“The good old days”
“Life was simpler then”
“It was a different time”

We have all heard the stories and the catchphrases, but when you think about New York and Brooklyn, there was some truth in those phrases we still hear as we look at old pictures and slides.

History tells us a vivid story of love and struggles, courage, and heartache.  With each story, it is family that truly embodies the roots of happiness.

Sometimes when I look back, I get misty…

Here is my ode to the “good old days” of Brooklyn and New York as I look back at the lives of the Leon’s and Passo’s through the years circa the 1920s to the 1960s.