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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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 Posted - March 24 2003 : 01:31:15 AM
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Two of my favorite places in Green Acres Mall were the Pagoda which was sort of an early head shop and the famous Lens Hamburgers place !
and of course Flag Brothers where I bought my first Beatle Boots, Sids Pants, National Shirt Shop where Mike Stanko worked...and Newberrys...and Foch says there is a green acres story of the winter coats during the summer? but he will have to finish that one. Bean
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KatCoconut
Still A Babe
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Posted - March 24 2003 : 10:55:18 PM
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| I remember Michael working at Sid Pants. I bought Rick an ivory colored suit in 76 or 77. And years before, I bought this great wide silver ring from Pagoda. It had all kinds of signs like sun, moon stars etc and ~~ ~~~ ~~~~ wavy lines on it. Apparently Rick bought the identical ring. He lost his, and one day he was with Stu Schurmann in the band room at Central, and when he saw MY ring, this blonde stranger starts freaking out saying I had his ring. I thought he was a lunatic and forgot all about it. Until one day when we both showed up on Jeff Rs doorstep at the same time. We each looked at each other and thought the other must have been there for Jeff's sister Ellen. I thought to myself "Who's this jerk? Probably another one of Ellen's boyfriends" And he thought "God, this Bimbo must be a friend of ellen's" When Jeff opened the door, he said something like "Ah, I see my girlfriend and best friend have finally met each other. Good." By the way, we went back to pagoda to try and get Rick another ring, but there were none to be found. Talk about destiny or kharma or something. |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - March 25 2003 : 12:18:50 AM
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I can remember back in the 5th or 6th grade at Shaw Ave Elementary school a sort of click or gang was formed by some kids and we all bought ( at the Pagoda shop in Green Acres ) & wore these Black and Red crosses to sigify membership, then on an Ash Wednesday at Blessed Sacrament when I was still being forced to conform to religion and I was getting ashes the priest ( forgot his name ) went in to a tirade when he got to me because the cross turned out to be a German Nazi cross...?
I think this was the start of of the end of my religous career! Frank aka Bean |
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doc
Into the 60's
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Posted - March 25 2003 : 10:07:14 PM
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I can remember back in the 5th or 6th grade at Shaw Ave Elementary school a sort of click or gang was formed by some kids and we all bought ( at the Pagoda shop in Green Acres ) & wore these Black and Red crosses to sigify membership, then on an Ash Wednesday at Blessed Sacrament when I was still being forced to conform to religion and I was getting ashes the priest ( forgot his name ) went in to a tirade when he got to me because the cross turned out to be a German Nazi cross...?
I think this was the start of of the end of my religous career! Frank aka Bean
They were selling black Iron Cross necklesses. I and a bunch of LI press delivery boys had one. It was in 1965-66. Ricky Piatt was a press boy then. He probably had one also. |
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Ronnie
Still A Babe
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Posted - March 25 2003 : 10:26:51 PM
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| Doc, You ARE AMAZING!!!!! How in the world do you remember all these details....and DATES!!!! (Even after all that Southern Comfort!?!?!?) |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - March 26 2003 : 12:04:34 AM
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Ronnie, it's because of the Southern Comfort that Doc can recall all the facts and details !
So what's my excuse...? Maybe Tequilla, Jack Daniels, Boones Farm, Bali Hi, Orange sunshine, & Purple Haze don't have the same medicinal effects on the memory portion of the brain...
FranK, but wait I drank my share of Southern Comfort too!
" Now I guess I'll have to tell em'
that I got no cerebellum...
I'm a Teenage Lobotomy "...RAMONES |
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moonhaze9
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Posted - March 28 2003 : 09:57:53 AM
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Len's! That was my first paying job! My dear friend David Watterson got me a job with him there as dishwasher. We would love to turn the hot water spray nozzel on each other and get drenched.
Nice when the cooks dropped the burgers on the filthy ground. Two seconds back on the grill and they were good as new! Perhaps that's why they tasted so good. Perhaps that's why I've been vegetarian for the past 30 years...
David passed away from complications of his diabetes, and suddenly work at Lens was way too sad.
