INTERESTS
I am in process of tracing my family roots and I surfed unto this site:
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You will find Some special pictures and you can post pictures of people you don't know, there are many testimonials of others like me that found pictures of loved ones and were able to get more info about their family!!!
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Music
I enjoy easy listening music above all but can relate to most all genre of music. Oldies, R & B, Country, R & R, Gospel, Latin, Big Bands, well I guess you get the picture. As a former DJ, I did the Salsa, Soul and Disco on the air, but the party or club scene were all different and I catered to the clients wishes.
I LIKE MUSIC WITH A MESSAGE ALSO.....
My Latin music was influenced by Roberto Roena, Willie Colon, Jimmy Sabater, Lebron Brothers, just listen to the Joe Bataan sounds at this site.
Timmy Thomas, Otis Redding, Mama's & the Papa's, Carpenters, Elvis, Ray Charles, Mills Brothers, Freddy Fender, Engelbert, the Temptations Frakie Valli, Johnny Nash, Julius LaRosa, Carlos Santana and few more.....
I came across a website that has struck my fancy, because their commitment is the same as mine were in the 80's the big companies would hold back commercials if you didn't play what they wanted. Therefore many groups and artists weren't heard over the commercial airwaves. I played music from any label any time I felt, I played the music after I reviewed and I played music that was in the sense older that the other Salsa Stations of the time. Music sounds that were influence by Big Bands, Jazz and Blues. Like the sounds of Johnny Pacheco, Sonora Pocena, El Gran Combo, Bobby Rodriguez y La Compania.
I just want to mention a few of my helpers, workers, partners, characters, volunteers and friends. Sensuous Johnny, Henry Wiscowich, Dave The Rave, Gil D' Thrill, Mack the Bat, Abdul of Brooklyn, Patty of Queens, George Ortiz (News), Mark Ferguson (News), Lobo The Lover, Theresa with the Olds, Dizzy Dee, DJ Pete, Kick, DJ Angel, J.V.O on the Radio, Henry Marquez, Sherref M, there are so many out there and special hello to Carlos Santana who "No relationship" kept me in the swing, and the person who told me I could make it on the radio, Eddie Brugman(R.I.P.), if I left you out forgive me because there was so many of you, who sponsored, supported the show by calling 10 times an hour :). Let me know I will add you here. That's it for tonight folks, Next week, Same Fat Time, Same Fat Station!!! God Bless"!!!!
THEN AFTER THAT CAME:
MR. MAGIC'S RAP ATTACK WHICH SHOOK THE INNER CITY AND MANY PARTS UNKNOWN WITH HIS UNIQUE INTRODUCTIONS OF NEW ACTS AND TALENTS FROM THE METRO AREA, APPEARING AT THE ECLIPSE MATTRESS FACTORY (ATLANTIC & MONTAUK IN EAST NEW YORK) AFTER IT WAS CONVERTED INTO A ROLLER DISCO.
I mostly use to watch Crime Drama, Sports, Science, How-to-do, anthing with John Wayne, I also gave up watching wrestling, which I enjoyed watching Bobo Brazil, Verne Gagne, The Fabulous Moolah, Chief Jay Strong Bull, Nikita Koloff, Ernie Ladd, American Dream Dusty Rhodes, the Undertaker, Bob Backlund, Andre the Giant,
Pedro Morales
Antonino Rocca, Gourgeous George, Haystack Calhoun, so many, but because it became comercialized for me, but to see my girl with them bracelets was something else, remember
Wonder Woman,
Batman, The Andy Griffin Show, I Love Lucy, The Munsters, Hogan's Heroes, The Lonnnnneeeeee Ranger and Tonto,
Chico and the Man,
M*A*S*H*, Good Times, Sanford and Son, CHiPs, Miami Vice, Crime Story, The Odd Couple, Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, The Muppet Show,
You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx,
Kolchack: The NightStalker, Naked City, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Battlestar Galatica, Mork and Mindy, Star Trek, Lassie, Cops, Bionic Woman,
Quincy, ME,
Columbo, Have Gun Will Travel, Sonny and Cher, The Flip Wilson Show, Ed Sullivan, The Golden Girls,
ALF,
Night Court, Three's Company, Hill Street Blues, Bewitched, The Twilight Zone, The Avengers, The X-Files,
The Fugitive,
Little House on The Praire, Car 54 Where are You?,
The Handbook for Boys, A Christmas Carol, Don Quixote, The Pilgrim's Progress, Black like me, The Shinning, To Kill a mocking bird, The old man and the sea, The Third man, Christianity un Crisis, Humor for the Heart, Major Purchases, The Wishing Jar, THe Liberty Ships, My Heart's Desire, I love to read Bios also... Books by Crane, Dumas, King, etc. I also enjoyed reading Shakespeare, Frankenstein and sports stories.
