around the corner was a large (mmmmmmm..... ) pancake eatery close to or near where the, "subway" is now. further around the corner on southern blvd. was a bus depot which had buses going all over and out of the city. my granpa's stock broker was across the street in the building next to the spooner movie theater on southern blvd. a few doors down from the bus station was another movie theater. opposite the pancake house was, hunt's point square where my granpa and i played checkers.
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| spooner movie house |
two nyc subway system stations were and still are nearby. one at hunt's point square the other at simpson street and westchester avenue. trolly cars along southern blvd. and along westchester avenue.
eating places and retail stores lined southern blvd. food markets lined 165th street near simpson.
and ps 75 and a playground were a few blocks away. library nearby.
on about $40 a week or less you could live well, all this could be yours and your wife didn't have to work.
high schools were selective. CCNY was free.
no lawn mowing, no car problems, no new jersey nitwits to put up with. the great depression was not called GREAT for nuthin'.
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