This Picture of Grandpa, Hilda and Miguel was taken over 70 years ago, Circa 1934... in front of 521...I can tell by the singles 
66 years ago today, I remember I was with my mother, sitting in our living room listening to the radio...actually I think it was the Kate Smith Show....(don't ask how I remember, but I do) and it was interrupted and a man said that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor. My mother picked me up and we went downstairs to Nonna's apartment. We went in and all the men were playing cards and drinking wine. It was a Sunday night about eight o'clock.....my mom blurted out what had happened..and someone ( It may have been my father) said as long as they don't get us and they continued playing cards. I knew my mother was upset but did not understand why...I did not know what bombing Pearl Harbor meant, but we all soon found out what it meant.
(Note: Read the copy in red (Below) first..then the Green Copy...The above photo is Mr. Kantor)
Had to post this....only a few people will remember this statue. I took this picture in St. Mary's Church. it is St. Lucy...what makes it special is, look on the tray she is holding and you will see a pair of eye balls.....She is the patron saint of eyes. I wonder what the patron saint of pregnancy would be holding ? 
Although this is not too clear..it's fun just looking at it. This was one of my fathers artistic shots, he laid of the ground to take it. That's Hilda on the floor and me running. Even though I enlarged it as much as I could I can figure out who the other kid is. It may have been a neighbor that we invited to our beach for the day. If you look in the background, that man is sitting in front of MBI....it was a machine shop and Uncle Tony worked there for a time and the funniest thing is my future father-in-law, Al Lodato, also worked there and he and my father became friends from meeting on the sidewalk outside the building. I found a recent picture of the ink factory ( in this photo) I will put it up. 
Although this photo is not very clear I wanted to post it to show how much fun Grandpa was...he did have a great sense of humor. Unfortunately we tend to remember him in his remaining few years....but by that time his memory was not good and his personality had changed due to his failing health....You also can see that Nonna also had her moments. That is her standing with grandpa's fedora on in a Ma Barker pose. Aunt Rosette is standing on the now famous "Stoop" and my mother standing on the sidewalk. I would say that this photo is circa late 1930's early 40's.....A lot of these pictures were really never that clear to begin with. My father was a amateur photographer and had an old Kodak Box camera and he developed all his own pictures, because paper was expensive, he would print very small photo's, some as small as an inch or so. That is why I am fortunate to have so many of these little glimpses of our family. I have "LOTS" more and if you enjoy seeing these let me know. I have a ton to post yet. 
This is a picture of Grandpa...(the shorter one) and his brother ( Uncle Mikes father)...I am sure none of us have ever seen Grandpa that young...I guess-ta-mate he is in his late teens at the most. I think it was taken before he was married and I think he and Nonna were wed at age 18 or 19. 
My first recollection of a "bathroom" was a room, at the most 3 foot by 3 foot, between two apartments which we shared with our Aunt, Uncle and various cousins...
We were washed in the kitchen sink...yes, and it had the generic name of a "Sponge Bath"....
My mother would sit me in the kitchen sink...a large porcelain vessel about 4 foot long with large round legs...with a curtain, hand made by my mother which was hung with a piece of string to cover the bottom.....and when the water was turned on, it was either cold or freezing depending on the weather..
In really cold weather my mother would heat a pot of water on the oil stove which was built into an alcove next to the sink. The stove was the only source of heat in the entire apartment.
