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Across the street in front of 1 West 192nd street at night. Our
house at 2 West was almost all Jewish and 1 West was almost all
Irish. Every Friday night the fund raisers hit all the bars for
the IRA!
--Uzi Ran, Israel (formerly Kenn Roth)
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My brother Paul Roth hamming it up on Jerome Avenue in 1959. You
can see the Kingsbridge Station of the El in the middle in the
back on the left and of course beautiful St. James Park right
across the street. Paul is right in front of Louis Gelfand's
candy store (egg creams, malteds).
--Uzi Ran, Israel (formerly Kenn Roth)
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The Willis Theater on Willis Ave, the Bronx. This photo was
taken c. 1924 by Michael Wickham, a recent immigrant from
Ireland, who lived at 372 E. 141 Street. The movie playing is
"The Signal Tower" with Wallace Beery.
--Brian Wickham
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This is Van Cortlandt Park taken from the Amalagmated House on
Van Cortlandt Park South. The photographer was Carl Jaslowitz,
formerly of the Bronx.
--Meryl Biszick
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This was the Jerome Park Reservoir, taken from Twin Towers on
Sedgwick and Saxon Avenues. (Photographer unknown)
--Meryl Biszick
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My dad, Arthur, and me standing in front of 1423 Bryant Avenue
in the Bronx in 1948.
--Steven Poggio
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Me sitting on an old car in 1948 in front of 1423 Bryant Avenue.
--Steven Poggio
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This is Unionport Road, one of the main thoroughfares in
Parkchester, taken in the early 1940s. The entrance to 1525
Unionport Road is right next to the Chester House Tap Room.
Cushman's Bakery is also evident. The store at the end of the
row on the left was the Laundromat.
--Kathryn Schiemann McGinty, Greenwich CT
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This photo, one of three taken by my brother Owen Kaminoff in
1968, is looking west on 170th Street from the Grand Concourse.
--Ivan Kaminoff
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This was taken on 171st Street looking west toward Jerome Avenue
during a garbage strike in 1968.
--Ivan Kaminoff
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