Beautiful beautiful street scenes. Thank you, fuster.
I remember an overhead expressway over 3rd Avenue in 1943. I'm not sure how far it went. There was no Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in those days, and I don't think there was a highway going over the Gowanus Canal. But 3rd Avenue, with its elevated road, seemed like the end of the world, or at least, the boundary of the parts of Brooklyn one might live in before the warehouses began.
If my memory is correct--a big IF--the parade was always on 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge. 5th Avenue, in the days of my callow youth, was at the edge of the Norwegian neighborhood.
@ fuster:
Did you, perchance, grow up near the neighborhood in Brooklyn that was once considered part of Bay Ridge but is now called Sunset Park? The Norwegian population there has shrunk considerably, but there is still a parade every year on May 17, the Norwegian national holiday.
Thanks, fuster.
Beautiful beautiful street scenes. Thank you, fuster.
I remember an overhead expressway over 3rd Avenue in 1943. I'm not sure how far it went. There was no Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel in those days, and I don't think there was a highway going over the Gowanus Canal. But 3rd Avenue, with its elevated road, seemed like the end of the world, or at least, the boundary of the parts of Brooklyn one might live in before the warehouses began.
If my memory is correct--a big IF--the parade was always on 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge. 5th Avenue, in the days of my callow youth, was at the edge of the Norwegian neighborhood.
@ fuster:
My friends Alex and Lifen moved to Sunset Park after the events described in this memoir:
http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/InTheHeart.html
They no longer live there but have moved elsewhere.
@ fuster:
Did you, perchance, grow up near the neighborhood in Brooklyn that was once considered part of Bay Ridge but is now called Sunset Park? The Norwegian population there has shrunk considerably, but there is still a parade every year on May 17, the Norwegian national holiday.
Israel is doing its share.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15503716