STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE COLUMNS

Mike Azzara's Memories column from the Staten Island Advance

• A LABOR OF LOVE
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As time goes by, more and more customers of the salumeria on Bay Street in Rosebank have no inkling why it's called Montalbano's. It was, after all, 25 years ago that the store's founder, Dominic Montalbano, sold it and retired.

• Singing doo-wop for a good cause %%head%%Oldies show Aug. 30 to benefit the Staten Island Alzheimer's Foundation will feature 5 groups, buffet dinner
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Doo-wop fans can do good and have fun at the same time Aug. 30 at an oldies concert for the benefit of the Staten Island Alzheimer's Foundation.

• Jean Leng Howe's 'wonderful life'
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Jean Leng Howe has lived in Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles, but some of her fondest memories are of her time on Staten Island and her relatively brief but happy career at the Advance.

• YESTERDAY
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The decade of the 1950s has been depicted as a calm and tranquil, somewhat simplistic period in American history, presided over by a grandfatherly figure, whom everyone lovingly called Ike.