Heroes
God, Parents, My Children..... Miss Myhoff my second grade teacher in PS 58x, Miss Weiss 3rd grade, Mrs. Feracho 4th grade, Mrs. Haas 5th Grade, Ahhh Mr. Mel Solomon 6th grade, In Berriman JHS 64 in Brooklyn Mr Walker, Mrs. Kravit, Mr. Braffman, Mr. Eisenstein, Miss Kwasnick, Mrs Cumberbatch and Miss Rossi and finally my Official class teachers and my favs in FK Lane HS in Brooklyn Mr Johnson, Mr. Epstein Mr Taylor, Mrs Foster, Mrs Titus and I really could have never done it "get my diploma" with out Mr. Bert Jeffrey always telling I could do it. Thank You, Mr Jeffrey.
There are others that their names have slipped the old noodle I call a brain. My friend JVO who went and became an ordained minister. I have also sports hero like Jackie Robinson, Julius Erving "Dr. J", Edson Arantes Do Nascimento "Pele", Roberto Clemente, Bruce Lee, Mickey Mantle, Gil Hodges, Hank Aaron, Don Larsen, Micheal Russell, Police Officer in the 75th Pct. in Brooklyn, NY (1979), Eddie Brugmann a friend, Thurmond Munson, and all my fellow Lanenites and alumni Buddies from PS 58x, JHS/PS 64, good ole Franklin K. Lane HS, who in our hearts, will always remain...
THE FRANKLIN K. LANE NAMES ARE:
Sam Leverson, Class of 1930, Comedian, Author and TV personality. The Lane Library was named for him.
William "RED" Holzman, Class of 1938. Basketball Player, Coach, led the Knicks to a Championship; Boy's Large Gym was named for him.
SOME MAY NOT NOW THAT RICHIE HAVENS ALSO WENT TO OUR SCHOOL. REMEMBER WOODSTOCK?
Here one for the Memories, Brian Hyland...
FK LANE Alumnus and Friends
THIS IS A PARTIAL LISTING OF STUDENTS THAT WENT THROUGH F.K. LANE UNTIL 1984 UNLESS THEY ARE SECOND GENERATION STUDENTS...
By Year last attended
Solomon Funaroff (1929)[POET-EDITOR]
Leon J. Liebreich 1931 [Professor of Theology]
Harold W. Rickett 1934 (NYBG)
Lillian Elizabeth (Garcia) Roberts 1936 [Music]
George Trueb 1945
Eddie Granigan 1950
Robert Behr
Isobel Hoskins Neal 1951 [History Makers]
Barbara Ambrose
Franklin Thomas 1952
Jean de Simone (Smith)
Jane Menth Runyon
Ruth Corin (Adler)
Ruth Peterson
Joseph Gallo 1953
Sandra Weinberg Bader
Marilyn Scutari 1954
Beatrice Ammirati 1955
John Sepe
Bill Mahan 1956
Arlene L. Mandell [Professor, Author] 1957
Lucille Tortorice
Steve Postal [Writer]
Frances B. Parasch 1958
Robert J Reddington
Stephen Colon
Margaret de Luca
Rich Jaworski 1959
Frank DiCostanzo
Dominick Cassano 1960
Michael Rappaport
Nicholas Radesca
George Gelsky 1961
Irene (Hughes) Kulig
Johnny Bucalo
Lee Lesser
Lorraine Fischer Kwasnick
August Torres 1962
Beth(Gurian)Saffer
Janice Straub Torre
Lois Koch
Maryann Donato Blander
Sidney Wilson
Angela Strazzeri
Angela Crescimanno Affisco 1963
Fred Grambs.