Actually work is still way too sad... |
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Artangus
Still A Babe
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Posted - March 28 2003 : 7:32:41 PM
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| Jeff.... I still remember David, we had gotten to be good friends right before he passed away.. We traveled to Mass. togather to see his girlfriend up there... If I remember he passed away on Halloween or right around it,I think... |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - March 28 2003 : 8:29:49 PM
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Confession time: " Yes It's time for confessing it all " Mr. Flash from The Kinks Preservation Act Two.
When I was real young and my Mom would take me to Green Acres and
we ate lunch at Lens, I would get up and go around taking the tips off the other tables on my way out or to use the bathroom...this was way before Green Acres was an enclosed Mall...remember walking outside between the stores.
Foch also reminded me of a later time when I was a teenager about taking a whiz in the foyer of Frankin Simon or G Fried Carpet and two old ladies freaked out...> then there was the time we were planning to streak through the mall but never pulled it off...,also about our getting busted for stealing The Who's Tommy album from Korvettes, which later became Lanes, and Loves, before going to Sterns. ( Or was it Lanes and Loves Before Korvettes ) Let us not forget Newberry's and Gimbels. ( Somebody we knew worked at Newberry's If I'm not mistaken )
The same cashier worked at Sam Goody's for years from the 60's up until the early 90's sometimes who looked like Grace Slick...anybody remember her> I ran in to her at the Concord Diner in the early 90's snd she was still at Sam Goody's and remembered me...since I was there almost everyday for many years I guess it wasn't too hard for her, she said I looked the same and remembered me well.
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richfed
Into the 60's
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Posted - March 29 2003 : 08:35:28 AM
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I well remember the LP bust! Too funny ...
I used to love Sam Goody's ... looked forward all week long to what became our weekly walk up there to buy records. Ah, just the thought ... |
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stanko
Still A Babe
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Posted - March 30 2003 : 5:24:51 PM
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Two of my favorite places in Green Acres Mall were the Pagoda which was sort of an early head shop and the famous Lens Hamburgers place !
and of course Flag Brothers where I bought my first Beatle Boots, Sids Pants, National Shirt Shop where Mike Stanko worked...and Newberrys...and Foch says there is a green acres story of the winter coats during the summer? but he will have to finish that one. Bean
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stanko
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Posted - March 30 2003 : 5:32:51 PM
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Frank, I'm not sure you remember this, but when I was working at National Shirt shop in the mall, Pat Benatar was our cashier. A matter of fact, when she got her first gig in the city , at Tramps, I believe , we all went in to support her.
But back to Len's. They sure did have the best char broiled Hamburgers anywhere, not to mention the BEST onion rings this side of Vadilia.
And I do believe that I got my first pair of Beatle boots at Flagg Brothers, or was it Thom McCann in town? Does anyone remember the pizza place on the outside of the mall, California Pizza I think it was called. They only sold the square, but thin slices. |
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Artangus
Still A Babe
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Posted - March 30 2003 : 7:23:35 PM
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They did make the best burgers! Anyone remember LOVES Department Store??? I got caught stealing the Beatles White Album from that store! They scared the **** out of me. They took me into a back room yelled me told me I would have a record and if they cought me in the store agine they would call the police on me. I remember going home knowing they had told my Mom!SamGoodys was great, we could spend the whole after noon looking though there records and I went and ate at Cookies to that place had great food to. |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - March 31 2003 : 12:47:45 AM
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Yeah Michael, I remembered National Shirt Shops and you working there, Pat Benetar was also playing as a lounge singer at the Holiday Inn in Rockville Center, I use to run in to her there every once in a while. You probably got you Beatle Boots at Flag Brothers they had the best stuff and had it before the others. I remember the Pizza place but that name doesn't sound familiar?
Arthur I remember Cookies well too. Michael is that where Alice worked ? - Frank |
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lucy in the sky
Still A Babe
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Posted - April 18 2005 : 07:33:41 AM
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| the hamburgers at Len's were the best! Remember the bowls of pickles and cole slaw they would serve at the table? Since I worked at the Dime Savings bank from 69-72 the choices for lunch were few...either Len's or Newberry's (their food sucked)...in three years i ate alot of hamburgers! I remember Klein's which became lane's which became loves...another job before the dime savings bank in '69...Green Acres was a great spot for pledger's to bring their pledgies (or monkies as we were called). I remember one friday evening having to wear a gorilla mask and go into stores, get on my knees and beg for coins/change. Security reprimanded me and when i got caught again trying to collect money I was escorted out of the mall by the back of my collar. Reading some of the other postings I realize when i was hanging at the mall you guys were on see saws and swings at wheeler avenue or brooklyn ave or one of the other elementary schools! Does anybody remember Andy Devine and Froggy???????????? Am I that old????!!!!!!! |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 19 2005 : 12:07:36 AM
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Lucy you bring back a lot of good memories from my Green Acres days...
