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Subject: Re: Quonsets on Seaview '40's/'50's

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Harry Miller

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Date Posted: 13:39:34 11/25/05 Fri
In reply to: Harry Miller 's message, "Quonsets on Seaview '40's/'50's" on 16:42:02 10/05/03 Sun

>Hey you forty somethings...Ask your parents if they
>remember the quonsets...I think mine (home) was where
>2nd base is now on the ball field...Wow, if we had a
>field like that...We played on black cinders with
>taped up balls and cracked bats...Played tackle
>football with no pads...Walked to school in two feet
>of snow...Up hill...Both ways...THAT was my Canarsie............11/27/05.....I can't believe there's nobody over 65 from Canarsie that is computer literate...C'mon we had a good education in PS 242 under Mrs Hoffman, Miss MacNiece, Mr Cotton, Mr Novak...Someone must know what a "quonset" was...Post war temp houses made out of rounded corrugated metal....They were torn down in the early 50's to make way for the apts on Seaview, east of Rockaway Parkway...I lived there thru most of grammar school (242) and started HS in E NY on Knickerbocker Ave before moving to NJ in '53...So c'mon some of you youngsters, put your parents online...(Or maybe there is no one out there?????)...

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Re: Quonsets on Seaview '40's/'50's	Vinnie	12:44:53 05/30/06 Tue

Re: Quonsets on Seaview '40's/'50's	Edie Sullivan	14:11:29 06/25/07 Mon