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Everything is upside down today.

TOMATOES ARE NEITHER A FRUIT NOR VEGETABLE

Vary nice. I’m also from Da Bronx I.e. Throggs Neck Projects!

Thank you for sharing your story of growing up in the Bronx.

God bless you for this video , world war 2 was a big thing in London and as a kid of 6 in 1973 I heard endless stories about the 1940s and all the crazy stuff that happened. The women that had sex with the butcher or baker to get more food ! My mother having a Mickey Mouse gas mask . The fact that my mother and grandmother lost their teeth. The endless bombing and prisoner of war camps on the end of the street … the Italian prisoners being good looking and nice singers

So sad my friend. That world is gone away. It was a great place till the liberals destroyed it.

Thank you Avery for bringing so many memories back to me. I enjoyed this. Tell me, was Mrs. Saslow teaching when you went to PS 33. Do you remember any of your teachers? I lived in the Bronx from 1953 until 1980. Moved upstate in 1980. Growing up in the Bronx was great. We lived all over but always around or near Fordham Road. I lived at 62 190th street. From 1958 til 1964. Went to PS 33 played in St. James Park. Shopped at Alexander’s, anyone remember Johns Bargain Store, Woolworths, a curtain store and more. In 1964 we moved to the Grand Concourse and 197th. Finished grammar school at PS 46. Then onto EEB, PS 115 better known as Everything But Boys. From there to Walton High School. I did not like Walton. Not because it was all girls but, I just didn’t like it. If you went to PS 33 do you remember any of your teachers? Mrs. Saslow always stood out to me in 5th grand. It was in that class that we learned that President Kennedy was murdered. Mrs. Saslow always had a yard stick and she would wack you with it. I never saw her do that but I was told. I wanted to be in her class. Everyone was scared of her, I wasn’t. We got along very well. I was heart broken when we moved and 6th grade was at PS 46. I missed all my friends. One boy I remember was expelled from 33 and ended up at 46. So I knew one person first day of school. 46 was good. My teacher, Mrs. Cox, had to take leave because she was pregnant with twins. I don’t remember who took her place. Growing up in the Bronx was great. I belonged to the CYA of Our Lady of Refuge. Dances at various churches every Friday night. I was on the softball team as catcher. We started a musical play but it was cancelled, I don’t remember why. Going to Poe Park for concerts and I think they had dances too. Going to the bars, Pick and Shovel on Webster I had my 18th birthday there. I had to lie and say I was 19. Lol Penny Whistle Pub for dancing. Going to Inward, going to the St. Jude feast, or St. Philip Neri Feast. Arthur Ave for Italian food. Tremont, Jerome Ave, Westchester Square, Altamont Ave. There were a lot of places in the Bronx that I didn’t know. We were a close family and lived near each other. In our little piece of the Bronx. The different restaurants, the shops, remember Robert Hall. Dollar Savings Bank, I could see the clock from my bedroom window when I lived on 190th Street. Wow so many memories that you brought back. The Black Thorne or Kelly’s a neighborhood bar owned by my friends parents. That might not be the right name. Because we used to go to a bar on 204th near Webster that might have been the Black Thorne owned by a guy named Rory. The crowd used to go to a lot of bars. Went to a place called, I think, Good Time Charley’s, upper Fordham Road passed Jerome Ave. not a good time when I went there. An Irish Bar which suited me well because I have a lot of Irish in me. But I remember this one couple dancing constantly almost knocking me over. I said “ one more time and I will knock you out”. I am not a fighter, I didn’t have big hair, but I had red hair. They moved. Oh good times LOL D

