Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread (Continued)

Old Goat in FL said:

Terry, I complained about this a month ago. If you are putting an entry as the first one on a page, it does not show up sometimes till overnight. You have no way of knowing that it is going to happen because when you are typing your entry it appears that it is going to be on the page indicated then. I mentioned it and got ignored!!!

I thought it was just me. Did u see it posted 2 times???

Drives me crazy

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Good Morning ALL,

Have a great day

Hi There,

Another georgeous day down here. Terry, I would get the same entry twice because I would type it in again when I could not find it after the first submission. As I said before it has something to do with the change of the pages.

I know that most of you were not around or at least old enough to remember what transpired on the home front during WW11. One of the things that hangs in my memory banks was the scrap metal drives. When the government announced a date for your neighborhood people started a day or two before gathering everything made of metal. Then the night before they would pile all of it at an intersection. Ours was 6th Ave & 12th Street. Imagine doing that today with the amount of traffic around!!!Sometimes the pile would exceed 10 feet high. Unfortuneatly some people lost their front fence gates because over exhuberent kids would gather them and throw them on the pile. Huge dump trucks would come and gather up the metal. It was like a contest between blocks to see who had the biggest pile. It was called patriotism but I think a lot of the metal (including old stoves etc:) were things that people wanted to get rid of and it was more convenient then carrying the items to a dump. The sad display back then were the Gold Star banners hanging in people's windows. That meant that the family had lost a love one in the war. There were not many streets that did not have at least one of those banners in the window. :pale:

Good Morning-beautiful day here too...watching Justin tonight...thanks Terry-my friend Dave was only 47-massive heart attack...gone too soon...sounds like your vacation is wonderful...Jessica gets married 4 weeks from today..going to the beauty parlor tomorrow for her hair trial (I don't know-we never had to do this when we got married..LOL)..anyone watch A.I.? what a shock-Jessica almost voted off..crazy..have a nice weekend everyone..bye

Went to Johns Pass today and shopped and had coffee by the water with Ralph and Rosa and dinner at a friends restaurant. We went to eat at their restaurant and they were in Brooklyn and we were here..

Beautiful day here in florida

Good night sweet dreams

Good Morning All,

Beautiful day here in Florida. Going to the beach and off to Cousin Geri's for dinner...

Hope all is well. Have a great day...

Okay Terry. Now you know how I felt like a couple of weeks ago when I posted Going, Going, GONE. It is a weird feeling almost like talking to yourself. When I posted that, the only ones coming on regularly were Patsy, Anna and myself. The blog unfortuneatly is no longer a part of a lot of peoples daily life. They get involved with other places when they get on the computer. I hope it does not hurt your attendance at the reunion!

Some more WWll stuff. Rationing became a big problem. Each member of the family got a ration book. Even I had one and I was not even in my teens yet. Just about all food was rationed and for gasoline you had to get a sticker on your car that indicated your priority and how much you could buy. We did not have a car so that did not affect us directly. Some friends that did have a car and used it for work had very little gas allowed for recreation. Thank god for the NYC Transit system! When my Mother went food shopping she would have to bring all our books to get enough food for the family. What a lot of people do not know is that England, Scotland, Ireland & Wales and I am sure some other countries, were still on rationing well into the 1950's My brothers were stationed in Germany in the early 50's and had to bring food baskets with them when they visited our relatives in Scotland. The first time they went they did not know about it. They each had an egg for breakfast and found out later that was the ration amount for the family for a week. One evening my Mother made SPAM for supper. It was the only meat she could get that day. My Father had stopped for a libation on the way home and when he saw his supper went right to the phone and sent a telegram to President Truman. It said "It is a damn shame you can not get a decent meal in the USA". By coincidence rationing came off the next day so naturally my Father took credit for it. #-o

P.S. Terry, If Mike gets tired on the way home, Dillon S.C. is exactly half way home and there are plenty of Motels there>

this is why and I say it again ....Why people don't come on.

I posted 2 times and it sent me to the main page. Had to go get a new password just to get on again. Drives me crazy..

I WROTE...Went to Cousin Geri and John's for dinner and had a great time,. She says Hi to everyone...She might be up for he reunion..

GOOD NIGHT SWEET DREAMS

Thanks Warren for the info about the halfway mark...I will tell him..

Where is Patsy????

Hi Anna

hi-stayed home to clean today..warm outside-78 degrees..tornadoes here in the Midwest since last night & severe weather coming towards Chicago..wind advisory outside of 50 miles per hour...watching Celebrity tonight...Hi Terry-sounds like you're having a wonderful vacation...well, enjoy the rest of the night...bye

GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS

WEATHER HERE IN BROOKLYN IS GOING TO BE 86 TODAY.

HAPPY MONDAY..

HI WARREN, ANNA & CUZZIE..

CUZ,, IS THE 22ND STILL ON?? LOVE YA, XX

EVERYONE.. ENJOY YOUR DAY!!! :flower:

Yes Patsy it is still on..

Will be home thursday or friday....

Hi,

Been in the hospital with mom since Thursday, she is not doing very good...they found that the cancer has now spread to her liver and spleen....Please I just wish God would take her so she doesn't have to suffer, I think she has been through enough......and I don't think my sisters or I could stand to watch her suffer with pain after all shes been through.....Please keep her in your prayers...thanks

I just want to wish Terry a very Happy Birthday.......Have a wonderful day....

HI JUDY.. SO SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR MOM.

I HOPE THE GOOD LORD DOES WHATEVER HE THINKS IS THE RIGHT THING TO

DO TO EASE HER PAIN. LOVE & PRAYERS [-oB [-oB TO YOU &

YOUR FAMILY..XX

GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS

WEATHER WILL BE 80 DEGREES TODAY..

GO OUT & ENJOY!!! :flower:

This gets me crazy.

Where the hell is my post again???