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Before Stephen Jemal in the 2000′s there was Mr. Mattone and Irving Lentnik in the 1960′s.
They wanted to build five New York State middle income housing that would house 1,000 families. Apparetnly they were in even talks to buy the Tamaqua.
Three of the buildings would have been a co-op going from 600 – 700 per room with rentals at $30 a month.
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[1924 Gerritsen Beach | Click for Larger]
The white color of the neighborhood is from the fresh sand landfill. Notice the houses in the lower right corner along the water. Many such houses are evident along the shore of today’s golf course near Flatbush Ave and along Plumb Beach before the Belt Parkway was built.
Note the bridge across Ave U (left side of photo) as the creek extended well into the current park area today. What is known locally as “Mau Mau Island” was not created yet and the creek took a much different shape.
[Frank Court - 1948]
If you think the residents of today’s frank court have issues with flooding, try living on frank court during 1948.
James: “in those days we never wore shoes from the time school closed in the Spring until September, so puddles were just a convenient way of keeping our feet clean. “
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Thanks to James for sending this in!
Interesting Gerrittsen Park Bus Schedule (notice the extra T)
They got bus service every 15 & 10 minutes! Amazing we can’t get that now!
I like that children “in arm” are free while others pay full fare and that “ordinary” shopping parcels are free.
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Taken sometime in the 1960′s. Notice the double T in Gerritsen!
If you have an “Old” picture of something Gerritsen Beach please send it in!
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[video]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1273595419433097016[/video]
Remember Danza’s?
After featuring one of Joseph Mikos pictures he invited me to check out his Danza’s documentry that he filmed and edited.
Its a great documentary about about friends, skating and BMX’ing all focusing at what was Danza’s.
He covers the destruction of the building, which may be the only video of the destruction. The destruction is about 20 minutes in.
I found this old clip on YouTube. It was a wrestling match for the WWF held at Fun Time USA on Knapp street many years ago.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axo_nk8B-KU[/video]
Look what we were able to get our hands on. This is a really old tape and we cant identify any part of the neighborhood. Maybe you can help?
We were thinking today about GerritsenMemories.com which is a stretch because we usually don’t think about anything but our moonshine and better ways to make it.
We were thinking “What If” GerritsenMemories were to disappear. Thats a big what if! We decided that the risk of losing the content was high due to the unknown status of the site.
We mirrored the WHOLE site here:
Gerritsen Memories Mirror
The mirror doesn’t have the Message Board entries. However we have magic that was able to download every entry on the Message Board but its not currently accessible . It would have to be rebuilt for that to be viewable.
Hopefully Memories doesn’t go down.
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