Posted by Ronelle (Ronni) Bienstock Migden Delmont on October 18, 1998 at 11:03:11:
In Reply to: Re: Old Homey TJHS Grad 1959-1960 posted by Bill Weiss on October 17, 1998 at 10:15:06:
Those green caps were worn ONLY if you knew how to swim. Other stages of swimming ability required a different color but I can't remember what. There has to be a website for that "sacred" place and if not I hope someone develops it soon. What great times I had there every day of my school life ( PS 184 on Stone Ave). Just about every afternoon was spent at the BBC - from the old storefront on Powell St to that brand new building on Linden Blvd. I was so grateful for anything that would keep me out of those awful Talmud Torah classes on Sackman and Livonia! It was at the BBC that I actually learned the most important things in life - baton twirling, hula dancing, folk dancing, swimming, snow ball fighting. Too bad it all had to end. The overnight abandonment of Brownsville by white families is a sore spot with me to this day. I never found anything that resembled the joys of living in Brownsville in any part of the Projects. Not ever. It was a great neighborhood to grow up in and it didn't smell like a sewer the way Cozine and Flatlands did. . It had easy access to transportation and it had a thriving street life. It had corner candy stores and ma and pa groceries. It had Nanny Goat Park - I lived on Chrostopher Ave. Some of my friends were Ilene Greenbaum, Neil Hoos, and Eileen Sherinsky and if anyone is looking for them I do know where they are.