake thing. Some melt away thing. Farrell High School always had that at parent meetings..YUMMY Love Terry

OMG Gloria and Jolene have been friends forever...and yes she is going to her son's confirmation this weekend..what a small world. Hopefully she will come on the blog. Judy

Crushes: I saw Anthony Umbria's post about having a crush on "Baby Doll" (though he is not sure who she was). Well, as a teenager, let me just say that if you were a girl in my neighborhood when I was a young teenager, there is a 50% chance I had a crush on you. In some cases, your mother also and maybe your sister.