egg salad sandwich at eddies was twenty cents, malted milk same price. Slice of pizza you are right fifteen cents and an egg cream at the candy store was fifteen cents. My dad filled a tooth for five bucks, extracted one for I think ten? Haircut was fifty cents and the movie ticket I think was fifteen cents???
PS Fred, where did you live? may have asked before. I think you are a big younger than I am. You knew Danny, did you know Gary Edles or any of the kids who lived on 54th Street? Danny is alive and kicking Still lives locally and spoke to him about a year ago. Edles lives in the UK and teaches at the University there and until last year I think he is now done, at GW or Georgetown. He was number two lawyer at the old Civil Aviation Board.
to your earlier, my bedroom overlooked fifty fourth st and the chinese laundry and the liquor store were adjacent to each other. There was an alley way on the other side of the laundry and we placed stoop ball about twenty feet in. We also went up the hill, across the next street and used to take sleds down, crossing the street at some speed and risk. We called it the Big Hill and the Little Hill. You had to carry a lot of speed to make it all the way down. I’m glad I can still remember any of this in my 79th year.!!!!
Hi The drugstore on the corner of the “Island” was absolutely Pat’s Pharmacy and then taken over by Danny. The other pharmacy with the lunch counter/soda fountain was Eddie’s. He was a slightly disabled WW2
vet and made me egg salad sandwiches every day from 1948 to 1952.I think I remember DeDona Pizza right next to PS 151 and there was another Pizza shop right next to Wintermeyers bakery, so we also had two pharmacies and two pizza shops. Two by Two. The original drugstore as I recall was
Rexall and became B&D. My memories only cover up to maximum 1960 or maybe even earlier, so lots changed.
YES THEY WERE ON THE TRIANGLE NEAR THE BUS STOP TO MASPETH. PAT ABRAMS PHARMACY WAS ON THECORNER OF THE TRIANGLE LATER TAKEN OVER MY MY BEST CHILD HOOD FRIEND DAN SIEGEL UNTIL HE SOLD OUT AND WHENT TO WORKON NORTHERN BLVD. FRAN’S SOLD LOTS OF STUFF MAINLY GREETING CARDS IF I RECALL. IMAGINE, TWO BAKERIES, TWO BARS, TWO LUNCHEONETTES ALL WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET!!!
YES, THAT IS THE ONE,BUT A CHINESE NURSERY OCCUPIED THE ADJACENT PLOT ONTHE CORNER OF 54TH STREET AND 32ND AVE AND THE CEMETERY WAS COMPLETELY DERELICT WHEN I WAS A KID. I SAW THEY PUT UP FENCING TO PROTECT IT SOMEWHAT FROM VANDALS. WE CALLED IT THE CHINESE CEMETERY BECAUSE IT SEEMED A PART OF THE CHINESE OR MAYBE JAPANESE NURSERY. THE CARNIE WOULD HAVEBEEN IN THELATE FORTIES OR EARLY FIFTIES BEFORE FIFTYFIVE.
By the by, do you remember the carnival that used to take place in the field before the Projects were built. They then moved a smaller operation next to 31-12 before they new apartment house was built. At that far corner was the oldest chinese cemetery in New York which is Think still there. The hothouse for a weird operation was burned down by kids and they built a professional office for I think her name was Dr.Hilda Ratner. I used to buy a pint of ice-cream for the security guard at the second carnie location at the candy store next to the drugstore across the street on 31st Ave. sold candy and milkshakes. At the top corner was Wintermeyers Bakery which had big problems as he was a member of the German American Bund and got boycotted. Was a great baker!!
I have been thinking and I think she might have been Scandanavian and her name might have been Inga or Inge. It wasn’t Frances. I visited a couple of years ago when I was in New York and most of the upstairs was taken over by a Hispanic nursery school. They wouldn’t let me past Old Doc Wiles door. Understand, kids, etc. Will try next time with an appointment.
As far back as I can remember having lived in the Hobart Theatre building since 1940 there were always double features plus on saturday mornings,
an additional Buck Rogers or some other added attraction. I think, but not sure the theatre ran its first features of the day around 12-2PM weekdays and from 10AM on Saturday Morning. Don’t remember the Sunday schedule. I do remember in the early 50’s having a crush on the woman in the ticket booth who was either a refugee from Germany or somewhere else in Europe. Can’t recall her name. Maybe Fred does?????
I guess I probably know more about this than anyone. I lived in the Hobart Theatre Building. My father is the dentist referred to in one of the blogs. The building had two entrances, one: 31-12 54th Street and the other was a back door ( usually locked) on thirty first avenue. The tenants upstairs were: My father Dr. Irwin M Yarry, Dr. Wile, MD, A dental lab and the dance studio. On the ground floor was a hardware store, a barbershop, and a dry cleaner. On the corner was a restaurant, referred to as “ the greeks”, then the movie entrance and a liquor store. This was as late as 1958. I worked as an usher after school, had free movie tickets all my childhood. It was a beautiful theatre. The building now looks terrible. Our apartment was three bedrooms, one bath, my fathers office which had a separate door next to the apartment. Would love to hear from anyone in the old neighborhood.
I went to PS 151, Junior HS 10 and Bryant H.S.
Hey Fred Just checking in. Hope you are ok. Regards Mark
egg salad sandwich at eddies was twenty cents, malted milk same price. Slice of pizza you are right fifteen cents and an egg cream at the candy store was fifteen cents. My dad filled a tooth for five bucks, extracted one for I think ten? Haircut was fifty cents and the movie ticket I think was fifteen cents???
