Staten Island bowling alleys:
http://www.silive.com/recsports/ind...ook_at_these_now-defun.html#incart_river_home
http://www.silive.com/recsports/ind...ook_at_these_now-defun.html#incart_river_home
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Remember When These Used to Be Here in NYC
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NYC closed amusement parks:
ny.curbed.com
65 Photos of New York City's Long Lost Amusement Parks
Coney Island is known as New York's epicenter for summer thrills and stomach-dropping rides, but there was a time when every borough had an amusement park (or three) to call its own. We culled the...
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Bars and pubs gone:
www.amny.com
NYC dive bars we’ll miss: Last call | amNewYork
Times Square lost another icon of its gritty past. Dive bar Smith's, located at 8th Ave. and 44th St. since 1954, will shut its doors on Oct. 30. As Times
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LI restaurants, stores gone:
Chain stores, local businesses LI lost
Caldor, Pergament Home Centers, Loehmann's, Pancake Cottage, Genovese Drug Stores -- all long gone but not forgotten. If you're feeling nostalgic, here are old photos of some of the department stores, fast-food restaurants and chain locations Long Islanders miss.
www.newsday.com
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NYC automats:
www.6sqft.com
Horn and Hardart Automats: Redefining lunchtime, dining on a dime | 6sqft
In the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s Horn & Hardart Automats were a New York City dining staple for a hard-working lunch crowd.
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Beers:
Ballantine Beer - Yankees
Schaefer Beer - Brooklyn Dodgers
http://forgotten-ny.com/2013/09/schaefer-brewery-kent-avenue-williamsburg/
Knickerbocker Beer - NY Giants
http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2009/09/knickerbocker-beer/
Rheingold Beer - NY Mets
https://www.brownstoner.com/history/rheingold-beer-brewery-brooklyn-bushwick-history/
ballparkdigest.com
Ballantine Beer - Yankees
Schaefer Beer - Brooklyn Dodgers
http://forgotten-ny.com/2013/09/schaefer-brewery-kent-avenue-williamsburg/
Knickerbocker Beer - NY Giants
http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/2009/09/knickerbocker-beer/
Rheingold Beer - NY Mets
https://www.brownstoner.com/history/rheingold-beer-brewery-brooklyn-bushwick-history/
The Glory Days of Baseball and Beer Marketing | Ballpark Digest
Beer has been closely associated with professional baseball since the game’s earliest days, and over time baseball became a prime marketing tool for breweries.
ballparkdigest.com
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mack said:
The Subway - definitely. I'm surprised there are no Blarney Stones mentioned. A good solid lunch (almost always) and an honest pour (most often). Also missing are Gleason's (First Avenue, 68th to 69th) and Flanagan's (First Avenue, 65th to 66th; the real one, not O'Flanagan's) which later moved to 57th Between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.
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Movie theaters. When I was a kid growing up in Astoria we had eight movie theaters within walking distance of my block. Today, all gone. Also a kid could go to any of the movies playing, not the garbage (mostly) that would play today. Also we had Astoria Pool, free in the mornings I believe 9 cents in the afternoon for admission. Was a great place to grow up in, today, don't know, left there 57 years ago.
Growing up in Flatbush, we certainly had Nedick's but who remembers Schraffts? Movie theaters included RKO Kenmore, Albermarle, Loews Kings, Plaza, etc. And of course the Ebinger bakery; they had a day old store on Bedford near Snyder. Ebinger's went down hill when everyone became weight conscious. At E 248, we got baked goods from Ebinger's six days a week. Garfield's on the corner of Church and Flatbush and Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor just off the corner.
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I remember Schraft's. Their candy was the best I've ever had. And, for all you old Brooklyn guys . . . what about the best meal in town . . . at The Brass Rail (and I don't mean the dive on Avenue Z. It was at the corner of Fulton & Nevins, and there was another one in Manhattan)?
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Amusement Parks; Kiddie City @ 231 street & Northern Blvd, Fairyland @ Queens Blvd & Woodhaven Blvd. where today stands the Queens Center Mall.
Baked Goods; Dugan's Bakeries used to do home deliveries in the old DIVCO trucks such as the milkmen use to use. Then there was Pecters cakes and cookies also.
Baked Goods; Dugan's Bakeries used to do home deliveries in the old DIVCO trucks such as the milkmen use to use. Then there was Pecters cakes and cookies also.
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