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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Bad School Memories
« on: August 24, 2010, 03:57:09 PM »
I thought it might be useful -- for so many of us -- to have a place in which we might record some of the hurts which came along with being 'educated' inside the NY Public School System of long, long ago; A sort of catharsis where we could relate -- perhaps for the first time in our lives -- what it was like to be 'taught' by some who should not have been teaching at all, but who wound up as 'teachers' in Jackson Heights. Whether you attended PS69, PS148, or any of the other public schools, here is a place where you can rid yourself of some very bad memories while sharing them with your fellow sufferers.

Please change their names in order to protect the innocent or, perhaps, the not-so-innocent.

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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Who remembers the Sunnyside swimming pool -- (late 40's)
« on: August 20, 2010, 02:50:04 PM »
It wasn't in Jackson Heights but we used to take the elevated train -- a nickel then -- from 90th St. and Roosevelt to (can't remember the stop --- was there a Sunnyside stop?) where, for twenty five cents you got a locker, a key (with an elastic band that went around your wrist), and could swim all day... A lot of kids from Jackson Heights went there. The only other pool we knew about was in Whitestone, a long ways off.

A girl my age (about 10 or 11) -- her name was Janet -- used to run around the pool and shove me in when I was standing at the edge. I would angrily ask my friend,Jackie Dugan, why she was doing this and he replied that he thought "She's nuts! She likes you."  Girls matured more quickly than boys in those days. :)

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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / "Whitehall Court" at 89-14, 34th Ave.
« on: August 13, 2010, 06:23:51 PM »
Named after George Bernard Shaw's magnificent home, this yellow brick apt. building was already a bit of a slum scene when we moved in during the summer of 1942. I left there 12 years later and never returned. Does anyone know if the structure yet stands?

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