It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940S, 1950S, and 1960s (A Harvest Book) - Softcover

Frommer, Myrna; Frommer, Harvey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015600237X ISBN 13: 9780156002370

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1995

Synopsis

Like the borough itself, this celebratory chronicle is a symphony of neighborhoods, ethnicities, faiths, and foods. The voices of more than a hundred people - some famous, some less-than, who knew and loved that Brooklyn - hark back to a time of simpler, more innocent joys.

About this title

Review:

"Throbs with life and affection."--Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher:

HOW THE FROMMERS DID IT -Harcourt Brace
As they were traveling around the country to promote It Happened in the Catskills. They kept meeting people who, like themselves, were born and bred in Brooklyn. " We could be in places as diverse as Los Angeles, Brenham, Texas, and Canaan, New Hampshire, and invariably we's run into prople from Brooklyn. As soon as the connection was discovered, it was always the same question: What high school did you go to?, followed by memories of that special Dodger game, of trying clothes on the floor of he original Loehmann;s on Bedford Avenue, of eating the shorefront dinner at Lundy's or Nathan's franks in Coney Island, or the incomparable Ebinger's blackout cake. When we finished the Catskill book, which was filled with stories by Brooklynites, we thought it might be a good idea to apply the same interactive oral history approach to a book on Brooklyn, and try to discover what there was about life in the borough at mid-century that still exerts such a powerful pull."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 015600237X
• ISBN 13: 9780156002370
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Hodges Candace