“You can take the boy out of da Bronx but you can’t take da Bronx out of the man!” It has been 66 years since I lived in the Bronx and 34 years since I last stepped in my old neighborhood of Pelham Parkway. As usual, one evening, I was on the computer and had the TV on tuned to the news which I was sort of listening to when all of a sudden I heard the newscaster refer to Christopher Columbus High School and my mind immediately flashed back to the high school I attended across the parkway 70 years ago. I have a lot of memories from that time, not all good, and I took out my yearbook picture and a smile broke out across my face. I had heard/read that CCHS in the Bronx was no longer a high school and I quickly went to local10.com and found out they were referring to a Christopher Columbus High School in Miami that I didn’t know about! It is a private, Roman Catholic college-preparatory high school, established in 1958. Did some research about MY CCHS and the Miami CCHS but it all puzzled me into making a note about doing more research. I am still puzzled about the remark of Wikipedia saying “It is within walking distance from the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden.” Okay I was a fat kid but I do remember taking a bus to the zoo as it was too long a walk from Bogart Avenue and Pelham Parkway! Somewhere along the lines of “It never rains but it pours” the next day I went to see the Broadway touring company of “A Bronx Tale” which takes place in another part of the Bronx that I wasn’t familiar with being Belmont and Jerome Avenues though it did remind me of my neighborhood as Bogart Avenue was the ‘dividing’ line between the Italian and Jewish neighborhoods. This has been a week of Da Bronx memories and someday I’ll have to share them with you, well at least the good ones that the kid in this man from Da Bronx remembers!