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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 108

  • Captain Daddy Cordero, Sir!
  • My Love of Cars
  • Unforgettable Memories
  • The Flying Junction Doesn’t Take Off
  • The Yankee Stadium “Time Machine”
  • True Romance: A Bronx Story
  • The Zoo Key
  • Black & Whites
  • It All Started at the Moose Hall
  • Bad Boy, Good Boy, Who Knew?
  • …Plus Letters, Classifieds, & More!
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 109

  • Fat Nick’s Candy Store
  • Yo-Yo Championship: All For a Boy
  • The Bronx: A Recollection of Special People
  • Going Home, Bronx Style
  • A Bronx Resident Named Lee Harvey Oswald
  • My Driver’s License
  • Living the Sporting Life in Kingsbridge
  • Bar Mitzvah, the Thrilling Sequel
  • The Beautiful Bronx
  • …Plus Letters, Classifieds, & More!
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 110

  • The Summer of 1977
  • “The Exorcist” & The Bronx
  • Penmanship: The Vanishing Art of Cursive
  • A Bronx Food Memoir
  • Romania, Rockaway, & Rugelach
  • Soldier Boy
  • The Kingsbridge Theatre
  • My Neighborhood Candy Store
  • The Bronx Walk of Fame
  • A Tragedy in The Bronx
  • Fond Memories of Taft High School
  • …Plus Letters, Classifieds, & More!
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 111

  • Driver’s Ed
  • Meatballs & Gravy
  • Club Maccabees
  • A Mother’s Ascendance
  • Working in the Catskills
  • One Word from a Sixth-Grade Teacher
  • Wheel Man
  • Mrs. O’Mara & The Lord’s Prayer
  • Slice of Life
  • Going to the Bronx Zoo
  • …Plus Letters, Classifieds, & More!
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 112

  • He Knew from Shinola
  • Memories of the Ward Theatre
  • Paddleball in Kingsbridge
  • A Bronx Kind of Innocence
  • What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?
  • Bob Abrams: The Luckiest Guy in the World
  • Metamorphosis of a Bronx Cop
  • Trading in The Bronx
  • A Bronx Zoo Story
  • A Stranger is a Friend That You Haven’t Met Yet
  • A Young Boy in The Bronx
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 113

  • Poe Park, Coming of Age
  • Weatherproof Halloween
  • The Day I Made Officer Joe Bolton Laugh
  • The Underworld Knocks at the Alhambra
  • In the Navy
  • The Scent of Fear
  • The Bronx I Grew Up In
  • My Early Jobs
  • Big Stu
  • The 1954 Lo-Jinx Softball League
  • A Great Neighborhood
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 114

Table of Contents:

  • Sex in The Bronx (Spoiler Alert: There Was None) – By Bill Fulham
  • Just a Kid from The Bronx – By Richard Gerard
  • Sports and a Bronx Girl – By Susan Stamm Kaplowitz, Ed.D
  • Returning to Melrose – By Gila Ducat Lipton
  • The Bronx, circa 1950 – By Joseph Kessler
  • Going to the Movies – By David Eidelman
  • Making Friends with an Electronic Bronx Buzz – By Nathan Reiss
  • The Birdman of Morris Avenue – By Ken Ricci
  • Skating, Anyone? – By Jay Becker
  • The Story of Mush – By David Sokol
  • Plus, a tribute to the late Colin Powell
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 115

Table of Contents:

  • Street Skating Heaven – By Alan & Raymond Frank
  • Going Home Again – By Susan Kaplowitz
  • Brotherhood in The Bronx – By Gila Lipton
  • The Wyatt Street I Grew Up In – By David (Scotty) Greenberger
  • Ogden Linoleum – By Joe Onativia
  • The House on the Hill – By Gregory K. Tobkes
  • A Bronx Boy’s Bucket List Comes True – By Howard Samtur
  • Grace Lutheran Elementary School – By Charles G. Ackerson & Clifton H. Brenner
  • Shut Up or Walk Home – By Myles Schulberg
  • And the Games Begin – By Herb Munshine
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 116

Table of Contents:

