That's great they were lucky, I know a family where their mother developed scleroderma and the Drs think breathing the fumes from the varnish works may have caused it as she lived very close to it.
Shadow I lived at 1912 near Austin Place. God I remember the fumes from not only the Chemical Company but the dump. I'd walk to Mt. Pleasant HS over the bridge and be gagging.
Do you remember the steps going from Cheltingham up to the corner of Jerome. Me and my BF hung out on those steps alot.
One of my other friends lived right near Cheltingham, the Dad died of a braiin tumor : ( Another girl I knew who lived on Jerome their Mom died of breast cancer. I've heard of alot of illnesses in that area.
Some people are more susceptible illness from chemicals/pesticides.
We used to use cardboard boxes and slide down that hill at the end of Jerome Ave and in the winter we would sleighride down the path at the end of Broad St. We would cut across the train tracks by following a path near the creek where they used to garden and go into Mount Pleasant that way.
We used to use cardboard boxes and slide down that hill at the end of Jerome Ave and in the winter we would sleighride down the path at the end of Broad St. We would cut across the train tracks by following a path near the creek where they used to garden and go into Mount Pleasant that way.
LOL we used to use the cardboard boxes and slide down the hill by the railroad bridge on Helderberg.................later on my friend Carl Mack got a toboggan and we'd go up to Hungy Hill and go down the big hill there.............'course we always worried about the "Hungry Hill gang" starting something...............Carl was the biggest kid in our group so we felt a little safer when he was around............them damn hungry hill bullies............
LOL we used to use the cardboard boxes and slide down the hill by the railroad bridge on Helderberg.................later on my friend Carl Mack got a toboggan and we'd go up to Hungy Hill and go down the big hill there.............
That sounds VERY DANGEROUS! Was that toboggan rider licensed and was the toboggan registered? I hope he was wearing a helmet. My goodness, you guys could have been run over by the ice cream truck.
That sounds VERY DANGEROUS! Was that toboggan rider licensed and was the toboggan registered? I hope he was wearing a helmet. My goodneotss, you guys could have been run over by the ice cream truck.
TIC
........................growing up in Rotterdam in the '50's and '60's was indeed very hazardous...........no regulations no rules no govt. intervention to show us the way..............how did we ever survive!!!! thank goodness I have these things now, my life is infinitely better these days......
It's a wonder any us us has survived considering how dangerously we lived, no seat belts, no helmets, rode in the back of a pickup, and rode sleds and toboggans down steep hills all by ourselves.
It's a wonder any us us has survived considering how dangerously we lived, no seat belts, no helmets, rode in the back of a pickup, and rode sleds and toboggans down steep hills all by ourselves.
I remember many times riding bikes out to Frenchie's Hollow to go fishing.........Mom would pack me a lunch, and me and Fred would spend the whole day out there............must've been 10 or so when we started doing that
We used to swim at Frenchies Hollow too. Imagine being able to go fishing and swimming all day as long as you were home for supper, now that was freedom.
Oh yeah the cardboard boxes : ) And the biggest hill had that one big hump lol.
How did we ever survive without all the vaccines given now. Im not anti vaccine but when I was a kid got the polio sugar cubes, the tetanus shot and smallpox vaccine.
Now by the time a kid is 6 years old they are given between 40 and 50 vaccines.
I know sorta off topic but my new grandbaby is due for shots next week and one is a 5 in 1 and then he'll get three more all in the same day. I hate that as what if he does get a reaction they won't know what vaccine it was
I remember my Mom and aunt stuffing my brother, me and 4 cousins all into one car, two of us sitting on the back floor : )
those were the days.
Me and a couple friends used to ride our bikes out to Canages? in Rotterdam Junction to go horseback riding. Once I got a flat on the way and had to walk half way there and all the way back.
We moved from Hullett St (when it was nice) when I was 5 to Jerome Ave. We had been living upstairs from my grandparents and I missed them alot. One day, remind you I was 5 I was out riding my bike and decided to visit them : ) I still remember riding up Helderberg and Guilderland and that's when the Crosstown was under construction and I asked a guy working there how to get to Hullett. So up Crane St I went and over "suicide' bridge, still remember the metal grates and the wooden "sidewalk" you could see between the slates and then onto my Grandparents house. I remember knocking on there door and my grandmother looking around for a car and me showing her my bike. My grandparents both Polish spoke some english but not alot and the next thing she was on the phone to my Mom.
She said "were is Pamela:? my Mom said out riding her bike and my grandmother telling her NO she's here lol.
My Mom called my Dad at Erlichs to come and get me, my bike stayed in the cellar the rest of that summer
I remember many times riding bikes out to Frenchie's Hollow to go fishing.........Mom would pack me a lunch, and me and Fred would spend the whole day out there............must've been 10 or so when we started doing that
we used to do the same thing. Of course now they will arrest you as a terrorist for going there.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
yep, all the time, spent the whole day...................................when we were 15 me and Fred out fished his father on opening day of trout season............he went to Ausable and got skunked........we rode our bikes to Beckers Brook on Dunnsville Rd. and caught 9 native brookies......
I caught quite a few trout out of Beckers Brook in my time. We used to go a little further to Quays House and swim and fish in the Normanskill Creek where the town used to store the supplies to repair the roads. We went to Candages and I liked to ride Casey the best. There was also Rebel the Devil, Jughead, and Spider to ride if Casey was already out. Frosty Acres also had some nice horses to ride but was too far to get up there very often.
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