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Title My old neighborhood remembered : a memoir / Avery Corman.
Author Corman, Avery.
Publication Info. Fort Lee, New Jersey : Barricade Books, 2014.
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Description 174 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents 175 FIELD PLACE -- ELEMENTARY SCHOOL -- THE HOME FRONT -- MY AUNT AND UNCLE -- A TWILIGHT ZONE TYPE OF OCCURRENCE -- THE TALKING DOG -- OTHER DOGS -- READING -- STREET GAMES -- CANDY AND THINGS -- GOING TO THE MOVIES -- SUMMERS -- THE BRONX HOME NEWS -- ALEXANDER'S DEPARTMENT STORE -- ROOTING FOR BASEBALL TEAMS -- JOE DIMAGGIO'S GLOVE -- PLAYING BASEBALL -- EDGAR ALLEN POE -- "HAVE YOU GOT ANY INFORMATION?" -- RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE -- BARBER SHOPS -- GROCERIES, DELIS, BAKERIES, APPETIZING STORES -- ICE CREAM PARLORS -- THE TRUTH ABOUT MY FATHER -- TELEVISION -- SCHOOLYARD BASKETBALL -- JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL -- THE BRONX ZOO -- THE 1951 CITY COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCANDAL -- EMIL VERBAN -- HIGH SCHOOL -- THE PARADISE PIZZERIA -- GETTING TO ARTHUR AVENUE -- CHINESE RESTAURANTS -- THE CONCOURSE PLAZA HOTEL -- JACK MOLINAS -- LAUREL & HARDY GO ICE SKATING -- ABSENCE OF A MANILA ENVELOPE -- THE TAN JACKET -- COLLEGE -- THE REALITY -- VOTING -- FULFILLING YOUR MILITARY OBLIGATION -- ONCE MORE -- LEAVING.
Summary Presents a memoir of growing up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s, recalling the simpler way of life and sense of community that prevailed there and discussing the reasons for its later transformation brought about by increasing poverty and crime.
Subject Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Corman, Avery -- Childhood and youth.
Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- Biography.
ISBN 9781569805183 : $19.95
1569805180
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