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Hi Old Goat, I am the same age as booklaw, but I left the slope about the same time he arrived. I remember all the stores you mentioned, and I graduated from John Jay. Trivia question: What was the name of the toy/sporting goods store right next to Germain's? It began with an "E" and had large windows that were every kid's dream. Please post more of your memories.

hello old goat i remember the same plaes as you I was born 1947 WENT TO THE GLOBE ,SANDERS,AVON AND RKO PROSPECT ON 9TH ALSO YMCA 0N 9TH STREET AND PAL ON 8TH STREET

Here are some of the old bars and what's there now:

Hurley's Inn = Blue Sky Bakery
Hanley's; Jim's = New Star Tobacco
Tico-Tico = Get Reel Video
Charles Tavern; Carl Ram Tavern = Conservation Plumbing & Heating
Kelly's = Teddy (boutique)
Cuoco & Panico; Morrissey's = apartments
Fifth Ave. Bar & Grill = Bob & Judi's Coolectibles
Ponzo; Danny Jordan's; Ramos = apartments
Melody Tavern = The Gate
Waverly Tavern = Ginger's
Mike's = Salem Deli
Costello's; Tyson's; His 'n' Hers; Paul & Dolly's = Jackie's Fifth Amendment
The Round Town = Kim's Family Farm
The White House; The Green Rail; Dinky's = Tip Top Gift
Loftus's; Steve's = Timboo's
Murphy's; Lucky Buck Tavern = vacant
551 Lounge = discount housewares
Alps Tavern; Tom & Jim's; Sonny's Playpen Lounge = dry cleaners, etc.

And that's just Fifth Avenue!

Zebra wrote: Here are some of the old bars and what's there now:

Hurley's Inn = Blue Sky Bakery
Hanley's; Jim's = New Star Tobacco
Tico-Tico = Get Reel Video
Charles Tavern; Carl Ram Tavern = Conservation Plumbing & Heating
Kelly's = Teddy (boutique)
Cuoco & Panico; Morrissey's = apartments
Fifth Ave. Bar & Grill = Bob & Judi's Coolectibles
Ponzo; Danny Jordan's; Ramos = apartments
Melody Tavern = The Gate
Waverly Tavern = Ginger's
Mike's = Salem Deli
Costello's; Tyson's; His 'n' Hers; Paul & Dolly's = Jackie's Fifth Amendment
The Round Town = Kim's Family Farm
The White House; The Green Rail; Dinky's = Tip Top Gift
Loftus's; Steve's = Timboo's
Murphy's; Lucky Buck Tavern = vacant
551 Lounge = discount housewares
Alps Tavern; Tom & Jim's; Sonny's Playpen Lounge = dry cleaners, etc.

And that's just Fifth Avenue!

Hey Zebra, Thanks for the memories. I see you say that Murphy's is vacant. If you get a chance see if any of my money is laying around in there!! :roll: :roll: I will tell you that The White House was a place my Father used to hit after bowling on 8th & 5th in the 40's. There was a place called Mike Goldens on 5th & 13th but that closed before I left in 1960.

the old slope was known for it's bars, now it's bagel stores.

Old Goat in FL wrote: [quote=Hamilton]hi old goat, i'm from the sunset park area and used to hit Connelly's on 7th ave and 15th st [bucket of blood] 12th st bar at 12th and 7th, Caton Inn and occasionally Lauterbachs.
your neighborhood had some good looking women.

Hey Hamilton, I know what you mean. I married one from 13th Street in 1960. Guess what? Her Mother still lives on 13th below 4th Ave and has been there since she was 3 years old. She is now 93!!! :roll:

That's funny, my father was also a guy from 12st (different block from you however) and he also ended up marrying a girl from 13st (my mother).

I was born 45yrs after you, but grew up playing a lot of the same games you and my father played (skelsies, stoopball, stickball, wiffleball, manhunt, coco levio, running through fire hydrants in the summer, etc.).

I'm sorry to say that the neighborhood is no longer anything like you or even I knew it. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone left here with a Brooklyn accent nowadays. Outside of the actual streets and buildings, the entire character of the place has disappeared.

Hello All, Zebra, I have one more bar for you to research. It was Finnerty's, corner of 13th & 6th Ave. It was on the 5th ave side and the corner towards 12th St. Obamanut- The tremendous influx of cars and trucks make it almost impossible for the neigborhood to be the same. When the 2 0r 3 guys on our block who owned cars took them to work, we had the whole street to play in. Occasionally some visitor or salesman would come and park but quickly found out his car was being used as first or third base in a stickiball game and would move it. Second base was alwys the next sewer up in the middle of the street. Two sewers was considered a good hit! As far as the change of the character-a quick story. I was working for a few days at my Mother in Laws house on 13th Street about 12 years ago. It was winter with snow and ice all over the place. I woke up about 3 in the AM to hear a guy skidding like crazy trying to get out of a parking spot and go to work. I got dressed and went down and helped push him out. He thanked me and asked why I would come out and help a perfect stranger. I told him I grew up in the neighborhood and people always helped each other. I told him he should remember this the next time he sees a neighbor with a problem. He said he would and I hope he did. Flexichick, if that makes me a character so be it. But I live 1200 miles away from the slope now so I guess I will have to be a Florida character.

Old Goat,
I've spoken with many Brooklyn residents who speak of the same things you mentioned and are glad they lived in that period of time, when everyone was a neighbor and cared for each other.
Sounds like Brooklyn's answer to Brigadoon

Zebra wrote:
It looks like a laundromat, but I'm not sure.

Childcare, I believe.

There was a VFW post on 13th St between 5th & 6th Ave. It was called Steneck Post (Named after someone) and on Memorial day, after the big parade which ended at PPW and Eastern Pkwy, they had a big shindig at Steneck Post and all the neighborhood kids were invited in for Ice Cream and Soda. I might add that the adults were inbibing in other types of refreshments. You may find this hard to believe but at that parade when I was a kid they had a contingment of Spanish American War Veterans as well as a few Civil War veterans. They rode in a car. Now you know why my title is "Old Goat".

Hi Warren ....just want to say hello ....and we miss your stories on the other site ....hope all is good with you and your wife .

lots of huggs
Sue :flower:

a relative of mine purchased a stromberg carlson ,with a 13 inch screen in '49 and said he had 14 people in his living room watching tv the day he received it.

I guess those who had them ,became very popular.

Suzie Benc 17st wrote: Hi Warren ....just want to say hello ....and we miss your stories on the other site ....hope all is good with you and your wife .

lots of huggs
Sue :flower:

Hi Sue, My wife and I just got back from my Birthday Cruise. It was fun despite an A-Fib attack I had the first night. You folks on the other site have a great deal in common with each other due to age and your original neighborhoods. I knew that when I first signed on. I have little to add especially of late when it has become (not being mean) very much a Chix Chat Site. That is your perrogative but as I said it does not open a great deal of space for me to add anything. Best to all. Old Goat Warren

That was very common Hamilton. Most of the TV' stores would leave a TV on in the front window when anything special was on. It was good for the people without TV's and an inexpensive way for the stores to advertise. When a big sporting event was on, a large crowd would gather outside those windows!!! In the beginning of TV broadcasting it was a battle to see which type of store was going to sell them. Sometimes it was electrical Appliance Repair Shops, Sportng Goods shops got in the act and then finally stores like Davegas, Vims and Modell's took over. The Department stores were the last ones to get in the act.

Hi Warren, Hamilton and Everyone else on this site ...have a very Happy Thanksgiving .....

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Sue