Tag: manhattan
member name: herbert l.
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April 09, 2008 06:01 PM EDT --
The Singles Hitter
continued from Way Things Used To Be 6
The years went by; I went off to college; the Korean War started, I went into the army, got out, wandered around Europe for five years, . . .
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April 02, 2008 03:23 PM EDT --
Marble Season
Part 6
Just as I never saw another guy bend at the waist, legs straight and reach down to tie his shoes the way Cedric did, I never saw another guy shoot marbles his way either.
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May 04, 2008 02:37 PM EDT --
Stoop Ball 4
Continued from Way Things Used To Be 10
We never put ourselves in Und Furdermore's place, or thought what it must be like hearing kids pound a ball against your wall a thousand . . .
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April 09, 2008 05:57 PM EDT --
The Singles Hitter
continued from Way Things Used To Be 6
The years went by; I went off to college; the Korean War started, I went into the army, got out, wandered around Europe for five years, . . .
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March 27, 2008 01:22 PM EDT --
Continued from Way Things Used To Be 5
MARBLE SEASON
Part 5
In punch ball Cedric always hit underhand, and never very hard, but he was a perfect place hitter. He'd bend at the waist . . .
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March 23, 2008 06:23 PM EDT --
(Cont'd from Way Things Used To Be 4)
Marble Season
Part 4
One day Barry Bogardus and Kenny Nails were watching Cedric pick up marbles and stick them into his side pocket as they . . .
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March 15, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
Continued from Way Things Used To Be 3
MARBLE SEASON
Part 4
A new guy by the name of Barry Bogardus had moved into the neighborhood and he and his friend Kenny Nails would come round, hands . . .
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June 19, 2008 05:07 PM EDT --
Between the twenty story apartment houses on Riverside and West End, 88th Street was lined with five story single-family homes, some brownstone, some white stone. We knew the people in all the buildings . . .
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February 11, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
What started me writing was watching things disappear. The flowers on the dining table disappeared fast; the rubber plant on the radiator cover, more slowly. The gaunt woman in the black bonnet and . . .
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April 13, 2008 11:35 PM EDT --
continued from Way Things Used To Be 7
Stoop Ball 1
Lucky Strike Green had come home from the War, as had Dubble Bubble gum and the pink Spaldeen—though at ten cents now instead of a nickel. . . .
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