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

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Vinnie

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Date Posted: 12:44:53 05/30/06 Tue
In reply to: Harry Miller 's message, "Re: Quonsets on Seaview '40's/'50's" on 13:39:34 11/25/05 Fri

>>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?????)...

I lived in Canarsie in the 40-60. I remember the Quonsets Huts. As a matter of fact I remember when they were built.
I went to PS115. Lots of kids who lived in the huts went to 115. That was a long time ago. I now live in sunny
Florida and am no longer a kid. Is there anything you wanted to know about the huts?

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