Remember When These Used to Be Here in NYC
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mack said:Gone - Niedersteins German restaurant - and many other family restaurants like it. Today we have chain restaurants (Applebees, TGIF, Outback, Olive Garden, Panera Bread), sushi restaurants, and taco places:
http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/09/remembering-niedersteins/
When I was growing up every major event in my family was celebrated with dinner at Niedersteins (birthdays, anniversaries, etc.) I loved this place!
Gone - Collecting baseball cards. Also football, basketball and hockey cards.
Packs were a nickle. There were different editions that you waited for in the local candy store. We collected them - used rubber bands to keep them together - and traded them with friends. You would say "got 'em, got 'em, need 'em" when you looked through a buddy's deck of cards.
You played with them - flipped cards to match or tossed against a wall to land on other cards.
Baseball cards that were "doubles" or cards of bench players were clipped on bike wheels for awesome sound when riding through the neighborhood:
The thin sticks of hard gum that were in every Topps card pack lasted for an hour or more, even if the flavor was gone.
In the 80s and 90s - old cards increased in value and became sought after collector items. Old Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Don Mattingly cards were worth hundreds of dollars. Card stores were opened all over. Lucky kids got cards autographed to increase value. Baseball card shows with old retired ball players took place all over so you could get Mickey Mantle or Brooks Robinson to sign your card or autograph a baseball.
New card companies appeared and flooded stores with new cards and formats. Then kids just lost interest.
Packs were a nickle. There were different editions that you waited for in the local candy store. We collected them - used rubber bands to keep them together - and traded them with friends. You would say "got 'em, got 'em, need 'em" when you looked through a buddy's deck of cards.
You played with them - flipped cards to match or tossed against a wall to land on other cards.
Baseball cards that were "doubles" or cards of bench players were clipped on bike wheels for awesome sound when riding through the neighborhood:
The thin sticks of hard gum that were in every Topps card pack lasted for an hour or more, even if the flavor was gone.
In the 80s and 90s - old cards increased in value and became sought after collector items. Old Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Don Mattingly cards were worth hundreds of dollars. Card stores were opened all over. Lucky kids got cards autographed to increase value. Baseball card shows with old retired ball players took place all over so you could get Mickey Mantle or Brooks Robinson to sign your card or autograph a baseball.
New card companies appeared and flooded stores with new cards and formats. Then kids just lost interest.
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Ask any old time Boston buff about Ho-Jo's and "Whip City"!
Large Poster Displayed on all NYC Firehouses announcing:
Firefighter Exam.
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Apply September 7, 1977 through October 25, 1977
TEST DATE: December 3, 1977
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{Photo on poster of FF Frank Martinez Ladder 27, and FF Clyde W. Williams Ladder 25}
Firefighter Exam.
Career with a Future
Apply September 7, 1977 through October 25, 1977
TEST DATE: December 3, 1977
Abraham D. Beame
Mayor
City of New York
John T. O'Hagan
Fire Commissioner
City of New York
Fire Department City of New York
Community Relations Bureau
Victor A. Collymore
Assistant Fire Commissioner
The Job: Save Lives, Put Out Fires and Prevent Fires
Salary: Expected to start at $13,673 per annum
Training manuals and Training sessions will be available in October
FEE: $9.00. This fee must be paid when the application is filed. Check or money order should be made out to N.Y.C. Department of Personnel
{Photo on poster of FF Frank Martinez Ladder 27, and FF Clyde W. Williams Ladder 25}
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mack said:Gone - Niedersteins German restaurant - and many other family restaurants like it. Today we have chain restaurants (Applebees, TGIF, Outback, Olive Garden, Panera Bread), sushi restaurants, and taco places:
http://forgotten-ny.com/2008/09/remembering-niedersteins/
[/quoteThe site of the former Niederstein's now has an Arby's fast food place & a vacant 1 sty commercial that was a Radio Shack.
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The Dairy grew so much that it eliminated a City St....Guinzburg Road & eliminated a box at Guinzberg Road & 156 St.mack said:Gone - NYC dairy farms - Elmhurst Dairy
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160826/jamaica/timeline-look-back-at-century-old-elmhurst-dairy-before-it-closes
http://www.extracrispy.com/culture/545/elmhurst-dairy-closing-will-mean-the-end-of-milk-production-in-nyc
Clyde Williams, L 25, was part of a difficult scaling ladder rescue in 1967:
"The Morgan Post Office on 9th Avenue was the scene of a five-alarm fire on the night of Dec. 15, 1967. The 10-story building covered an entire city block and nearly 60 companies would be needed to control the fire that raced through the chutes used to move mail bags from floor to floor. Above the command post three postal workers appeared at a sixth-floor window (with the high ceiling design of the building it was the equivalent of 10 stories).
Ladder Company 25 positioned itself on the sidewalk and even with it's 100 foot aerial fully extended it was realized it would not reach. Fireman Gene Dowling climbed up onto the aerial followed by Fireman Clyde Williams and together they made their way to the tip off the ladder. The first attempt to seat the scaling ladder was frustrated by the ornamental masonry surrounding the window. Operating on the tip of the ladder was further complicated by 30- mph winds that pulled at the men as they tried to hold the scaling ladder over their heads. Their second attempt at placing the scaling ladder's hook into a climbing position was successful.
