Stratford Library Offers Bronx Retrospective June 22

Press release from Stratford Library:

June 21, 2021

The Stratford Library will present an entertaining and nostalgic tour, “The Bronx: The Way It Was” on Tuesday, June 22 at 6:30 pm. The talk, presented by publisher Steve Samtur, is free and open to the public and will take place on the Library’s Zoom platform.

Steve Samtur has been editor and publisher of Back in THE BRONX magazine for over 25 years.

The magazine is a retrospective of The Bronx in the decades of the 1940s-1960s. Since the start of the magazine, he has had close to 30,000 subscribers, as well as a Bronx database of over 125,000 former Bronxites. He also has written three books, produced several DVDs and developed a Bronx Board game and a Back in THE BRONX chess set.

For the past 6 years, Samtur has given his 90-minute PowerPoint presentation, ”The Bronx: The Way It Was”, locally and throughout the country. He brings over 450 vintage Bronx slides, video clips of The Bronx during the decades of the 40s-60s and dozens of Bronx celebrity interviews. The slides are in categories which include: The Grand Concourse, Bronx Movie Theatres and Shopping Areas, Orchard Beach, Freedomland USA (Disneyland of the east), Bronx Transportation, Yankee Stadium and Bronx Parks and Restaurants. Numerous Bronx celebrities (Robert Klein, Regis Philbin, Chazz Palmintieri, Mary Higgins Clark, Danny Aiello, and Rita Morena) are also highlighted.

"The Bronx: The Way It Was" will be held from 6:30-8 pm on June 22 on the Library’s Zoom platform. To register online and receive a Zoom invitation visit: https://stratfordlibrary.libcal.com/event/7792521.

For further information call the Stratford Library at: 203.385-4162.

This press release was produced by Stratford Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.