Topic old BP bios from the General Chit-Chat forum.
Post a reply or begin a new topic.
View other threads or jump to a different forum.
Go to page: Next or 1, 2, 3
|
| Author | Topic: old BP bios |
|---|
 moljul
Registered User
Registered:
4/2/2001
From:
New York
Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Fav. BP Song: Dublin Lady
| posted: 5/15/2004 at 7:39:50 PM ET
Interesting. That is right near where I live. It must be where City Center is now or at least close to it.
| mekey218218
Registered User
Registered:
5/15/2004 | posted: 5/27/2004 at 10:16:42 PM ET
IT WAS ABOVE THE YAMAHA PIANO STORE.
CARRIN
| moljul
Registered User
Registered:
4/2/2001
From:
New York
Fav. BP CD: I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Fav. BP Song: Dublin Lady
| posted: 5/27/2004 at 10:22:49 PM ET
I thought I remember Bernadette and maybe Gregory Hines saying it was above a beauty parlor.
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
65.217.153.x | posted: 6/15/2005 at 2:54:58 PM ET
Quintano's School for Young Professionals is no longer in existence. The original building in which it was located is on 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The name Quintano's is still on the outside of the building. It closed about 15 years ago when Dr.Quintano died (he was in his 90's). My daughter attended the school in 1980-1983. At that time it was located on West 60th Street in NYC. It was a great school. My daughter loved it!
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
24.193.236.x | posted: 6/22/2005 at 7:37:18 AM ET
quote:
Quintano's School for Young Professionals is no longer in existence. The original building in which it was located is on 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The name Quintano's is still on the outside of the building. It closed about 15 years ago when Dr.Quintano died (he was in his 90's). My daughter attended the school in 1980-1983. At that time it was located on West 60th Street in NYC. It was a great school. My daughter loved it!
Hmmm...I was there around the same time. Well, sorta.
By the 1980s it had degenerated into a hideout for kids who didn't want to go to public schools, couldn't get into the magnet schools (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech or Hunter), and who couldn't afford the typical prep schools.
Diane Lane graduated from there in 1983.
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
24.193.236.x | posted: 6/22/2005 at 7:40:02 AM ET
quote:
quote:
Quintano's School for Young Professionals is no longer in existence. The original building in which it was located is on 45th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. The name Quintano's is still on the outside of the building. It closed about 15 years ago when Dr.Quintano died (he was in his 90's). My daughter attended the school in 1980-1983. At that time it was located on West 60th Street in NYC. It was a great school. My daughter loved it!
Hmmm...I was there around the same time. Well, sorta.
By the 1980s it had degenerated into a hideout for kids who didn't want to go to public schools, couldn't get into the magnet schools (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech or Hunter), and who couldn't afford the typical prep schools.
Diane Lane graduated from there in 1983.
Another note: the school had moved to 17-21 West 60th Street, on the same floor as High Times Magazine, and then it went to Madison and 37th in 1985.
Don't know much about what happened to it after that, but they (with a little help from the SAT) got me into a very good university.
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
24.161.102.x | posted: 7/12/2005 at 7:03:58 PM ET
Hi, I graduated from Quintano's in 1980, just after it had moved from 56th to 60th St. When I went it was sort of half professional types and outcasts from other schools (some had been expelled from Catholic schools). Was anyone else there around that time? I will probably not return to this forum, so e-mail me if you like...Larry
lchris@pxmb.com
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
66.81.27.x | posted: 9/2/2005 at 10:26:48 AM ET
quote:
Professional Children's School is a totally different school,somewhere in the west 60's. I know because I went to Quintan's from 1958-60.
Sheila Forbes.
It does still exist but is called The Professional Children's School, I believe.
As for your other question, yeah right! 
|  Sasha
Registered User
Registered:
9/4/2005
From:
North Carolina | posted: 9/4/2005 at 7:17:04 PM ET
Does anyone know BPs bio from GYPSY? Thanks so much guys!
Sasha Amelia
| mdjak
Registered User
Registered:
9/25/2005 | posted: 9/25/2005 at 9:54:56 PM ET
I attended Quintano's School for Young Professionals from September 1970-January of 1975. It occupied 154, 156 and 158 West 56th Street, directly behind the rear entrance to Carnegie Hall.
I was neither a dropout nor a troublemaker. I knew someone who had attended and graduated. Ilived in the Bronx, N.Y. and my mother was afraid for me to attend Evander or Clinton. When she gave me the choice to go to Quintano's and take an express bus downtown each day, I jumped at it. I learned well there. Dr. Leonard S. Quintano was my American History Professor, as that was what his PhD was in. Frank Mosier was my English teacher.
I had a teacher named Kevin Donohue also for English. In fact, I signed up for a creative writing course for which there were no others. The class was given by Mr. Donohue for just me. We used to meet three times a week in Francine's Luncheonette, have breakfast and he would give me writing assignments and then check them.
I loved that school.
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
24.90.217.x | posted: 11/13/2005 at 3:26:17 AM ET
Hi
I attended Quintano's from 69 - 72
It was a great school. Francine's was the best greasy spoon around and overall it offered what you wanted. If you wanted to learn, you could.
