Growing Up Poor and Lucky in New York City: A Brooklyn/Queens Success Story

by Tom Herbert

Overview

Tom Herbert pays homage to a colorful time in New York City's history--the 1950s to 1970s, when he grew up in Brooklyn and Queens. His tell-all stories span the era's cars, crimes, jobs, tenements, trends, schools, and street life. They celebrate a time when the American Dream thrived and anything seemed possible for an inner-city Irish kid.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578604008
Publisher:	Thomas Herbert
Publication date:	11/02/2019
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Tom Herbert has enjoyed a top-level sales career at UARCO and Staples, where he now directs field sales for the corporate strategic accounts division. He graduated Brooklyn College with an English degree and still keeps Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass on his nightstand. Herbert lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania with his wife, Carmela, and his dog, Madison Marie. His children, TJ and Juliet, are grown.

Table of Contents

Author’s Note

Bushwick to South Ozone Park

The Glue that Never Stuck

Nuns

Thom McAn Shoe Store Caper

The Altar Boys

Plane Crashes and Other Disasters

Beach Beer, Fines, and Spanish Flies

The Free Case of Beer

Trips and the Fresh Air Fund

The Fights

The Cars

The Streaker and the Muffs

The Summer of Love, 1967

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author