I was born on April 11th 1945. I grew up as a Brooklyn Dodger fan but they broke this 12 year old heart in 1957. In 1962 William Shea brought the National League back to New York and in no other borough including Queens were the Mets more accepted and loved from day 1.
Below is a list of those who remember those times circa 1952 and for those not around then trust me the only place in the world to grow up in was Brooklyn New York. Enjoy
BROOKLYNITES
If you ain't from Brooklyn, just forget this; you wouldn't understand.
You're truly from Brooklyn if you can relate to any of the following:
1.Alternate side of the street parking.
2.Ate at Chock Full O' Nuts Shops (date nut bread and powdered donuts
that were crunchy).
3.Ate dinner every Sunday night at Tang Fong on Bay Parkway. (or a
reasonable facsimile)
4.Ate Italian food at Gino's.
5.Bought bobka at the original Ebingers on Flatbush Avenue or Butterbun
on Nostrand Ave.
6.Bought Ebinger's Black-Out Cake (and didn't count the calories)
7.Bought knishes from Mrs. Stahls in Brighton or Ruby the Knish Man.
8.Bought knishes on the beach and didn't mind the sand.
9.Bought pickles out of a barrel.
10.Can name all the Brooklyn High Schools.
11.Don't speak with an accent - everybody else does.
12.Drove over the Marine Park Bridge for a 10-cent toll and Brooklyn
Battery Tunnel for 35 cents.
13.Everybody knows somebody from the neighborhood even if it's your
mother's cousin's son-in-law's sister's boyfriend.
14.Got a "Kitchen Sink" at Jahn's.
15.Got a J.D. card and feeling like Al Capone.
16.Had a prom date at the Club Elegante.
17.Had roller skates with keys.
18.Hand ball in the park.
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