https://boblazaroff.com/2013/01/19/record-store-days/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0873.jpg_MG_0873https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0916.jpg_MG_0916What a van! What a face! Newbery Comics van kinda reminds me of the face of the Whooping Cranes and Zip Recordshttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0864.jpg_MG_0864An interior shot of Nuggets circa Fall 2012.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0861.jpg_MG_0861Nuggets still exists! The store has moved, and is a thriving business nearly 30 years since I last purchased an album there!https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0873.jpg_MG_0873Inside of City Convenience, former home of Music City.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0871.jpg_MG_0871The corner store in Kenmore Square in Boston where Music City used to be.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0662.jpg_MG_0662The top facade of the building housing Funko-Mart seems a good example of some terrible architectural decisions that took place in the 1960s that are still extant today.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0661.jpg_MG_0661Okay - I've never been to this shop. But this store, on 11th and Market St. in Philly, is representing all the records stores I did frequent growing up in and around Philadelphia.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0473.jpg_MG_0473Sounds on St. marks Place was a fixture in my life while living on 10th St. in the 1980s. Walking by it in the fall 2012 - the facade is still there, but it's closed. As in permanently. I bet its gone by now. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0490.jpg_MG_04904th St. and Broadway in the Village was the former site of Tower Records 2023-08-14T17:07:00+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2013/01/15/moving-on-up-to-upland-road-2/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0741.jpg_MG_0741Wait a second... that hill used to be monstrously big! This is the hill by Saint Joseph's University, right across City Line from the car wash. After every snowstorm we would head here to sled down the hillhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0739.jpg_MG_0739This shot looks like nothing. A sour lane major road with a car zooming by and a Wendy's in the background. Where the Wendy's is now (along with the Pep Boys nearby - out of the shot) is where the car wash used to be. Maybe the owners incurred such extraordinary orange-ade bills they were forced to sell?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0738.jpg_MG_0738The sign over the storefront in the image reads "Saint Joseph University." The sign over the storefront in my memory will always read "Ben Franklin 5 & 10."https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mg_0737.jpg_MG_0737Like so much else throughout America, once beloved landmarks have become a Starbucks. In this case, this storefront on the corner of Old Lancaster Road and City Line was once my beloved Dake's Drugs (Dake's Pharmacy - a true pharmacy - is now across the street). But the years disappear when I gaze at this image. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/rons-alston.jpgron's alstonRon's shot of the front of our Alston apartment building at 56 Parkvale Avenuehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/from-rons-room-alston.jpgfrom ron's room alstonBoston can be oh so wintry. Ron's shot of Parkvale Avenue and beyond from his bedroom window of our apartmenthttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/from-neil-young-book.jpg"Yonge Street, Yorkville, the hub of Toronto's music scene in the 1960s, with A&A Records, Steel's Tavern, and Sam's Record Store." Photo/caption included in Neil Young: The Definitive History by Mike Evans (2012 Sterling Publishing, NY)https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tower-san-fran.jpgtower san franGail took this shot of Tower Records in San Fran (with the always dramatic Coit Tower in the distance) on a solo trip - one of her many - to the west coast in the late 80s.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/just-bought-a-house.jpgjust bought a house!Just bought a house! Mom, Dale and I on Upland Road in spring 1965.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0756.jpg_MG_0756The driveway we shared with the Krasnoffs. Our garage, on the right, never had a door and still doesn't.2013-01-16T04:06:55+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2013/01/10/on-sorrento-road/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0728.jpg_MG_0728Just a short walk from Sorrento Road to the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center. Of course all the stores have been replaced (save Lord & Taylors). Where the Olive Garden now stands used to be Horn & Hardharts. I loved that place, and considered it a great treat to eat there. My favorite meal: Pancacks and potato chips. Though the neighborhood around Sorrento Road hasn't much changed, City Line has. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sorrento-road_0001_new.jpgsorrento road_0001_NEWThe same spot, circa 1959. I'm assuming that's dad's black VW bug parked in front. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0709.jpg_MG_0709Standing on the front porch, looking up toward Conshohoken Avenue circa 2012.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sorrento-road_new.jpgsorrento road_NEWHere's dad standing in the same spot - in 1959. How similar it all looks. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0708.jpg_MG_0708Dale and I climbed the front steps and took a chance: we knocked on the door. No one was home. We lingered for a few minutes on the front porch and took pictures .https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0724.jpg_MG_0724Sorrento Road and its long sidewalk, stretches out. Our house would be toward the back of the row homeshttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0706.jpg_MG_0706On the other side of Lenape, looking down toward Sorrento Rd. