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USS Philadelphia CL-41
My vaccination at 6 weeks from Dr. Greenberg
Playgrounds were over concrete in those days
4th Avenue and 10th Street.
There was a diner under the tressle called "The Carway"
 
9th Street and 4th Ave - outside St. Thomas Aquinas Church
I think this building is the St. Thomas Aquinas Convent
4th Ave and 10th St again.
Age 2 - Prospect Park - one place a kid could run around. Either Prospect Park or Sunken Meadow (Long Island)
Dad told me about Lafayette while at his monument in the Park
Easter 1953
I posed in front of a brownstone on Prospect Park West.
We didn't live there, but it made a nice background.