Yorkville Twins: Growing Up in New York City in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s

by Joseph Gindele, John F. Gindele, John Gindele

Hold Your Breath... Here Comes Trouble! Twins Joe and John grew up in a tenement flat in Yorkville on Manhattan's ethnic Upper East Side in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. They later taught grades K-University for a combined 64 years. In their award-winning book, Yorkville Twins, you'll enjoy: Hundred of anecdotes-full of humor, wisdom and frank talk (entertaining, inspiring, nostalgic, at times tragic) told by first-generation Americans about a Czech and German family of seven, surviving, living the American dream, and recounting the historical, social and cultural conditions of daily life in a 1950s working-class neighborhood, Tales of the special bonds shared by twins, including predictive abilities, Plus 100+ photos, richly annotated resources, and a glossary that will help you fully explore the colorful neighborhood that was the Yorkville of yore Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0983933766
• ISBN13: 9780983933762
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Golden Valley Publishing, LLC
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary