37 Hopper is HOME.

The house in it's two "colors." Sandstone colored stucco with white trim (B&W) & chocolate trim:


After Uncle Harry rebuit the steps my father replaced the cement style railings with wrought iron. By the early '70's the garage was converted into my bedroom. The lawn expanded to where the driveway was. Years later the hedges were replaced with a brown fence. That's Mom & Mrs. Buzzoro, each in their "house dresses."

37 Hopper HOME to the Cedr
one's & Tocci's.


Elvis' "Memories," makes this slide show "feel good." Some photos are repeated from the above video. This wasn't intentional. Both were produced when there were lesser images available.

Diane's memorial video. A classic song from the '50's, Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk," creates the perfect feeling for this slide show.

My Mother & Kelly on what I call "Mother's Day:"


These are the versions of my parent's classic exit!
Chris & Frank The Classic Exit


Dance Of The Lawn King

What's an Italian house without PLENTY of food:CedroneTocciMangia, 8mm Home Movie Salude' At The Tocci's

Dan Marini recorded about 16 minutes worth of Pleasantville family footage from the late 50's to early 60's, which no one (in NY) knew existed, not even those featured in the 8mm. In fact he captured several important family events.

What makes this most important today is the original 8mm films are GONE. Disposed of after they were transferred, all that remains are two badly worn VHS tapes from the late 80's. I have since archived the files from those tapes. Below you'll see:
Doug's wedding, myself about 4 years old driving a car, Easter at my house, Diane as a BLOND, the day before & after Marie's wedding aka the Blizzard of '69..
Also mixed in with his daughter Linda's many reels from 45 years ago was the only known footage of Donald's wedding, which no one (in NY) including Donald & Barbara knew of until I asked to transfer her 8mm. Unlike Dan's links which are VHS tapes this is the original film:


A few Pleasantville moments are below:
The embedded videos along with a few others were pulled from the 1980's VHS tape before digital transfers were available, but they're still great memories of family, fun & fast cars:

This is a
Memorial or Veteran's Day Parade in Pleasantville.
This is a slightly altered version. Notice the Westchester County Diner (aka Pleasantville Diner):
Pleasantville NY Memorial Day Parade (1958)

Alice AKA Chupee (Camilli) & families:
Alice
Here's the some footage of
Nancy Camilli. Filmed getting into the car (Hobby St. Pleasantville) with daughter Mela. YouTube - Nancy Camilli

This is the newly created HD version: Nancy & Mela 8mm Home Movie

I call the above video CHROME: Chrome & YouTube - CedroneTocciChrome

Welcome Home Cropped
1957. Donald's home coming. This the only video of the four Tocci siblings together!
There is no other video which shows the four of us "posed," together. Video begins outof order as the scene with the four of us comes towards the end. It is then cropped 3 x.

# 1Tighter crop of the four of us (you also see Grandma Cedrone & Marie Patane)
# 2 Close up of Doug & Grandma.
# 3 Close up of Diane.
Video then begins in order with noticeable cropped footage.

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