Tuesday, JULY 7, 2020 GET OUT THE SCISSORS AND SCREWDRIVERS FOR OUR CHILDHOOD PAST-TIMES
TUESDAY
July 7, 2020
RIHS’s 98th Issue of:
Included in this Issue
THE ISLAND IN 1977
Today is my 43rd anniversary of moving to Roosevelt Island. The weather was about the same as today, hot, humid and steamy. I came from Manhattan and moved into 580 #134. I was supposed to move to an apartment on the 7th floor. Three days before I moved I discovered that the apartment had been rented to two tenants. The only apartments that were available were on the 4th floor in 560 or the 1st floor in 580.
The day before I was supposed to move the apartment in 560 was burned out due to a fire spreading to 4 apartments.
My only option was the apartment with a garden in 580. It was a lucky choice and I loved the backyard for 19 years. It was the scene of neighbors sitting there during hot summer evening, lobster roasts and just being out of doors.
The first year I was on the island I hired the company that paved Main Street to lay a brick patio, which beat the gravel surface that came with the apartment.
Growing flowers every summer made the yard glorious including wisteria that climbed the fence and barrels of inpatients and geraniums.
Th gardens were private and I never had a problem with intruders, except the 6 year old who snatched my tulips.
The back of one of the school buildings was just outside my yard. There was a hill that the kids would sled down in winter. After a year or two, I came home and found that management had bulldozed the hill. End of fun time in this courtyard.
MORE CARTOONS
HOW MANY CAN YOU IDENTIFY?
PART 2
GIRLS HAD PAPER DOLLS
BOYS HAD ERECTOR SETS
Many of our childhood past-times came back this winter. My friends and I would spend hours clipping out paper dolls or dressing our Barbie dolls. My brother and father would be in the basement with the Erector Set making a Ferris wheel that worked.
TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
WHAT AND WHERE IS THIS?
Send your submission to rooseveltislandhistory@gmail.com
Win a trinket from the RIHS Visitor Center Kiosk
MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
WIND INTERVALS BY PHYLLIS MARK (1976) ON THE RIVERCROSS LAWN FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS IN THE LATE 1970’S.
LINDA BECKER, JAY JACOBSON AND JOAN BROOKS
REMEMBER THE ART PIECE
EDITORIAL
100 is Coming This Thursday, July 9th will be our 100th edition. Please pick a photo, article or item that you particularly enjoyed. Go to rihs.us and scroll down thru all our issues.
Pick your favorite and e-mail it to rooseveltislandhistory@gmail.com. Judith Berdy
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
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