Remember When These Used to Be Here in NYC

LI restaurants, stores gone:

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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.
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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/


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.
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Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field
NY Giants, Polo Ground
Old Yankee Stadium
Old MSG
 
Working pay phones - or any pay phones at all - since there are so few Fire Alarm boxes, working or otherwise.
 
mack said:
Bars and pubs gone:

http://www.murphguide.com/closedbars.htm

https://www.amny.com/eat-and-drink/nyc-dive-bars-we-ll-miss-last-call-1.8936259
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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.
 
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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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 the Ebinger's cake boxes in the kitchen of the old Church Avenue quarters of Engine 248.

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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.
 
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Krug's bakery was hot competition for Dugan's in Nassau. (this was also a Divco truck, previous model)

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