Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dere's no guy livin' dat knows Brooklyn troo and troo...
Everyone-especially if he had never been there-used to think he knew Brooklyn troo and troo. It was Green-pernt and Bensonhoist, Coney and Canarsie, the land of kosher pizza and the foot-long frankfurter, of pickles with everything and every third Schaefer's on the house. It was Leo The Lip Durocher bawling out the umpires at Ebbets Field, the impassioned rooters alternately toasting Dem Bums with Cokes and bombarding them with the empty bottles...
Comedians and novelists alike attested tirelessly to the aromatic glories of the Brighton Beach Express and the Gowanus Canal, the beery, cheery heartland of dock-wallopers and sailors' broads and Yiddishe mammas, the wasteland of peeling tenements where a Tree Grew. Brooklyn was where every uprooted native from Al Capone to Barbra Streisand was congratulated on being from...
...family joke on a national scale, a source of passionate chauvinism if you were born there, of instant derision if you were not. "Where are we?" asks the disoriented passenger. "Nowhere," says the hackie. "We're in Brooklyn." From the height of vaudeville to the early days of TV, a comic had only to intone "Flatbush" to fracture the folks out front. The gibes even led to a society for the Prevention of Disparaging Remarks about Brooklyn. But who today bothers to disparage Brooklyn...
There was another Brooklyn of celebrated restaurants and name-heavy nightclubs, of legitimate theaters where Broadway shows tried out, the home of a distinguished art museum and half a dozen daily newspapers, notably the Daily Eagle, which Walt Whitman once edited. But who today hymns that Brooklyn...