I sooo remember the trains without air conditioning and hot summer days going out to Coney Island. Hoping to be close enough to the little window to catch a breeze.
Also, my dad and I taking the train up to Penn Sta. There was a train that used the lower platform at Bergen Street – anyone know if that was an F or something else?
Benson- Those old cars are a little before my time, sorry, but I have heard about them from my parents & grandparents. As for subway nostalgia, I have an old 78 one sided Victrola record from the 1920’s amongst a small collection of records that belonged to my greatgrandmother . It was recorded by a singer of the Rudy Vallee era named Nicola Paone. Paone who was long lived ran a famous Italian Restaurant in Manhattan for decades after his recording career faded. The ” Subway Song” was a hit for him at the time. The record tells of the woes of a NYC straphanger who rides the subway, with people pushing here and pushing there , pushing everywhere- on the crowded subway-those are the only lyrics I can recall. The song is actually very funny.
Love it when the old schoolers gab.
I just turned 52. I think DIBS is older than me. Not sure about Pete.
Hey welcome back Cobble! Good to see both you and Snappy (even is Snappy is on a sick-poo sabbatical).
who’s older, benson or brooklynpete? 🙂
Thanks all. I’m not leaving till late next week, so you’ve still got this trouble maker for a few more days… 🙂
cobble, with you back, all is right with the world
Posted by: CarrollGardened at October 2, 2009 12:22 PM
Fuck yeah!
I sooo remember the trains without air conditioning and hot summer days going out to Coney Island. Hoping to be close enough to the little window to catch a breeze.
Also, my dad and I taking the train up to Penn Sta. There was a train that used the lower platform at Bergen Street – anyone know if that was an F or something else?
sitting on conf call so did the quickie here – got 1 of those chicken over rice thingies from the Halal street vendor
Benson- Those old cars are a little before my time, sorry, but I have heard about them from my parents & grandparents. As for subway nostalgia, I have an old 78 one sided Victrola record from the 1920’s amongst a small collection of records that belonged to my greatgrandmother . It was recorded by a singer of the Rudy Vallee era named Nicola Paone. Paone who was long lived ran a famous Italian Restaurant in Manhattan for decades after his recording career faded. The ” Subway Song” was a hit for him at the time. The record tells of the woes of a NYC straphanger who rides the subway, with people pushing here and pushing there , pushing everywhere- on the crowded subway-those are the only lyrics I can recall. The song is actually very funny.