Hang on to your memories folks. Recent photos around the Bronx reveal that our beloved "concrete ballfields" and hangouts have been taken over by mobile classrooms and staff parking areas. The Bronx kids of today have no idea what they are missing!
I went to Walton HS, left to get married in the early 60's. Back then the school was a horror zone, girls fighting, girls fighting on the Jerome train. They should have burned it to th ground years ago.
Posts: 196 | Location: somewhere over the rainbow | Registered: 08 November 2007
Originally posted by paradise53: I went to Walton HS, left to get married in the early 60's. Back then the school was a horror zone, girls fighting, girls fighting on the Jerome train. They should have burned it to th ground years ago.
Last Senior Class will graduate this coming June. The traditional school as you remember it will cease to be and be replaced by 3 or 4 small specialty schools geared to the Bronx students of today.
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Do I remember the schoolyards. We played punch ball basketball all kinds of ballgames, also rode our bikes there aand sometimes made out there. Those were the days.
I was brought up in the South Bronx 152nd and St Annes Ave.Went to all the stores on 149th st.Alexanders Herns Freeds Cushmans German Pork Store.Later moved to burke ave. Had lots of friends on 187th st and Arthur ave in early sixties. went to all the feasts and loved all the Italian specialty stores.Used to go to soccer games I think the teams were Milano and FordhamItalians
Posts: 65 | Location: florida | Registered: 13 July 2006
I REMEMBER HANGING OUT IN PS 67 SCHOOLYARD UNTILL 1953 WHEN I MOVED FROM THAT AREA, BUT CANNOT REMEMBER EVERY HANGING OUT IN ANY OTHER SCHOOLYARD AFTER THAT. I DID GO TO JHS 80 BUT NEVER HUNG OUT AT THAT SCHOOLYARD. JOHNNY
Posts: 136 | Location: RIVERDALE, BX. N Y/ ASHFORK, ARIZONA | Registered: 30 June 2007
There was a schoolyard across the streeet from our apartment. I could look out my window and see what was happening. I played softbaall, stickball and touch football in the schoolyard. I do not consider that hanging out. Hanging out was at the candy store.
Posts: 1491 | Location: Boulder, CO, USA | Registered: 26 March 2003
PS 96 had an enormous asphalt yard (between Waring Ave and Thwaites Place) and we spent all of our summer days playing stickball and softball there...now nothing but temporary classrooms and the kids get a small section of the street blocked off to play at lunchtime....how sad....
Sorta funny how schoolyards take on such magical qualities as we look back at them. Mine were PS93, JHS123 and Monroe. PS77 became a great field for our Saturday Football games, and it was so great to see guys you went to school with many years before.
Call me a romantic, but those were the days!!!!
Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.....
Posts: 481 | Location: Southcentral PA | Registered: 04 March 2008
I played in the project parks there was the swing park, the barrel park, thewater park summer was fun thats when the sprinklers were turned on and the turtle park 156 w 174. I went to 109, but we never played in the schoolyard except during school.
