The Old Lady in the Window | Philip A. Farruggio

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Philip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust

Dec. 22, 2014

For baby boomers like this writer, 50 years seemed to have gone by so quickly.

It's amazing how certain memories linger there, just hoping to be reignited with the flame of nostalgia. Whenever the late autumn chill hits me with its gray indifference, I always think back to my paper route in the fall of '65.

In those days there were a myriad of newspapers in New York. The mornings offered the choices of the NY Times, Herald Tribune, Daily News and Daily Mirror. Then, in the afternoons the late papers came out: The NY Post, Journal American and World Telegram & Sun... the latter being my paper route choice.

I started out at 12-years-old working for the NY Post, but the local delivery store near my house switched two years later to the World Telegram & Sun... so I did too. Who cared what paper I delivered, so long as I could keep the best route of them all. I say "best" not because it was the easiest (the ones with lots of apartment buildings were the easiest), rather because it covered Bedford Ave., which had a preponderance of beautiful one family homes.

Coming from the mindset of one who lived as a "renter," it was nice to see how the "better folks" lived in their single-family homes with well-kept little gardens in front. I guess it was the dreamer in me gliding by and fantasizing of coming home to one of these places each afternoon.

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1. nice column

I also had a paper route and earned my spending money the same way. Maybe its me but i think people were much nicer back then.