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0705.jpg_MG_0705If we were walking from our house on Sorrento Rd. and up Lenape, this is the view (Conshohoken Ave. is the next insection). You can see our Honda Civic - we just left the car when this picture was taken..https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0713.jpg_MG_07132609 Sorrento Road in West Philadelphia, where Dale and I were born (well, brought home from the hospital). We lived there from 1959 until spring of 1965.2013-01-10T22:13:02+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/12/13/return-to-georges-lane/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1771-georges-lane_0002.jpg1771 Georges Lane_0002Passover 1967. Mom, Mom Mom Liz, Robin, and Uncle Milt in the dining room in Georges Lane. I have such strong memories of the wall paper.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1771-georges-lane_0001.jpg1771 Georges Lane_0001Mom Mom Liz, as I'll always remember her, in the kitchen. This was taken Passover 1967 in Georges Lane. Look at the smile on her face! We should all be this happy and fulfilled. One of many sayings: "You don't need to be hungry to eat!"https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0747.jpg_MG_0747On the other side of the intersection on Montgomery Ave. and Georges Lanehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sitting-on-the-steps-of-georges-lane.jpgsitting on the steps of Georges LanePop Pop Harry with his next door neighbor sitting on their shared steps at 1771 Georges Lane. Photo taken in 1959.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1771-georges-lane.jpg1771 Georges LaneMom Mom Liz and Pop Pop Harry posing in front of their home in 1959.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0744.jpg_MG_0744Approaching the cement steps leading up to 1771 Georges Lane.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0746.jpg_MG_0746On the corner sits 1771 Georges Lane in Wynnefieild, home of my grandparents until they moved to Ventnor in 1967 and home to my dad until he got married in Nov. 1957.2012-12-13T18:08:50+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/12/11/moms-world/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0803.jpg_MG_0803Though hidden by dense foliage, this is my grandparents' house at 6925 Sherwood Lane in the Overbrook Park section of Philadelphia. This was the only home I would ever know my grandparents to live in. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/leib-1_0018.jpgleib 1_0018the image is fairly dark, but you can see Pop Pop Henry behind the wheel parked out in front of the house on N. 52nd St. (I recognize the house across the street from our recent visit). Taken sometime in the mid-1952.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/leib-1_0003.jpgleib 1_0003Mom posing in front her house before leaving for her ninth grade graduation in 1954https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0778.jpg_MG_0778Looking up the block from the ancestral homehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0788.jpg_MG_0788Abbie's son Michael, a builder and real-estate developer, inspecting the rear of what was once his grandparents' home on N. 52nd St. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0790.jpg_MG_0790Behind the house on N. 52nd was an urban version of the secret gardenhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0791.jpg_MG_0791https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0785.jpg_MG_0785Abbie on the stoop of the house in which he grew up : 1963 N. 52 St. in the Wynnefield section of Philadelphia.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0768.jpg_MG_0768https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0770.jpg_MG_0770Walking up the main drive of the Trianon2016-10-31T00:42:46+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/12/12/back-to-school/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/dads-hs-graduation.jpgdad's hs graduationDad as a senior, culled from the 1949 Overbrook High School yearbookhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0795.jpg_MG_0795Overbrook High School stands almost as an island in West Philadelpha.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/leib-1_0001.jpgleib 1_0001Mom Mom Ruth on the same steps at mom's graduation June 1953.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/leib-1.jpgleib 1Mom on the same steps on the day of her Jr. High graduation, June 1953https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0798.jpg_MG_0798Bebber Middle School, where both my parents went (many years apart)https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0749.jpg_MG_0749All in the family: William P. Mann school in Wynnefield, where I went for kindergarten and both my parents attended.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0763.jpg_MG_0763The main entrance to Merion Elementary School hasn't changed since Dale and I went there in the 1960s.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sixth-grade-shots_0001.jpgsixth grade shots_0001Sixth grade school friends gathered in the back field of Merion Elementary, circa 1970.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0764.jpg_MG_0764the back field of Merion Elementary.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0765.jpg_MG_0765Merion Elementary School. Traditional-looking school, blue skies and kids getting on the yellow school bus: this looks like a quintessential scene played out through suburban America2012-12-12T18:27:25+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/12/05/margate-now-margate-then-part-2/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0574.jpg_MG_0574The entrance way to Casel's food store, an iconic fixture in Margate since I was a boy.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mg_0586.jpg_MG_0586The old Margate library on Jerome Avenue is still standing. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0569.jpg_MG_0569Carved in the cement is the date "1979." This bricked area was added a year after we stopped going to Margatehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0571.jpg_MG_0571https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/view-from-the-deck.jpgview from the deckThe view of the same senior center, looking pretty lonely on the big lot, taken from the deck outside by folks' bedroom, taken in the early seventies.