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Post by laurenfrances on May 29, 2024 18:37:59 GMT -5
Yeah, our mom would send us to the local butcher shop. If we can home with a fatty piece of meat, the butcher would get an ear full. The kids in the neighborhood played at the local park making sure to be home in time for dinner in the summer months. In past times, baseball game was played/broadcast in the afternoons. We listen on the radio to those Yankees out of town evening games. My brother would head to the candy store during the summer evenings for the night owl addition of the newspapers to check out baseball scores/news. Those days are long gone. And by the way, my brother is a converted Mets fan I can't remember a night when my dad didn't buy the NY Daily News night owl edition. Even though we were in a good neighborhood, my parents and all of my friends parents had the same rule. When the street lights came on, we had to be "on the block" that we lived on. No, ifs ands or buts. The guys on the block headed to the candy store about the time when bundles of NY daily news night owl edition was delivered. It's a guy thing on my block. They argue about baseball waiting for the edition to arrive. Do you recalled sportswriter Dick Young? Didn't he run Tom Seavers out of NYC? |
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Post by kaybli on May 29, 2024 18:59:17 GMT -5
me in the old neighborhood according to rizzuto  lol! I still get a laugh when Don Fanucci is walking around as if he's The Pope then steps in dog crap and tries to wipe it off on his stoop. lol, classic scene and imagery. I also love the music that plays when De Niro is sneaking around to get the drop on Fanucci: |
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Post by ypaterson on May 29, 2024 20:09:53 GMT -5
I can't remember a night when my dad didn't buy the NY Daily News night owl edition. Even though we were in a good neighborhood, my parents and all of my friends parents had the same rule. When the street lights came on, we had to be "on the block" that we lived on. No, ifs ands or buts. The guys on the block headed to the candy store about the time when bundles of NY daily news night owl edition was delivered. It's a guy thing on my block. They argue about baseball waiting for the edition to arrive. Do you recalled sportswriter Dick Young? Didn't he run Tom Seavers out of NYC? I don't know if he drove Seaver out of town...but he did infuriate Seaver. Young did a coulumn about Seaver's efforts to get more money from the Mets. In it, he used the names of the wives of Seaver and Nolan Ryan. Young, a super talented writer, could have written the story a hundred other ways. Not cool. |
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Post by inger on May 29, 2024 20:20:37 GMT -5
lol! I still get a laugh when Don Fanucci is walking around as if he's The Pope then steps in dog crap and tries to wipe it off on his stoop. lol, classic scene and imagery. I also love the music that plays when De Niro is sneaking around to get the drop on Fanucci: When I was much younger there was a pizza place owner named Don Fanucci in Riding Sun, MD. Creative as he was, he called the place Fanucci’s. Anytime you saw him you’d hear that NY/NJ accent, “What’s new?” He’d always say. But he didn’t really want to know… |
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Post by azbob643 on May 29, 2024 20:32:14 GMT -5
When I was much younger there was a pizza place owner named Don Fanucci in Riding Sun, MD. Creative as he was, he called the place Fanucci’s. Anytime you saw him you’d hear that NY/NJ accent, “What’s new?” He’d always say. But he didn’t really want to know… That's like the perfunctory "how ya doin'". No one really wants to know... |
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Post by chiyankee on May 29, 2024 20:41:38 GMT -5
When I was much younger there was a pizza place owner named Don Fanucci in Riding Sun, MD. Creative as he was, he called the place Fanucci’s. Anytime you saw him you’d hear that NY/NJ accent, “What’s new?” He’d always say. But he didn’t really want to know… That's like the perfunctory "how ya doin'". No one really wants to know... But you always run into that person that tells you, with plenty of details. |
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Post by inger on May 30, 2024 4:17:57 GMT -5
That's like the perfunctory "how ya doin'". No one really wants to know... But you always run into that person that tells you, with plenty of details. While you snore… because you really didn’t want to know. And now you REALLY don’t want to know… “My lumbago… got a naval hernia, took a bowel movement at 7:32 AM… the old knee… replaced my rear end t’other day… yep, a butt transplant… first one on history… |
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Post by Max on May 30, 2024 12:02:04 GMT -5
I can't remember a night when my dad didn't buy the NY Daily News night owl edition. Even though we were in a good neighborhood, my parents and all of my friends parents had the same rule. When the street lights came on, we had to be "on the block" that we lived on. No, ifs ands or buts. The guys on the block headed to the candy store about the time when bundles of NY daily news night owl edition was delivered. It's a guy thing on my block. They argue about baseball waiting for the edition to arrive. Do you recalled sportswriter Dick Young? Didn't he run Tom Seavers out of NYC? Yeah, I remember Young, I can't remember if he had anything to do with Seaver getting traded. I liked reading baseball articles written by Phil Pepe. |
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Post by Max on May 30, 2024 12:08:11 GMT -5
lol! I still get a laugh when Don Fanucci is walking around as if he's The Pope then steps in dog crap and tries to wipe it off on his stoop. lol, classic scene and imagery. I also love the music that plays when De Niro is sneaking around to get the drop on Fanucci: That scene was filmed in Greenwich Village (Sullivan St.), my mom's side of the family's neighborhood. DeNiro also grew up in that neighborhood.
Yep, the music they chose made that scene even better.
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Post by Max on May 30, 2024 12:12:14 GMT -5
That's like the perfunctory "how ya doin'". No one really wants to know... But you always run into that person that tells you, with plenty of details. Which is why I just try to say "hi and I hope that everyone is well". |
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Post by qimqam on May 30, 2024 19:37:32 GMT -5
Stay in Weehawken Across from Port Imperial Ferry ... Small Beatiful hotel called the Envue and you get the best thing about NYC ... The View from New Jersey !
Then you and your family can take the Ferry to the City ... Beatiful ride on top of the Ferry
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Post by chiyankee on May 30, 2024 20:21:52 GMT -5
Stay in Weehawken Across from Port Imperial Ferry ... Small Beatiful hotel called the Envue and you get the best thing about NYC ... The View from New Jersey ! Then you and your family can take the Ferry to the City ... Beatiful ride on top of the Ferry This is an excellent idea. The drawback is that we need a room two queen beds and a pull out sofa, not easy to find. |
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Post by inger on May 30, 2024 23:38:44 GMT -5
But you always run into that person that tells you, with plenty of details. Which is why I just try to say "hi and I hope that everyone is well". There was a virus going ‘round Papa caught it and he died last spring And now mama doesn’t want To do much of anything… |
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