There is a lot to say about Quintano's.
The place was surreal. There were ashtrays in some classrooms and the recreation area which consisted of a ping pong table 2 bathrooms and some chairs was where people gathered, played music, ping pong (very serious) and smoked pot.
It was not a free for all. There were rules and everyone pretty much got along.
The teachers spanned from world class (Frank Mosier) to the bizarre Prof Smith who openly dated many young girls and went to jail for the largest Hash bust in history, a barge on the Hudson with tons of Hash on it.
It was a different age. My graduation was at "Tavern on The Green" and I know for sure at least 1/4 lb of Cocaine was consumed that afternoon by the students, parents, and some teachers.
At the school 3 guys were allowed to control the "soft" drug market in exchange for acting as an unofficial security detail. I was one of the three.
Our Senior class trip was to Rye's Playland an amusement park about an hour away from midtown. It took us 4 hours to get there because the bus driver was overcome by the fumes from a mixture of grass, hash, coke, and Heroin that was being smoked on the bus by the Senior class. He had to pull over a few times and straighten up.
One teacher "now a prominent Attorney" took the class to Central Park for a day nature walk and brought a brown paper bag with about an ounce of pot rolled into joints that he distributed as soon as we entered the park which was only a few blocks away.
Prof Donahue was dating a female Senior and a male Junior who were best friends to this day and did not know they were both dating.
That male Junior is now an artist in soho. Jis then girlfriend who was the daughter of the CEO of General motors is now a Judge in a high circuit court in the North East.
Three of Abbie Hoffman's unofficial wives attended Quintanos, as did Andres Segovia's daughter.
The School was upstairs from a Yamaha Piano store and Segovia's storefront.
One final story.
In 1971 about half the school went to a 3 day concert in Puerto Rico "Mar y Sol"
There were about 40 bands, many greats, and about 100 thousand young people in Vega Baja Puerto Rico. Almost nobody came back to school that year. The concert was in late spring. I stayed with anumber of people there for 3 months some are still there.
The father of one student was the promoter and he absconded with a bunch of money from the concert.
Even with all that I managed to get an academic Diploma and had an 88 avg. I went on to different Colleges and wound up in Market Research and later Computer Science Computer Science. I now do research in Physics and I'm the inventor of a sound enhancement technology.
I attribute my success in life in part to Frank Mosier who turned his classroom into a life preparation lab for those who would listen to him. He pulled me aside one day and spoke with me for about an hour about my plans for life and choice of friends.
The three lucky guys I mention above were, Me, a now very influencial baptist preacher and congregation leader, and the third was a cabbie last I heard.
Quintano's was a place where you went if you did not do well in traditional schools and your parents (or you) could afford 2 - 3 k per year.
It originated as a correspondance school for actors in the 1800's.
Mr. Quintano was a kind and gentle aristocrat with very progressive ideas. The teachers were all qualified and all worked very hard.
I know today this school would be razed and the faculty thrown in the klink, but I know that at least for me it was a life saving alternative, and a first step toward becoming an effective adult.
Would I send my kids there today? No not today, but back in the 70's I would have sent all my 5 kids there.
Best to you all
....(You figure it out)
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
69.174.215.x | posted: 11/13/2005 at 8:04:46 AM ET
On her official website, in her biography, her homes are listed as New York and Los Angeles. Did she sell Vero Beach?
|  Jean
Registered User
Registered:
6/7/2003 | posted: 11/13/2005 at 8:18:10 AM ET
She never listed Vero on her bio--nor did she list the other Florida home they had.
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
64.163.43.x | posted: 11/26/2005 at 1:29:29 PM ET
quote:
quote:
Professional Children's School is a totally different school,somewhere in the west 60's. I know because I went to Quintano's from 1958-60.Gregory and Maurice Hines went there at the same time I did.Patty Duke was also there at that time. We were all serious about are careers.It was a wonderful time.
Sheila Forbes.
.
| Anonymous
Anonymous Poster
From Internet Network:
64.163.43.x | posted: 11/26/2005 at 1:30:46 PM ET
quote:
quote:
Professional Children's School is a totally different school,somewhere in the west 60's. I know because I went to Quintan's from 1958-60.
Sheila Forbes.
It does still exist but is called The Professional Children's School, I believe.
As for your other question, yeah right!
| Caren Rovics
Registered User
Registered:
11/29/2005 | posted: 11/29/2005 at 12:11:49 PM ET
Responding to the 69-72 attendee. I too was there during that time. Have no recollection of most of the extra cirricular activities, though it was apparent to all that drug usage by students was an open activity. Frank Mosier also had a life impacting influence on my life. By taking the time to read my writing and care about the the person I was struggling to become, I took from that experience an identity that resulted in steering my life to a road of success and personal fulfillment. I too would not recommend the school to my children, but, for a money strapped teen looking for an alternate way to a new future, Quintano's certainly fit the bill.
| Go to page: Next or 1, 2, 3
Other threads: « Next | Previous » |
Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked.
Please contact us with any concerns you might have.
|
