June 30, 2005 10:32:48
Linda J Schultz email	Reading about where I was raised brings back many sweet memories. It's nice to visit home again. Thank you.

June 30, 2005 09:05:00
Jim Coughlin email	Ed, You brought back some memories to me as well. Circa 50's / 60's. I remember the Angelis bells from Visitation, the noon horn from Todd's Shipyard, the smell of coffee being offloaded on the piers and the acrid smell from the soap factory on Beard Street as you passed on the Lorraine St. bus. Some things you never forget...

June 29, 2005 16:25:05
Edward Donohue Jr. email	We lived at 186 Coffey Street and in the early 60's at dusk, just before nightfall one could hear taps being played from Governor's Island, (occupied by the Army, circa 1962),accompanied by the steady rhytmic mystic bell calls from the buoys in the harbor. Just a memory of the sounds of Red Hook from my childhood.

June 28, 2005 00:54:56
Gene Gronboldt email	I was born in 1936 and baptized at St. Augustines and went to their grammar school and graduated in 1950. Does anyone remember the Gronboldt's or Morans who used to live at 54 Sterling Place? If so drop me an e-mail. Remember Carmines Deli & Shapiro's Candy Store?

June 26, 2005 18:00:39
Pat (Ratajczyk) email	To Peggy DellaPorte ... Hi Peggy, I spoke with Tillie the other day re a surprise birthday party for an old friend of hers and my Mom (Nettie), Flo Gunsett. I inquired about Anna Lisa & Anna Mae. Please send my regards to both. Ask AnnaMae if she remembers smoking cigarettes in the back of the bumpy, lumbering 77 Lorraine to Bay Ridge HS(1961-5), & the coffee shop we hung out in before & after school. Every morning I had to run for that darn bus … they were so few and far between.

June 26, 2005 16:11:42
Rosemary Cafiero email	I'm Rosemary Burban, 337 Van Brunt Street, Visitation and Bay Ridge HighSchool, married Nicholas Gambardella, 1962, married Joseph Cafiero (also from Red Hook, 382 Van Brunt Street, in 1995. We are now both retired and living in Myrtle Beach, SC

June 26, 2005 11:46:21
Lucy Fraser/Suarez email	O.K. I am gonna stand on the soap box for a while!!! I am sure you guys dont really mean to be annoying and confusing BUT!!! You really are! I am speaking of the COMIC NAMES! I think that you need to consider that private jokes should be just that privaye and that is why you each have your own private email addresses! Please be considerate to all who read this wonerful site and its entries! If we cant GET IT then maybe you ought to reconsider the foolish messages! This is about South Brooklyn and the memories or interests we have about it and the people from it and for it! I know I am not alone in my thoughts about this site and the mutual respect we all need to have for it and for each other... So please get back wit the program...It reall has been annnoying to most of us! Thanks! RED HOOK PEOPLE BEST IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!

June 25, 2005 02:16:22
Tom Kennedy email	To Jim Scully: You probably don't remember me because you and I didn't hang out together when you lived on Bergen. I met you and your brother John (and another brother, I think), through the Walshes (on Warren St.) when you lived in the Hook and would come down to the neighborhood once in a while to hang out with the Walshes and other St. Peter's kids. If you're talking about Mousie and his brother Ignatious (we called him Nats), from Baltic between Henry and Clinton, I knew those guys very well. I hung out down by St. Peter's (The Towers, Verandah Place etc.) for years and got to know a lot of St. Peter's people. I don't know what happened to Danny Napoleon but I'll put a message out to a few people I'm in touch with and see what I can find out. Again, your mother knew me and would always stop and talk to me, right through my teenage years, whenever I'd run into her in the neighborhood. Now that I know she was a McMahon, I know why. My parents grew up with the McMahons in the Heights and they all went to St. Charles together. So that was the connection. I'm real busy for the next week but I will email you after things ccalm down. I had no nickname until I was a teenager, then it was "TK." St. Paul's just had a reunion and I have a picture of your cousin Susan McMahon (from Court and Warren). I'll send it along when I get a chance. Regards, Tom

June 25, 2005 01:02:55
Lou Viegas email	To Thomas Petrovato: I lived in "both" parts of Red Hook. Both "down the point" on Van Brunt, Kings Street etc and in the other end: Degraw & Bond around 1956 (near St. Agnes)and Woodhull Street (a.k.a.Carroll gardens). In those days the latter was referred to mostly as "South Brooklyn", but we also used "Red Hook and Gowanus".

