11/15/2010 12:57:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Hi Hank- I sent you an email from goggle maps-if you click on 2131Est 1st street on the email (the destination),it should show you a picture of the intersection of avenue U and east 1st street. Unfortunately the street view doesn't seem to go down the block to the exact house. If you play with it you can see different angles of the block.
spoke with mom tonight-she thinks we moved into Rosedale in 1952 and that makes sense. I would have been three and Harry would have been 5. I remember going to a little preschool program at Brookville Park so the timing seems right.
Before moving to Rosedale, we lived with my mom's parents and extended family at 1979 East 1st street.. Yes, mom and dad lived about a block away from each other before they were married. Mom remembers your house in Brooklyn very well. She remembers grandma living on the bottom (basement?) and having a bedroom on the 1st floor. Her memories of the layout are exactly on target with yours. She said there was a piano-I think she said in the upstairs living room and my father and Uncle Joe used to play. I have a record but I don't think it's one that Uncle Joe made on the recorder. I remember him recording all the kids. The record I have is dated Sept 3,1949. It says Cammille Cayls, aunt Connie (Corrine?),Phyllis (yes Phyllis) "Down by the old Mill stream" The writing is very small so what it says is really just a guess on my part. It's pretty beat up so I don't know if it works (we don't have a working turntable).
I remember the holidays too, a little from Brooklyn but the ones that really stick im my mind were at Aunt Mary's house in Rosedale with the much cooking, yelling and card games. Always had a good time with my big cousins!
As far as Uncle Joe and the chickens. Did you know that for the longest time my father would NEVER EVER eat chicken?? Finally got him to eat cutlets much later on in life but even that upset him and he would put up quite a fuss! Eventually I found out why and felt really bad that I hadn't cooked something different for him.
I asked Nick about getting the floor plan and he said he couldn't. But he did tell me about goggle street view and a web site called property shark where you can get a picture of a property. I registered for the site but have been waiting for a confirmation so I can get on the site. I'm thinking I may not hear back from them until business hours.
Claudia
Sent: 11/15/2010 11:13:44 A.M. Eastern Standard TimeSubj: Re: 2131 E. 1st street
Good morning Claudia,
I had previously looked up 2131 on GOOGLE EARTH and got the same results that you did (no street view down E. 1 ST).
On the corner of my street was a candy store. I remember buying potato chips there on Sunday, after Church; also pretzel rods.
East 1st street was a dead end street and we'd play stick ball and street games all the time.
Around the corner were lots and we'd set fires to 'Hitler's House" and also cook baked potato's in the fire. I back of the house were garages that all connected down the street.
We boys would climb up there an be able to walk down one end of the East 1 St street to the other.
Is your Father not eating chicken related to my story, about Uncle Joe ringing the poor chickens necks? Very interesting. I never knew that.
Your right about the Holidays at Aunt Mary's. On New Years Eve, they would make sausage and peppers at MID-NIGHT. One New Years Eve after having a few drinks, our dear Cardillo Uncles got into a fist fight, with each other on Aunt Mary's front lawn. Do you remember that?
I remember another incident in the house on 21231. Cousin Linda, who lived on the 2nd floor back, caught her finger in a closing door - I don't know if how it happened. Anyway, her finger was hanging on by a thread and you father, my Uncle Harry, ran up the stairs and carried her down; blood all over his white shirt. I guess he brought her to the emergency room.
We'll have to ask Linda, when they moved to Rosedale.
Cuz Hank
Who out there has more memories?
Sent: 11/15/2010 7:27:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: Re: 2131 E. 1st street
Good stuff, Claudia.
Ask Sal if the turntable I gave him to convert LP's (long playing records) into CD's could play those old records.
Wouldn't that be cool if you could convert them and pass them around to the family to play.
Did Anthony take some of those old records from Mirror Lakes?
Dad told me that the reason he didn't eat chicken was because all the children had chores because Grandma never left the house.
Apparently she cooked all day every day because she cooked different things for different people.
Well, anyway, Dad's chore was to go buy the chickens to cook. He'd pick one out - they'd chop the head off and put it in a canvas (like a potato sack) bag and he would tote it home while dripping blood behind him all the way home. He couldn't get the visual out of his head. I don't blame him. What I wonder is who plucked those feathers out. He never mentioned if that was part of the chore - I can so see Grandma doing that.
Eww, I can't imagine anyone calling Mom, "Aunt Connie," but I can't imagine who else it could be. Also, Mom's name is spelled Corinne.
Do you remember living at Grandma Gallo's?
Keep asking Mom questions.
Good way to get some info out of her and keep her thinking especially with Dad's birthday coming up.
Thanks for forwarding to me.
Later,
Alice
In a message dated 11/15/2010 11:29:15 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, LEVINS@adelphi.edu writes:
Hi everybody,
I really don't have any memories of E. 1st Street, but do remember New Year's Eve at my house with the sausage and peppers. I also remember that infamous fight between the brothers. I was so scared that night. What a way to ring in the new year!
I was just telling my friend Miriam about my almost severed finger. The story I was told was that my brother Joe slammed the bedroom door and my finger got caught. I don't remember anything about it though. I guess that's a good thing. My finger is still a little disfigured from it though.
My family moved to Rosedale when I was 2 years old-I'm not saying what year that was-then you'll all know how old I am! (LOL)
Claudia-what about your dad not eating chicken? I never heard about that.
Linda Levins
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