Cobblestone Dreams: Recent Episodes

Rob & Don Ortolano

A memoir of growing up in New York City in the 60's and 70's.

View Details

A whole different world.

View Details

Never going back!

View Details

A Village Institution.

View Details

Let’s take a stroll through the Village; you never know what you’ll run into.

View Details

I can still hear the music…

View Details

What would we have done without them?

View Details

And yet more New York-isms.

View Details

Ahhhh…that aroma….nothing like it.

View Details

Wanna get a pie?

View Details

Knock Knock…..who’s there??

View Details

One for the ages…..

View Details

The emporiums of my past.

View Details

The way cinema was to be seen.

View Details

One last trip back.

View Details

Some favorite food haunts of the past.

View Details

Foods from another time….

View Details

Come meet the people of the street, the Greenwich Village street.

View Details

1974 East Side of Manhattan.

View Details

This Ain’t No Disco, This Ain’t No Fooling Around- A Memory.

View Details

Some culinary treats from long ago.

View Details

The films that scared us, that changed us.

View Details

Anyone remember watching some of these?

View Details

Remember Twister? Fondue? Magic Cubes? Listen in.

View Details

Well today.. maybe not so much.

View Details

I remember it well; how could I forget ?!

View Details

Remember these bad ads from the past? Wish you didn’t ??

View Details

Remember these?

View Details

All hail the Frozen Food aisle!!

View Details

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/driving/

View Details

And introducing our guest host....Mr. AI

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/tunnels/

View Details

Another little trip down memory lane.....but which memory? -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/07/26/memory/

View Details

Did it really happen? Or do you just remember it happening? There's a difference. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2023/04/16/remember-tha-time-are-you-sure/

View Details

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2023/04/02/one-night-long-ago-in-coney-island/

View Details

If there is one food that says "New York City", it's the Bagel. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/the-bagel/

View Details

It remains....we go....-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/02/08/stuff/

View Details

Roswell, The Bermuda Triangle......remember those?....yea good times....-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/09/19/would-you-believe/

View Details

The night we went to a Poetry Reading, and experienced quite a bit more than poetry. -Rob.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2023/03/06/the-poetry-reading/

View Details

A boy, his Dad, a Memory, a Dream...and Baseball-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/spring-baseball-and-dreams/

View Details

Abandon All Hope......-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/more-coney-island-memories/

View Details

The tube vs real life. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/03/08/black-white/

View Details

Sit down, settle in, get comfortable......-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/04/04/the-bar/

View Details

A day in the life of West Broadway and Canal. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/loft-stories/

View Details

Oh What a Night. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2019/11/18/a-winters-night/

View Details

A special place.-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/the-museum-of-natural-history/

View Details

Look to the Light....-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/light/

View Details

Made a lot of good friends here. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/the-jefferson-market-library/

View Details

Native New Yorkers indeed......-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/roaches/

View Details

Remember Tang? Fizzies? I do......-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2018/05/08/science-meets-the-kitchen/

View Details

Follow me across the Bridge.....-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/the-bridge/

View Details

Can you? Go back? and will it sound the same? taste the same? be the same? -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/you-cant-go-home-again-thomas-wolfe/

View Details

An essential part of the fabric of the city, and a life saver. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/02/21/the-bodega/

View Details

Those lights beckon me still - Rob.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/city-lights/

View Details

A New Years Eve Memory from long ago.-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/new-years-eve-3/

View Details

Ah yes....the smells of the city, lost in time but not to memory. -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/smells/

View Details

Follow me into the kitchen....it's time to bake! -Rob.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/the-panettone/

View Details

Let's talk a walk to the West Side of town, to the Hudson River Piers -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2020/10/05/the-hudson-river-piers/

View Details

Let's take a walk......to Bleecker Street -Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/bleecker-street/

View Details

There is nothing quite like the smell and feel of newsprint. -Rob.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/newspapers/

View Details

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/09/26/growing-up-with-the-world-trade-center/

View Details

Serving up some favorite spots in town -Rob.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/red-sauce-joints/

View Details

Remembering the record shops of the Village-Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/the-record-store/

View Details

42nd Street the way I remember it - Rob

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://cobblestonedreams.wordpress.com/2022/11/27/the-deuce/