Florence Vitale
Howard Rappaport
Linda (Hartmann) Sullivan
Roberta Levy
Carolyn Rinaldi-Scaturro 1964
Frances LaBarbera
Jack Muhlstein
Karen Marasia Cutler
Anthony Randazzo 1965 [BOE]
Patrick Annunziata
Peter Mantia
Carolyn Siino 1966
Fran Kulick 1967
Alan Pincus 1968
Kathleen Carbone
Rosemary Strutzenberg (deSoto)
Vera Morangello
Vilma Alvarado (Ruiz)
Garry Horodyski 1969
Angela DiBona
Maria Marino (Figueroa)
Carmen Arriaga
Estelle Brown
Frank Nappo
Janice Albert
Julie Philbin
Madaline San Filippo
Willie B. Baptiste 1970
Shelley Hirsch
CLASS OF 1971
Alberto Montalvo
Aurea Casiano
Cheryl Harjani Greenstein
Darrryl White
Denise Trupia
Donna Salvaggio
Eddie Adamo
Edwin Maldonado
Jack Donato MY FB
Janet Hoffman
Jose Sepulveda
Laura Bartollini
Linda Amaturo
Lourdes Pena
Maurreen Conway
Michael Brina
Nancy Russell
Pedro Morales
Pierre Barreau
Regina Grey
Samuel Bell
Samuel Freeman
Steve Filosa
Teresita Vasquez
Vernon Veira
Bonnie Mannarino 1972
Joanne Spitz
Myra Boneta
Cathleen Russell 1973
Donna Martin
Ernest Susco
Maria Savage
Marianne Gunther
Myra Pena
Norma Vasquez
Anna Farley Berman 1974
Antonio Mercado
Donna Salvaggio
Jeannete Vasquez Mas
April Glandt (Slater) 1976
Florell Vassall
Maurice DeShields 1977
Manuel Gomez, Jr. 1978
Soraia Auler 1979
Paula Esposito Carillo
Doreen Grifin Gallway - 1980
Vincent Demaria
Carmen Cabrales-Perez 1981
Donna Fox Towson
Mary Alice Scott
Salvatone Cusumano - 1982
Mike Rooney 1983
Donna Saenz de Viteri (Guzman)
Frank DeLa Rosa
Eileen McNamara (Krogman) 1984
**Christopher Harrison, 18**
**Eric Rodriguez, 18**
**José Carrión Jr., 17**
**Lenny Ruiz, 17**
**Samuel Valentín Jr.17**
To Add your name or a classmates name, please, leave me a message!
Franklin K. Lane Hs
Brooklyn,NY
Graduated: 1971
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Cemetery Lounging
Minor: Handball
Clubs: Projectionist, Hall Moniter, Hanging by Crescent Street, Running from Mr. Selub...
1965 to 1971
The FatMan DJ Jack is taking a break. Posted at 10:44 PM May 22 view more
About me: There isn't much to say but that, LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WORRY ABOUT DIFFERENCES, WE SHOULD CONCENTRATE ON IMPROVING OUR SIMILARITIES. AND PRAY TO BE A BETTER PERSON IN THE FUTURE.