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0565.jpg_MG_0565This is the senior center, circa September 2012, on the beach, right near our old house at 8206 Atlantic2012-12-05T20:15:15+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/11/27/margate-now-margate-then-part-1/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/young-walter_0002.jpgyoung walter_0002I love the honeyed tone of this shot. This is 8206 Atlantic Avenue, taken in 1976, 8228 may exist in its place, but I will always see this house, with its chain link fence, with the pink apartments next door, and with my bedroom at the front of the house, facing the streethttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0564.jpg_MG_0564For as long as I remember, there was a life-guard station here on the street, a structure more like a small house. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0562.jpg_MG_0562from our driveway, looking over at the pink apartmentshttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0561.jpg_MG_0561pondering the deck in the backyard. If you ask me, this is way too big. It overwhelms the backyard. This never existed before.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0560.jpg_MG_0560Dale and Robin pondering "our house" that is no longer there. The drive way and garage are still there!https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0588.jpg_MG_0588standing across the street, you can see the brand new house that has taken the place of 8206 Atlantic, as well as the pink apartments next door that are no longer pink. I realize this is a terrible identifying caption.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0590-e1354037050509.jpg_MG_0590Lucy might be an oddity but she's Margate's oddity2012-11-27T19:25:34+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/11/06/boardwalk-empire-part-three/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/young-walter.jpgyoung walterProbably taken in the late 1930s, here's a young Walter posing on the boardwalk. Little did he know he'd be running those boards 40 years later.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_0560.jpgIMG_0560Finished my morning joe and took this shot of the early morning boardwalk in Atlantic Cityhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_05671.jpgIMG_0567Looking south from Ventnor pier, September 2012https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_0567.jpgIMG_0567https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_0567_21.jpegIMG_0567_2https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_0567.jpegIMG_0567https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_0567_2.jpegIMG_0567_2https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/running-good-scan_new.jpgrunning good scan_NEWfrom the Atlantic City Press, January 9, 1978. Original caption: "He may have been looking for silence and solitude, but even on a rainy winter Sunday this jogger has company as he pounds the boards." (photo by Gregg Kohl)2012-11-15T17:45:46+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/11/06/at-home-on-iroquois-avenue-margate-nj/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0584.jpg_MG_0584The current owners seem to have a great sense of humor. The Lazaroff spirit still prevails. Mom Mom used to get so annoyed when dogs would poop on the lawn of their next house at 8206 Atlantic. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/iroquois-ave-_0001_new.jpgiroquois ave._0001_NEWI never remember playing baseball, but here I am wearing this dorky get-up Why do all boys this age act like they hate their picture being taken?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/iroquois-ave-_0002_new.jpgiroquois ave._0002_NEWI love this shot of Dale and the record player and stacks of records behind her. Allen Sherman records? Eddie Fisher? Mitch Miller?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/iroquois-ave-_new.jpgiroquois ave._NEWRobin, Dale and mom in the front of the house. Looking at this shot, it all comes back (especially the chairs).https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0581.jpg_MG_0581I've always found the grassy center strip in driveways appealing. Maybe it all stemmed from this house?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0579.jpg_MG_0579the current owners take great care of "our" house. The sign for the house number looks unchanged from the old b&w shot. The windows are new, but keep the integrity of the original design. It all looks so inviting.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/young-walter_0001.jpgyoung walter_000117 Iroquois Avenue in Margate, circa 1967. Notice the "Sale" sign in the front of the house.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/mg_0580.jpg_MG_058017 Iroquois Avenue in Margate, September 20122012-11-06T17:43:47+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/11/06/boardwalk-empire-part-2/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/b360steelpier.jpegb360steelpierA postcard from 1957, before my time, but you can see Steel Pier in all its glory, Planters Peanuts on the other side of a boardwalk, and one of the movie theaters.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0539.jpg_MG_0539Approaching Peanut World. Planters Peanuts was always a stop for us as kids on the boardwalk. This wasn't Planters, but it looks like it could have replaced it in the mid to late 70s.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0550.jpg_MG_0550Connected to Trump's Casino is the "new" Steel Pier. On the pedestrian bridge that allows customers to gain access to the pier without setting foot on the boardwalk is an illustration of what my grandparents would have seen in their youth.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/divingbellwtmk.jpegdivingbellwtmkhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tumblr_ldiving-horse1.jpegtumblr_ldiving-horse1Animal rights activists look the other wayhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/boardwalk-part-2_0001.jpgboardwalk part 2_0001Summer of 1962, opposite Million Dollar Pierhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/boardwalk-part-2_0003.jpgboardwalk part 2_0003https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0536.jpg_MG_0536It's a strange new world. Robin and Dale walking up from Convention Hall toward what once was Million Dollar Pier (and is now a glitzy shopping mall)2012-11-06T15:20:17+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/10/08/on-and-off-the-boardwalk-in-atlantic-city-reeling-in-the-years-part-one-of/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/boardwalk-july-1961.jpgboardwalk July 1961What a shot! I look at Pop-Pop and I can see Walt (who probably took the shot)? Mom-mom probably stayed back at Bartram and cooked.