When You’re from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo

262 Pages·1992·34.902 MB·English

by  Larry King, Martin Appel

with Marty Appel
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When You re from Brooklyn, Every-
thingElse Is Tokyo is a nostalgic and highly
personal memoir by Larry King, America's
number one nighttime radio host and host
ofCNN's "Larry King Live," about grow-
ing up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties,
when Brooklyn was the world.
Larry King takes us back to the place
that transformed him and, in a way, all of
us, too: Brooklyn. It was a special place,
where egg creams were stirred just so,
where satin jackets were hip, where
Manhattan was "the city" and just a nickel
subway ride away, where you hung out day
afterday with the boys on the corner—
yourcorner—and played stickball and
stoopball through the long summerdays,
where Coney Island was a magical escape,
Nathan's hot dogs gourmet cuisine, and
the beloved Dodgers the emblem ofa time
and place. In these pages, you'll see why
"when you're from Brooklyn, everything
else is Tokyo."
It is also Larry King's own story about
growing up and surviving in "King's
County"—and about why that name
was so ironically and obviously fitting for
his own Brooklyn days. In addition, he
includes delightful anecdotes by other
celebrities—those stars ofstage, screen,
whom
and public life Larry interviews
daily—who call New York's most famous
borough home, for "everyone started in
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YOU'RE
FROM
BROOKLYN,
EVERYTHING
ELSE
TOKYO
IS
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
King, Larry, 1933-
When you'r—e from Brooklyn, everythingelse is Tokyo/ Larry Kingwith
Marty Appel. 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-316-49356-2 —
1. Brookl—yn (NewYork, N.Y.) Social life and customs. 2. Ne—w
York (N.Y.) Social life and customs. —3. King, Larry, 1—933-
Childhood and youth. 4. Broadcasters United States Biography.
I. Appel, Martin. II. Title.
F129.B7K4 1992
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974.7'23 dc20 92-13453
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Publishedsimultaneously in Canada
by Little, Brown i? Company (Canada) Limited
Printed in the United States ofAmerica
To the memory of my mom and dad, Jennie and
Eddie Zeiger, and to my dear brother Marty
L. K.
For Irving and Celia Appel,
formerly of St. Johns Place
M. A.