Kay O. My e-mail is I will tell you what I know about Anton G. (I don’t want to talk too much on this site about non-Colonial matters though I think it’s ok to relate neighborhood stuff.) Bill P.
I think I’ve met Bro. Campion at SFC functions but I didn’t remember Robert Lally from SFP. A few years ago Bill Quigley, who lived on Hopkinson Ave. across the st. from the Saratoga branch of the library ran a reunion at a K. of C. in Bethpage at which there were a lot of folks from the neighborhood surrounding the Colonial T. Quigley graduated from Lourdes in 1949. He was more partial to the Bushwick Theater further down Broadway than to the Colonial. Bill P.
Someone mentioned the candy store on Aberdeen and Broadway. It had a series of owners, but in 1949, the year I graduated from OLOL it was owned by the parents of a classmate of mind. There name was DeNicolo. Mrs. deNicola was not in the store on Friday nights as she was collecting her dishes at the Colonial. A couple of people have said that Loudes church was burned down by an arsonist. Fr. John McCormack a Father of Mercy and the pastor of Lourdes and a longtime proest there told me at Jim Cassidy’s wake that the fire was an accident caused by a homeless man. McCormack was no longer the pastor when this happened. Jim Cassidy was known to have opened a side door from the balcony of the Colonial to let his friends in free. THey had climbed up a concrete set of stairs from Chauncey St. Finally I note that several folks said that after Lourdes, not having had enough of the good brothers went on to St. Francis Prep, I did that , too, but earlier—1949-53. At the time SFP was down on Baltic St. between Smith and Court. In my senior year SFP moved to Greenpoint/ Williamsburg. St. Frncis himself would have enjoyed the movies I saw at the Colonial—especially Horatio Hornblower. Bill Proefriedt
Kay O. My e-mail is I will tell you what I know about Anton G. (I don’t want to talk too much on this site about non-Colonial matters though I think it’s ok to relate neighborhood stuff.) Bill P.
I think I’ve met Bro. Campion at SFC functions but I didn’t remember Robert Lally from SFP. A few years ago Bill Quigley, who lived on Hopkinson Ave. across the st. from the Saratoga branch of the library ran a reunion at a K. of C. in Bethpage at which there were a lot of folks from the neighborhood surrounding the Colonial T. Quigley graduated from Lourdes in 1949. He was more partial to the Bushwick Theater further down Broadway than to the Colonial. Bill P.
Someone mentioned the candy store on Aberdeen and Broadway. It had a series of owners, but in 1949, the year I graduated from OLOL it was owned by the parents of a classmate of mind. There name was DeNicolo. Mrs. deNicola was not in the store on Friday nights as she was collecting her dishes at the Colonial. A couple of people have said that Loudes church was burned down by an arsonist. Fr. John McCormack a Father of Mercy and the pastor of Lourdes and a longtime proest there told me at Jim Cassidy’s wake that the fire was an accident caused by a homeless man. McCormack was no longer the pastor when this happened. Jim Cassidy was known to have opened a side door from the balcony of the Colonial to let his friends in free. THey had climbed up a concrete set of stairs from Chauncey St. Finally I note that several folks said that after Lourdes, not having had enough of the good brothers went on to St. Francis Prep, I did that , too, but earlier—1949-53. At the time SFP was down on Baltic St. between Smith and Court. In my senior year SFP moved to Greenpoint/ Williamsburg. St. Frncis himself would have enjoyed the movies I saw at the Colonial—especially Horatio Hornblower. Bill Proefriedt