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Hey JohnnyM....Orchard Beach...Always Section 13...Where the Cool people hung out...Didnt we have a great life..I was at the beach every day as a teenager..Now I want to just keep playing....Laura
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Kathie, moved to NJ 1958 and started my sophomore year and graduated Brick HS in 1961. Stayed at old Orange and Black for freshman year only.

zxlbb was City Island near you? We went mainly Orchard Beach but also Rye, Jones, Coney Island and Tibbets Brook. Great memories of growing up.
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I am a member of The Bronx Club, but did not find anyone that lived in the East Bronx.

I use to go to Orchard Beach all the time. My friend and I use to hitch hike our way there every week-end from Pelham Parkway. The buses were too crowded. Would never do that today. Those were the good old days. Also was a member of the Bronx House, if anybody remembers it. It was on Pelham Parkway. Had dances every weekend. A great place to hang out.

When I moved to Brooklyn we use to go to City Island to the greatest seafood restaurant just as you got off the bridge on the right. The name escapes me right now.
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:bigthumbsup:Kathie....I did 2 years at Aquinas HS Belmont AVe but lived near Gun Hill Rd,,I graduated Evander Childs in 1963....Remmeber the big rivalry between De Wit Clinton and Evander?? I am hearing so many people talk about Barns Ave Wallace Ave. My father owned a supermarket A D'Alessio and sons on Allerton Ave..Cant wait to be a permanent villager..I definately will join the Bronx club..I have a home in Duval but still live on Long Island until retirement (which is not soon enough)
Welcome Columbus HS,De Witt Clinton, St Helener and of course the old Orange and Black...Evander......Laura
Sure do remember the football games between Evander and Clinton! OMG, we used to give them such a hard time, long long time ago, hard to remember, really have to wrack my brains for that. I remember the Evander song, do you? Evander High, hear our cry, we wish you joy for-evvveerrrr. !! Remember?? Gosh are we all nuts?

Kathie from da bronx (you've heard of Jenny from da block, I'm Kathie from da Bronx)
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KathieI...."To and fro as we go....to the battle of the field...we'll sing our song and cheer hoorah horrah! Evander Childs" I cant remember what I ate for dinner last nite, but I can remember that song.
As for the football games with Clinton..I graduated the year they had a major fight out on the streets that they cancelled our PROM as punishment..It was very sad..
We sure had a great time.
I think I went to every football game and every dance from our school to Cardnal Hayes and Mount St Michael. It was non stop..like the villages. Laura
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Hey Floridagal...Maybe you called it hitchhicking when those beach busses were too crowded, I called it getting a "pickup". Busses so crowded sometimes 2 or 3 passed before you could get on. And the guys with the convertables knew it and would cruise in the area looking for "pickups"..Met alot of guys that way! (was I nuts now that I think about it)..Those sure were different times. As for dances. I went to OUr Lady of Solice on Sunday nites, St Helenes, Mt St Micaels Hayes and of course Evanders dances..As many as I could fit in on a weekend. Lived on Radcliff Ave near Gun Hill Rd..
City Island had too many restaurants too remember but all the seafood tasted like it just jumped out of the water on to your plate...Used to go to those little penny arcades there too...
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KathieI...."To and fro as we go....to the battle of the field...we'll sing our song and cheer hoorah horrah! Evander Childs" I cant remember what I ate for dinner last nite, but I can remember that song.
As for the football games with Clinton..I graduated the year they had a major fight out on the streets that they cancelled our PROM as punishment..It was very sad..
We sure had a great time.
I think I went to every football game and every dance from our school to Cardnal Hayes and Mount St Michael. It was non stop..like the villages. Laura
ZX: I even remember my Jr. High School song, Henry Hudson, Henry Hudson, Loyal we shall beeeee....... that's nuts... I can't remember what day of the week it is, today is Thurs? No Fri? But I can remember a song 50+ years ago. That is insane...

We went to Our Lady of Solice and St. Helene's Dances also. Bet we met somewhere in our past. Did you dance with those good looking guys who "claimed" to be deaf that's why they needed to hold us EXTRA close?? Oh so dumb we were!!

Love remembering the good ole times, Kathie

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Kathie your scarin me! I think its short term memory loss!

However Im not one to talk, I have short and long term memory loss, but you already know that! LOL
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However Im not one to talk, I have short and long term memory loss, but you already know that! LOL
Doesn't matter, that's why we LOVE you!! :-*

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Kathie,,,cant remember my Jr High song (you are good)..I bet we did meet at some of the dances> I dont think the kids today have the same opportunities to socialize that we had back then. HYou could go to a dance on Fri-Sat & Sun every weekend. Come to think of it alot of young people today dont know how to dance. As for the boys who were hard of hearing to dance close..didnt take much to convince us did it? Yes we were very naive but we kind of like playing with a little fire...just a little!

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Floridagal....Did you shop on Fordham RD...Saturday afternoon shopping with the girls was a ritual..We all had our hair in curlers (the big ones) with those kerchiefs tied with the tail in the back..we would parade up and down Fordham Rd, shop then stop for a soda. The deal was that if you were shopping for clothes on Saturday with your hair in rollers..you must have a date that night,,This was an important statement to make when we were teenagers..right? The good old days... Laura

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Use to go to Fordham Road and shop in Alexanders. Got my first credit card at Lerners on Fordham Road and worked one summer at Woolworths on Fordham Road. How about going to the Paradise movie theatre on a Saturday night date. Don't make theatres like that any more.

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My HS graduation was held at the Paradise Movie Theater and didnt you just love those twinkling stars? Used to shop Alexanders and Learners too and used to stop at a place called Forbes for french fries and a coke every week. Also Gorman's hot dogs which I thouth were better than Nathan's.. Did you ever go with a group of kids to Janns ice cream parlor to try to eat the "kitchen sink"?
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zx, yup!! Grad ceremonies held at Paradise Theater, don't remember much about it cause I was crying so hard. Guess I was real happy they let me grad-U-8.... Do you still have your yearbook? I do. Sometime I'll let you look at it. What a kick.

Janns Kitchen Sink, I remember it. Weren't they on Tremont Ave, near the el? Did you ever go to B&K on Westchester Ave., great ice cream and juke box.. After our dates on Saturday night, that's where we hung out. Memories, ♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫, Memories, ♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫

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Hi Everyone ;D,

I am still here in New York but I come to the Villages every summer and when I retire, I will be down there for 6 months at a time.

I remember the good old days.. I lived on Laconia Avenue between Astor and Waring and one block from St. Catherine's Academy. I remember shopping on Allerton Avenue and going to Lanzetta's pastry store in the summer for Italian ices. I didn't go to public school, went to St. Lucy's Elementary School and then Mother Butler HS. My brother went to Columbus and graduated in 1964. I also went to dances at Solice and did get "picked up" with my friends to go to Orchard Beach (yep, Section 13 was the best). You are right, the #12 bus was always too crowded.

It is good to relive the old days (these kids today don't know what they missed ). I am a member of the "Bronx Club" and hopefully maybe can meet with some of you this summer to relive the "old days of Da Bronx"....


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