Comments on: The Old Timers’ Forum http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/ News and views from Bushwick, Brooklyn Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Jeremy http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4171 Jeremy Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:58:54 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4171 Okay I think that's quite enough of this. Feel free to post stuff on the actual forum. Okay I think that’s quite enough of this. Feel free to post stuff on the actual forum.

]]> By: Ed Millman http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4170 Ed Millman Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:53:43 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4170 I would like to take this opportunity to thank Peace for his cogent remarks concerning the Bushwick Bundies. In addition it should be noted by all BushwickBK members that the Bundies also endorse the idea of United States nuclear attacks on Middle Eastern countries; hold regularly scheduled prayer meetings; hijack member's plans for the Bushwick high school reunion;and love to reminisce about the good times they spent in the well known Nazi Bund meeting place called Schwaben Hall. Each to their own but, BushwickBK is the FREE and INTELLIGENT voice of Bushwick. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Peace for his cogent remarks concerning the Bushwick Bundies.
In addition it should be noted by all BushwickBK members that the Bundies also endorse the idea of United States nuclear attacks on Middle Eastern countries; hold regularly scheduled prayer meetings; hijack member’s plans for the Bushwick high school reunion;and love to reminisce about the good times they spent in the well known Nazi Bund meeting place called Schwaben Hall.
Each to their own but, BushwickBK is the FREE and INTELLIGENT voice of Bushwick.

]]> By: Eleanor Phillips Coody http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4169 Eleanor Phillips Coody Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:51:29 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4169 Eleanor to Ed, Elaine, Sal, Marty Cherobee, Peace and Michael Gandolpho ... I'd rather be in my twilight zone than in the living hell that you are in ... if you hate the Bushwick Buddies and all it stands for so much ... why do you keep trying to get on ... Michael. Eleanor to Ed, Elaine, Sal, Marty Cherobee, Peace and Michael Gandolpho … I’d rather be in my twilight zone than in the living hell that you are in … if you hate the Bushwick Buddies and all it stands for so much … why do you keep trying to get on … Michael.

]]> By: Ed Millman http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4168 Ed Millman Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:53:24 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4168 Earth to Eleanor: Are you living in the twilight zone? Earth to Eleanor: Are you living in the twilight zone?

]]> By: Eleanor Phillips Coody http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4167 Eleanor Phillips Coody Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:11:17 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4167 Ed Millman ... Elaine Koch ... Sal Sottile ... all the same person ... Cherobee and Peace his brother Marty ... they have found this public website to take out their rants on a "private" site that was designed for mainly happy memories of our childhood ... none of us are so blind as not to have noticed the racism, sexism, homophobia and antisemitism that was occuring. But that was of our parents generation being filtered down ... our generation (the 60 and over crowd) who left Bushwick as teenagers went on to become highly educated, very motivated and were responsible for changing those attitudes. As you can see from the writings of Ed, Elaine, Sal, Cherobee and Peace ... they are anti-religious, and very left-wing. That is their right. And having discussions in a normal manner is always appreciated ... but when personal attacks on people for expressing their opinion ... and calling people names ... labeling people with unkind remarks ... and reaking all kinds of havoc on a site that does not want that type of activity ... than it is up to the administrators to rid the site of the trouble makers and go on. Alost everyone on the site enjoys remembering songs from the past ... we have lots of history on the site ... but mainly it's designed for people to get back in touch with people who shared their same childhood ... the same streets ... the same schools ... the same churches ... the same synagogues ... the same subways, trolleys and buses ... the same shopping ... and to see how many old friends we can locate. Bushwick Buddies is not for everybody ... but it is a great site to make new friends from the "old hood". Ed Millman … Elaine Koch … Sal Sottile … all the same person … Cherobee and Peace his brother Marty … they have found this public website to take out their rants on a “private” site that was designed for mainly happy memories of our childhood … none of us are so blind as not to have noticed the racism, sexism, homophobia and antisemitism that was occuring. But that was of our parents generation being filtered down … our generation (the 60 and over crowd) who left Bushwick as teenagers went on to become highly educated, very motivated and were responsible for changing those attitudes.

As you can see from the writings of Ed, Elaine, Sal, Cherobee and Peace … they are anti-religious, and very left-wing. That is their right. And having discussions in a normal manner is always appreciated … but when personal attacks on people for expressing their opinion … and calling people names … labeling people with unkind remarks … and reaking all kinds of havoc on a site that does not want that type of activity … than it is up to the administrators to rid the site of the trouble makers and go on.

Alost everyone on the site enjoys remembering songs from the past … we have lots of history on the site … but mainly it’s designed for people to get back in touch with people who shared their same childhood … the same streets … the same schools … the same churches … the same synagogues … the same subways, trolleys and buses … the same shopping … and to see how many old friends we can locate.

Bushwick Buddies is not for everybody … but it is a great site to make new friends from the “old hood”.

]]> By: Peace http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4166 Peace Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:24:56 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4166 The Bushwick Buddies myopic view of the neighborhood in the 40's and 50's is nauseating. The so-called memories of many of it's members consist of songs, movies and happy summer days at the corner candy store and not of the rampant racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-semitism that occured right under their noses. Everything is justified by a religious demagogue who could have presided at Salem. They even defended a member who justified the murder of Arnold Schuster! Their website is now a teutonic paradise where aryan ideals are freely exchanged and democratic ideals are suppressed. Ed tried to supply a voice of reason but was censored, harassed and threatened at every turn. Avoid this site! The Bushwick Buddies myopic view of the neighborhood in the 40′s and 50′s is nauseating. The so-called memories of many of it’s members consist of songs, movies and happy summer days at the corner candy store and not of the rampant racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-semitism that occured right under their noses. Everything is justified by a religious demagogue who could have presided at Salem. They even defended a member who justified the murder of Arnold Schuster! Their website is now a teutonic paradise where aryan ideals are freely exchanged and democratic ideals are suppressed. Ed tried to supply a voice of reason but was censored, harassed and threatened at every turn. Avoid this site!