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/boardwalk-july-1961_0002.jpgboardwalk July 1961_0002July 1961 walking the boards with mom and cousin Terry.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/boardwalk-july-1961_0001.jpgboardwalk July 1961_0001July 1961. I was two and Dale one. On the boardwalk by Bartram Avenue?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_05553.jpgIMG_0555The whole expanse of the space where the Jail Bus used to be parked. It was there to scare the kiddies so they don't lead a life of crimehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_05552.jpgIMG_0555https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0534.jpg_MG_0534https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0533.jpg_MG_0533Walking to the boardwalk you can see the rear of Convention Hall and too much vacant and decaying spacehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0530.jpg_MG_0530https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/white-house-hoagie.jpegwhite house hoagieI didn't take this shot, but I should have. This is what you're faced in when your order comes. A White House hoagie will cure depression, anxiety and despair, and give you a renewed belief in humanity.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0529.jpg_MG_0529You smell it before you see it. There's a lot of signage around the White House, possibly THE BEST hoagies anywhere.2012-10-09T12:13:52+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/10/02/connecticut-college-life-was-elsewhere/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/conn-college-dj.jpgConn College djI am a dj, I am what I play: Spinning the records circa 1977, taken by mom on a visit to the college (how devoted was she... getting up really early to take this shot during my early morning gig).https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0428.jpg_MG_0428https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0401.jpg_MG_0401The front of the building which housed the auditorium. I took a film class there, which I remember better than any other class. I think of that often when I teach film classes, trying to get students to engage with films other than passively viewing them. Beautiful building, adjacent to the music building. Had one concert the year I was there: Livingston Taylor, brother of James. Livingston Taylor also played one night at Lower Merion during my senior year of high school. Urgh. Cemented the feeling that there wasn't much happening here. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0420.jpg_MG_0420The music building at the other end of the campus from the dorm. Lyons used to come here a lot to use one of the studio rooms to practice his piano. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0406.jpg_MG_0406https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0410.jpg_MG_0410Notice the WCNI sign? The station used to be one floor above. It's still there!https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0407.jpg_MG_0407A drab building built in 1959 (see the commemorative marker on the corner)... on one hand yes, but this is where WCNI was (and still is). The building has been remodeled, but walking inside it felt the same. The large staircase up to the second floor which housed the radio station was still there.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0394.jpg_MG_0394What a line of students waiting to enter the Harris dining hall, which is part of the same complex as Johnson Hall. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0412.jpg_MG_0412The two windows all the way to the left on the third floor was the dorm room John, Lyons and I shared. It looked over the open quad (there were other dorms on the other side. Music was continually blasting out of dorm windows in the warm weather, an absence I felt walking around on a Monday afternoon 35 years later. The big stereo has gone the way of the record collection, a relic of a different age. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0413.jpg_MG_0413This parking lot shouldn't be there! Behind the dorm were woods. Stepped into these woods at times at night and during the day - it felt like they went on forever. I lost my wallet in there during the first few days of school - how the hell did that happen??2012-10-04T14:04:28+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/10/04/journey-through-the-past-bartram-avenue-atlantic-city/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0558.jpg_MG_0558Signage by the bayhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bartram-ave-3.jpgBartram Ave 3Having fun in the backyard.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bartram-ave-2.jpgBartram Ave. 2Mom Mom Ruth hugging her grandkidshttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bartram-ave-1.jpgBartram Ave 1A family of four, soon to be of five.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0556.jpg_MG_0556I look at this house and I feel the years disappear.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/mg_0555.jpg_MG_05552012-10-04T13:57:27+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/09/07/city-island-the-grit-and-the-gulls/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0376.jpg_MG_0376The sunsets are spectacular for those facing west on City Island. Notice the Manhattan skyline behind the gazebo.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0383.jpg_MG_0383Outside the Black Whale, which remains Gail's strongest memory of her teenage visits to City Island.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0367.jpg_MG_0367This must be the placehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0369.jpg_MG_0369Sitting outside at Sammy'shttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_03681.jpg_MG_0368How can you resist?