Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

Paul Giglio wrote: OK, here's my cruise vacation story...

We're standing on the dock in Bermuda, wating for
a shore excursion to the beach.
A woman comes over to the bench and sits next to
Ellen.....
ellen asks, Where ya from?
Brooklyn..
Where in brooklyn?
Park Slope...
Get the fu#k, where in Park Slope?
20th Street...
Anyway, it was Tina Barret, leave it to Ellen
to always find someone wherever we go.
Needless to say the list of names they were
spitting out is too long to list, we almost missed
the boat!

omg tina barrett. love that lady. she was part of the margie angelo gang... driito's, cirillo's, sclafni's etc etc.

happy birthday julia and max

Suzie wrote: Ohhh thank you MaryAnn.....I really need that cup of coffee! LOL

Have a good day and Ill see you lata also!

HI SUZIE, THAT'S WHAT I NEED RIGHT ABOUT NOW BUT WITH ALL THE CONSTRUCTION GOING ON OUTSIDE, I HAVE TO TAKE THE LONG WAY AROUND TO THE COFFEE SHOP!!! HOW OLD IS YOUR GRANDAUGHTER? SHE IS PRECIOUS.

hi maryann

thanks for geting back to me i was dying to know if
you were the girll i was talking about .but you are right
i think she was espsito ., but remember the name gloria
and jim dont know why they stuck in my head., porky is
the girl roe nic name she had a sister and i think two brothers.,

Hey Terry ....


MaryAnn she is 1 .....but she is so huggable.....she'll just walk past you and grab your leg and hugg you!

ok....coffee here I come!

roe aversano is angie aversano daughter
i used to stay with her ., so remember a lot of family
alaways had a cousin here and a cousin there., a lot
of family lol lol lo

awwwwww suzie how cute is that
don't ya just love them to pieces.,

Suzie wrote: Hey Terry ....


MaryAnn she is 1 .....but she is so huggable.....she'll just walk past you and grab your leg and hugg you!

ok....coffee here I come!

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such a cute age, mine will be 2 in Nov., talk to later!

lynjoy48 wrote: roe aversano is angie aversano daughter
i used to stay with her ., so remember a lot of family
alaways had a cousin here and a cousin there., a lot
of family lol lol lo

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Hi Lyn, Roe's sister is Mary Ann too. There were quite a few girl cousins Roe's age, I'm a little younger.

MaryAnnL wrote: Thanks to all of you for letting me know where the Pearl Factory was located!!! I also seem to remember talk of a chemical factory in the same area.

Patsy, where are you?? Was it hard going back to work this week?

Terry, did you find a dress for the wedding?

ALL this food talk is making me crazy, nothing like the food in Brooklyn!!! yummy

Festina, I still can't believe how our families are related, your cousins marrying mine, mine marrying yours! LOL Yes, Gloria was married to Jimmy. What is your mom's name?
Good luck with the new job!

Everyone else, have a good night!!!!!!!!!!!!

...mom's name is Gina DiLeo (in italian means The Lion, married name - guzzo), and her brother's, my beloved uncles no longer with us were, nick, joey and vito DeLeo (they spelled it with an "e" insteak of an "i" - a long goin argument in my family!

and thanks so much for the well wishes on my job...

Tina Barrett - wow! Small world isn't it. You're right Terry - she's a great lady. Haven't seen her in years. Shame, I think there's only Tina and Angie Piccolo left from that entire gang.

It's lunch time - doubt I'll be back. Have a great day everyone.

Festina - where's your new job?

lynjoy48 wrote: roe aversano is angie aversano daughter
i used to stay with her ., so remember a lot of family
alaways had a cousin here and a cousin there., a lot
of family lol lol lo

hi lyn!
how's everything? enjoying the baby?

u hung with roe (RIP)?
wow! yes, maryann is her sister, then there's joey, dimples, cookie, (lives upstate) chickey boy (RIP) and michael (RIP)...
luved roe - i used to think she was always so pretty when i was small.

amazing! how we're all connected.

karendritto wrote: Festina - where's your new job?

hey girly!
it's on west 3rd street, between 5th and 6th ave in the village.
named "the village trattoria pizzeria and restaurant."

they're just puttin the finishing touches on the place...soon to open.
are u by me?

Here's what I have to date.

