Remembering Mount Vernon, NY: The Place We Called Home

Come back to Mount Vernon, NY of the 1940s and 50s and hear what I was like growing up and going to school in “The City of Homes” located 30 minutes north of Manhattan. Visit long forgotten stores on Fourth Avenue like Genungs and The Fair. Return to old familiar places like Gleb’s Deli, The Sugar Bowl, The Bee Hive, Proctors and Loew’s. Take a trip back to Gramatan Avenue and to A.B. Davis High School and its crowded hallways. Chuckle at the wire-caged outside staircase that Pop Phillips looked out on every spring day. Let the beat of the annual school band parade drums resonate again while you “ March, March On Down The Field” with all the high school sports teams. But most of all, hear how it was to grow up in this New York City suburb where no one was obliged to do anything more than go to school, play and stay out of trouble. Written by men and women 50 years after they graduated from A.B. Davis in 1960, “Remembering Mount Vernon, The Place We Called Home” recalls warm and vivid memories about all things Mount Vernon of a bygone era. Bruce Fabricant of the ’60 class assembled the essays.