Dowling crossed from the aerial ladder to the single-beamed ladder and ascended into the wind-whipped darkness above. At the top, Dowling helped one of the trapped workers onto the ladder and started down. Waiting at the tip of the aerial was Williams, who took charge of the first victim while Dowling started to climb again. For a second time, he returned to the top of the scaling ladder; this time, however, he faced the additional problem of dealing with a nearly hysterical victim. Dowling calmed the person as he retraced his route to the tip of the aerial.
Fireman Don Pizzuto had joined Williams and helped to hold both the scaling ladder and the victims steady in the frigid wind. Dowling returned with the third victim down and each of the firemen started down with a cold, frightened but now safe postal employee in his charge.
Seven months later, the trio of brave firemen joined the ranks of the Bravest on the steps of City Hall, where all were decorated for their bravery." - Firehouse.com
"The Morgan Post Office on 9th Avenue was the scene of a five-alarm fire on the night of Dec. 15, 1967. The 10-story building covered an entire city block and nearly 60 companies would be needed to control the fire that raced through the chutes used to move mail bags from floor to floor. Above the command post three postal workers appeared at a sixth-floor window (with the high ceiling design of the building it was the equivalent of 10 stories).
Ladder Company 25 positioned itself on the sidewalk and even with it's 100 foot aerial fully extended it was realized it would not reach. Fireman Gene Dowling climbed up onto the aerial followed by Fireman Clyde Williams and together they made their way to the tip off the ladder. The first attempt to seat the scaling ladder was frustrated by the ornamental masonry surrounding the window. Operating on the tip of the ladder was further complicated by 30- mph winds that pulled at the men as they tried to hold the scaling ladder over their heads. Their second attempt at placing the scaling ladder's hook into a climbing position was successful.
Dowling crossed from the aerial ladder to the single-beamed ladder and ascended into the wind-whipped darkness above. At the top, Dowling helped one of the trapped workers onto the ladder and started down. Waiting at the tip of the aerial was Williams, who took charge of the first victim while Dowling started to climb again. For a second time, he returned to the top of the scaling ladder; this time, however, he faced the additional problem of dealing with a nearly hysterical victim. Dowling calmed the person as he retraced his route to the tip of the aerial.
Fireman Don Pizzuto had joined Williams and helped to hold both the scaling ladder and the victims steady in the frigid wind. Dowling returned with the third victim down and each of the firemen started down with a cold, frightened but now safe postal employee in his charge.
Seven months later, the trio of brave firemen joined the ranks of the Bravest on the steps of City Hall, where all were decorated for their bravery." - Firehouse.com
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There was also the Bronx Whitestone Drive-In theatre on Bruckner Blvd. & the Hutchinson River Pkwy.raybrag said:Don't think there were ever very many of these in NYC, but just over the line in Valley Stream was the Sunrise Drive-In Theater . . .
It was where the Green Acres Mall is today.
Gone - old Madison Square Garden ("MSG 3")- razed 1968
"Madison Square Garden (MSG III) was an indoor arena in New York City, the third bearing that name. It was built in 1925 and closed in 1968, and was located on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Manhattan, on the site of the city's trolley-car barns. It was on the west side of Eighth Avenue. It was the first Garden that was not located near Madison Square. MSG III was the home of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and also hosted numerous boxing matches, concerts, and other events." - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1925)
Home to - Knicks, Rangers, college basketball, NIT, boxing, wrestling, concerts, conventions, the circus
Older MSGs:
1890-1925 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1890)
1879-1890 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1879)
"Madison Square Garden (MSG III) was an indoor arena in New York City, the third bearing that name. It was built in 1925 and closed in 1968, and was located on Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets in Manhattan, on the site of the city's trolley-car barns. It was on the west side of Eighth Avenue. It was the first Garden that was not located near Madison Square. MSG III was the home of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League and the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and also hosted numerous boxing matches, concerts, and other events." - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1925)
Home to - Knicks, Rangers, college basketball, NIT, boxing, wrestling, concerts, conventions, the circus
Older MSGs:
1890-1925 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1890)
1879-1890 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden_(1879)
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Does anyone remember going to the movies on Saturday (double features with cartoons and newsreels) when you had to sit in the Children?s Section (if you weren?t with an adult) and the Theatre Matron would patrol the aisles to maintain absolute decorum and order? She was usually built like a high-pressure fire plug (OK, maybe somewhat more squat and wide with a personality to match) and would either shine her flashlight in the face of anyone who acted up or stick the flashlight in the pocket of her white uniform before she grabbed a miscreant by the neck and, ever so sweetly and gently, would escort the child to the street side of the door, often with an admonition of ?Don?t show yer? mug in here again for a month!? And few young gentlemen would test her advice.
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Regarding posts relating to former bus lines, I now recall Schenck Bus Lines (which I believe was absorbed by Bee Line) running from Flushing to Nassau County and from the Jamaica bus terminal to Nassau County. The aforementioned bus terminal was at 89th Avenue & Merrick Blvd. in Jamaica.
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Yes, Memory, I remember Schenck Bus Lines, and the terminal at 89th Ave & Merrick Blvd. If I'm not mistaken, that bus terminal is still there. I used to get on the Bee Line bus at 168th St (I think) and Hillside Ave., just after getting off the E Train. That's where the Bee Line run to Freeport started. Then it went to the terminal you mention, where the girls from Dominican Commercial HS got on after rolling up their skirt waistlines to raise the lower hem of the skirt above their knees (to be more in fashion, if that was possible with those plain, ugly brown uniforms). Dominican was at 161st St & 89th Ave.
