Getting Back In Touch With Old Friends

[Lenny]

The other day I received e-mail notification that the guestbook on my web site had been signed. So I logged on to read my guestbook. Lo and behold, another friend that I grew up with from Bathgate Avenue stumbled upon my web site after doing a Google search. We have been e-mailing since then and she said she was so happy she found the site and all the pictures brought back fond memories of growing up in the Bronx and that she got back in touch with me. She has since told other friends that she has kept in touch with that we knew growing up and I have heard from them also. All this after 40 years of not hearing from each other. It's always great to finally hear from people I grew up with. Sometimes their stories are tragic about how their lives have gone, and sometimes the stories are happy ones. I guess that's life though!

[Joan]

Lenny..............................I had a similar experience about 8 months ago. I was looking at my e-mails and saw an e-mail address I did not recognize - usually don't open them. However, the subject was "Parkchester". After thinking about whether to open it or not, I finally did. Turned out it was from a guy I went to school with at St. Helena's. Found me on "Reunion.Com". Since then we have been e-mailing and he has found many people I grew up with in Parkchester and who went to St. Helena's and has sent me their e-mail addresses. It has been fun corresponding with all these people after 40 years. We have been sending pictures of ourselves and our grandchildren. As you said, it has been great getting back in touch with old friends.

[helenh1]

I have just started to work on a 50th Reunion for my high school graduation. Class of '59 will be getting together in fall 2008. I sent out 54 letters from a list of the last reunion I worked on. My phone rings almost each day with people I went to school with, and I sent out form with questions on what they want for a reunion I have gotten back about half. Only one person is not interested. What fun to hear from these people. Now I'm getting very nervous I need to lose about 100 lbs to get back to High school weight. Oh, by the way it is St Simon Stock on Ryer and Valentine Aves in the Bronx.

[Barry]

A few years ago on another board I got in contact with a guy I graduated with but never met before ( 1959 class at Taft was huge). We email talk on the phone and go out to dinner every so often.

[Deleted]

One of our members here (Brian Shea) and I were classmates for 8 years in elementary school.

[carjoh5]

I am so HAPPY for all of you. It really makes you feel good when someone from your past surface. A boy from my past named Johnnie Hoover found me about 12 years ago at a time when my Mom dies, and I cannot tell you how good he made me feel at that time. Old friends are BEAUTIFUL. Now, if I could only find an old girlfriend, (Josephine Marchese) that would make my day. Enjoy all your old friends, they can make your heart feel good. Even the ones we met online (Bronx Candy Store) They are the best!