Posted on September 1, 2009 08:15 PM
When I moved from New York City at age 7 (1952) to Bayonne, New Jersey, I was supposed to go into the second grade. Sadly, the first grade in New York City schools at that time did not cover spelling or even the alphabet. It seems the school administrators in Bayonne knew this because they asked me to spell apple.
Posted on April 23, 2009 08:36 PM
When I was fourteen years old (1959) I used to hang around in the Village spending most of my nights explaining the origins of the Universe to a small crowd who would gather at the Cafe Wha? to hear me. I vaguely recall my lectures, basically rehashing theories I read in physics books and embellishing those with my imagination at the time. What I do remember quite clearly is that almost every week some listener would ask me if I had read "The Fountainhead."
Posted on September 15, 2008 02:07 PM
I went to Catholic school for the fourth grade and it was then that I made my Communion (yes I am an Atheist Jew who made Communion). I tried to get out of it by reminding my teacher, Sister Melody, that I was Jewish; I still had to go, according to her, "Don't worry - it's good for you." Earlier in the year I tried the same tactic to get out of Catechism classes and attending mass.
Posted on August 17, 2008 09:54 PM
It was 1955 and I was 10 years old when I first saw him come into my father's ladies' shop with his smudged shoeshine box filled with a half dozen assorted cans of polish
Posted on March 14, 2008 04:31 PM
If it said "Made in Japan" it was junk.
Buses were a nickel and you could pay in pennies.
People picked up pennies in the street.
All the dimes and quarters in your pocket were 90% silver.
Posted on February 27, 2008 03:08 PM
When I was 12 we acquired an albino German Shepherd puppy, a breed known to be superb animals as to obedience training, however, as we were later to learn,
Posted on February 26, 2008 10:50 PM
Here I am at 19 (1964) - had I any acting talent and a great amount of luck I might have been a hollywood heart throb. My son went on myheritage.com and got this widget to amuse me.
Posted on February 4, 2008 02:47 PM
If you ever visit Typhoon Lagoon at Disney World and see an old white man lying in the shade of a tree, his feet covered with socks, his body draped from ankle-to-face with towels, wearing a waxed-cotton explorer's hat and sunglasses, that's me.
Posted on September 28, 2007 02:51 PM
It is interesting to note that Russian papers usually makes light of the US' War on Terror and at the same time criticize Putin for not paying enough attention to international terrorists.
Posted on September 18, 2007 08:19 PM
In our primitive past, and I am only going back a mere few centuries, people did not tolerate other people's culture or beliefs. It was enough that you were different by only a scintilla of coloring or hairstyle or language or smell.
Posted on August 23, 2007 01:10 PM
Bruce Willis, made famous as the hero in the "Die Hard" movies will go back to school.
He'll play the role of a disliked principal in a new film.
Posted on July 9, 2007 09:22 PM
My father grabbed me by my shoulders, and here I was ready to get an especially wicked beating, judging by the redness of his face, the bulging in his eyes, and the fact he was losing his voice, and then, quietly, with restrained agony, gently told me that this particular flag was a symbol of a great evil that destroyed almost every single living relative of ours.
Posted on July 3, 2007 09:37 PM
I was 5 years old when my mother first started going to the original Copa in 1950. The one that just closed on West 34th Street was but a mere replica of the original on East 60th Street.
Posted on June 22, 2007 10:08 PM
Several months ago, scientists at Europe's annual human reproduction conference suggested that the results of a recent analysis revealed the presence of female hormones in beer, and suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption.
Posted on June 15, 2007 05:59 AM
in today's not so innocent times, if a mother leaves her children in the car for two minutes while she's shopping, she is liable to lose her kids to foster care and get sued for child neglect.
Posted on May 5, 2007 05:12 PM
One of the reasons that liberals believe in Global Warming and that the destruction of the World Trade Center was planned by our government and that Bush lied about WMD's is that liberals need to have a large selection of conspiracies in order to live their desperate, pathetic, unpatriotic lives
Posted on February 17, 2007 04:11 PM
I remember the first week when Sister told me that I had to register for Catechism classes on Sunday as well as show up for mass. I brought up the point that I was Jewish and so perhaps was exempt from those two activities. Eh, she didn't buy it.
Posted on January 31, 2006 03:38 PM
My family moved to Bayonne, New Jersey when I was 7 years old (1952). I have lived here since then except for a few periods (1965-1967 in Israel, and 1984-1990). I would like to share with my readers some facts about Bayonne.
When I moved from New York City at age 7 (1952) to Bayonne, New Jersey, I was supposed to go into the second grade. Sadly, the first grade in New York City schools at that time did not cover spelling or even the alphabet. It seems the school administrators in Bayonne knew this because they asked me to spell apple.
When I was fourteen years old (1959) I used to hang around in the Village spending most of my nights explaining the origins of the Universe to a small crowd who would gather at the Cafe Wha? to hear me. I vaguely recall my lectures, basically rehashing theories I read in physics books and embellishing those with my imagination at the time. What I do remember quite clearly is that almost every week some listener would ask me if I had read "The Fountainhead."
If you ever visit Typhoon Lagoon at Disney World and see an old white man lying in the shade of a tree, his feet covered with socks, his body draped from ankle-to-face with towels, wearing a waxed-cotton explorer's hat and sunglasses, that's me.
Bruce Willis, made famous as the hero in the "Die Hard" movies will go back to school.
He'll play the role of a disliked principal in a new film.
I was 5 years old when my mother first started going to the original Copa in 1950. The one that just closed on West 34th Street was but a mere replica of the original on East 60th Street.
One of the reasons that liberals believe in Global Warming and that the destruction of the World Trade Center was planned by our government and that Bush lied about WMD's is that liberals need to have a large selection of conspiracies in order to live their desperate, pathetic, unpatriotic lives
I remember the first week when Sister told me that I had to register for Catechism classes on Sunday as well as show up for mass. I brought up the point that I was Jewish and so perhaps was exempt from those two activities. Eh, she didn't buy it.