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0366.jpg_MG_0366a beautiful clapboard church along City Island Ave. I love all the electric wires going north, south, east, and west. And look carefully, you can see a bit of the Long Island Sound to the left way behind the pole. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0359.jpg_MG_0359Another house on Carroll Street. It is hard to believe we are in New York Cityhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0363.jpg_MG_0363https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0361.jpg_MG_0361Looking down the street toward the west. The house from the first shot would have been by the water on the left side of the street. Notice the double-red stop light at the end of the block warning drivers that there ain't no road left.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0357.jpg_MG_0357Looking at Long Island Sound at the end of a City Island street2012-09-16T02:44:13+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/07/22/on-a-new-york-island-part-one-visiting-ellis-island/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0259.jpg_MG_0259Gail's grandfather Sam is listed here - thanks to her Aunt Sandy and Aunt Alice for (probably) making the listing happenhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0261.jpg_MG_0261Here are the Lazaroffs. None of these are my direct relatives. My great grandfather Michael Lazaroff came over previous to Ellis Island. He came into New York via Clinton Gardens (now referred to as Castle Clinton). There will be more about this in a future post. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0260.jpg_MG_0260The circular wall of names outside the Great Hallhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ellis-island.jpegEllis-IslandOkay. I didn't take this shot. However, it gives you a good visual representation of the island and the huge circular wall of names.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0267.jpg_MG_0267upstairs looking down upon The Great Hall, where thousands milled around waiting for their name to be called to start the processing. https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0254.jpg_MG_0254Ghost slips waiting for the ferries from days gone byhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0252.jpg_MG_0252Beware of ghosts: inside the main terminal remnant signs from an earlier erahttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0257.jpg_MG_0257Looking northward from the dock at Liberty State Park2012-09-16T02:39:28+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/09/13/dale-and-drews-world/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0446.jpg_MG_0446walking down Island Way to the beach, this is the house right on the waterhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0437.jpg_MG_0437If you look carefully, you can see the "Landshark" beer tap on the keg on the very left side of the barhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0436.jpg_MG_0436the back of Dale and Drew's house on Saugatuck. The bar area is underneath the overhandhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0433.jpg_MG_0433A bridge to crawl overhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0431.jpg_MG_0431a view out the driver's side window as you drive up Harbor Rd. toward Saugutuck Island.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0439.jpg_MG_0439back to the back and the many-layered deckhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0442.jpg_MG_0442The front of the house on Sugarloafhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0440.jpg_MG_0440Walking into Dale and Drew's old backyard. Nick is our guide. And here's the hill where Geoff and Alli used to sled down.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0438.jpg_MG_0438The view from the backyard of Dale and Drew's old house in Wiltonhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mg_0448.jpg_MG_0448The summer's over? The view of the LI Sound from the shore of Saugutuck Island. 2012-09-16T02:37:41+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/07/29/on-reading-the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/2012-09-16T02:31:32+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/08/24/spending-time-in-rons-room/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/p1040090.jpgP1040090Ron's shot of us and the van hours after the show.https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/img_0433.jpgfrom our seatsThe cheap seats offer the best viewhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/img_0430.jpgIMG_0430The stage at Red Rocks. Can you see Neil's Indian statue?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/img_0426.jpgWalking from the parking lot into the ampitheaterWalking from the parking lot into the ampitheaterhttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mg_0292.jpgRed Rocks parking lot before NY&CHAnother glimpse of the parking lot. Hey, who takes a cab to Red Rocks?https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/mg_0285.jpgtaligating at Red RocksThe parking lot at Red Rocks doesn't feel like a parking lot, more like a camp sitehttps://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/img_0615.jpgIMG_0615https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/p1040030.jpgTraveling to Red Rocks in StyleIn the back seat of Rohanna's VW camper van, on the way from Boulder to Red Rocks to see NY&CH!2012-08-24T18:18:23+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/07/19/on-reading-sam-clemens-on-visiting-his-home/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mark-twain-at-the-billiard-table.jpegMark-Twain-at-the-Billiard-Tablehere's an image of Mark Twain in his third floor study playing billiards at the huge table that took up much of the room (and must have been a bitch to move it there)https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0210.jpg_MG_0210Small Parts Hazardous for Children Under Three2012-07-22T21:48:46+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/2012/07/17/110-years-ago-today/https://boblazaroff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/mg_0050.jpg_MG_00502012-07-17T17:00:57+00:00monthlyhttps://boblazaroff.com/about/2012-07-17T16:09:50+00:00weekly0.6https://boblazaroff.comdaily1.02023-08-14T17:07:00+00:00