RETRO AND REHASHED POSTS ii
SCENES FROM MY BRONX LIFE


ball playing and stickball games flourished (on 179th between vyse and daly) in spite of a crabby old crone who kept calling the police.


my friend bernie was anxious to see sandra who lived near the post office. although he went biking to accidentally find her, he found a basketball court instead. on occasion a bunch of us went over to this distant basketball court in a playground beyond the post office, starlight park, and west farms square. we never saw sandra.

mid-teenage boys are always looking for girls. many of them don't know why but although they are stupid are very impressionable. relationships were all fantasy in my group.



on my way by bus to the grand concourse to meet cousin rita who was in from florida i encountered attractive priscilla from our elementary school on the bus. we talked on the bus but i never saw her again.

cousin rita and i have a great grandparent in common (or something). we went to radio city music hall and then talked a long time in front of her aunt's building on the grand concourse well into the summer night.

yes, there was life before death in (ugh) new jersey.





i salute the many-many great, creative, and hard working movie theater managers and their staffs thruout the bronx who provided me with great entertainment during my childhood. they operated on the smallest of margins bringing us bingo night, free dishes, vaudeville, comic books, triple features, free candy, beauty pageants, dog races w/free prizes, outdoor hot summer night exhibitions. how did they do it? many had 11 cent admissions on saturday mornings. kids would bring lunch and stay all day. moms loved it. AND MOVIES TOO.

i think these managers and their minions were truly great, hardworking people dedicated to their craft. you just can't get any good (great) help like that today.

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