Oh no! Mike you've got to break that easy to Willie. A moment of silence please.mikeindabronx said:Willy D , I know this will come as a devastating blow to you, while passing Southern Blvd. & Fordham Rd. today I noticed
that Mickey D's is Out Of Business
mack said:They are out of business because Willy D does not buff the Bronx any more. The sign they used to have "Millions and millions served" were due to his War Years buffing. Now if he ever goes back to the Bronx he will starve. There's more to life than a Happy Meal, Bill.
Can you estimate how many burgers you ate there over the past 40 years Bill? How many fries? I would guess maybe 200 a year times 40 years - 8000 burgers. And 400000 fries. And a few thousand gallons of coffee. No wonder they are out of business.
raybrag said:But Willy, if you went to Howard Johnson's, you HAD to get a clam roll . . . or at least one of those hot dogs in the toasted split top bun.
P.S. Their onion rings weren't bad either.
Ray. Good did not have hot dogs like Nathan's did. They had "frankforts". They also had 28 flavors of ice cream. Not 27. Not 29. They had 28. Too bad their chain went out of business. They had a few thousand restaurants across the US. They were killed by fast food restaurants. Willy D could write a book about "Eating During the War Years".raybrag said:But Willy, if you went to Howard Johnson's, you HAD to get a clam roll . . . or at least one of those hot dogs in the toasted split top bun.
P.S. Their onion rings weren't bad either.
nfd2004 said:mack said:They are out of business because Willy D does not buff the Bronx any more. The sign they used to have "Millions and millions served" were due to his War Years buffing. Now if he ever goes back to the Bronx he will starve. There's more to life than a Happy Meal, Bill.
Can you estimate how many burgers you ate there over the past 40 years Bill? How many fries? I would guess maybe 200 a year times 40 years - 8000 burgers. And 400000 fries. And a few thousand gallons of coffee. No wonder they are out of business.
"mack", "mikeindabronx", "fdce54", and friends of Nycfire.net.
Let's not start to panic yet. Yes, sales of burgers and fries are down due to less buffing activity time. But recently a similar event happened at the Micky Ds just a little ways from the Ole' Homestead. That McDs was also closed down and surrounded by a fenced in area. But, after a few months, it was replaced by a brand new, modern Micky Ds using the highest tech equipment to order your Big Macs, Fries, and Happy Meals. Yes folks you can now walk into this modern McDs to place your order through a high tech computer, pay with your debit or credit card, get your pick up number and in no time pick up your order. No more waiting in long lines to place your order.
The CEOs are even doing away with jobs at McDs now, and putting those extra dollars into their own pockets instead. Where there were once 3 or 4 cashiers, there are now two.
Before this McDonalds there was a Howard Johnsons Restaurant at that location of Southern Blvd and Fordham Rd. It was about the only place to get a burger or coffee south of Fordham Rd during those very busy FDNY War Years.
grumpy grizzly said:Howard Johnsons. Any Boston area buff will tell you about Ho-Jo and "Whip City" in the 60's and 70's.
nfd2004 said:When I sometimes go back and read some of these stories, see some of the pictures and videos, "It's even hard for me now to believe that this actually DID HAPPEN". When my buff buddies who were there with me talk about it among ourselves, we just can't believe how things were then. So I can certainly understand today how a younger person might feel that all this really can't be true. But it is and these FDNY War Years Firefighters set the standards for the fire service throughout the entire country.
Basically it all started from what was learned and what was taught by these guys that many of us sometimes refer to as "The Greatest Generation of Firefighters". They really were "Top's in what they did". Although looking at the way they worked then, it would seem in the eyes of some today, these guys broke many of the rules that have been established in todays fire service.
Because of the kind of work that these guys did, we throughout the fire service of our entire country learned so much. From the most complex to the simplest. And that learning experience carried beyond the FDNY War Years into the 1980s, and 90s.
When our country established the Incident Command System, that system was molded after the make up of the FDNY progress reports and fire ground activity. I remember attending my first required Incident Command Class. As soon as we got into the facts, I realized it was based on what the FDNY had already been doing for many years before. The only thing that changed was the terminology used. Actually a more difficult terminology than what the FDNY had used for years.
When the newest term called RIT (Rapid Intervention Team) was put to use on a national level, that had already been based on the fact that the FDNY had a year in which several firefighters had lost their lives operating at fires and the FDNY wanted to do something to change that. The term FAST CO (originally I remember as a FAT Engine) came into use beginning with the transmission of a second alarm. Shortly after to be used on every all hands transmitted. I believe that was the result of a serious fire on Fordham Rd and I think the Chief involved in writing that is a member of this site with user name is *******.
When a serious fire in lower Manhattan occurred and Three members of Ladder Co 5 lost their lives due to serious burns, it was the FDNY that decided to try out various types of Bunker gear in some of the busiest companies. With a reduction in burns using that bunker gear the FDNY adapted that as standard equipment as we know it today. What followed was just about EVERY City and town throughout the rest of the country who had the older turnout coats and 3/4 rubber boots to change as well. The FDNY also made hoods part of that equipment and other cities followed that too.
The use of handie talkies on the fire ground had been proven very successful by the members of the FDNY during the FDNY War Years. I believe initially it was one handie talkie among a team of two firefighters working together. Today of course in most places each firefighter operates with their own individual handie talkie. I
Things like the Urban Search and Rescue Teams (USAR), Haz Mat teams, Scuba Teams all got a push start from the FDNY. It was events in NYC that proved these special groups were needed as part of a fire dept organization. Much of todays Mass Casuality and Terrorism Operation has been lead by the events encountered within the FDNY.
Of much simpler form, even carrying a saw using a sling up a ladder came from the FDNY. It allows hands free climbing. Another, carrying a piece of webbing in bunker gear to be used to help drag unconscious victims out of a burning building was put to use within the FDNY and followed by many other departments after that.
Today it is easy to see that basically every firefighter and fire dept owes much to the FDNY for their leadership in developing what most of us today relate to as the Fire Service.
I must give credit however to a TV series called "Emergency" based on the workings of the L.A. County Fire Dept for what we all know today as our paramedic and fire dept response to the thousands of medical calls that our firefighters respond to. Firefighters save many lives for their quick action and training they receive to treat serious medical emergencies. Including a few very close friends who are alive today because of the work that these firefighters, EMTs and Medics have done. Two of which were in cardiac arrest at the time.
I just don't see another decade or two of what was known as the FDNY War Years. But for those of us that were there to see it or the guys that were a part of it, "this will forever go down in the history books as the busiest time, in the busiest city, fighting serious fires daily as just a matter of routine business".
******* said:Sorry to rain on your above Bill, but--- Was assigned to 50 engine 1/70 to 4/73 as a Lt., then 82 as Captain 9/73 to 5/76. Both companies were doing around 1800 structural fires a year with 1600 hours of structural work, give or take a hundred or two each year. Never saw a Red Cap marshal at any fire. The old saying "locking the barn door after the horse got out fit the Red Cap program." The city "allowed" the South Bronx and other inner city neighborhoods to be burned out for 15 years affecting the lives of so many poor families, firefighters and their families. All you have to remember is Bronx Box 2743, Charlotte and 170. A teeming neighborhood in 1965, a burned out Berlin in 1975. The city never would have allowed this to have happened to these families in Yorkville, but did allow it at 2743.