Community Chat

[hennypenny]

The only tv in the house was in my parents bedroom.

The coffee table was chinese teak, on it was a large rose canton bowl and three carved jade fruits, a persimmon, an apple and a peach. 

[kivah]

You had a coffee table - you must have been rich. I was born in NYC (lower east side) - Family of 5 lived in an apartment that had 2 small bedrooms, 1 bath and a small kitchen.

When I was 9 yrs old, we moved to Brooklyn and lived in an apartment bldg - 1 bedroom (my sister & I shared a bed); 1 small foyer (my younger brother slept on a couch where u remove the cover); and my parents slept on a fold-out bed in the living room plus a small kitchen.

You could put that apartment in the downstairs of my house in north Oxnard (Calif) and there would be lots of room left over.

[hennypenny]

Hi @kivah , we lived in Brooklyn when my mother was at Columbia, my father was a Rabbi there during that time. We had a one bedroom apartment with tiny second alcove thing that I slept in. When my sister was born I was moved to the dining room. lol. I remember the hurdy girdy(sp) man with his monkey playing under the living room window. We would throw coins to him. I went to an Episcopalian nursery school. I have flashes of memories. ---Now you and I are practically neighbors again.

[kivah]

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@hennypenny wrote:

Hi @kivah , we lived in Brooklyn when my mother was at Columbia, my father was a Rabbi there during that time. We had a one bedroom apartment with tiny second alcove thing that I slept in. When my sister was born I was moved to the dining room. lol. I remember the hurdy girdy(sp) man with his monkey playing under the living room window. We would throw coins to him. I went to an Episcopalian nursery school. I have flashes of memories. ---Now you and I are practically neighbors again.

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I don't remember the monkey --- I grew up on Buffalo Ave., Crown Heights, Brooklyn in the 1950s. Surrounded by 3 temples. Small apartments - but all the neighbors knew each other, cared about each other and we didn't know that we were poor!!!! Great memories of the Simple Life.  I'm now 78 yrs young. 

[hennypenny]

@kivah , the monkey gathered the coins.

I am a youngster---you have three years on me--lol.

[lovesrecess]

We didn’t have a coffee table...just end tables...no ashtrays either...smoking was not allowed! The end tables had shelves...for TV Guide, Ladies Home Hournal, Life Magazine. At Christmas, we had a gumdrop tree...on the left end table...and a Hershey kisses tree on the right end table, we were livin’ large!

[GenXmuse]

National Geographic which no one actually read. 

[Tyak]

I'm lucky if I can remember what's on mine now, let alone what was on one 60 years ago.