I remember it all.
and I do remember Andy Devine and froggy too!!!
I was a Sam Goody Junkie and also bought alot of records in Lanes, Loves, and Korvettes and across the mall at Alexanders too when they had their all label sale ! |
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doc
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Posted - April 20 2005 : 3:37:38 PM
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Does anybody remember Andy Devine and Froggy???????????? Am I that old????!!!!!!!
Only two years difference, Joan. I do recall Froggie plucking his magic twanger every week. "I gotta gang, you gotta gang everybody gotta have a gang. There's only one real gang for me ........................good old Andy's gang".
Frank isn't the only one who can quote song lyrics! And yes, we are that old. |
Edited by - doc on April 22 2005 07:38:56 AM |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 21 2005 : 12:03:20 AM
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Doc
I have to hand it to you, even I couldn't quote those lyrics.
btw I just saw some Dylan shows and more to come, it's amazing that he remembers ( for the most part ) his complex lyrics at every show with out have prompters and almost every night he does different songs pulling out some of the very obscure ones too to boot. Masters of War, Desolation Row, She Belongs to Me, Mozambique, I rememver you,
Idiot Wind, just to name but a few and these lyrics are tough to remember at any age but especially at his age!
Bean
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lucy in the sky
Still A Babe
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Posted - May 11 2005 : 6:30:43 PM
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| okay doc...since you knew MY name, should I know YOURS?!!! There goes my anonymity! ...And only 2 years age difference so we had to be in central at the same time????? I'm so happy somebody remembers Andy devine & froggy....how about the Millionaire and Loretta Young and my little margie and our miss brooks and gale storm show????? |
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lucy in the sky
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Posted - May 11 2005 : 6:36:48 PM
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| i had forgotten all about Korvettes Bean...I do remember those stores had big record selections as well as sam goody's. I also worked at alexanders when i first went to central high. Michelle & Richard datre's mother was my supervisor i think. I had met michelle there and years later met richie when i lived in new paltz... |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - May 12 2005 : 01:02:52 AM
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Lucy...
The Millionaire ( Michael Anthony ) was a favorite show of mine. I was always waiting for him to visit me one day ! Yes Mike !
I also use to watch My Liitle Margie, ( Gail Storm ) It was on in the morning either right before Leave it to Beaver and Dennis the Mennace, or maybe Buela the show about the Black maid. I don't think I spelled it right. I was more of a Hazel fan. And there was another show on near My Little Margie called " I married Joan or I marry Joan " with Jim Bacus ( Thy who played the Millionaire on Gilligans Island )
Bean in TvLand |
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lucy in the sky
Still A Babe
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Posted - May 22 2005 : 09:50:22 AM
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| ...i was waiting for the Millionaire to knock at 291 north cottage as well!!!! he never did!!!!! hazel was great! "I married Joan" i also loved....and everyone loved "my little margie"....How about Soupy Sales? Didn't he get thrown off the air for suggesting all of his little t-v viewers go into Mom's purse and mail him the green paper? How about Sandy Becker...and then Professor ??? and who could forget "Captain Kangaroo?" I think "mr. roger's came much later and he always reminded me of a pervert! |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - May 22 2005 : 2:48:52 PM
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Lucy...
I remember them all. Yes that is the story of Soupy and the green from your Moms pocket book. Fang was my favorite Soupy character. Years leter I became a huge Uncle Floyd Fan, now I know why??? I still love Floyd but his hey day was in the late 70's and early 80's, I even wrote a bit for his show that got aired on his short lived life on NBC prior to his cable sucess.
What about Chuck McChan and his Sunday morning " Let's Have Fun "...put on a happy face!!! I think Chuck took over Sandy Beckers spot...Hambone Hambone???? And I still try to pat my head and run my stomach at the same time with out much luck, and I'm suppose to be able to play the drums???
Bean
a fan of Chuck Woolery ( Love Connection ) too!!! |
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