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| Bean |
Posted - February 19 2003 : 04:25:04 AM
Karen ( or Doris ) how about one of you telling that story about me, the bicycle and the creek at the green, ending up at Doris's mothers house...and Karen can all tell the hey Frank can drink the whole bottle of tequilla story and has a hard head or they don't make bathroom floors like the use to? ..or the Grandma's Pie is missing story... cause I had a bad case of the stoned munchies.
Please would somebody else post something Anything...even a Todd Rundgren story...Bean
or Foch the We can Drive a very drunk and stoned Marty Seltzer around in the trunk of the car story and end up at a kinks show. |
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| Bean |
Posted - November 10 2005 : 02:08:01 AM
Rich, thanks for that info. I'll have to check the book out. I think the 2 gas stations that are still in operation are near LaGuardia and Shea Stadium off the Grand central.
There also use to be a small gas station on the Cross Island Parkway, on the sount bound side about a mile or so after the Throggs Neck or Whitestone Bridge. |
| richm |
Posted - November 10 2005 : 12:52:49 AM
Bean: In Robert Caro's biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker, there are descriptions of the building of the State Parkways on Long Island, the politics and manipulations involved, even the architecture of the low bridges on the Southern State, Meadowbrook, Wantagh, Northern State, etc. All the bridges were made to be slightly different. I believe there is still an operating gas station or two left on the Grand Central Parkway.
The Valley Stream State Park was one of Moses' creations, as were most of the State Parks, including Jones Beach.
The book is tremendous, and I would recommend it for all New Yorkers. It is amazing how Moses got all his projects done, especially in difficult economic periods.
Bridges, tunnels, parks, dams....his capital projects shape the city and state, probably for hundreds of years to come. |
| Bean |
Posted - November 06 2005 : 11:29:06 PM
YES I do and the little brick state police station that was there too. Also there werew those two brick gas stations on the ss pkwy, one around Baldwin and one in Suffolk around Deer Park Ave or Rt 231 and that building is still there all boarded up. |
| richm |
Posted - November 06 2005 : 01:47:58 AM
Do you remember the ten cent toll on the Southern State Parkway? |
| Bean |
Posted - November 03 2005 : 3:14:14 PM
The dangerous curve where the Cross Island fed in to the
SS Pkwy was just at the end of the block where my parents
lived. ( that was also the start of suicide hill where
we went sleigh riding ) anyway I could hear from
my yard or through my window especially late at night
on warm evenings off in the distance sceeching tires
than a big bang and usually lots of sirens soon after.
One night when I had just come home from a heavy night
of drinking I was still in my driveway when I heard the
tires and the crash, so I ran down to the Pkwy just
by the exit to Elmont Rd and I saw a car flipped over
in flames. Anyway I helped the lone driver get
out of the car...
Another time during a snow storm we found a stranded
car on the pkwy just at the turn and a guy who
apparently died of a heart attack was still at
the wheel. Doc were you with us for that one?
I think Richie, Butch, Dink, Vince, Foch and others
were there or some combination of that bunch? |
| richm |
Posted - November 03 2005 : 09:54:41 AM
Doc: I lived two short blocks north of Bill's Garage, and my friends and I would often walk through the garage's property to 'cut through' to Merrick Rd. Every once in a while there would be some terrific wrecks for us to examine as only ten year old kids could. One will stay in my memory forever. This car's interior had been bathed in blood the night before, and a Rheingold beer can was crushed against the dashboard on the passenger's side. These were the days of genuine solid steel dashboards. I remember nothing of the exterior of the car, but the interior stays with me.
Once a fatal happened on the turn from Cross Island onto Southern State Parkways, close to where all you guys lived, and five people died when that car drove into one of Robert Moses's solid rock overpasses. I don't remember if that car made it to Bill's. I was a teenager then.
So the Rock Front is closed? Too bad. That place had a few stories in it, I'm sure. A small pizza place called Columbia's Corner was located a long block or two east. I enjoyed my first calzone there..... |
| doc |
Posted - November 02 2005 : 6:01:34 PM
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Originally posted by richm
Does anyone remember the little park on the west side of the Cross Island Parkway, between Merrick and Linden Blvds? We used to ride into Laurelton on our bikes to get there and use the swings and goof around when adventuring near Twin Ponds. There was also a small 'pocket park' on Brookville Blvd. just south of Merrick. If you lived near the city line these places were easy to get to.