LOOKING TO ADD PICTURES STORIES OF THE PEOPLE I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH, WORKED WITH, OR LIVED WITH. Looking for photos of areas and places I have been, I lost so many pictures during a flood in my basement so all of my old picture and memorabilia was lost. Picture of World's Fair, FK Lane, Berriman JHS, PS 58X, Crossbay Playland, East Tremont, Crotona Park, Bathgate Avenue Push carts, Palisades Amusement Park, pictures of sporting events, Liberty Park, Blake Avenue, Essex Street and Pitkin Avenue, so if you have something you can share with me please let me know I will scan it and return it or send it to me here on MYSPACE, Many of you know I am a education geared person almost at the freak level, I like to tweak and exercise my brain with new knowledge and thoughts. I believe that was instilled in me by my grandparents and then my parents. They would tell me you can lose your house, get fired, or robbed, but no one can take knowledge away from you. I thank all my teachers in PS 58 Bronx for this also. Second is I love to make people smile, even though I may be broken hearted, it makes me feel better to see someone else with a smile.
For my friends and neighbors in East New York you should check out THE BERRIMAN SCHOOL.
Well I hope some of your the World's Fair in NYC of 1965, no not the 1939 one.....from the 60's in Queens, NY At the World's fair I saw the future electronic cash register and fell in love with Artificial Intelligence. Although I bought my 1st computer in 1977 a (TRS-80-1), I really fell in love with the family of Commodore computers. I owned a Commodore 64, C-128, Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000d,
Subways, trains, trolleys any thing on a track fascinates me I rode the entire MTA or NYCTA system with the exception of the Metro-North. But I lived near it and I went to Manhattan and ate from from a Hot Dogs place called Coney Island Joe's I believe on the Manhattan side of the Metro. My parents went there to "La Marqueta" the market, under the Metro on Park Avenue. I believe it is the same line that also passed near my house when I lived in the Bronx. Check this out!
A train that was designated the Museum Train leaves Rockaway Park in Queens towards NYC. Running on the 'A' or the Old L.I.R.R. Rockaway Beach tracks.
This going to Montauk Point. Long Island. The most eastern terminal in the South end of Long Island, NY. It's breath taking.
This next short is the elevated 'A' train going west towards Manhattan from the last (75th Street/Boyd Avenue) stop above ground from Lefferts Avenue or the Rockaways. You will see parts of Brooklyn on the left as it approaches the Grant Street station.
Check out YouTube they have a large collection of interesting runs of Subways and Elevated trains videos.
Parent Involvement in the Educational Sysytem, I have been married three times, have two children, two grandchildren, I am currently doing my Family geneology in My Heritage.com and have done a bit dabbling in Age of Empire, (Short of AOE 3 Asian Dynasty)
and I really love people even though I am a shy person. Anyway Thanks for reading this.. Come back, because I'll be updating this.
Check out some of my Pictures:
AS A MUSIC PERSON:
I began playing music with my brother's old 45 records in 1964, I just did the intro and played the music, that's all you can do with one turntable I played aand practiced everywhere. I met my friend Jeffrey (JVO on the radio) and his brother Sherref Mustafe and we would play music together and Jeffrey decided we should play like the top 40's stations of the days. I also recall re-doing the series THE FUGITIVE on 8mm film, also later on I helped a my friend Ralph Colon's sister Dalila Maldonado do a short film on 8mm for her class in HS. That was a vampire type film, I used my friend's funeral home to do it in. She got a good mark. I worked in the mornings before going to school helping Sal open his fruit stand next to Kaye's Discount on the corner of Essex Street and Pitkin Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. I got friendly with a few businessmen in the neighborhood and they would bring me their shoes over the weekend I would clean and shine them, I always found a way to make a few dollars to buy my records and equipment. I did the first Grafitti (signs) using homemade stencils. By this time my crush on Brunilda of the Bronx faded and I was looking at my friend Eddie's sister. Her father owed the Candy Store on Sutter Ave & Berriman Street. I was 14 then, so being that I was shy and she was so elegant, I was so ashame to even speak with her. Anyway one day Jeffrey come to me and tells me to let's record a radio show. I thought he was crazy. Well it was a LP with a prerecorded radio show and it had a script with it. Also when it was the DJ (announcer's turn) the cue was a the sound of a bell.I think it was U Be the D J. We did and that is how my life began to mold itself towards music. DJ JACK was born. Then one day some of us kids decide to take off from school in the afternoon and hang out. (( TO ALL YOU STUDENTS DON'T DO THIS, IT WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE LEARNING PROCESS, unless you are like me a straight 65 student)) I went got my little turntable and a handfull of 45's and that was the second inspiration.
