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Date Posted: 19:52:30 06/06/03 Fri
Author: Joey
Author Host/IP: 1Cust100.tnt27.lax7.da.uu.net / 68.136.9.100
Subject: Re: Who came first'
In reply to: Bob Braun. 's message, "Who came first'" on 08:07:39 05/26/03 Mon

>Im from Canarsie 1974 grad chs.I just read the part of
>this webpage wher people from the 40s look for friends
>.Its wierd cause they describe a cAnarsie that I never
>knew.One guy says the old park where he played during
>his childhood in canarsie in the 40s was destroyed
>later when we he was in his 20s to put up a block of
>houses.That new block was my block. His childhood
>places from the 40s were bulldozed down to build my
>block. I never imagined that 10 yrs before I was born
>there were teenage kids in Canarsie playing ball in
>the very spot where my block would be built.I recall
>SSHS when it was a big lot Kids plAYED there too Im
>sure.Then a school was built there in 1970.Breakin
>some bodies heart.I guess there was a time when even
>my house wasnt there but there were kids there
>playing. Maybe sad to revisit in 61 what for them was
>"the old neighborhood" and find their place gone to
>make room for what today was my place.WOW. the 40s .

I again find all this info on <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=1112637">http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=1112637</a>

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