Remember it well. I would always point it out to my kids when we passed. We would also ride sleds there in the winter. Directly across the street (228th?) on the same side of the pkwy was a large sandbox enclosed with wrought iron for the little guys. Later on we would catch the bus there with a 15 or 20 cent token to ride into Jamaica. |
| doc |
Posted - November 02 2005 : 5:56:57 PM
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Originally posted by Yelnats
i lived at 43 washington ave and right acroos the street from me were the williams, bob, missy and forgot the little one. i think 28 was the donnelly's they were a very large family and they were diagonally across the street from me. guees most except for the 65 graduate were too young to have partaken in some cold ones at the rock front bar on merrick rd next to wht used to be mcveigh chevrolet.
Yes! The Williams family is who I was thinking of. And yes, I do remember the RockFront and would occasionally stop in on Fridays after working at a book wearhouse on Merrick Rd. 25 cent glass of beer and a shot! They closed in the early to mid 70's. McVeigh Chevrolet was one of the stops on my LI Press route, as were a few other dealerships. I also remember Bills Garage and climbing on mountains of automobile wreckage. |
| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:33:05 AM
bean with Michael Stankowitz and Karen Zang his wife from Valley Stream
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| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:25:55 AM
modern day bean foch and vince photo's bean at Jim Morissons grave Paris.
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| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:23:11 AM
Bean hanging out behind Central High school 1970/71 sometime?
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| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:20:30 AM
Bean and the boys haniging out at Hofstra University around 1970 some time.
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| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 02:17:57 AM
If Lou's Log Cabin was exactly where you said than I think it changed names by the time I remember it, it was some sort of bar or Tavern but I can't remember what the name was. I'll have to ask Foch where the above picture was taken. I'm not sure if was Twin Ponds or not.
What was the luncheonette place that was at the end of the corner if you turned left at Merrick Rd, from Shaw Ave and went up to the next corner? I think that street may have been Martins Ave but I'm not sure?
Going in the other direction down by Linden Blvd, the Tudor shopping area, Tudor Jewlers, the Bakery, post office etc.....do you remember or did you know Bradley's luncheonette, we use to call the old guy with the cigar Mr. B. It was the last store of the tudor store strip before you crossed over to the next strip that had " Big Top " Alden Appliance and the small Elmont Library Branch...if you kept going you would hit the fish Market at Elmont Park. My mother use to go to the beauty salon next store to Baradelys in the 50's and 60's and would take me sometimes and buy me lunch there...until Sizzler opened up by the Carvel on Linden Blvd ( next to Alden Music ) then I wanted to go there.
In Green Acres mall it was Len's hamburgers for the best char broilded burgers around ! |
| richm |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 12:26:16 AM
I didn't know of A.J. Petillo. I would love to say hello to Willie, as I knew him. Nice photo, by the way. High water on Twin Ponds? Lou's Log Cabin would have been at the east edge of Duffy's Park, north side of Merrick Rd. Judging by the photo, your generation was cooler than mine. |
| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 12:11:24 AM
I remember Roses Superette in Rosedale, but not Lou's Log Cabin? Was it near the bear and soda distrubutor? |
| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 12:09:45 AM
Yes I remember Pettillo's Meat Market well...and A.J. Willie's younger brother was also a great drummer too. He had the John Bonham look and appeal to him as the sweat flew off him... |
| Bean |
Posted - November 01 2005 : 12:01:30 AM
Above is " The Foch " Neil Facci still residing at 14. S. Everette St in V.S. with him his Judy and Eddie Macowski who lived on the corner of Frankin Rd. and Everette right where the infamous " Mailbox " use to be located. |
| Bean |
Posted - October 31 2005 : 11:57:31 PM
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| richm |
Posted - October 31 2005 : 11:22:58 AM
Good People: Conte's was a focal point of our existence, with Mr. and Mrs. Conte offering the finest in penny candies (in a large glass cabinet), sodas (including the lesser known Mission and Minck's brands), papers, magazines, comic books, baseball cards and cheap toys. A kid could stay busy in there spending his fortune.
Just to the west of Conte's was the wonderful Nick's Barber Shop, and in the fifties and sixties there were three great guys cutting hair in there: Nick Sciacca, Henry Streit and Vinnie Petretti. In the back were girlie magazines, and in the front one toy car for kiddie haircuts. One day Nick told me to look in a cardboard box on the window still facing the sidewald. In it were a bunch of Downbeat Awards and other memoribilia for Best Clarinetist Tony Scott, a bop player who was Nick's brother. Tony had moved overseas and left the stuff with Nick for safekeeping.
