The fact that you guys would even TRY to diss Alice Kramden shows what kind of inauthentic, ignorant Brooklyn interlopers you really are. Alice Kramden is a SAINT in this borough, OK? She was here YEARS before you losers, and now that she’s not around anymore to defend herself, you trend-sucking weasels try to throw dirt on her name! Jerks! You guys really need to take a long hard look at yourselves and ask “Do I really belong here?”
Whatever you think of their apartment, that was the Brooklyn of yore…Dads who drove buses or worked in the sewer, striving to get ahead….neighbors popping in and out…..kids playing on the street.
There is one tremendously poignant episode called “Young Man With a Horn”. At the end of the show, Ralph is dejected because he didn’t score highly on the civil service exam, and so will not get his hoped-for promotion. The speech he makes at that point was one heard in many a Brooklyn household back then.
Posted by: Butterfly at September 29, 2009 4:54 PM
I recall it was set in Bensonhurst, but on the show many streets referenced, such as Chauncey , are nowhere near Bensonhurst. They are usually Bushwick street names. Jackie Gleason who wrote or co-wrote most of the scripts was born & raised in Bushwick.
okay what happened yesterday? i was on my sofa starting around 3pm and just stayed there until this morning.. ?! what did i miss and where was it? in ot? i feel like im going to look and it’s going to be stupid and or silly and a waste of time…
” For instance, ever notice how Norton just walks in Ralph’s apartment without knocking? That is exactly how it was when I was a kid. Imagine that today?”
Yep…also remember how everyone in the neighborhood had dinner at around the same time? The streets that were full of kids minutes before would suddenly empty.
benson & ENY, don’t get your old school brooklyn knickers all twisted up!!! I was being snarky with the Alice/Lucy comparison.
I rmemeber that civil service exam episode.
That same gross Honeymooners apt probably rents for 1800 a mo now – unrenovated.
The fact that you guys would even TRY to diss Alice Kramden shows what kind of inauthentic, ignorant Brooklyn interlopers you really are. Alice Kramden is a SAINT in this borough, OK? She was here YEARS before you losers, and now that she’s not around anymore to defend herself, you trend-sucking weasels try to throw dirt on her name! Jerks! You guys really need to take a long hard look at yourselves and ask “Do I really belong here?”
Rob and DIBS;
Whatever you think of their apartment, that was the Brooklyn of yore…Dads who drove buses or worked in the sewer, striving to get ahead….neighbors popping in and out…..kids playing on the street.
There is one tremendously poignant episode called “Young Man With a Horn”. At the end of the show, Ralph is dejected because he didn’t score highly on the civil service exam, and so will not get his hoped-for promotion. The speech he makes at that point was one heard in many a Brooklyn household back then.
i thought the Honeymooners took place in Hoboken.
*rob*
Posted by: Butterfly at September 29, 2009 4:54 PM
I recall it was set in Bensonhurst, but on the show many streets referenced, such as Chauncey , are nowhere near Bensonhurst. They are usually Bushwick street names. Jackie Gleason who wrote or co-wrote most of the scripts was born & raised in Bushwick.
okay what happened yesterday? i was on my sofa starting around 3pm and just stayed there until this morning.. ?! what did i miss and where was it? in ot? i feel like im going to look and it’s going to be stupid and or silly and a waste of time…
*rob*
” For instance, ever notice how Norton just walks in Ralph’s apartment without knocking? That is exactly how it was when I was a kid. Imagine that today?”
Yep…also remember how everyone in the neighborhood had dinner at around the same time? The streets that were full of kids minutes before would suddenly empty.
Yeah, WTF was with that Alice??? Lucy sure kept a really nice place and she had Little Ricky to look after.
Sarah, haven’t you made enough of a mess of your own?