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A YANKEE FAN, EVEN THOUGH THE FIRST BASEBALL GAME I EVER WENT TO WAS A METS GAME IN THE EARLY 1960's. I ALSO DIDN'T KNOW THAT THE YANKEES WAS THE LAST MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM TO SIGN A BLACK PLAYER. THIS MAN, AVERY CORMAN IS ABOUT NINE YEARS MY SENIOR. I'M A (BABY BOOMER), AND MOST OF THESE SCENES IN THIS VIDEO BRING BACK ALOT OF MEMORIES. I GREW UP PLAYING STICKBALL IN THE STREETS, (SKELLIES), (CRACKTOP), PUNCHBALL), (SLUGS). AND WE USE TO MAKE OUR OWN SCOOTERS , BY BREAKING DOWN THE OLD IRON ROLLER SKAT, AND NAIL THE WHEELS TO A TWO BY FOUR PIECE OF WOOD, AND NAIL A WOODE MILK CREATE TO THE TOP. WE ALSO PLAYED FOOTBALL IN THE STREET, TWO HAND TOUCH. RIGHT NOW I LIVE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM YANKEE STADIUM. I WORKED FOR 30 YEARS DOING EXCAVATION CONSTRUCTION PUTTING IN GAS MAINS, WATER MAINS, SEWER, AND ELECTRIC DUCTS, BUILDING FOUNDATIONS AND SUBWAY TUNNELS AND TRACKS. WHATS IRONIC IS, I DUG THE TRENCH AND PUT IN THE GAS SERVICE TO THE NEW YANKEE STADIUM.

With respect to the comment below: Sorry...I take it back. Dion and the Belmonts really were from the Bronx...and Belmont Avenue in the Bronx...not in Philly. One more illusion shattered.

Wait a minute! @ 25:52 Dion and the Belmonts were from Philly...Belmont avenue near Fairmount Park

the good old days in the Bronx is gone forever. it will never be the same ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Beautiful.

My grandparents lived down the street from Yankee Stadium in the late 60s and into the mid 70s. They kept having to move to a safsr part of the Bronx every 5 years because the crime just kept getting worse. They finally moved to NJ in the mid 80s. I was so disappointed because I looked forward to my visits to NYC as a child and young teen.

WE WENT TO THE SAME SCHOOLS BUT IN DIFFRENT TIMES PS 33 19T2 SECOND GRADE FOR ME TILL THE END OF THE 5TH GRADE THEN OFF TO IS 115 ON 184TH STREET CRESTON AND MORRIS AVE 175 FEILD PLACE IS WERE MY FRIEND LIVED JASON AND HE WAS ALWAYS LATE TO SCHOOL CRAZY .... I WENT ON TO DEWITT CLINTON THEN TO ART ^ DISIGN HS ,, THEN TO WORK FOR THE DAILY NEWS AND OTHER JOBS ,,,,

Thank you Avery. As a 70 yr old guy I was born in the OLD LINCOLN HOSPITAL. I LIVED IN THE BRONX TILL 2005. ONCE AGAIN THANKS FOR THIS INFORMATIVE WALK THRU HISTORY

Paradise theatre was a fancy night and a first run movie. The Valentine theatre was known to be overpriced. Fordham RKO was a little high price was approachable. By and large we lived near and were always at the Bainbridge- sometimes for an 8 hour stretch because there was nothing else going on that day. Off early on a Friday and that’s where I heard Kennedy was shot.

great video

Nice memory😍🙌😘

This man looks like the Preacher character in the John Wayne movie "The Alamo"

I grew up in the NYC metro area and as late as the 1970s we had air raid drills in school. Absolutely terrifying for a young kid!

975 Walton Avenue

I remember a hobby shop my dad would take me to around the corner on Fordham. Shit the name escapes me. This was back in the 70’s. My Grandma and I saw Star Wars back in 77. I believe the Paradise. Alexanders etc. Now Fordham road is a dump. What a shame.

My grandfather was an editor for the Bronx Home News. 💌

Bronx born 1941. I remember the end of war sttreet party. And FDR on the radio. We played that form of stick ball too. And thge other games.

I miss the old Breyer's Ice Cream stationary stores.

I'm just so touched, I'm in tears🥺 Gen-Y here. I appreciate my parents and older siblings keeping the culture alive in my youth as Bronx residents. book covers, marbles, hand ball, even stickball.

1:14 red light. BUSTED

In the 80s on university ave.we played skelzies...bottle caps filled with wax and shot like marbles on a drawn board on the concrete....i also played marbles in the north bronx family service center after school.... From 77 to 92..i will never forget my upbringing in the bronx...

