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I moved into 211-10 73rd Avenue Bayside 64 NY in 1951 and lived in Windsor Park apt 6E for 12 years or so. Went to PS 188 until PS 205 opened. Went to JHS 74 and then Martin Van Buren HS. I remember Adrian’s Bake shop, Alftest and Switzerland kosher butcher, the Colony where you could get toys, models and Spaulding pink balls for stick ball. Yes I went to the Hambuger Express, great malted, cream sodas etc. Wonderful place to grow up! Kenny G. ( as I was known as a child)
I moved into 211-10 73rd Avenue Bayside 64 NY in 1951 and lived in Windsor Park apt 6E for 12 years or so. Went to PS 188 until PS 205 opened. Went to JHS 74 and then Martin Van Buren HS. I remember Adrian’s Bake shop, Alftest and Switzerland kosher butcher, the Colony where you could get toys, models and Spaulding pink balls for stick ball. Yes I went to the Hambuger Express, great malted, cream sodas etc. Wonderful place to grow up! Kenny G. ( as I was known as a child)
Moved to Windsor Park 1951. Lived at 75-40 Bell Blvd. Also PS 188, then PS 205, JHS 74 and MVB. fondest memories of sledding down “Suicide Hill”. Riding bikes to “Big Bolder”. roller Skating on the top of the garage. Grabbing Hot dogs in the Kosher Deli (15 cents) and a coke from the machine in Food Fair—syrup and seltzer dispensed (5 cents)—a good meal for 20 cents. Found this blog by looking up Adrians Bakery. Daily stop walking home form JHS—½ sliced seeded rye and 2 chocolate danishes. And then stopping at Hamburger express for fries. Also remember a take-out Chinese restaurant where we used to go to get greasy egg rolls. Cutting through Nichols to go home. The Bike Path AKA Vanderbilt Highway. Jahns on Springfield. Waiting for the bus on Union Turnpike to go to Van Buren. Yes, it was a wonderful place to grow up. So glad I had the experiences.
I moved into 211-10 73rd Avenue Bayside 64 NY in 1951 and lived in Windsor Park apt 6E for 12 years or so. Went to PS 188 until PS 205 opened. Went to JHS 74 and then Martin Van Buren HS. I remember Adrian’s Bake shop, Alftest and Switzerland kosher butcher, the Colony where you could get toys, models and Spaulding pink balls for stick ball. Yes I went to the Hambuger Express, great malted, cream sodas etc. Wonderful place to grow up! Kenny G. ( as I was known as a child)
Wow very cool I was born (1964) and grew up in the same building and remember all those places.I played baseball little league in Mid Queens Boys Club at Ally Pond Park,Cunningham Park and Credmore.You guys forgot about Digi's Pizza......Is Digi's still there and when did Adrian's close?
I really wish I had been around back then. Bayside seemed to be a wonderful community. If anyone has any pictures/good websites to share about Bayside, I would really appreciate it!
I grew up in Bell Park Gardens. Bell Blvd-69th ave. I was just thinking of the smell of Adrians Bakery. You would wait all day on jewish holidays to get a challah. Egg Creams at Yogi's .I just moved to Fl.I don't miss NY but I miss those times in Bayside. JL
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In no possible world could we, those of us 65-75, could have imagined we would be “here” sharing what was our present as kids In And Around Bell Park Gardens, as fond memories, immersed as we were in our lives, going from PS 46, to JHS 74 to Van Buren or as my brother did, to Cardoza. It was Yogi’s, The Hamburger Express, The Lots, Oakland Lake, Kiddie City, running through the “dry-yards”, playing handball or assesup at PS 46, or summer knock-hockey at “summer camp,” or family picnics in Alley Pond Park, going to Jahns for whatever we could afford, buying records at Larry’s Records, shoes at Thom McAn, Charlotte Russe at Adrian’s, hanging out in The Courts, longing to makeout with a the one you puppy-loved and if you got to 2nd base, you all but died. Taking hated Bar Mitzvah lessons at Oakland Jewish center, and having to listen to the teaching record over and over, fighting with Mr. Seawagen about infractions, and seeing my name hit the section-sheet yet again, as one of the “dumb” kids in my labeled 7-11 or 9-11, spending time butchering wooden blocks as I attempted to “round the corners Fried” for my trinket box, printing napkins in Mr. Quinn’s printing class, and listening in awe as Mr. Electric Shop teacher, showed off his photographic memory, becoming an early morning hall guard to that I could see Doris L. come in early, a beauty that would only talk to the older guys, my love going unnoticed as she breezed by on her way to practice. The Rocks who cruised Union Turnpike, hanging out at Carvels, seeing Clay Cole and Brian Highland at a “fancy” Jewish center on Union Turnpike, biking to Deep Dale to meet out-of-town girls, setting up the papers for Sunday morning at Colony Card shop, Kenny R, Barry W, Art D, Cookie S, Sylvia P, Arlene, Ronnie, Dennis S, Gloria K, Barry K, Engrid R, John L, Gordon B, the twins. Heading to Futterman’s, with its mustard delivered in a paper tube. I remember Karen R and Micky P, I remember much of JHS 74 and nothing of Van Buren, I mean that, other than a short stint on the track team, I’m not a team player, HS is lost to me, one woman followed me to Community College in Brooklyn as I had failed all but my Biology Regency and was deemed, yet again “dumb” and was giving a General Diploma, so no four-year college available to me. Two years at Brooklyn Community then a transfer to LIU where after three years of choosing to study a career path I’d never take, in the as yet unimagined future, I got drafted in1968, a very long and surprising tale but suffice to say, basic training in Georgia for a NY Jew who arrived with a Black friend, was not a sight welcomed by my DI’s. This rambling piece how my mind process. Bell Park is where it started so I’ll return to it, remembering
218-27 68 Ave.(in this google maps shot my remembered door to my apartment is gone?) 67-20 218th where five us lived in two bedrooms. And now living on Florida’s Gulf Coast 3/4s of the year, more this year due to Covid Howard Hughes Like Isolation, I long to drive the streets of projecting memories onto name-changed store fronts along 73 Av., and Bell Park Gardens doorways.The Benches. The night a guy from a gang in Brooklyn who was working in Food Fair cut someone in what I called Cookies Court. That was her first name. The bike path, Oakland Lakes, walking the lost to Oakland Jewish Center, the itchy-ball-trees, cursing Union Turnpike, the "Rocks" (Fonzies) at JHS 74, Skully, Chow-Chow-Cup, Bungalow Bar, the neighborhood bullies, not forgotten, playing Knucks, stoopball, Walter the window cleaner, the laundry rooms, the dry-yard, asses-up at PS 46, being in a JHS class where the number was 9-11 meaning you were "dumb", thank for that, the Section Sheet, my teachers had a "Joel" name stamp, hollowing out acorns for whistles, biking to Deep Dale to meet "out-of-town" girls, the flood on the LIE, Larrys Records, Jerrys Candy store, dancing on LI to The Young Rascals dancing at the Jewish Center on Union Turnpike, to Brian Highland. What crowd were you in? I believe I was not in the in-crowd, but in a good crowd in Bell Park, I have zero memories of life at Van Buren. Remembering PS 74 pretty good, the girls I loved who did not return the favor, the ones that did, those who were cool, tuff, funny, smart, and here we are stunningly 65-75 years old. Who could have imagined what we became? Be safe. Be healthy. Peace...
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We must have known each other..
Older and still memory filled
