Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

HI GUYS.

JOE I USE TO LOVE PICKING FREASH APPLES,WE HAVE A;OT OF ORCHARDS UP HERE.....BUT ITS NOT CHEAP PICKING APPLES ANYMORE.!!!

WARREN 5TH AVE WAS BEST AT CHRISTMAS,WHAT STAYS WITH MY MEMORIE THE NIGHT THEY TURNED THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ON AND THE SMELL OF FRESH CUT CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG THE AVE.

VERY COOL AND RAIN TODAY ITS FALL TIME WE BETTER GET USE TO IT.

PATSY HAD A QUIET WEEKEND....JUST WENT OUT FOR DINNER WITH MY SON A DAUGHTER INLAW...DID SOME SHOPPING TAKEN IT EASY...LOL

ITS A CHICKEN SOUP KINDA DAY....I MEAN FRESH SOUP....BUT I GUESS ITS OUT OF THE CAN FOR ME....NO CHICKEN IN THE HOUSE. !!!!

SEE YA LATER.....DWTS TONIGHT

HELLO PEEPS
HOWS EVERYBODY TODAY

CONNIE ASCIONE IS THAT OUR CONNIE FROM FELIXS REST.

JOEY I BET YOU HAD A BLAST PICKING APPLES
THAT MEANS APPLE PIES FOR EVERYONE

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IS GONE ON 5th. AVE ITS NOT THE SAME ANYMORE
BUT THE MEMORIES LAST

HI RONNIE

WELCOME HOME KEEP ON COMING
YOU MADE OUR CENSUS WE ARE NOW AT 41

WARREN I LOVE HEARING YOUR STORYS THER ONE OF THE BEST ON HERE KEEP TELLING THEM

WARREN I COULD NOT FIND FROSTY BY BURL IVES
BUT I DID FIND THIS

Thanks Patsy, Debbie & Karen for prayers for Jessica...hoping everything is ok..will let you know on Wednesday......don't forget-DWTS on tonite....

THANKS KAREN

LAST I HEARD SHES STILL ON 17st. SHE LIVES WITH HER SON
SHES NOT IN GOOD SHAPE BUT THEN WHO IS
SHES UP THERE IN YEARS NOW I DONT THINK I WOULD KNOW HER IF SHE STOOD NEXT TO ME

Hi Anthony, I could easily have mixed up the songs but it was definetly Burl Ives.

Jeanette. The trees on 5th Ave you mentioned reminded me of this. I grew up at the end of the depression. A lot of people just had enough for food and maybe a few toys for the kids. Some of them would go down to 5th Ave around midnite on Christmas eve and get trees from the vendors for next to nothing or they could just take one if they waited lomg enough. The vendors did not want to lug them away and after all what could they do with Christmas trees after Christmas???????

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Judy (Giordano) Banjany wrote: Hi Guys, Keep getting an error message today....

Well quick hello to everyone...

Anna - Good Luck to your daughter with her procedure.

Suzie - Hope everything is ok with your mom.

Hi to everyone...had a busy weekend.

Have to just say my BEST memory of Christmas was on Christmas Eve....me, my mom and my sisters always went to Cono the Fisherman on 86th st and 4th or 5th ave....the place was always decorated so nice for the holidays and the food was incredible....then we would eat and then walk along 86th st....there were so many people doing their last minute shopping......boy that was the best time... I was the first one to get engaged so Bobby came with us for a few years....but then the babies came and that was the end of that....but I will never forget spending Christmas eve in Brooklyn........

Hope everyone is doing good.

Warren - Love your stories!!!!

HI JUDY... NICE TO SEE YOU...
ME, UMBRIA, DEBBIE M. & A FEW OTHERS ARE STILL CELEBRATING XMAS EVES IN BROOKLYN.....LOL
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HAVE A GREAT NIGHT & SEND BOBBY MY LOVE..:)

BY THE WAY....ITS ONLY SEPT 27TH....HOW DID WE START TALKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS ????WHO STARTED THE SUBJECT.....LOL

hi all, hope u all had a great weekend, joe i live right by battleground and wrenrock orchards, looks like u had a great time in n.j. went to peking pavillon saturday nite, anyone know that chinese restaurant, it is really good, it is in mamanapan. if u are ever out here try it. warren your stories are great, and yes those were the days when christmas was so simple. when u got nuts, tangerines and figs in your stocking and one or two toys each and u were thrilled. and the dinners were a feast with so much food and company. it still is a feast and a lot of company but somehow it has a different feel to it. but like most of us we try and keep the traditions we grew up with for our kids sake and do all the holidays and they will hopefully have lasting memories like we have..i remember germains for our christmas, a&s for shopping and all the decorations and 5th ave. with all the lights, those were the days. my father would decorate the house that the cars would stop and come every year to see our little house....imagine people thought those were a lot of lights and decorations. now a days they would pass it right up...anyway we do have a few months to go before xmas thank god but it is nice to talk about. let's get thru thanksgiving first. my daughter-in-law was talking about making the articholds already.....lol....have a great nite all....

THE BEST THINGS I REMEMBER AS A KID AROUND CHRISTMAS
WAS THE SMELLS ON CHESTNUTS IN THE CITY AROUND RADIO CITY
THE BIG TREE AT THAT TIME THEY USE TO HANG THOSE BIG XMAS BALLS
REMEMBER THEM
5th. AVE. WAS GREAT THE LIGHTS THE STORES ALL DECORATED
SANTA CLUSE IN GERMAINS PEOPLE WINDOW SHOPING THE TOYS
THE XMAS PARTYS AT THE ITALIAN SOCIAL CLUBS THE TOYS
THE XMAS PARTY AT SCHOOL ST. JOHNS PUTING UP THE TREE THE TOYS
DID I FORGET ANYTHING OH YEAH THE TOYS CHRISTMAS DINNER AT GRANDPAS AND GRANDMAS ALL THE RELITVES BEING THERE THE TOYS
GOING TO MIDNIGHT MASS WITH MOM AND DAD GETTING UP THE NEXT MORNING TO UNRAP THE TOYS

JEANETTE SAID IT BEST

"I MISS THE SIMPLE WAY OF THE HOLIDAYS...PEOPLE REALLY TOOK TIME TO ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS....EVERYTHING IS TO COMMERICAL NOW. I LIKE OUR WAY BETTER."

WITH TOYS LOL