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Came up in Red Hook, off Henry Street, lived on Carroll Street.
Had the bakery, candy store, the butcher shop, the church of St. Stephen.
The BQE was just the best highway, LI was being developed and the Verrazano was in the process of being built.
Everyone knew one another, Halloween we used to hang the dummy on the pole, the gangs, the Johnny Pump, the ice man, the guy selling fruit with his old horse, King Kong rides. Our skate key...pizza was a dime a slice, a calzone, 25 cents.
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Who knows Brooklyn from those days? The best days, when the men were out of the war and the country was rich, and JFK was the new hope.
Came up in Red Hook, off Henry Street, lived on Carroll Street.
Had the bakery, candy store, the butcher shop, the church of St. Stephen.
The BQE was just the best highway, LI was being developed and the Verrazano was in the process of being built.
Join me.
Who knows Brooklyn from those days?
Red Hook had a rough-and-tumble persona since the early 20th Century. Would love to hear your accounts of growing up there.
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You know I don't remember...was very young at the time.
Well the children had a separate table, away from the adults. Sunday dinner - on any Jewish, Polish, or Italian family, was around 2 pm. Then a light meal around 6 or 7 pm.
Came up in Red Hook, off Henry Street, lived on Carroll Street.
Had the bakery, candy store, the butcher shop, the church of St. Stephen.
The BQE was just the best highway, LI was being developed and the Verrazano was in the process of being built.
Everyone knew one another, Halloween we used to hang the dummy on the pole, the gangs, the Johnny Pump, the ice man, the guy selling fruit with his old horse, King Kong rides. Our skate key...pizza was a dime a slice, a calzone, 25 cents.
Join me.
Who knows Brooklyn from those days? The best days, when the men were out of the war and the country was rich, and JFK was the new hope.
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