Before I get into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the trip back to Rochester I will catch up on things around the homestead.
Garbage is a necessity of life. Fortunately, seniors can use the dump for a $1 a bag (anything you can lift). Below is a picture of a bag in our truck and then the dump is the big hill in the second picture. I love a good deal.
We bought this wonderful crumb cake on Saturday to have for breakfast on Sunday.
When we opened it on Sunday morning a piece was missing. Detectives all we tried to figure out who did it. Patty said her sons (my nephews) would not have been neat enough to get the string back on the box. I defended the boys vigorously. In the end everyone agreed it must have been me so I confessed.
Where my wife went growing up. Looks the same now as then. Still in Babylon, LI
The reason that we went to LI was to attend a fundraiser for the Sisters of Charity(the nuns who taught me in Grade School (St Barnabas) and Betty and I in High School(Seton Hall). My sister in law, the nun, was one of the two honorees. Below are two other Seaton Hall Grads Jack and Sue.
And Sister Winnie who introduced Sister Mary Lou one of the honorees.
In a Bakery on Deer Park Ave (the main street)
By the Babylon Railroad Station
I dated a girl who lived in this house. She wasn’t grandma Betty then but she is now. House looks the same.
Not far from this house is the house below on Mulbury Street. Bob Keeshan, the original Captain Kangaroo lived here. Bob was a graduate of Fordham, a marine(no he did not fight on Iwo Jima with Lee Marvin) and the original Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody Show.The Captain Kangaroo show ran from 1955 to 1984.
My wife Betty’s home town on the south shore of Long Island. Below is La Grange now closed but a long time German restaurant. Also it was where we had out wedding reception.
A bird house in my brother in laws back yard. Just look at the length of that thing the bird is trying to get into the bird house. Look at the upper hole.
The old toll booths. They used to collect tolls here and then parking at Jones Beach was included in that toll. Now you pay for parking at the parking field that you use and they do not collect tolls at the toll booths.
There is more to Jones Beach than the water tower but the tower and the traffic circle around it are identifiable as Jones Beach. The toll booths and the tower look the same as they did in the 1950’s. I grew up 5 miles east of this tower.
I have been going to Stella’s for a very long time. It is a mandatory stop on the way down to Long Island and sometimes also going back. So I get there a couple of times a year. Bellmore, Long Island, NY.
http://www.menufrog.com/restaurantdetails.php?restaurant_id=20292373
Over the years they have been expanding and now part of Stella’s is almost a restaurant but the great variety pizza bar is still there.
From 4th to 12th grades this was my church and behind it was their grade school taught by the Sisters of Charity of Halifax. All of this in Bellmore, LI, NY. Started going here about 59 years ago. Hasn’t changed a bit.