Hi Avery. It's remarkable how the world works. If you've forgotten me, I was Lester's friend and we have met several times. I believe that we talked at a Fieldston event and when I told you that my wife Linda was taping her mother's life, you rushed off to find her. There was also a time when I told you that I loved going back to my old neighborhood and walking and taking photos and you said "I never do that". Sometime after that you wrote the first "Neighborhood" book. Hmmm. The last time is when you spoke about your book at the Whitehall in The Bronx. I am a retired dentist now and I've always been an avid photographer. After Linda died, I realized she had squirreled away every photo I ever took. I began to go through them (1000s) and get rid of what I didn't like and digitalize those I did like. I came across several photos that I took of The Ascot Theater and its changes over the years when it was our go-to theater for foreign films to its demise. I posted them on Facebook and from the many comments made, there was one reference to this video. And so here I am. Thanks for doing this. It was a delight to watch (loved the close-ups). Even though I lived in the Pelham Parkway area (down the block from Regis) we would hang out on Fordham and the Concourse all the time. The last film I saw at the Paradise was "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World". I'm surprised you didn't mention Krum's, the great Fordham Library, the roller rink on Jerome, and that The Bronx was known as the "Borough of Universities". I hope that you and your wife are alive and well. I miss you.

An omission from the litany of candy store inventory: oak tag (15¢ in the 60s), a kind of flexible, white poster board that was sold rolled to a soft tube with a rubber band. It was often required for school projects and purchased late on Sunday for projects due on Monday.

i am looing for foto of fenway theater movies bronx ny and ps42 school I lived across the street and I am looking for foto of the building

What a gem. Our family moved to The Bronx from Florida in the early 50's when I was in 4th grade. Morris Ave. Just south of 183rd. Went to the same schools, PS 33 then PS 79 until our family moved back to FL 4 years later. This really carried me back in time. Ring-a-ling-a-lario anyone?

Thank you so much 👏🏻❤️

❤️love this video it’s great ❤️👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

This guy sounds like a real Square LMFAO.

Absolutely charming, absolutely honest, absolutely heartfelt...

Great New York story a generation earlier. Proves human nature doesn't change.

Humming thru the candy box in the movies. I forgot about that. Went to a parochial school and the nuns would pull that s%*it too. Punish and humiliate us with that first grade crap. Parents would always take the lying nuns word over ours.

I loved this. Brought back so many memories of my growing up in The Bronx during the 60s and 70s. I loved shop. I was blessed to have had woodworking, cooking, sewing, graphic arts. I also, had art class, and worked the printing press on our little school newspaper. I was well known for my kickball, and handball skills; though classmates would nearly fight to not have me on their basketball, or volleyball teams. I was worse than horrible at both. Always the last pick left. 😂😂

I played STICKBALL but one thing added to street play was SKULLY, great times

Avery, did you ever go fishing in Van Courtland Park? The moon shines on Mosholu Parkway.

Greatest place on earth, worst reputation what an enigma! I'm 63. Best childhood on earth, that's why the elite hate us we were poor & happy they were miserable and rich, in fact we were the rich ones. Hahaha Rockefeller.

The Bronx will always be home to me, though I've lived all over the world. Attended Morris High Annex at 170th and Morris Avenue and graduated Morris High at 166th and Boston Road. Had a rough childhood but this place is still dear to my heart.

my high school graduation was at lowes paradise thearter wondeful stories

Please keep on reminiscing, I live through you. S.P.S 31 141st street Grand Concourse, I.S 151, & Already E. Smith Vocational H.S.

Please tell more stories, I had to Google all through this story just paint the picture, I can literally listen to your stories all day long.

For you me.

Born in 1939 ,relate to much of what says V.E day , V.J day went to P.S 74 now Grace Dodge Voc. H.S. Then P.S. 45 ,finally Theodore Roosevelt H.S. It was a different world then lived on Beaumont Ave. and 187th. Street until I married in 1961. Much of my generation is gone now ,many many memories.

I like the part about Conscious teachers, that phrase really resonated with me. I too have had that privilege as an immigrant and try to be the same for my students. (I moved here at age 4 or 5 in 99' or 2000)

i am from here, this is awesome!