The Bronx: The Way It Was

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Special Event

Age Group:

Adults
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Description

Come and relive your childhood in your favorite borough the Bronx. The presentation will include over 450 vintage Bronx slides, video clips of The Bronx during the decades of the 40s-60s, and dozens of Bronx celebrity interviews. Some of the highlights of the presentation will include:

 

The Grand Concourse (Art Deco Buildings)

Bronx Movie Theatres (over 100; includes the famous Loew's Paradise)

Bronx Shopping Areas (stores, restaurants, hangouts)

Orchard Beach (Our Bronx Riviera)

Freedomland USA (Disneyland of the east)

Yankee Stadium

Bronx Parks (more than a dozen images)

Bronx Restaurants and iconic malt shops (like Krum's & Jahn's)

Bronx Transportation (Bronx trolleys, buses, trains)

Bronx Celebrities (Robert Klein, Regis Philbin, Chazz Palmintieri, Mary Higgins Clarke, Danny Aiello, Rita Morena, and more)

 

Steve Samtur is the editor and publisher of Back In THE BRONX magazine. The magazine is a retrospective of The Bronx in the decades of the 1940s-1960s. Samtur has written three books and produced several DVD’s.