Perlman, M. H. (2015). Legendary locals of forest hills and rego park. Place of publication not identified: Arcadia Pub.
This book was announced by the author on Facebook a few months ago. Of course I had to pre-order it from Amazon.com. To make a long story short, I lived in Rego Park in 3 different apartments from 1951-72 and 1978-1983. My parents moved to Forest Hills in 1980.
This books contains photographs with annotations about local landmarks including:
- Alexanders
- Hamburger Train
- Fairyland
- Rego Park Jewish Center
- Eddie's Sweet Shop
- Trylon Theater
- Midway Theater
Most of book is devoted to photographs and thumbnail biographies of famous people who lived part of their lives in Rego Park or Forest Hills. Those include:
- Simon and Garfunkel
- Danny Troob
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Captain Kangaroo
- Art Buchwald
- Alan King
Michael Perlman is to be congratulated on a job well done. It is hard to believe that I left Rego Park over 30 years ago. I live only 4 miles away in Flushing, but every so often I like to return to reminisce and to see how the old neighborhood has changed. Perhaps when I am retired I'll have some time to research the old neighborhood.
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