A little something I threw together years ago as a companion for the BLOG post of the same name
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I Remember Brooklyn Video
I Remember Brooklyn 1956-1964
I Remember Brooklyn 1956-1964 PS 92I Remember:Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers on Bedford AvenueElectric buses running down Tompkins StreetRiding the BMT to Brighton BeachSteeplechase Park at Coney IslandJohnny Horton signing autographs at the RKO Kenmore movie theater on
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2010 The year we made contact according to Arthur C. Clarke.This is also the year I will celebrate my 63rd Birthday. Was it so long ago that I thought that age to be obscenely ancient? Well, yes actually, that would
Read moreThe Life of Rudy: Chapter 11 And in the end…A Fantasy (Prelude to Nexus)
“And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make” –The Beatles — There she was again! She had been haunting him for years now. On and off over the years. Most of the
Read moreThe Musical Act I Genesis 1st draft
Let’s step back and get some background before we jump into it. Here is the boring stuff: Rudy Valentine is an alternate persona of Leoncio Sanchez born in Spanish Harlem NY in the spring of 1947. From the time that
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HIS IS A SNEAK PREVIOEW. Just a look beneath the hood as it were!👀👀 Author’s forward: As many of you are aware, these articles were originally written and posted to Facebook Notes during 2016-2017. Subsequently Facebook (in it’s questionable wisdom)
Read moreXIV The Gypsy And the Clown
February 1964, Brooklyn New York. Rudy was home after the better part of 3 months exiled in Puerto Rico. It was a bitter-sweet return, not at all what he had expected, his girlfriend, Dora, had called to say she would
Read moreThe Life of Rudy: Chapter 10 The Smell of Gunpowder, The feel of Greasepaint 6/21/2023 update
December 1965 – Kaiserslautern Germany Rudy’s first Christmas in a foreign land! Christmas was a welcome relief from field exercises with German army units. No wonder these guys lost the war, thought Rudy, all they did was drink beer and
Read moreThe Life of Rudy: Chapter 09 The One that got away (Betsy) 4/21/22 update
May 1965. Rudy boarded an airplane in San Francisco for his flight to New York to begin his leave before a posting in Germany. The unknown loomed ahead. But first, a happy reunion with family, friends, and fate. Rudy had
Read moreThe Life of Rudy: Chapter 08 Call to Duty (Army year one)
On May 14, 1964, Rudy was cooling his heels in the US Army induction center in Brooklyn, NY, waiting to be sworn in. He sat deep in thought, contemplating the circumstances that had led him here. He became aware of
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