Friends and Family
Welcome to the wonderful world of Von Cello's friends and family. Please click on the thumbnails below to enlarge images.
| Mr. and Mrs. Von Cello at their joyous nuptials. |
| Of course, Von Weasel had to be the flower dog! |
| Canarsie - Von Cello's childhood home |
| Geri Modell and Nancy Cooper (old classmates of Von Cello's), riding bikes on Glenwood Road. Riding bicycles was a great pasttime in Canarsie. (Geri went on to become an internet professional and helped to upgrade this site.) |
| Mr. Mankowitz — known as "The Mank", a truly large human being and the most feared teacher at Bildersee JHS in Canarsie, who happened to have a very impressive vocabulary! He was not adverse to lifting violent students up in the air by their shirt collars and saying things like, "Your tempestuous manner is most disconcerting. May I suggest you hinder your propensity towards anarchistic exhibitions?" |
| South Shore High School was full of little clicks. At first Aaron tried to fit in, but eventually he made friends with other outsiders. The group grew and grew until it became the hippest scene of all! Here we have some of the people who started it all. Left to right: Lisa, Howie, Neil, Aaron, Stuey. |
| One day, we realized that frisbee was symbollic of life. It became almost a religion. Here we have two best friends about to experience another amazing game of frisbee: Left to right: Aaron, Neil. |
| "We're Only In It For The Money" (jokingly known as the "Steven Epstein Band"). From left to right: Perry Siegle, Steven Epstein, Aaron Minsky, Mitch Epstein (hidden). Perry's comment: "It was Yvonne's Sweet 16. I don't remember where it was held. Not at all. (No wonder.) I don't know who took the picture. I have no recollection how I got it. I think it was someone like Debbie or Holly, or even Yvonne herself, who saw me at school or, wait, even Fred and Murray's (remember I worked there?)... That's it!!! Matter of fact, Yvonne's parents used to come in all the time and they would say, 'he's the boy that played at Yvonne's party...they were so good!'. I think Yvonne dropped off the pictures...Of course, I could be making all of that up, but not only will you never know, NEITHER WILL I!" |
| The "before" picture from the party of the century: left to right: Mike, Cooch, Susan (hidden), Fred, Aaron, Jill, Joe, Neal, Neil, Peter, Stu, Stuey, Howie. This classic picture still hangs in the homes of several of the participants (and even in the homes of some people who were not there!). Antique photo production expertly executed by "Cooch" (Laurence Cuocci). |
| The "after" picuture of the party of the century (the following morning): Howie, Roni, Neal, Joe, Jill, Zack, Aaron, Stuey, Neil, Russ (in the back), Debbie, Stu, Peter, Dina, Corey, Bonnie, Mike, Susan, Fred, Cooch. Why was this the party of the century? For one thing it was the last time so many Canarsie people got together to party all night before the end of college. For another thing... |
| Lenny, known in Canarsie as the "Moshiach", hanging out with Neil near Neil's old farmhouse in Sullivan County. Neil's house became a refuge for Aaron during the years he lived in Manhattan. It was also the scene of many good times. Shortly before Neil moved, Aaron spent some time alone at the house (after a trip to Brazil) and composed his Cello Etude #3 from Three Concert Etudes. |
| Yes, that's Jerry Garcia. Now you may be wondering, "Did he live in Canarsie too?" Well, the truth is, he didn't, but it seemed like he did! ;-) |
| Neal Goldstein, one of the great joker's from Von Cello's junior high school class. Neal currently works with a law firm in San Francisco and continues to write comedy sketches and play music. |
| Perry Siegle, Von Cello's high school band mate, playing guitar with a psychedelic background. When not performing, Perry may be found working as a manager at a top software company in Massachusettes. |
| Perry playing with his current band Slipknot (the original Grateful Dead tribute band Slipknot, not the death metal band Slipknot). Merle Saunders, Tom Constanton and Butch Trucks have been guest artrists with the band. Von Cello has been a guest artist too! |
| Steven Marcus is a true Canarsie character, and a one man clearing house of information on
"where are they now?". As for Steve, he moved to Florida and then to Israel. Now he teaches
English in Spain, where he is married to a Spanish woman, and has one natural child and one
which they adopted in Bolivia. |
| Edward Burke, aka DJ Seamus, first heard Von Cello on a sampler CD from Relix Magazine. He later interviewed Von Cello for WWPV, Burlington, Vermont. Being a new friend of Von Cello's, Edward brings a refreshing perspective to the guestbook. You can hear the interview in the audio section of this site. |
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