  • Ice Cream Trucks of The Bronx – By Richard Berman
  • An Interborough Marriage – By Gila Lipton
  • A Bronx Boy Makes Good – By Jerry Freedman
  • The Day the Erasers Blew Up – By Vincent Petrazzuolo & Robert Blaufarb
  • Mrs. Badler – By Jeff Gilbert
  • Memories of The Bronx, As It Was – By Joe Baumoel
  • Growing up with Food, Bronx Style – By Dr. Susan Kaplowitz
  • Popham Avenue – By Morris S. Whitcup
  • The Block – By Bill Fulham
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 117

Table of Contents:

  • When Pizza Came to Our Neighborhood – By Sol Silverstein
  • A Visit from My President – By Rochelle Stassa
  • Watch Your Back in The Bronx – By Marc Estrin
  • Living Across from St. James Park – By Barbara V. Johnson
  • Reminiscing – By Stuart I. Rosenblatt
  • Date: September, 1961 – By David Stolls
  • Life in the Tremont Section of the East Bronx in the 1950s – By Ken Berkowitz
  • Organized(?) Baseball, University Heights Style – By Bill Fulham
  • A Memorial Day Tribute – By Bob Abate
  • Innocent Times and Freedom – By Michael Peterson
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 118

Table of Contents:

  • Soda Boy – By George Vendura
  • When What Doesn’t Matter, Really Matters After All – By Robert Kane
  • Patrolman Morris Abramowiz – By Roberta Seltzer
  • Apartment 6H – By Herb Munshine
  • Transitioning from Graduate to Teacher at James Monroe High School – By Joan Migden Brock
  • Off-Track Betting – By Arthur Weinfeld
  • The Bronx Zoo – By Judith Veder
  • The Kitchen – By Ruth A. Perchick
  • Cold in The Bronx – By Anthony F. Santarelli
  • My Bronx Apartment – By Dr. Susan Kaplowitz
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 119

Table of Contents:

  • 156th Street – By Dr. Gene Alexander
  • Fear & Trembling In Seventh Grade – By Miriam Levine Helbok
  • Chasing Zorro – By Robert Blaufarb
  • Connecting Points to my Bronx Past – By Ellen Grady Leahy
  • Don’t Blame it on The Bronx – By Richard Berman
  • Homage to My Bronx Parents – By Susan Kaplowitz
  • The Bronx Basketball Hall of Fame – By Mel Kram
  • Born in The Bronx – By Madeleine Tobias
  • Lost in Wonder – By Ken Ricci
  • My Short-Lived Career as a Folksinger – By Stephanie Rockower
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 120

Table of Contents:

  • Living in the Bronx Zoo – By Kathleen Coder
  • Great Memories of My Bronx Past – By Helen Morrow Fisher
  • Hitching the Ogden Avenue Bus – By Bob Abate
  • The Best Kept Secret – By Robert Blaufarb
  • What I Learned from the 1950 Census – By Gerald Gononsky
  • Lost Horizon – By Ken Ricci
  • The Super’s Kid – By John Manzione
  • Little Bronx Thieves – By Richard Berman
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 121

Table of Contents:

  • On Track for the SPEs – By Jeff Gilbert
  • Snow Day – By Herbert Munshine
  • The Day the Yankees Aced History – By Lou Mirando
  • Don’t Eat the Hot Dogs – By George Vendura
  • Shelter in a Storm – By Gregory K. Tobkes
  • A Bounty of Bronx Shirts – By Richard Berman
  • Hardly A Concrete Jungle – By Mimi Marx
  • A Real Bronx Tale – By Robert Stock
  • Jake the Pickle Man – By Bruce Tucker
  • Poetry Corner: We, the Elderly
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Back In THE BRONX – Issue 122

Table of Contents:

  • The Blizzard of ’69 – By Sol Silverstein
  • The Joys of Public Transportation, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bus – By Bill Fulham
  • Growing Up in the 1930s – By Annette Bergman Bonder
  • The Bronx is Burning – By Sheila S. Epstein Horvitz
  • Crotona Park and More – By Joseph A. Distefano, Sr.
  • A Bronx Boy’s Dream Come True – By John Manzione
  • Step Back into the ‘40s – By Gerry Gafka
  • When My Whole World Was My Neighborhood – By Joan Migden Brock
  • High School Days – By Barry Singer
  • Belmont, A Life Enchanted – By Tomaso Vicale
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