Cool Stuff--Oh do I miss Brooklyn. The butcher shop signs are the best.

I'd love to see under the facade in #3 (sorry for being too lazy to look up the ascii code for a c with a thingy dooey hanging under it).

18th Avenue! Very cool.

I worked on 18th Ave and 67th street and met my wife while I worked at Dairy Queen. Great pictures.

i usto live in brooklyn it was the best i still remember the 18 Ave. feast it was great every year i would buy zepolies

I grew up on 17th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway (75th street). I love these old pictures and comments from ex Brooklynites. I left Brooklyn 47 years ago when I was 23 but I still remember how good it was.

hi,anyone remember 18ave & 52st.Joes candy store--lil dom,DJ,scotty red,cleo,patty boy-hill boys--frankie pots--gregory & roger stanton,nicky marino,?

i think that pork store was actually C&S meats owned by PAUL COSTELLANO

Didn't Paul Costellano own Bath Music over on Bath ave and somewhere around Bay 27th?
Man, I grew up on 67th and 18th...that Telco sign brings back many a memory.

no,that was owned by johnny costellano who now is in staten island,same last name no relation

Oh man! Bari Pork Store, Telco, Trunzo's! Thanks for the memories! Does anyone remember Bella's?

I remember Bella's. It was one of those candy stoes/luncheonettes on 20th avenue and 72nd Street. Me and my brother would go to Sal's Bakery for our mother to buy bread and on the way back, we would stop at Bella's, take fifteen cents out of the change we had from buying bread, and buy baseball cards or wacky packages.

Let's move on people. The past is past. Memories are nice but you all need to let go and get on with your lives.

I think the picture of the pig was from ROMA pork store on Bay Pkwy and between west 7 &west8 street.
The owner Sal was a nice guy(1990's)

Ed, you are wrong - the picture of the pig was from Bari Pork Store on 18th avenue and 73rd or 74th street.

Oh God, I am so glad that I moved away 20 years ago. When I go home to vist I feel like I'm back in the 70's -80's. People are still the same. So Scary. It's like you just walke into the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever.......
My sister is dating a guy who is just like that movie, he lives for New Utrecht H.S.
Please grow up your 42 - 43 years old now.
Get a Grip..........

Maryanne,

Sounds like you're on the rag. LOL...LOL...

Hey girl....I know the feeling. I've been there. Lol

Hey Mike though you may be a few years older ,I'm in my early 40's but thats exactly how I remember the neighborhood West 4th softball (4th st bombers) hey W5 remember losing in PS 177 school yard lol . anybody ever rob the bread from lapalina restaruant ave O W4/W5 or heroes from Montes , live nj now but mom still lives on the block what a difference russians buying up all the old houses tearing them down and building these ugly small apartment buildings ,commute evryday to brooklyn for work its like those of us mid thirties and up can only appriciate those days when brooklyn was still the brooklyn our parents and grandparents remember ,kids there today are either russian , mexicans and the shame is the few italian kids remaining idolize rappers no heart for the neighborhood

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER BOP

HEY ANYONE EVEN REMEMBER THE FARM ON 86TH STREET ALSO DR FEEL FUNNYS, PENTHOUSE, WHERE ARE THOSE DISCO DUCKS

HI GREW UP IN BENSONHURST MYSELF WENT OUT TO ALL THE CLUBS MY GOODNESS WHAT A GREAT MEMORY. I LOVE THE GOOD OLD DAYS WISH THEY WERE STILL HERE HEY ANYONE FROM NEW UTRECHT 1973 GRADUATES. D

WHY DONT WE REALLY TRY TO PLAN A REUNION IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE ALL

roe was a nice guy shame about the fire was a special guy

what about the rooservelt diner on the avenue

I hung out on 13th Ave and 80th street in Emery's candy store (early 60's) across the street from Sirico's, where a guy named Sammy made the best pizzia Brooklyn, we were known as the Hilts, after Carmine the Hilt, played baseball for St. Bernadette, played football for NU HS '61-64, lost to BK Tech 13-12, sang with a group called the Montereys, did a lot of corner doo wop, my friends are Louie Giglio, Danny Grimaldi (Soprano's), Frankie Lanziano, George Imbriale, Eddy Beak, Carmine Colosanto, Frankie Duck and a bunch of other Italian guys, too many do mention went, they all moved to Jersey we still stay in touch, Frankie Duck and myself are the only guys who still live in BK, I went to PS 201 with Joey Columbo when Fitgerald was the principal. Played a lot of sports, cut some records with Richie Miele & Froggy, Don Delseni Roman Records, Montereys, Blast Records. The neighborhood was a great place, cant beat the bread, pizza, lemon ice.....italian food was great any place you walked into, remember Romano's....I remember Mitchell's Drive in, making out at the Lowe's Oriental in the back rows, looking for the girls that put out, Mangia Booth, Dyker Park before they paved it, wearing a suit on Easter Sunday and going to 9 o'clock mass......I guess we all could write a book.....it is all changed now...it will never be the same.....

Jack, you are absolutly right it will never be the same... It was great! The guys and girls of today can never no what we had.( what a shame) Jack are you still singing ? Doing the doo wop thing..lol lol

Hey Anita...How are you? Last I heard Carol Biondo told me you moved to Florida.....Still doo woping with The Be Bops....did a show with the Classics at the New Utrecht ReUnion last October 2008...stiil sing with Richie Tic, Billy Schalda and others every now and then....yeah...it was a great time back then, it's nice to be able to reflect on friends you've had in the past and lucky in my case to continue to see them occassionally....I have to admit Carol, I always wanted to take you up to PS 201 on a summer night....behind the boards......ha...ha....ha...

Yep.. those were the days!!.. I bensonhurst was the best, plan & simple!!.. I remember as a kid we slept with the doors open.. never had an AC..LOL.. I feel bad for my son sometimes cause he will never know what it means to grow up in a niehbor hood like that. They are times i will never forget!