Atomische just wrote in to Daily Heights : “A visitor to my photo blog posted a long and fascinating comment about what it was like living on my block (Underhill & St. John’s) back in the 1960s.”
Here’s some excerpts: “Wow,,,,I lived on this block when I was a kid..from about 1961 to about 1968 or 69. … the door was never locked … there were beautiful grand stoops with a ton of brickwork and had huge bushes on each side. Inside our hallway vestibule were two huge mirrors facing each other and you could see yourself into infinity. “
“On Underhill Avenue was the famous HERMANS ICE CREAM PARLOR and people came to hang out from all over Brooklyn … MOTOWN was what we listened to on the jukebox mostly and drank Egg Creams. We could buy a pack of cigarettes for 28 cents at the drug store. “
“The rent in those days ran about $100 or $150 a month… the “average” kids lived on the tenament side and the ‘richer” kids lived in one of the three big apt buildings across the street…”
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