#the way it was

[fullmetalscullyy]

just... reminiscing... :)

#good times #the way it was #royai

[grvnge-archive]

*sees preview of 2014 tumblr-related picture and clicks on it 🫢*

*sighs in relief when it's a single image in a post and not a collage of 4-10 pictures 🥰*

#its just #the way it was

[lacilou]

#gen x #the way it was #good times

[italianharlem]

The Real Little Italy: Pleasant Avenue

To many, Italian Harlem was nothing more than a slum where poor Italian immigrants lived crowded together one on top of the other.  I remember hearing on the radio once an Irish politician; I don’t remember his name saying, “These Italians are dirty people they like living in squalor so why help them.”

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My parents were immigrants from Bari, Italy, which is in the southern part of Italy. In the United States, immigrants from the southern part of Italy were considered low class. During this time the Irish were dominant in New York. They controlled the politics and religious machinery of the city. The Italian immigrants like my parents were harassed and the prejudice towards them was apparent and public.

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#Italian harlem #pleasant avenue #east harlem #little italy #mafia #116th street #the way it was

[aboutpleasantavenue]

Pleasant Avenue and Hot Sweet Mickey's

The best food to me, other than jelly apples, was a red- hot sweet Mickey, direct from the hot coals.  This old man would come around Pleasant Avenue with a galvanized, steel chest the contained about eight drawers. 

In these drawers were sweet potatoes of many sizes.  The first two drawers had small Mickey’s that cost about one cent.  The next two drawers contained potatoes that cost about two cents.  The remaining drawers had potatoes that cost about three cents; these were the largest potatoes.

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This old man would walk down the street pushing this steel chest down the street yelling, “Sweet potatoes for sale!”  When the old man approached me, even though I had a jelly apple, I said I must have a sweet Mickey.  I fumbled in my pocket to see if I could find any pennies.  I was very happy when I discovered that I had three pennies left.  I yelled to the man, “Stop! Gimmie a big Mickey, give me the big potato. “

My hand burned as I touched the potato because it was very hot when the old guy handed it to me. 

The old man shouts, “Don’t burn your lips.  It’s very hot!”  “I know, I know,” I said. Disregarding his advice, I start eating the potato and of course, burnt my lips.

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#italian harlem #pleasant avenue #east harlem #mafia #hot sweet mickeys #little italy #pleasant avenue 10029 #the way it was #116th street

[pleasantavenue116thstreet]

Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was

Sometimes though, life on Pleasant Avenue was truly gratifying. There was an old woman on Pleasant Avenue and 114th street that would sell jelly apples.  She would put the apple on a stick and dip the apple in a jar full of hot jelly.  The price of the jelly apple was two cents.  I had two cents, but I was afraid to go over to this old and scary lady.  Her dress was oversized.  Her shoes were black and shiny and they looked as if they belonged to her husband. 

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116th and Pleasant Avenue

She had two large spaces between her two front teeth.  To buy an apple from her, one had to walk two steps down off of the sidewalk.  She had an old cast- iron stove, which had red- hot coals burning for fuel.  On the stove she had a large pot of boiling bright red jelly. 

One morning I took a chance and as I walked over to the old lady, I said, “Let me have a jelly apple.”  Looking at me with piercing eyes and a weird cackle she says, “Have you got two cents, Sonny?”  I said, “Of course I have,” as I dig into my worn- out pants pocket.  As I fiddle around in my pocket, I discover a hole in it.  I am worried as I look into my other pocket.  “Well,” the old lady says, “I can’t wait forever, where’s the two cents?” 

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I am still looking for the two cents when the old lady shouts, “Why you stupid kid, the two cents is on the ground.  What do you have a hole in your pocket?”   When I see the two cents on the floor, I pick it up and I give it to the old lady.  The old lady sticks a Popsicle stick into the red apple and stuffs it into a juicy, red, boiling pot.  When she takes it out the hot jelly is dripping all over the stick.  She puts a napkin on the stick and says, “Here’s your jelly apple and get out of here!”  - That's the way it was on 116th Street and Pleasant Avenue

#italian harlem #116th street #pleasant avenue #the way it was #daniel golio #mafia #east harlem crew #little italy #purple gang #jelly apples #giglio society

[kinksmog]

back then this thing was running on momentum, love, and trust, that paradise is buried in the dust!

if i go on, with you by my side, can it be the way it was when we met? did you forget all about those golden nights?

#the killers #the way it was #music #Spotify

[jessepinwheel]

I love it when people use "shrimp" to mean "beyond the human range". like "shrimp colors" but applied to other things. "shrimp emotions" "shrimp sounds" "shrimp morality", as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend

#maybe the true eldritch horror is the shrimp we met along the way

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

#art #i had to block multiple people because of this post and i easily could have blocked more #do you guys have any idea how exhausting it is to hear 400 people make the exact same unfunny joke each thinking they're being original #or worry that another person might get harassed over a post i made because of the way people are talking about them #or be harassed/insulted YOURSELF because some people don't know how to fucking behave #you guys don't get reblogs back. you should be grateful i'm leaving the post up at all.

[lakanakana]

war never changes

#boop #april fools #i spent way too long on this #flashing #eye strain

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#was calling beckett and scouring the works of eliza cook looking for lesbianism #good amounts of lesbianism in evidence but unfortunately very little in the way of good poetry #APART from this worm one which DOES NOT MISS #eliza cook #is there a thriving eliza cook tag on tumblr. somehow i doubt it #the hand of the giant and the heart of the brave / must turn weak and submit to the worm and the grave! #not an original theme ofc but GOD the treatment is delightful. so fresh so gleeful some rlly nice use of sound. rlly solidly constructed #words #gay belligerence

[fullmetalscullyy]

sometimes..... sometimes i get it just right 🤌🤌

#rereading my own stuff today and #u g h #love that shit #he's so right for that #the way it was #emma talks

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

#it's hard sometimes not to be embarrassed when people tell you you should be and im still working on it #but life is so much more fun that way

[teaboot]

When I was a kid one of my moms would call her period "moon time" or "her monthlies" or shit like that and my other mom straight up stealthed it, but when I'm a dad I think I'm gonna go straight down the middle and call it Werewolf Week. Like sorry kids, dad can't roughouse right now, it's Werewolf Week

#Plus my sense of smell always goes crazy like a couple days prior #So #I feel like I could really lean into the mythos #They'll get the talk of course but Werewolf Week sounds way cooler than Lady Time or whatever the fuck

[justalittlebluetiefling]

#i don't believe that people for serious reasons sort their books any way but by author #and then obviously by release date/series within that #i am being told that i am being JUDGY #also if you sort your books any other way HOW DO YOU FIND THEM #i really need to know #polls #can't believe i forgot to include genre in here