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Bean
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 Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:20:30 AM
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Bean and the boys haniging out at Hofstra University around 1970 some time.
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:23:11 AM
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Bean hanging out behind Central High school 1970/71 sometime?
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Bean
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Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:25:55 AM
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modern day bean foch and vince photo's bean at Jim Morissons grave Paris.
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Bean
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Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:33:05 AM
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bean with Michael Stankowitz and Karen Zang his wife from Valley Stream
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doc
Into the 60's
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Posted - November 02 2005 : 5:56:57 PM
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Originally posted by Yelnats
i lived at 43 washington ave and right acroos the street from me were the williams, bob, missy and forgot the little one. i think 28 was the donnelly's they were a very large family and they were diagonally across the street from me. guees most except for the 65 graduate were too young to have partaken in some cold ones at the rock front bar on merrick rd next to wht used to be mcveigh chevrolet.
Yes! The Williams family is who I was thinking of. And yes, I do remember the RockFront and would occasionally stop in on Fridays after working at a book wearhouse on Merrick Rd. 25 cent glass of beer and a shot! They closed in the early to mid 70's. McVeigh Chevrolet was one of the stops on my LI Press route, as were a few other dealerships. I also remember Bills Garage and climbing on mountains of automobile wreckage. |
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doc
Into the 60's
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Posted - November 02 2005 : 6:01:34 PM
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Does anyone remember the little park on the west side of the Cross Island Parkway, between Merrick and Linden Blvds? We used to ride into Laurelton on our bikes to get there and use the swings and goof around when adventuring near Twin Ponds. There was also a small 'pocket park' on Brookville Blvd. just south of Merrick. If you lived near the city line these places were easy to get to.
Remember it well. I would always point it out to my kids when we passed. We would also ride sleds there in the winter. Directly across the street (228th?) on the same side of the pkwy was a large sandbox enclosed with wrought iron for the little guys. Later on we would catch the bus there with a 15 or 20 cent token to ride into Jamaica. |
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richm
Into the 60's
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Posted - November 03 2005 : 09:54:41 AM
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Doc: I lived two short blocks north of Bill's Garage, and my friends and I would often walk through the garage's property to 'cut through' to Merrick Rd. Every once in a while there would be some terrific wrecks for us to examine as only ten year old kids could. One will stay in my memory forever. This car's interior had been bathed in blood the night before, and a Rheingold beer can was crushed against the dashboard on the passenger's side. These were the days of genuine solid steel dashboards. I remember nothing of the exterior of the car, but the interior stays with me.
Once a fatal happened on the turn from Cross Island onto Southern State Parkways, close to where all you guys lived, and five people died when that car drove into one of Robert Moses's solid rock overpasses. I don't remember if that car made it to Bill's. I was a teenager then.
So the Rock Front is closed? Too bad. That place had a few stories in it, I'm sure. A small pizza place called Columbia's Corner was located a long block or two east. I enjoyed my first calzone there..... |
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Bean
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Posted - November 03 2005 : 3:14:14 PM
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The dangerous curve where the Cross Island fed in to the
SS Pkwy was just at the end of the block where my parents
lived. ( that was also the start of suicide hill where
we went sleigh riding ) anyway I could hear from
my yard or through my window especially late at night
on warm evenings off in the distance sceeching tires
than a big bang and usually lots of sirens soon after.
One night when I had just come home from a heavy night
of drinking I was still in my driveway when I heard the
tires and the crash, so I ran down to the Pkwy just
by the exit to Elmont Rd and I saw a car flipped over
in flames. Anyway I helped the lone driver get
out of the car...
Another time during a snow storm we found a stranded
car on the pkwy just at the turn and a guy who
apparently died of a heart attack was still at
the wheel. Doc were you with us for that one?
I think Richie, Butch, Dink, Vince, Foch and others
were there or some combination of that bunch? |
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richm
Into the 60's
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Posted - November 06 2005 : 01:47:58 AM
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Bean
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Posted - November 06 2005 : 11:29:06 PM
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| YES I do and the little brick state police station that was there too. Also there werew those two brick gas stations on the ss pkwy, one around Baldwin and one in Suffolk around Deer Park Ave or Rt 231 and that building is still there all boarded up. |
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richm
Into the 60's
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Posted - November 10 2005 : 12:52:49 AM
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Bean: In Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, there are descriptions of the building of the State Parkways on Long Island, the politics and manipulations involved, even the architecture of the low bridges on the Southern State, Meadowbrook, Wantagh, Northern State, etc. All the bridges were made to be slightly different. I believe there is still an operating gas station or two left on the Grand Central Parkway.
The Valley Stream State Park was one of Moses' creations, as were most of the State Parks, including Jones Beach.
The book is tremendous, and I would recommend it for all New Yorkers. It is amazing how Moses got all his projects done, especially in difficult economic periods.
Bridges, tunnels, parks, dams....his capital projects shape the city and state, probably for hundreds of years to come. |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - November 10 2005 : 02:08:01 AM
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Rich, thanks for that info. I'll have to check the book out. I think the 2 gas stations that are still in operation are near LaGuardia and Shea Stadium off the Grand central.
There also use to be a small gas station on the Cross Island Parkway, on the sount bound side about a mile or so after the Throggs Neck or Whitestone Bridge. |
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