Brooklyn Back When - Open Thread

Hi Everyone,

Is everyone sick of this snow already!!!!!!

Had a party in Brooklyn yesterday, started to venture out, but had to turn around and head back home, the roads were horrible. Plus cars were going two miles an hour, it would of taken us 4 hours to get to Brooklyn.

Today it's pretty nice out, hopefully some of this snow will melt.

Well enjoy the rest of the weekend.....made gravy today...and then tonight will relax and watch the Oscars..

Hey Prodigal Son:

They didn't have these in Prospect Park Lake.

Caught in Puerto Vallarta on vacation.

Think summer.

Hi Jimbo...nice to hear from you

Hi to everyone....another cold day.....spring where are you!!!!!!!!

Have a great day

Welcome Jim.....it's so nice to hear from people from the old neighborhood.

Hello everyone....should be a little warmer today...30 degrees ...lol,

Have a great day!!!!'

Hey Old Goat, you are mentioned over here in this thread about brooklyn in the good ol days:

http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/comment/558591#Comment_558591

Good morning friends
Hi Jimbo!
Glad to c u on here.
Congrats on your children in medical school. My youngest Toniann is taking nursing & so far loving it.
Hi Jim K.
I answered your message to me last week.
I hope you received it.
Glad your posting on here. Welcome aboard!
Hi Warren,
Hope all is well with you & Carol.
We are expecting some snow today.
It's become the new norm here lately.
Hey Judy.
Send my love on your end.
Everyone, enjoy your Sunday.

Lol!!
the picture came out sideways.
Toniann in her nurse uniform.

Hi Jim k
Thank you.

Toniann is in her 2nd yr of college
She is in CSI nursing program in college.
Than off to nursing school after she graduates.
I have a 40 yr old son& another daughter who is 34 & has finally made me a grandmother last year.
My grandson Gavin is 14 mos old & I adore him.
I grew up in Park slope (20th st) & moved to Bay Ridge in 88. Still a Brooklyn girl.
Had some snow here today, than freezing rain. What a mess!
Everyone, pleasant dreams & keep
Posting.

Temps hit 80 degrees yesterday and today. Now that is true Florida weather. Carol feeling so-so. I am doing pretty well. Have been contacted by a young lady from another blog. She knows quite a bit about my old neighborhood from her Father who grew up there. She even knew one of the family names of a boy I went to PS 124 and 40's with, Joseph Pascone. She actually grew up in the Sunset Park area but as I said knew a lot because of her Father. Carol & I went to Wynn-Dixie today and got quite a few BOGOS. We spent $30 and saved $20.
Patsy your daughter is a knockout. If I was 60 years younger I would be looking to date her!!!!

I wonder how many of you remember that long before re-cycling, we had to divide our garbage a bit. In a burlap sack we would put all the kitchen garbage and hang it on the front fence. Then we had a large garbage can for ashes. (We burnt coal for heat). In the winter we saved the ashes as long as possible to put down on the icy sidewalk. It made the ice & snow almost impossible to slide on and of course it was much cheaper then putting out rock salt. The Dept. of Sanitation would push the snow from big snow storms down the storm sewers. (For years I always thought the sewers were just for Home Plate and Second base and to measure how far you could hit a Spaulding with a stick ball bat)(Broom Handle). I went to school from 1939-1951. In all that time we had ONE snow day when school was closed and that was in 1947. Until I was about 15 I thought Girls were just for throwing snowballs at and hitting them with a sock full of flour on Halloween. Oh yes, winters in the slope. We took our sleds (One sled for myself & two brothers) up to Prospect park to slide down the hills. If my Mother or Father were not watching we slid down 12th Street. Very few cars in those days. I was a lousy Ice Skater. Had those skates with two blades and I still fell on my a-- every time I went down to 3rd street playground where they flooded the basketball court so people could ice skate. On Sundays, when there was snow on the ground, we would help my brother deliver the Sunday Brooklyn Eagle Route by putting the papers on a sled. Yea, winter memories are not all bad!!!

Hey Old80Goat,
I remember making scooters from a milk crate, 2x4, and one skate. We took the rubber out of the front of the skate so the wheels would allow you to steer left or right. Of course stick ball and a spauldine ball was the past time. We were great at catching, hitting and running. We took those games seriously. Lots of fun choosing up sides. You know who was the best third baseman or outfielders.
Catching the ball off the cars was out. And those egg balls were hard to catch. Ah, the good old days.

Yes Jim, I remember those scooters well. Also the guns we made out of spare pieces of wood. You put a nail in the front top of the gun and added a rubber band and cut the other end with a piece remaining to attach the rubber band until you loaded it and fired. Then you would get cut up squares of cardboard from the movie posters and that was the ammunition. Some guys cheated and used linoleum pieces. We took old fedoras, turned them inside out, cut off the brim and made a cap with diamond shaped sides then we took bottle caps, removed the cork and attached them to the hat!!! In so far as cars when we played stickball, there was only one on our field and that was first base!

You too Patsy. Tomorrow is my B-day so it's golf then happy hour at our favorite beach bar.

Happy birthday, Jim
Enjoy!!

Hi Judy
Stay warm everyone!

Milk crate scooters - sure I remember them.