tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post2261209624405988422..comments2024-03-25T15:29:41.085-04:00Comments on Kensington Stories: Louie from KensingtonRon Lopezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00013432967905835800noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-43521775955043586872009-07-08T16:24:53.825-04:002009-07-08T16:24:53.825-04:00Hay Charlie, it's Sal; how about all the firew...Hay Charlie, it's Sal; how about all the fireworks Louie would buy all us guys for July 4th(like mats & cherry bombs, M80's) because we didn't have money, and he didn't want us to miss out on the fun!. <br /> Louie has always had a loud dirty mouth and hitter attitude, but really has the heart of a kitten; That he tries to hide;<br />Looking Back: Louie in his way took care of us guys on the corner. especially "THE KID" Aka:"The little Jew boy" that Louie loved like his own son (in the Louie way)even to this day. <br /> Yea we have hundreds of storys from that corner and even some from the Ave F park hockey games. Like when Louie got hit in the face with a Puck and he was cut over the right eye, and his glasses broke!. He called his doctor from some store phone both on Ave F; "Hello Doc!, This is Louie!, Louie Mattera yea Mattera! M-A-T-T-E-R-A!! FUCKING BASTARD!"<br />I'm laughing now just thinking about it.<br />For better or worse it seems Louie made an impact in our lives, I don't think anyone realized it until this BLOG?.<br />SALAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-77194116143273622232009-07-07T18:29:01.073-04:002009-07-07T18:29:01.073-04:00I'm sure there will be more comments about Lou...I'm sure there will be more comments about Louie! Believe it or not, Louie is still alive and kicking and still talk'in Brooklyn. When I first started hang'in out in Louie's neck o-da woods, it was right around the time when the local guys in the area were getting into the smoking of the weed. Louie always blamed me for it, saying I brought it into the neighborhood! Louie, being old school, by a wide margin, didn't think much of the weed. He actually had a wierd "values" hierarchy. You see, for Louie, smoking pot was a really, really bad thing to do. You could steal, kill somebody or down a pint of J&B, that was ok, but if you smoked "da pot" as he called it, betsy-toe-zon! Yeah that was Louie's favorite word, after the F-word of course. Louie could throw around the F-word about as good as anyone I ever met. We were always worried if one of our parents would come by our nightly hangout on Avenue C and McDonald, under the Chevron sign. We'd say hi, but without thinking, Louie might say, "Ay, how the fuck you do'in!" One of us would always have to be ready with a quick elbow to Louie's ribs, to cut off the F word! Sometimes we were quick enough and sometimes not. We'd scold him if it slipped out at the wrong time and he'd say something like, "Wa? Wa? I didn't fuck'in mean nu-tin by it!" Louie had stories like you wouldn't believe and they were usually wrapped around his friendships with mobsters! I'll leave those for someone else to talk about. Louie was always a good guy, even though he had some crazy ideas. "Character" if you want to define the word, you could say that the meaning is: "Just Like Louie" The word was made for him. When I used to cut class at FDR High School, I could always depend on Louie's basement haven in the winter! He'd let me hangout until school was over, so the Truant Officers wouldn't get me. Yeah, see, when I was on the "lam!"<br />Charlie GiliAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-47650205986658382392009-07-07T18:07:21.803-04:002009-07-07T18:07:21.803-04:00Hi Ron, As a kid I hung out with Louie on the corn...Hi Ron, As a kid I hung out with Louie on the corner of Ave C & McDonald along with several other guys(friends). Louie still lives in Bklyn and doing fairly well for his age. He's frozen in the past and has not changed at all, if you were to talk to him today you might think you are a teenager again back in a time loop or something. it's both said & funny at the same time.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />0. Louie is still living in Bklyn, and doing fairly well for his age. Also he has not changed at all, he is frozen in the pastAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-85705721814278917442009-01-06T20:40:00.000-05:002009-01-06T20:40:00.000-05:00You know what, Louie lived in one of those small s...You know what, Louie lived in one of those small sandstones on Avenue C between McDonald and Dahill road. And yes, he did live with his mother.<BR/><BR/>RonRon Lopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00013432967905835800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-19353786758856293012009-01-06T18:23:00.000-05:002009-01-06T18:23:00.000-05:00Did Louie live in the apartment building on Alberm...Did Louie live in the apartment building on Albermarle Road and McDonald? Never married, lived with his mother?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5845436933807383233.post-80836500678699764102009-01-06T13:09:00.000-05:002009-01-06T13:09:00.000-05:00Congrats on 30,000 hits on the blog!I can see Loui...Congrats on 30,000 hits on the blog!<BR/><BR/>I can see Louie clearly in my memory, with his thick black plastic reading glasses, and his cigar. I can still hear him yelling at Glenn through the chain link fence at Avenue F.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com