June 24, 2005 22:52:23
Joe Buonocore email	To Ed Murphy: Speaking of the Santa in Ally's store I use to buy our Christmas tree from him every year. He had the trees lined up in the back yard. By the way, can you tell me around what year it was when you saw Ally going into an ambulance with the oxygen tent over his head? Thanks, Joe Redhook Forever

June 24, 2005 20:40:23
Lamont Cranston email	To the Shadow: Yadda, yadda. Also, Yadda, yadda. And to Alter-egos: Yadda, yadda.

June 24, 2005 17:01:03
bruce banner email	too peter parker just talking too your oldest brother he said tell peter parker hi

June 24, 2005 10:24:11
KIM email	DOES ANYONE KNOW THE LAST NAMES GANNON OR O’CONNOR? GERALDINE GANNON. I AM LOOKING FOR A CHILD SHE HAD IN 1973 OR 1974. THE OWNER OF MIKES MEAT MARKET IN BROOKLYN PARK SLOPE ADOPTED THE BABY. ANYONE WHO HAS ANY INFORMATION PLEASE EMAIL ME. IM NOT LOOKING TO MEET WITH HER AND DISRUPT HER LIFE. I JUST WANT TO KNOW OF HER. I WANT TO KNOW SHE IS DOING WELL. I WAS BORN IN 1975 SHE IS MY SISTER. THANK YOU

June 23, 2005 23:33:31
Jim Scully email	To Tom K. Tommy Schiavo is standing next to me in my First Communion picture. His brother Rocco didn't play sports or anything and really didn't hang out that much.Much later on he use to do a one man band thing at street fairs. I'm trying to rememeber who you are since you know me and my friends. Did you have a nick name? Do you know what happened to Danny Napoleon? Did you know Mousie and his brother Nunzio? Do you remember a guy by the name of Ferris or Raymond Evans and his brother Rickie.Any feed back would be appreciated. Thanx

June 23, 2005 16:09:14
Tom K. email	To Susan Lagana -- Do you have a cousin or brother named Bobby Lagana who went to St. Paul's and lived on Butler St. back in the '60s?

June 23, 2005 16:07:25
Tom K. email	To Jim Scully -- man I hadn't thought about Danny Napoleon in years and years. Danny hung out with us on Verandah and Henry in the late '60s. I also remember his brother Tommy (not Rocco though). I remember Tommy hanging around with Georgie Jalinos (the kid whose parents owned the Arabic store on Court St., across from St. Paul's.)

June 23, 2005 09:47:46
ed murphy email	Hey Joe Buonocore, we used to live right across the street from Ally's store, i remember the hook that used to get the can goods from the top shelf and Ally used to show off by always catching the can as it came down. i also remember the life sized Santa that was on a ladder leading into one of the side windows on the store. i think that Ally lived in the house next store which had the yard in the front.I also remember the day they took him out by ambulance with a oxygen tent over his head. we were just kids then, but it's funny what you remember.

June 23, 2005 09:36:47
Bruce Wayne email	hey peter parker the green goblin says hello

June 22, 2005 12:25:54
kim email	To Susan Lagana or anyone else who may have any information? Would you know of a mikes meat market that was on Fifth Avenue and I think 19th street? I’m looking for the owners of that store. I know its been a very long time since it has been there, but I was just wondering if you knew or know of anyone who might have any information about that meat market. I think they moved in 74-76. But Im not sure. I think who owned it had an Italian last name. Thank You Kim

June 21, 2005 12:23:38
Joe email	anyone know a dorothy courtney (maiden name) from 7th ave and around 53st; lived there in the 1970s and she went to OLPH high school. nice family just was thinking about old times.