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Monday, April 21, 2003
 
Hi,

Cheeses!

It's over a month since I put anything here. It's no wonder I'm only been getting DAMM SPAM to my email address.

In doing research about Brooklyn, and I've read and collected a number of books... some are good and some pretty bad. In all the time I've recognized that Brooklyn didn't exist in a vacuum but was part of a much larger environment consisting of the other boroughs, NYS, the US, and even Europe, the Mid East, Asia and Africa which sent us immigrants. The Brooklyn environment was complex, interesting and even scary. Maybe the Brooklyn of our youth was simple and we may yearn to return to it in ways but it ain't gonna happen.

I want to propose to you a book that I think will interest you if you have enjoyed some of the pieces I've put here. The book is:

Big Town - Big Time: A New York Epic: 1898-1998


Jay Maeder, Series Editor, New York Daily News
Publisher: Sports Publishing, Inc.; December 7, 1998
ISBN: 1582610282
198 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 13.20 x 9.86

The book lists for $39.95 but you can get copies for $10.00 if you look around hard enough.


Book Description (From Amazon.com) From Typhoid Mary to the opening of Yankee Stadium to the unforgettable blackout, it's time to remember. Including The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth - Lou Gehrig Day 1939, and And Sometimes Connect- The Babe Comes Back, 1923. Big Town, Big Time is a colorful panopoly of politics, culture, crime, sports, etc... The personalities, the events, the flow of time.

(From book's Editor's Note) This volume collects a newspaper series called BIG TOWN/BIG TIME that appeared in the New York Daily News from February to December 1998 and was the newspaper's contribution to a year-long civic celebration of the modern City of New York's 100th Anniversary. ...

There are 192 chapters and each is specific to a year and each chapter takes, usually, only one page. The stories are sometimes Brooklyn specific but most often they simply relate to the things that made our lives what they were.
Second City -- Early Brooklyn
Farklempt -- The Kosher Beef Riots
Shine on Brightly -- Old Coney Island
Notes From The Underground -- The Subway
Wretched refuse Of Your Teeming Shore -- Strangers in a Strange Land
"They Just Hit The Pavement Like Rain" -- The Trangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Gateway -- Port of Many Ports
Big Shot -- Burying Frankie Yale
Blood And Sand -- Robert Moses Builds Jones Beach
Dead As Sailing Ships -- Goodbye To The Trolleys
Seeing The Future -- The Fair
Terminus -- The Airport
Missing Link -- The Bridge That Wasn't
The Canary That Couldn't Fly -- Abe Reles and Murder Incorporated
As The Twig Is Bent -- Betty Smith
Some Scorcher -- The End of Coney Island
Playing With The White Boys -- Jackie Robinson
American Dream -- Burbs
The Monster -- Teenage Dope Slaves
No Harm in Horror -- The Federal Comic-Book Inquiry
You Might Get On The Radio -- Rock 'n' Roll
Suds -- Bert And Harry Piel
Auld Lang Syne -- Dem Bums Go West
The Genius -- Bobby Fisher
Red Snow -- The Brooklyn Air Crash
Long Hot Summer - Freedom Riders
Nothing To Ride -- Transit Shutdown
Vote The Rascals In -- The Mailer-Breslin Ticket
Out Of The Gate -- OTB
Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Bicentennial
Either right or Wrong -- Angels on Patrol
Gotta Believe -- World Series
No Immediate Links -- The Assassination of Meir Kahane
Big Problem -- Crown Heights
Quality of Life -- The Mayor Who Understood


I hadn't intended to list this many chapters but they all seemed relevant. Many of the ones I didn't list were either too far before my time or specific to one of the lesser boroughs. The stories from the last 20 years (since I went west) were of things I vaguely recalled so a one page synopsis of the subject was definately worthwhile.

I have no ties to the book, the editors or the NYDN. I just thought it was a good and interesting book and I'd recommend it.

Let me know what you think of the book. Remember though that these are my Nostalgia, Memories, and Thoughts of Brooklyn. This includes all that helped frame them.

Let me know what you think of the book and this site.

Ken2@BrooklynMemories.com

 

 

 



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