Underhill Ave. & St. Johns Pl. in the 60s
Atomische just wrote in to Daily Heights about this…: “A visitor to my photo blog posted a long and fascinating comment about what it was like living on my block (Underhill & St. John’s) back in the 1960s.”
Here’s some excerpts: “Wow,,,,I lived on this block when I was a kid..from about 1961 to about 1968 or 69. … the door was never locked … there were beautiful grand stoops with a ton of brickwork and had huge bushes on each side. Inside our hallway vestibule were two huge mirrors facing each other and you could see yourself into infinity. “
“On Underhill Avenue was the famous HERMANS ICE CREAM PARLOR and people came to hang out from all over Brooklyn … MOTOWN was what we listened to on the jukebox mostly and drank Egg Creams. We could buy a pack of cigarettes for 28 cents at the drug store. “
“The rent in those days ran about $100 or $150 a month… the “average” kids lived on the tenament side and the ‘richer” kids lived in one of the three big apt buildings across the street…”
Read the full post on the Prospect Heights Message Board