]]> By: BornOnWyckoffAve http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4165 BornOnWyckoffAve Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:14:56 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4165 Be sure to check out the message board linked in Jeremy's original post. That's more suited to conversational give-and-take than this blog comment section here. There are some cool old photos and other stuff posted there as well. Be sure to check out the message board linked in Jeremy’s original post. That’s more suited to conversational give-and-take than this blog comment section here. There are some cool old photos and other stuff posted there as well.

]]> By: Eleanor Phillips Coody http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4144 Eleanor Phillips Coody Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:49:02 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4144 I've read several criticisms on this very public site about Bushwick Buddies ... as administrator and creator of that private website I would like to say that the site was created for "friends" ... who were born and raised in the Bushwick area during the 1940s ... the site started with 12 people ... and in the past 4 years has grown tremendously. We take pride in where we came from ... and we are saddened for what happened after we left ... but the main thrust of our website it still Bushwick ... it's history, it's lore, it's fun, it's saddness ... all shared through the eyes of the people who lived there. I will agree that many of our "buddies" are very right leaning ... very conservative ... but very patriotic and very caring. We love our country and want only what's best for it. We support our troops even if we don't always support the war. We are like all "friends" ... we have our differences ... and we welcome everyone joining in ... Kevin ... but Ed Millman decided to take nasty shots at people he really didn't know ... on a site that was not meant to be confrontational with anger. Adults can and should be able to discuss politics or religion without being ridiculed ... especially on a private site. His brother Marty was deleted by association because he allowed Ed to use his username and password to access the site. Mr. Millman continually tries to gain access to the Bushwick Buddies website ... and the two times he got back on using ficticious names he was caught and again removed. We welcome members to the Bushwick Buddies website ... and we welcome their participation ... whether they are left or right ... Christian, Muslim or Jewish ... straight or gay ... Black, White, Hispanic, Asian ... as long as they were born and raised in the Bushwick area. Since our "private" website was violated by some people we are now requiring the current name and address of everyone who joins us ... this information will not be published on the website, but is for the security of the administrators and the integrity of it 600+ membership. Thank you Eleanor Phillips Coody Bushwick 1940-1962 Bushwick HS Class of 1958 I’ve read several criticisms on this very public site about Bushwick Buddies … as administrator and creator of that private website I would like to say that the site was created for “friends” … who were born and raised in the Bushwick area during the 1940s … the site started with 12 people … and in the past 4 years has grown tremendously. We take pride in where we came from … and we are saddened for what happened after we left … but the main thrust of our website it still Bushwick … it’s history, it’s lore, it’s fun, it’s saddness … all shared through the eyes of the people who lived there.

I will agree that many of our “buddies” are very right leaning … very conservative … but very patriotic and very caring. We love our country and want only what’s best for it. We support our troops even if we don’t always support the war. We are like all “friends” … we have our differences … and we welcome everyone joining in … Kevin … but Ed Millman decided to take nasty shots at people he really didn’t know … on a site that was not meant to be confrontational with anger. Adults can and should be able to discuss politics or religion without being ridiculed … especially on a private site. His brother Marty was deleted by association because he allowed Ed to use his username and password to access the site.

Mr. Millman continually tries to gain access to the Bushwick Buddies website … and the two times he got back on using ficticious names he was caught and again removed.

We welcome members to the Bushwick Buddies website … and we welcome their participation … whether they are left or right … Christian, Muslim or Jewish … straight or gay … Black, White, Hispanic, Asian … as long as they were born and raised in the Bushwick area.

Since our “private” website was violated by some people we are now requiring the current name and address of everyone who joins us … this information will not be published on the website, but is for the security of the administrators and the integrity of it 600+ membership.

Thank you
Eleanor Phillips Coody
Bushwick 1940-1962
Bushwick HS Class of 1958

]]> By: Kevin Backmann http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4113 Kevin Backmann Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:38:03 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4113 I do agree about the Bushwick Buddies, they sure do lean a little to the right for my taste. However, they do seem to have a treasure trove of old photos. I found some pictures of St. Barbara's school and church, the house where my favorite cousins lived (On harmon btwn. Evergreen & Central), and even a photo of my old block (Central btwn. Green & Harmon). I just refrain from contributing anything, I would only stir things up. There's just something strange about thinking that things need to be the way they used to be. Obviously, at least to me anyway, if it was supposed to be the way it used to be it would still be that way, but it ain't, so get on with it for cryin' out loud. Kevin Backmann Bushwick 1950-1970 I do agree about the Bushwick Buddies, they sure do lean a little to the right for my taste. However, they do seem to have a treasure trove of old photos. I found some pictures of St. Barbara’s school and church, the house where my favorite cousins lived (On harmon btwn. Evergreen & Central), and even a photo of my old block (Central btwn. Green & Harmon).

I just refrain from contributing anything, I would only stir things up. There’s just something strange about thinking that things need to be the way they used to be. Obviously, at least to me anyway, if it was supposed to be the way it used to be it would still be that way, but it ain’t, so get on with it for cryin’ out loud.

Kevin Backmann
Bushwick 1950-1970

]]> By: Ed Millman http://bushwickbk.com/2007/06/26/the-old-timers-forum/comment-page-1/#comment-4098 Ed Millman Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:42:40 +0000 http://bushwickbk.com/archives/83#comment-4098 Bushwick Buddies is exclusively for red neck morons. Bushwick Buddies is exclusively for red neck morons.

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