I began listening intensely to the MC's DJ's and announcers on the radio I began to dream. I know I can do this, I know I can..Is this an autobiography, I gotta go will keep adding........Eddie Brugmann was the one who finally gave me that positive "click" and what can I say?
Who I'd like to meet: In this world I would like to meet Don Imus, Sidney Poitier, President Bush, Doctor "J" Julius Erving, Ray Knight, Mookie Wilson, Mark William Calaway, and would like to see or hear from Gary Maccio, Brunilda Silva, Milagros Cedeno Galindez, Marilyn & Lourdes Rodriguez, Helene Esposito, The Mercado families of Pitkin Avenue, The Camachos of Pitkin Avenue, the Figueroas of Linwood Street, Rachel Castro of Avenue D, in NYC, Gilbert Graulau, the Torres family from Essex Street, the people that worked and lived near Kaye's Department store. The Velasquez's (found some), Wally Ortiz, Angel Robles, Pete Santiago, Frank Gines, Pedro Cardona, Joey Madonado, Ray Caban from the Mostoff Hardware on Pitkin Avenue, there are so many... I would also like to talk to Pete Rose, Jose Canseco, Jose Reyes, and maybe the owners of the Mets Mr. Wilpon are you out there?; hey I'm not forgeting my family in Norway and my family from Calabria, Italy, last but not least all the Donato's left in Quebradaseca, Ceiba, Fajardo, Santurce, the Bronx, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Florida, PA, Connecticut. The family on my mother's side from Norway, the Andersens and Rasmussens. There are many others who I will not be able to meet in my lifespan. Such men as Abraham Lincoln, Roberto Clemente, Babe Ruth, Hector LaVoe, Harry Truman, John Glenn, Thomas A. Edison, Job from the Bible, John Howard Griffin (Black like Me), George Orwell (1984), a few others.
I have had the pleasure, honor and of meeting a few people in my Life also: Ralph Frease-(Photogragher, Art Director, Artist and friend)of the Bronx, Jackie Robinson, NYC Mayor John V. Lindsay, Councilman of Queens,NY-Al Stabile, Bobby Rodriguez, NY Senator-Charles Schumer,
Matt Bromme-Former Principal of JHS 210 in Queens, Superintendent of District 27 Queens.
Former NYC Chancellor-Rudy Crew,
City NY Councilman- James Sanders Jr.,
Mrs. Betty Wilson (tremendous community and parent leader in Queens,NY), US Congressman Joseph P. Addabbo, his son Joseph Jr. Rev. Nicky Cruz (Run, Nicky, Run) now I believe in California, Dave Wilkerson when he was in the Bronx (1960's), NYS Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr. of the Bronx, NYC Councilman, Former Queens Boro President Clare Shulman, many in the NYC Board of Education, Assemblyman Edward Griffith-Brooklyn, Herman Badillo of the Bronx,NY, Major R. Owens,Brooklyn,NY, Assemblyman Edolphus Towns of Brooklyn, NY, Shirley Chisholm of NYC, these are the ones that come to my mind now I know I met more because I MC'd a few political parties and involved myself in the Parent Associations of my children's schools.
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Dear DJ Jack, Hi how are you its been awhile since I sent you a message. I hope that you are doing fine. I am okay. Hope to hear from you soon. God Bless Gerry Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
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