This section will include vinettes - stories - of Robby's life.... His life in progress.
  
   
      
Life is the sum of experiences that we encounter as go through life. Day to day struggles and triumphs are experienced by all of the world's creatures. As Americans we encounter challenges and have freedom to choose how to react. Every decision that we make leads us down another road. We will never come to exactly the same crossroads. Every decision we make has significance. The tiniest choice that is made reverberates throughout the entire universe.
Photos include: First love - mother: Millie Robinson. : Walking bridge connecting Bronx and Manhattan NY, with father Mark & beautiful sister, Enid. : My Father with Brother, Norman and Robby in Providence, RI. : Norman in his Blue Jackets uniform. : Grandmother Jennie with Uncle Freddie and Aunt Ruthie. : Recent photo with Enid. : Robby’s children: Ricky, Gay Lee, Marc, Robin, Soontorn with wife Jaeb, and Jasmine. : Grandson, Cody Hubbard - age 11. : Great-Grandson Kayden Hubbard awarded his green belt in Tang Soo Do for his hard work and dedication. : (Additional grandchildren not shown here.)
In 1946, Robby (known as Buddy) was a member of the WOR Radio Station Hit “Juvenile Jury" and was featured in Life Magazine August 5, 1946. : Robby with BF, Georgie Patten, Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island, NY : Ptl. Charles P. Yost turns out in front of the 47th Precinct in the 1940's (photo courtesy of the Yost-Tesoro family). : 44th Precinct Station House on Sedgwick Avenue - mid 1980's (photo by Jim Barrett, NYPD).
    
Robby was introduced to Judo in 1949 through the teachings of Charles Yerkow and was strongly influenced by neighborhood Chinese Tai Chi Chuan practitioners. A former acrobatic performer with the famous Jules Stone Dance Studios of New York, coupled with a high school background in weight lifting, gymnastics, fencing, wrestling, and boxing with the New York City Police Athletic League, Robby was well prepared for a future fulfilling career in the little known field of martial arts that would take him around the world and encompassing the majority of my adult life.
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THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY!!!
Born in Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York - History
For generations a rural area of small farms supplying the city markets, the Bronx grew into a railroad suburb in the late 19th century. Faster transportation allowed for rapid population growth in the late 19th century, involving the move from horse-drawn street cars to elevated railways to the subway system, which linked to Manhattan in 1904. The great majority lived in rented apartments. The demographic history of the Bronx in the 20th century may be divided into four periods: a boom during 1900–29, with a population growth by a factor of six from 200,000 in 1900 to 1.3 million in 1930. The Great Depression and war years saw a slowing of growth. The 1950s were hard times, as the Bronx decayed 1950–79 from a predominantly middle-class to a predominantly lower-class area with high rates of crime and poverty. Finally the Bronx has enjoyed economic and demographic stabilization since 1980.
At the end of World War I, the Bronx hosted the rather small 1918 World's Fair at 177th Street and DeVoe Avenue.
The Bronx underwent rapid growth after World War I. Extensions of the New York City Subway contributed to the increase in population as thousands of immigrants flooded The Bronx, resulting in a major boom in residential construction. Among these groups, many Irish Americans, Italian Americans and especially Jewish Americans settled here. In addition, French, German, and Polish immigrants moved into the borough. The Jewish population also increased notably during this time. In 1937, according to Jewish organizations, 592,185 Jews lived in The Bronx (43.9% of the borough's population),[14] while only 45,000 Jews lived in the borough in 2002. Many synagogues still stand in The Bronx, but most have been converted to other uses.
In Prohibition days (1920–33), bootleggers and gangs were active in The Bronx. Irish, Italian and Polish gangs smuggled in most of the illegal whiskey.
After the 1930s, Irish Americans started moving further north, and German Americans followed suit in the 1940s, as did many Italian Americans in the 1950s and Jews in the 1960s. As the older generation retired, many moved to Florida. The migration has left a African American and Hispanic (mostly Puerto Rican and Dominican) population, along with some European American communities in the far southeastern and northwestern parts of the county.
In the 1970s, the South Bronx became the iconic of America's urban crisis of unemployment and poverty during the 1970s, as arson in the city's public housing was a persistent symbol of the problem. However, led by aggressive community leaders, many burned-out tenements were replaced by single- and multifamily housing during the late 1970s to the present. Thus, Co-op City began in 1968 as a subsidized, high-rise, middle-class housing project, whose tenants bought shares in the corporation that operated it. It succeeded because it delivered on its promise of economic affordability and controlled racial integration.
By 2000, The Bronx had a population of about 1.2 million, and its bridges, highways, and railroads were more heavily traveled than those of any other part of the United States.
http://www.backinthebronx.com/
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