PS Fred, where did you live? may have asked before. I think you are a big younger than I am. You knew Danny, did you know Gary Edles or any of the kids who lived on 54th Street? Danny is alive and kicking Still lives locally and spoke to him about a year ago. Edles lives in the UK and teaches at the University there and until last year I think he is now done, at GW or Georgetown. He was number two lawyer at the old Civil Aviation Board.
to your earlier, my bedroom overlooked fifty fourth st and the chinese laundry and the liquor store were adjacent to each other. There was an alley way on the other side of the laundry and we placed stoop ball about twenty feet in. We also went up the hill, across the next street and used to take sleds down, crossing the street at some speed and risk. We called it the Big Hill and the Little Hill. You had to carry a lot of speed to make it all the way down. I’m glad I can still remember any of this in my 79th year.!!!!
Hi The drugstore on the corner of the “Island” was absolutely Pat’s Pharmacy and then taken over by Danny. The other pharmacy with the lunch counter/soda fountain was Eddie’s. He was a slightly disabled WW2 vet and made me egg salad sandwiches every day from 1948 to 1952.I think I remember DeDona Pizza right next to PS 151 and there was another Pizza shop right next to Wintermeyers bakery, so we also had two pharmacies and two pizza shops. Two by Two. The original drugstore as I recall was Rexall and became B&D. My memories only cover up to maximum 1960 or maybe even earlier, so lots changed.
YES THEY WERE ON THE TRIANGLE NEAR THE BUS STOP TO MASPETH. PAT ABRAMS PHARMACY WAS ON THECORNER OF THE TRIANGLE LATER TAKEN OVER MY MY BEST CHILD HOOD FRIEND DAN SIEGEL UNTIL HE SOLD OUT AND WHENT TO WORKON NORTHERN BLVD. FRAN’S SOLD LOTS OF STUFF MAINLY GREETING CARDS IF I RECALL. IMAGINE, TWO BAKERIES, TWO BARS, TWO LUNCHEONETTES ALL WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET!!!
YES, THAT IS THE ONE,BUT A CHINESE NURSERY OCCUPIED THE ADJACENT PLOT ONTHE CORNER OF 54TH STREET AND 32ND AVE AND
THE CEMETERY WAS COMPLETELY DERELICT WHEN I WAS A KID. I SAW THEY PUT UP FENCING TO PROTECT IT SOMEWHAT FROM VANDALS. WE CALLED IT THE CHINESE CEMETERY BECAUSE IT SEEMED A PART OF THE CHINESE OR MAYBE JAPANESE NURSERY. THE CARNIE WOULD HAVEBEEN IN THELATE FORTIES OR EARLY FIFTIES BEFORE FIFTYFIVE.
By the by, do you remember the carnival that used to take place in the field before the Projects were built. They then moved a smaller operation next to 31-12 before they new apartment house was built. At that far corner was the oldest chinese cemetery in New York which is Think still there. The hothouse for a weird operation was burned down by kids and they built a professional office for I think her name was Dr.Hilda Ratner. I used to buy a pint of ice-cream for the security guard at the second carnie location at the candy store next to the drugstore across the street on 31st Ave. sold candy and milkshakes. At the top corner was Wintermeyers Bakery which had big problems as he was a member of the German American Bund and got boycotted. Was a great baker!!
I am sure you are right Fred. Do you remember the Sunoco Station??
Packed too the Hilt on Saturdays. I worked as assistant usher.
PS. The bar on the corner was called The Shamrock and opposite on the corner of the projects was Larry Stolbach’s Sunoco gas station.
I have been thinking and I think she might have been Scandanavian and her name might have been Inga or Inge. It wasn’t Frances. I visited a couple of years ago when I was in New York and most of the upstairs was taken over by a Hispanic nursery school. They wouldn’t let me past Old Doc Wiles door. Understand, kids, etc. Will try next time with an appointment.
As far back as I can remember having lived in the Hobart Theatre building since 1940 there were always double features plus on saturday mornings, an additional Buck Rogers or some other added attraction. I think, but not sure the theatre ran its first features of the day around 12-2PM weekdays and from 10AM on Saturday Morning. Don’t remember the Sunday schedule. I do remember in the early 50’s having a crush on the woman in the ticket booth who was either a refugee from Germany or somewhere else in Europe. Can’t recall her name. Maybe Fred does?????
PS If anyone wants to contact: is my email.
I guess I probably know more about this than anyone. I lived in the Hobart Theatre Building. My father is the dentist referred to in one of the blogs. The building had two entrances, one: 31-12 54th Street and the other was a back door ( usually locked) on thirty first avenue. The tenants upstairs were: My father Dr. Irwin M Yarry, Dr. Wile, MD, A dental lab and the dance studio. On the ground floor was a hardware store, a barbershop, and a dry cleaner. On the corner was a restaurant, referred to as “ the greeks”, then the movie entrance and a liquor store. This was as late as 1958. I worked as an usher after school, had free movie tickets all my childhood. It was a beautiful theatre. The building now looks terrible. Our apartment was three bedrooms, one bath, my fathers office which had a separate door next to the apartment. Would love to hear from anyone in the old neighborhood. I went to PS 151, Junior HS 10 and Bryant H.S.