Further west was Sal's Super Deli, a terrific Italian deli which became a lunchtime destination for some of us in sixth grade at Shaw. Sal's wife Rose was proprietor of Rose's Superette in Rosedale by Rosedale Lanes.
Further west was the little joint known as Lou's Log Cabin. Lou was the wife of Carl, a Japanese immigrant. It was said that Carl had lost his family in Hiroshima, but I never found if that was accurate.
I never frequented the Rock Front Tavern. That seemed to our crowd a heavy drinker's kind of place. My crowd, which started our legal drinking in '65 or so, would go to the Central Inn, or later on, the Gateway. The C.I. offered a great roast beef sandwich for seventy-five cents, along with fifteen cent draft beers.
Across the street from the Gateway and McVeigh Chevrolet, in Duffy's Park was a a bench. Some nights a group of us would hang there and sing. The harmonizing was good practice for some of the bands we were in, or would later join or form.
I remember when Roval's deli was built, but my family remained loyal to Freddie Schenck's deli on Merrick next to Petillo's butcher shop, which to this writer was the greatest of all butcher shops. The youngest son in the Petillo family, Willie, was not only a top notch butcher, but a great drummer as well.
Valley Stream was a great place to grow up in that time, a deeper place than would appear on the surface. Rich M.
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| Bean |
Posted - October 31 2005 : 10:35:18 AM
I remember the candy store right next to the Datun dealer near Duffey's park and across from McVeigh Chevy( now Nissan ) I think it was called Conte's and that's where we got our basebal cards..
and yes the houses do look so much smaller and closer together from how I remembered them !!!
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| Bean |
Posted - October 31 2005 : 10:32:12 AM
The owner of Rovels deli name was Vito, he was related to my brother in laws family ( the Amendalores and the Milillo's ) somehow and he did house painting on the side. He painted the inside of my parents house in the summer of 1970. |
| Yelnats |
Posted - October 31 2005 : 05:49:24 AM
i lived at 43 washington ave and right acroos the street from me were the williams, bob, missy and forgot the little one. i think 28 was the donnelly's they were a very large family and they were diagonally across the street from me. guees most except for the 65 graduate were too young to have partaken in some cold ones at the rock front bar on merrick rd next to wht used to be mcveigh chevrolet. how about Lou' log Cabin candy store just east of duffy's park. by the way we used to climb to the top of the incerator stack and drink beer up there . got filthy as hell and would drop the cans down the stack. bought the beer at rovals deli when it was on the corner of roeckel and merrick, sometimes ewent into frank and joans liquor store and to buy gypsy rose or some t-bird. when we could afford it we treasted ourselves to TANGO. Ah too be young and stupid again!!!!
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| doc |
Posted - October 30 2005 : 2:06:01 PM
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Originally posted by Bean
Up near where you lived there was this girl whose fasther raised pigeons over the roof of their garage, she lived off that little side street off Everette before you got to Ormande blvd. Was that Fairfax, or Amherst..I forget now but if you tuened right on that street and made the first left you were on Carol Ave?
Does any of this make any sense?
Hmm..., a 'sensable Bean'.... I believe that would be considered an oxymoron wouldn't it??
Yep, there was one house there on Beverly Pl. (Between Everett and Foster Ave.) and they held pigeons with coops in the garage. The owner of the house was also the owner of the candy store on Hook Creek Blvd. for a time.
Friday, on the way home from Laguardia, I passed through the old neighborhood. Different. Many of the streets are full of asphalt patchwork, fewer trees...... some new construction crammed in closely.... All the homes seem so much closer together and smaller than I remember.
I also drove down Washington Ave., Stan's old block. Ok, Stan, what was the name of the family who lived in #28, Across the street from you. It was a large family and one of the boys was named Bob? He would be about 53 or 54 now.
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| richm |
Posted - October 30 2005 : 12:44:09 PM
Bean: I don't remember any of the people you mention. I graduated Central in '65. Three years later I was out of Valley Stream for good. I lived on Fairfax Street. When my family first moved in there were wooded areas across the street. The Raso house was built there. I suppose that my school years in Valley Stream were a more innocent time than for those that came after my generation. Rough years were ahead for some of those just a year or two younger than my crowd. Drugs and violence claimed some. I would venture we all know someone who succumbed. |
| Bean |
Posted - October 30 2005 : 09:02:42 AM
Richie, Doc? Come on help me. You guys remember a lot better than me, names of people and streets, etc..since I was usually too wasted and you guys were hauling me around trying to keep me out of trouble or from hurting myself or someone else? |
