Growing up in Bellerose, Queens, 1970s
We would play handball all day long. You would leave your house in the morning come home for dinner and go right back out again. We would play where ever there was a wall, St. Greg's schoolyard, Brad…
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Memories of Growing Up in Bellerose, New York
We used to hang out in Sam's Candy store on 244th Street. He had those booths in the back. We also hung out in Perrini's where the Ice Cream was great. I also remember the forbidden "Rockies." Arturo…
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Bellerose, Queens, Memories
We would hangout in the back lots where we would pick peas off the trees for our pee shooters, we would end up with a paper bag filled with them. we would then go on our way and have a blast. I lived…
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Joy Growing up in Bellerose, Queens
Al's Candy Store ,The Sugar Bowl The Loren Hut Braddock Park Dances and Handball.PS 33 but a lot of our friends went to Lordes or St Greg's . I Remember Elaine Darnell and Carolyn Tese. Absolutely be…
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Memories of Bellerose, Queens - 1941 to 1954
Grew up in Bellerose, Queens, New York. (Reader shares memories of growing up in Bellerose in the 1940s when it was more rural. Bellerose is a neighborhood on the eastern edge of New York City in the…
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Friends Forever
I did everything Barbara, Bill, Janice, and Anne did.C.C. was one of the nicest men in Braddock Park. He would always help you with a smile.Besides hand ball, I would climb on the monkey bars and go …
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It was living in the country
Schoolyard after school and played all kinds of games. Watched the boys play basketball.Braddock park: Watched ballgames and danced there.Alley Pond Park: Sleigh riding, watched the football games, a…
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Life was simpler
When we reached 16, and someone got their father's car, 4 or 5 of us chipped in to buy a dollar's worth of gas to drive to Jones Beach.Beer was 15 cents a glass, and as soon as we reached 18 (legal d…
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We were more independent and adventurous than kids today
There was a lot of sitting on the stoop and seeing who would come out. So many kids on the block, we had many playmates. We played Ring-a-leevio, hide and seek, punch ball (with a pink Spaulding), an…
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There was always something to do and someone to do it with
Braddock Park -- handball games and Tuesday night dances.Sugar Bowl, listening to the juke box -- Frankie Laine was a favorite back then. To play a tune cost 5 cents or 6 tunes for a quarter. Rose & …
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In summers, we'd leave the house at 9 and only come back for meals
We rode our bikes to Alley Pond (we'd cut through Creedmor). We played at Braddock Park a lot. To take a basketball out, you had to leave your wallet with the person in charge of the park. Our prized…
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