68jk09 said:Catholic Grammar School Dances thru out NYC in the '50s..... as strict as they thought they were....... in 2014 would make them crap their pant's ....8th graders back then in the '50s smoking a pack of cigarette's in 2-3 hrs right in the gym or auditorium was OK as long as you did not get too close to the girl's during the dance.
Fr. Mulcahy taught me to be an altar boy also when I was in OLR when I think I was in fifth grade. One Saturday when we were practicing in the rectory bsmt, a seventh grader was shooting us with his pea shooter through a partially open window and having a good time. As practice was winding down, Fr. Mulcahy said he was going upstairs to get us some candy bars. He returned with the culprit with the pea shooter and showed us a very un Bells of Saint Mary performance as he proceeded to slap the crap out of pea shooter boy for what seemed like an eternity. I threw my pea shooter out as soon as I got home.3511 said:274, you are correct.
St. Helena's parish divides Parkchester with St Raymond's. One of it's legendary pastors, Father Philip Mulcahy, taught me to be an altar boy when he was a curate at Our Lady of Refuge. He was right out of the Bells of St Mary's (although I never heard him sing).
The St Helena's dances, held at the parish, were famous for Bronx Catholic high school students in the 50's and 60's. The grammar school basketball team played its games in the high school gym, which we visiting teams thought was so cool.
memory master said:Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the other side of the Hutch is/was St. Joseph's school for the deaf if memory serves me right.
3511, yes the neighborhood had gone to hell. We danced close to the girls and even put our hands on their rear ends but I never ever picked up a peashooter again.......lol. And you're right, he would be put in jail in today's world.3511 said:Fdce54,
Obviously the neighborhood had gone to hell by the time you went to OLR. In my day we would never have thought of having a peashooter.... or dancing too close.... :. (HA!)
FR Mulcahy (and others like him) probably prevented generations of kids from being arrested. Today he would be arrested.
Where have I heard that before.....lol.3511 said:fdc54
10 Hail Marys, 10 Our fFathers, and make a good Act....