When you were growing up, did your parents routinely have "before dinner drinks"?

@saragoodtimes My grandfather also had a press in our cellar. ( I grew up in a 3-generation household.) I can still remember the aroma of the grapes.

I was served wine at Sunday dinner starting at a very young age. Alcohol was never treated as a big deal. And so I never had a period of secretly drinking as a teenager.

@DrWatson whenever one of his friends stopped by there was always a wine tasting and a shot of either Amaretto, anisette or strega

@saragoodtimes I remember mine putting anisette in his coffee!

For me, this was in the Italian section of the Bronx. How about you?

@DrWatson grew up in Northern New Jersey about an hour from the city. Grandma had relatives in Brooklyn

@saragoodtimes My father grew up in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. My mother immigrated from Italy with her parents, and they settled in the Bronx.

@DrWatson have a college friend from Yonkers have gotten together and gone to Fordham when our team came in for a basketball game

@DrWatson my brother did the research at Ellis Island. my Great Grandpa came over then made 2 trips back and brought his Mother and Brother

@saragoodtimes There was an Italian family in Yonkers that we used to visit.

Fordham was just up the road from our house in the Bronx. But we moved to Long Island when I was 8, and I grew up in a more culturally mixed environment.

@DrWatson Rose Hill Gym is the oldest college basketball venue in the country

@saragoodtimes I did not know that about Rose Hill Gym!

About when did your great grandfather make his trips? My mother and her mother came in 1934, and her father came a couple of years earlier. (To make money and send it back home)

@DrWatson his first trip was 1906 then again in 1908 not sure about the 3rd time. everything is in the archives on Ellis island

@DrWatson only know about rose Hill the announcer mentioned it during a game this year