Wednesday, July 11, 2018

OUR APARTMENT BUILDING AT 7904 ESSEX AVE NEAR 79TH FROM ACROSS STREET - OUR SECOND APARTMENT IN SOUTH SHORE - RIGHT SIDE CORNER TOP FLOOR - WHITE CASTLE IS ACROSS ESSEX ON 79TH STREET, SOMETHING MOM DID NOT LIKE WITH THE NOISES AT NIGHT AND THE SMELL - SHE WAS NOT A FAN LIKE ME - EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT DIRECTLY OVER STORES IT HAD A SENSE OF BEING SO - THERE WAS WHITE CASTLE FROM THE WINDOWS AND IN THE BACK WITH THE PORCHES THERE WAS THE BACK OF THE STORES ALONG 79TH STREET - I REMEMBER ONCE WITH MY ROCKET EXPERIMENTS FIRING ONE OFF THE PORCH ON THE THIRD FLOOR (THERE WAS A VERY LONG GANGWAY BEHIND THE STORES AND BETWEEN OUR BUILDING) AND SEEING JACK ALBERT SHOWING UP IN HIS WHITE APRON IN THE BACK OF HIS DELI (CORNER 79TH AND ESSEX) MUTTERING ABOUT THE NOISE AND SMOKE - OCTOBER 11 1968 - A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO

7904 ESSEX AVE FROM ACROSS STREET - OUR SECOND APARTMENT IN SOUTH SHORE - RIGHT SIDE CORNER TOP FLOOR - OCTOBER 11, 1968 - A JOHN CHUCKMAN PHOTO