In the year 1958 my three friends and I went swimming on a great summer’s day at the country park that was located about 24 blocks away, It would open at 1:00 pm, so we …
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Hey! wanna want to be fella’s?
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A Fishy Story!
I’m not sure why, but this winter has me thinking back to the fun-filled summer days of the 1950’s! So this is a memory from one of those summer days re-calling a trip to the …
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Visit To The Farm 1957
In 1957, My friend Dennis, who lived in the building next door from me, went with his father to visit a relative who was located in upstate New York. I don’t remember what part of …
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Give a kid a break!
Back in the 50’s, whenever we got a game of baseball up, I always had to use one of my friends gloves because I never had a left-handed one, other than that I used my …
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The games we played
Back in the 1950’s in the summertime, one of the things we did was trade baseball cards, if I remember it right, we would do one like flipping where you would hold the card in …
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Bear Mountain 59′
Back in the year 1959, The city I lived in, offered free day passe’s to any kid who wanted to go to Bear Mountain for the day.sponsored by the P.A.L. And I remember a bunch …
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In my day!
I know kids today would disagree with this post, when I think back to say how great it was being a kid in the 1950’s. Although I’m sure the kids back then would be into …
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What was I Thinking?
Back in 1957 my two sisters were working in Woolworths department store on the avenue, and one day my friend who lived upstairs from me had a english racer bike they were selling for $7.00 …
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Non-Stop Summer day ’58
This story starts out on a hot summer day in 1958 it began as a simple day with a few kids coming out early to hang out and meet up to come up with whatever …
The Past Is Back 