Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

Patsy, that mad face was not supposed to be there. Sorry!!! I meant that because we have to work. LOL

Carol DL: The Cookie Jar is fabulous - now Cake Chef stopped making a lot of the cookies that they used to have - no, I loved on Prospect Ave. between 6th and 7th - graduated from St. John's in '64.

Tommy A.....I emailed you Sophia's info.

Good Morning All - I'm at work too. No traffic, no mail, no phones. What a day! I think of it as a forced savings plan cause if I was home, I'd be at the mall spending money!!

Tommy - you live on the corner - your father was Sonny, sister Susan and your aunt is Geraldine. I lived at 680 - 6th Ave. - my mother was Mary the Crossing Guard and my father, Phil (who hung out at St. Anna's club), was also a santitation man. I remember you and your sister!

RonnieJ - that's the name of the place - the Cookie Jar! I'll make my way over that way one day and try them out. I've never been in Cake Chef. There used to be a bakery (I think it was Renator's??) on Forest about a block or 2 from the 440 overpass - they made a Napoleon cake that was delicious. Where do you live (I'm off Huguenot Ave.) and where did you live in Bklyn?

I loved the Youtube on Brooklyn games. I remember on Sunday mornings, the doorbell would ring cause we had to move all the cars so the guys could play stickball. I lost many a spaldine either in the sewer or on the roof of the lab. Do people even know what stoops are anymore?

The nerve, I actually have wor to do!! Will be back later.

Karen

Oh!! I know you!! Well, truthfully, I LOVE cookies - so the cookie jar is for me. I know you work at a law firm - MoF? - are you working too? Not bad to be in today - get to do a lot of cleanup.

Karen

COLUMBUS DAY PARADE ANY ONE GO ?

Lidia was there speaking about her cooking Show SaT. & Sun.

ALL the singers performing are great. Some give you the chills when they sing, Michael Amante - O Sole Mio. As I mentioned to Christina just for a "short time" this would be so nice at a future reunion. It brings everyone together in song. Anyone singing any kind of music live.
REMEMBER: Anna Fontasella -feast Did I spell that right?

Hi CAROL, and Hello Park Slope

I didn't go to the Columbus Day Parade but I had it on in the background. I try to watch it every year. Last year Lydia was the grand marshall. I love it.

Yesterday on PBS they had all the tours of Italy and Italian singers.
Great day for the Italians! Joe Piscapo and Maria Bartiromo do a great job hosting - they are such proud piasanos...... As we are!!!

Have you ever seen Michael Armante? I've been to at least four of his concerts. He is wonderful - and very easy to look at. :roll:

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I do remember the singer Anna at the feast. As we've all mentioned before, St. Anna's Feast was such a special time in our lives - 'a right of passage' and sign of summer, fun, and great memories. I remember my grandmother would give us coins to spend (I still have the silver dollars she gave us on special occasions).

My favorite purchases at the feast was one of those hats that had a feather and you can have your name put on with gold/colored sprinkles;
and the best were the toys on sticks, hanging on a string - I loved the doll who looked like Betty Boop and she had feathers all about her. Sill crave the zeoples. And loved to try to win the gold fish (think they usually died the next day). I also recall a game that had many packs of Lucky Strike cigarettes layed out, and you'd try to get your coin in the circle.

Enjoy the rest of your day... And thanks for the chance to go back to St. Anna's Feast.

Love & Blessings!
Francesca

FRANCESCA

YOU !! mentioned my favorite thing at the Feast, the doll on the stick, It was like a Kupie doll, feathers & Glitter, wish I had that put away somewhere like your coins.
And of course the music.

My strongest (and most painful) memories of Steeplechase were blisters I got trying to stop myself going down that huge slide. No matter how much I prepared for it, I always chickened out and put my hands to my side in order to stop. The blisters on my wrists pained me the whole day at Steeplechase, dampening my enjoyment of being electrically prodded by sadistic clowns.

I JUST NOTICED I AM AN INSIDER WHAT THE HELL IS THAT NOW???? :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

Terry, that is too funny................insider lol

MILDRED,
i sound like some kind of spy lol

Lydia's mom is cute; think she is about 85. She's on her show alot along wth the grandchildren. Think Lydia recently said she was born in 1947, so she's 61ish. Her daughter is nice, but I don't like her son. He's an
a..hole. I think he talks down to her; he thinks he's a wine expert.

Carol, yes - she was generous - but you should have seen the bill. ahh.
She did go to most of the tables to check on folks, which was nice.

I know I give the illusion that I cook - Frank (my husband) is the chef of this household. But we enjoy the cooking shows on Sundays. I get to pick
whatever I want to eat; and he cooks it. I use to love Nick Stallino but
he's not on lately. Loved his stories about his family and 'the old country.'

Pardon the interuption. I put up my first post last night but who knows where I posted it at this point.

My name is Arnold DeSena and I used to live on 21st between 6th and 7th. My mother is Jeanette DeSena. My Aunt Rosie and Uncle Louie (Marsella) lived on 6th ave. across from the lab. My cousins are Ralph, Joe and Lisa Marsella. I have more cousins that lived on 6th between 20th and 19th--Gina and Joey Puglisi with my Aunt Marie ( Bingo Happy). Just trying to touch base with anyone who might know me or the rest of us. I know Ralph has been posting here.

Debbie: was your Dad Nick? I remember him as a large guy...maybe he looked big because I was a kid...he had a store in my Aunt Rosie's building on 6th???

Terry: do you have a sister named Lori??? I think I went to St. John's with her.

If I am wrong with all this I am sorry to have interupted...