LAST FIRST MAIDEN

ANGELA’S SISTER
ALIOTA TOMMY
BALLATONE MARIE
BANJANY JUDY AND BOBBY GIORDANO
BRADLEY EDDIE
CALCIANO JOANIE RED
CANTWELL JIM
CASTALDO JOYCE
CASTELLANO MARY C. STRIANO
CHRISTINE JOANNE
CIVITANO CHRISTINE
CORRADINO ANGELO
COSTELLO CATHY
COTTONE JACK (WIFE)
COTTONE JOE (WIFE)
CRISPINO MARIE ENEA
D’AMICO PAUL AND ELEANOR
D’AQUILA MARYANN AND BERNARD LA FROSCIA
DELNEGRO MILDRED ROMANO
DESENA JEANETTE LA GRECA
DIAZ AL (ELLIOTT)
DIEZ JASON
DRITTO KAREN
ELARDO EDWARD
FIORITO LORI JEAN ANGELO
FITZSIMMONS ROBERT AND PAT FOX
FOCCILLO ANGELA
FOX LAURA AND TIM
FOX WILLIAM AND TERRY
FRUSTACI, SR. JOSEPH
FRUSTACI JOE
GAZZILLO ROSEANN PISCIOTTI
GERDONEY RICHIE AND JOANNE TANZILLO
GIGLIO PAUL AND ELLEN GIGLIO
GIL BARBARA
GREER SANTINA ENEA
GREER JIM
GUZZO FESTINA
HAGARTY GEORGETTE MAGNAVITA
HICKEY MARGARET DRITTO
HORAN JANET
HORAN MARILYN
KANE RONNIE AND JOE JACKSON
KIRK PATSY MIELE
LAGRECA ALAN
LAGRECA FRAN
LAGRECA PHYLLIS APPROBATO
LATINA SAL AND CYNTHIA
LELI LILLIAN CIRESI
LO FROSCIA LOUIS
LOMBARDI JOHN AND MARY MORABITO
LOVAGLIO CAROL AND PETE DIAZ
MARSELLA ROSIE
MARSELLA RALPH
MARSELLA JOEY
MARSELLA ELISA
MEI ANTHONY
MONTIJO CONSTANCE DRITTO
MORRO ANTHONY
PALMERI JOANN MAGNAVITA
PAPACENA CAROL CASTALDO
POLIDORO TERRI CIRESI
PUGLISI MARIE LAGRECA
RICHES GINA PUGLISI
RIZZO ANTHONY AND ROSALIND CASTALDO
ROMANO MARGIE
SARACINO FRANCESCA BRUNO
SHERMAN TERRY ANGELO
TANZILLO KEN AND DONNA REITZ
TROCCHIO MARYELLEN & ANTHONY
TROCCHIO LOUIS AND SARAH
TROCCHIO LOUIS
UMBRIA ANTHONY & ANNELLEN
VENTO ELLA AND FRANK
VENTRIGLIA PAT AND MARIE
VENTRIGLIA JOHN
VENTRIGLIA ANNA
VENTRIGLIA BOBBY & KATHY
VINCENT MARIA AND DONALD
WERTS LORETTA FAULKNER
YORK HELEN YOOL

T-Bone51 wrote: Here's what I have to date.

LAST FIRST MAIDEN

ANGELA’S SISTER
ALIOTA TOMMY
BALLATONE MARIE
BANJANY JUDY AND BOBBY GIORDANO
BRADLEY EDDIE
CALCIANO JOANIE RED
CANTWELL JIM
CASTALDO JOYCE
CASTELLANO MARY C. STRIANO
CHRISTINE JOANNE
CIVITANO CHRISTINE
CORRADINO ANGELO
COSTELLO CATHY
COTTONE JACK (WIFE)
COTTONE JOE (WIFE)
CRISPINO MARIE ENEA
D’AMICO PAUL AND ELEANOR
D’AQUILA MARYANN AND BERNARD LA FROSCIA
DELNEGRO MILDRED ROMANO
DESENA JEANETTE LA GRECA
DIAZ AL (ELLIOTT)
DIEZ JASON
DRITTO KAREN
ELARDO EDWARD
FIORITO LORI JEAN ANGELO
FITZSIMMONS ROBERT AND PAT FOX
FOCCILLO ANGELA
FOX LAURA AND TIM
FOX WILLIAM AND TERRY
FRUSTACI, SR. JOSEPH
FRUSTACI JOE
GAZZILLO ROSEANN PISCIOTTI
GERDONEY RICHIE AND JOANNE TANZILLO
GIGLIO PAUL AND ELLEN GIGLIO
GIL BARBARA
GREER SANTINA ENEA
GREER JIM
GUZZO FESTINA
HAGARTY GEORGETTE MAGNAVITA
HICKEY MARGARET DRITTO
HORAN JANET
HORAN MARILYN
KANE RONNIE AND JOE JACKSON
KIRK PATSY MIELE
LAGRECA ALAN
LAGRECA FRAN
LAGRECA PHYLLIS APPROBATO
LATINA SAL AND CYNTHIA
LELI LILLIAN CIRESI
LO FROSCIA LOUIS
LOMBARDI JOHN AND MARY MORABITO
LOVAGLIO CAROL AND PETE DIAZ
MARSELLA ROSIE
MARSELLA RALPH
MARSELLA JOEY
MARSELLA ELISA
MEI ANTHONY
MONTIJO CONSTANCE DRITTO
MORRO ANTHONY
PALMERI JOANN MAGNAVITA
PAPACENA CAROL CASTALDO
POLIDORO TERRI CIRESI
PUGLISI MARIE LAGRECA
RICHES GINA PUGLISI
RIZZO ANTHONY AND ROSALIND CASTALDO
ROMANO MARGIE
SARACINO FRANCESCA BRUNO
SHERMAN TERRY ANGELO
TANZILLO KEN AND DONNA REITZ
TROCCHIO MARYELLEN & ANTHONY
TROCCHIO LOUIS AND SARAH
TROCCHIO LOUIS
UMBRIA ANTHONY & ANNELLEN
VENTO ELLA AND FRANK
VENTRIGLIA PAT AND MARIE
VENTRIGLIA JOHN
VENTRIGLIA ANNA
VENTRIGLIA BOBBY & KATHY
VINCENT MARIA AND DONALD
WERTS LORETTA FAULKNER
YORK HELEN YOOL

