Re: Gi Housing in Canarsie 1950 - -- POST A GENERAL MESSAGE TO FIND A CANARSIE FRIEND

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Date Posted: 12:50:23 02/25/11 Fri
Author: Frank DeAngelo
Author Host/IP: pool-71-109-101-13.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net / 71.109.101.13
Subject: Re: Gi Housing in Canarsie 1950 -
In reply to: Carol (Nee:Emanuel) Kehrley 's message, "Gi Housing in Canarsie 1950 -" on 12:01:20 09/10/09 Thu

I moved to Canarsie in 1943 at 6months old. We lived on Ave. N & east 91st si I grew up a couple of blocks from where you lived.

There were Quonset huts but also white apartment buildingd with black roofs. One story with the apartments side by side. I seem to remember 4 or 5 apts. per building.

I remmeber they started to take them out in the mid to early 50's. We used to play in the abandoned buildings.
After the building were gone there were go karts raced on the blacktop roads.

What a time it was & what a geat place to grow up.

I hope this helped you remember some.

lON>As my father was a serviceman in WWII, we moved into a
>GI Housing development in Canarsie in the late 1940's.
> It was composed of Quonset huts and wooden buildings.
>I was a very small child and only went to kindergarten
>before we moved away. I would like to know more about
>the development and have never been able to find out
>anything. Does anyone have any information on this at
>all? I would so appreciate hearing from you. All I
>remember is shopping on Ave.L with my mother, a large
>park, and a Catholic Church not too far away. My dad
>took the subway into lower Manhattan to work at P & J
>Die Company. Thank you for any information you can
>give me!! CKehrley

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