Living in Brooklyn Now - The Modern Way

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You know you're living in in this modern age when...

  1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
  2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
  3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
  4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
  5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
  6. You go home after long days at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
  7. You make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.
  8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
  9. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.
  10. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
  11. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
  12. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.
  13. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first twenty or thirty (or sixty) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
  14. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
  15. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
  16. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
  17. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this page.
  18. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
  19. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list. AND NOW you're laughing at yourself....

Any corrections? ... ... you be my guest.

All right, here's the way ... Old Brooklyn Used To Look ... some years ago, 1920?
For the history buffs ... Coney History 1609-1880 ... humble beginnings.
And if that's too much ... Brooklyn - a Quick History ... for those in a hurry.
Great, here you can see ... 1879 Map of Coney Island ... where everything was.
All right, here's the way ... Coney Island Hotels ... used to look years ago.
Remember when a ... View from Brooklyn ... looked like this?
And a Brooklynese letter ... Brooklynese Letter … from Bill Gates himself.
Look, old Coney Island's ... Beach & Boardwalk ... used to looked like this.
And now, just for fun, only ... Old Brooklynites ... could possibly understand.
And what do we have here - The Cyclone ... known all over the world.
They’d say, "Hey, I’ll kick you to Canarsie" ... that’s what they used to say.
And finally we have ... Remember When ... and we're finished.

We'll return to the ... Navigator ... our contents page.

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