tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741186653279066194.post1568607215457768089..comments2023-09-11T03:43:51.607-04:00Comments on One More Folded Sunset: Back to 635onemorefoldedsunsethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05995652957356064546noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741186653279066194.post-38761281645785505602015-06-12T10:36:17.889-04:002015-06-12T10:36:17.889-04:00Virginia - thank you so much for your wonderful co...Virginia - thank you so much for your wonderful comments - I'm thrilled to learn about your father and your family connection to the Seafarer's Union. That bar sounds quite something! Do you have any photographs of the place in earlier years? I'd be honored to share them here, but completely understand if you prefer not to.<br />I'm fascinated by the local history of this neighborhood, and sorry that development is changing its character so rapidly. <br />Many, many thanks again!onemorefoldedsunsethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05995652957356064546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741186653279066194.post-41347966524234426672015-06-12T10:14:59.451-04:002015-06-12T10:14:59.451-04:00My father, Henry "Hank" Maksymowicz, a f...My father, Henry "Hank" Maksymowicz, a former USN Chief Petty Officer, was the bartender at the Seafarer's Union when it was at 675 Fourth Avenue. <br /><br />Sometimes, when I was a little girl, he would take me to the bar on Saturday mornings when he would have to take inventory. I remember that the bar itself was in the shape of a boat, with a mermaid in the front. He would make me a "Shirley Temple," which I would sip while looking up at that mermaid.<br /><br />I also remember how he "tricked" me at Christmastime. Rather than mailing my letter to Santa and risk its getting lost by the USPS, he convinced me to hand it directly to him. He said that one of his seafarer friends sailed to the North Pole on an icebreaker every November; he would hand-deliver it for me!<br /><br />He died from lung cancer on January 6, 1965. When the funeral procession left St. Patrick's Church, on its way to the National Cemetery on Long Island, it made a slow pass in front of the Seafarers Union.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830091127552935823noreply@blogger.com