I didn't have time to do this yesterday, but here's the aerial map of where I grew up in south Queens, NY. The x is the house I lived in from age 5 to 16 and the z is my elementary school.
lol. Yeah, school was a block away. My parents chose that house for that very reason, actually. And still, we had 2 blizzards and at least one hurricane in the early '60s that closed the school.
Gee You mean you didn't have to walk miles and miles to school in the deep snow?
ReplyDeletelol. Yeah, school was a block away. My parents chose that house for that very reason, actually. And still, we had 2 blizzards and at least one hurricane in the early '60s that closed the school.
ReplyDeleteI took a bus to junior and senior high.
what part of queens? I grew up in Briarwood.
ReplyDeleteHoward Beach. The photo is just north of Jamaica Bay. It was probably as "rural" as you got in Queens back then. We got our sewers in 1964 or '65.
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