...and the ones i hav money for are:

john guzzo
gina passeretti
linda pascone caputo
kathy dinorio
terry gallucio
debby canfield
debbie bonavita mccarthy

...don't yet hav money for but r coming...

patty gagliardi cunningham
gerard cunningham
anthony gagliardi
terry gagliardi costa
rocco gagliardi
irene matula
margie williams
barbara skimahorn (sp)

ONLY PUTTING THE NAMES ON THE LIST FOR THE PEOPLE THAT PAID. DON'T WANT TO CONFUSE MYSELF WHICH IS EASY TO DO LOL

HI CUZ..YOU ARE VERY EFFICIENT..I GOT IT ON THE E-MAIL TOO..THANX

ALOT OF NAMES I RECOGNIZE...CAN'T WAIT..IT WILL BE A BLAST..

LOVE YA, LOTS XXOOXX

got home a few mins early from work and
spent the time reading todays posts lol

yesterday was pedicure pals day lol
jack saw me and knew terry was not far behind lol

janet keep us posted on your eye will say a prayer for you

thank GOD tomoro is Friday!!!

Debbie Bonavita McCarthy wrote: Paul......I think you should just solve the puzzle!!!!! LOL

W_ M_SS P_CK_NG O_ TH_ ME__????

Hey Deb I got it....... We Miss Picking On The Men!

Good One! lol

Paul - What a small world... Hey Patsy, didn't you live next door to Tina Barrett on 20th Street??

Suzie - What a sweetie, always thinking about others. The prayers are well received.. Thanks for being so caring!

Helen & Terry - I hear Jack has a permanent twitch ever since you girls left the salon... lol

Joke of the Night.....

An 18 year old Italian girl tells her Mom that she has missed her period for 2 months. Very worried, the mother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit. The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.

Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, 'Who was the pig that did this to you? I want to know!'

The girl picks up the phone and makes a call. Half an hour later, a Ferrari stops in front of their house. A mature and distinguished man with grey hair and impeccably dressed in an Armani suit steps out of a Ferrari and enters the house.

He sits in the living room with the father, mother, and the girl and tells them: 'Good morning, your daughter has informed me of the problem.

I can't marry her because of my personal family situation but I'll take charge. I will pay all costs and provide for your daughter for the rest of her life..

Additionally, if a girl is born, I will bequeath a Ferrari, 2 retail stores, a townhouse, a beach-front villa, and a $2,000,000 bank account.

If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a $4,000,000 bank account. If twins, they will receive a factory and $2,000,000 each.

However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?'

At this point, the father, who had remained silent holding a shot gun, places a hand firmly on the man's shoulder and tells him.

'You gonna try again.'

lol im sure u heard right geri

Poor Jack... LMAO

gonna go relax unwind check back lata

The Very First Ever Blonde GUY joke......

An Irishman, a Mexican and a Blonde Guy were doing construction work on scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.

They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, 'Corned beef and cabbage! If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I'm going to jump off this building.'

The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, ' Burritos again! If I get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off too.'

The blonde opened his lunch and said, ' Bologna again! If I get a bologna sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too.'

The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef and
cabbage, and jumped to his death.

The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito, and jumped, too.

The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bologna and jumped to his death as well.

At the funeral, the Irishman's wife was weeping.. She said, 'If I'd known how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would have given it to him again!'

The Mexican's wife also wept and said, 'I could have given him tacos or enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much.'

(Oh this is GOOD!!)

Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. The blonde's wife said,

'Don't look at me. The idiot makes his own lunch.'

Another One For Jimbo....

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut, and bruised, and he's walking with a limp.

'What happened to you?' asks Sean, the bartender.

'Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight,' says Paddy.

'That little O'Conner,' says Sean, 'He couldn't do that to you, he must have had something in his hand.' .

'That he did,' says Paddy, 'a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it.' .

'Well,' says Sean, 'you should have defended yourself. Didn't you have something in your hand?' .

That I did,' said Paddy, 'Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty it was; but useless in a fight!'.

Night All... See You Tomorrow....