My pleasure slip...I have some fond memories of NYC and a few other parts of NY. Didn't start going there on a regular basis until about '72 or so. ...the corner bodega..yes, the pizza..the venders...the park, strawberry fields, the museum (I used to live less than a block from the Natural History Museum....upper west side, 'tween Columbus and CPW....had some friends on the upper east side too...let us know how the HS reunion goes! <chuckle> ...last time I visited I stayed in Orange, visited King's Point, the park and saw my visiting Tibetan Physician...a quick trip in/out. Well...I could reminiss a lot more...won't.
On May 9, 1:17 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny! Somewhat of a Jib Jab! > I don't know what your LI experience is but Newsday is the LI paper. > I don't know if you are familiar with Suffolk Life, on the east end. > I did layout for them back in the day of Kroy typesetters, waxers, > drawing table with the old school Tsquare etc. Even after computer > printout we still had the waxer, then cut and paste, oh yeah and then > the burnish roller. Wednesday was late night for the Thursday paper, > boss would buy several pizzas and we'd stay till it was all done, > sometimes past midnight. Sometimes I really miss those days, but that > was over thirty years ago and just a vague memory. There were so many > people working there back then because so much was done manually. I > would layout an ad and send it over to the typesetters who would > return all the type that was then run through the waxer, laid on the > board and cut up. Each line was meticulously put into place with the > tsquare and pushed around with the xacto knife then rolled down to > lock it in. The ad then went to the page layout department who would > complete each page and send it off to the printer. Today it is so > streamlined with few employees, of course what took 2 hours to > accomplish then takes about 20 minutes to accomplish now. > It was a time to remember and the Island was really considered the > boondocks, especially out past William Floyd where I lived. Though I > miss it in my mind the reality hits me when I go up and stay, the > reality that much of the old Island is gone. Much of the farms were > sold out to developers and the congestion on the 3 main arteries is > staggering. I'm still hanging on in Lake Panamoka but there is hardly > a spot of property that doesn't have a house on it. I'm lucky to have > Brookhaven Preservation behind me and that is about as rural as it > get's out there. Grummans Aerospace Corp's 6,000 acres have been > parceled out but I don't really know too much about it. I'm trying to > gather up the energy to visit during August, I hate flying regardless > of the speed of it and each year it gets harder to want to go. I'll > have to visit my HS on 57th and 2nd. and peruse the city a bit, maybe > the Museum of Natural History and the Park, one of my old favorite > haunts. I will definitely be spending time in the Hamptons on the > beach. One thing I have a serious hankering for is the real pizza, > authentic Jewish knish and a Sabrett hot dog. Thanks again for the > video! > > On May 9, 12:05 pm, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Some humor for your day. > > >http://www.newsday.com/media/flash/2009-04/46217527.swf- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
