New York City memories (Alexander, Bolton: to buy, eat, subway) - Page 14 - City-Data Forum

njmike · 10-09-2008, 08:06 PM

Okay, now I remember. The Winky Dink Show.

Moderate Guy · 10-09-2008, 08:13 PM

Gimbels, Korvettes, Alexander's, Nathan's at Herald Square.

1952 KID · 10-10-2008, 06:56 AM

hey, i remember bieng late for work and putting 1.00 in gas in my car,and made it to work . In a 1964 pontiac catalina.

njmike · 10-10-2008, 09:31 AM

The Cisco Kid

Viralmd · 10-10-2008, 09:54 AM

Let's keep this ON TOPIC, Please: NY memories...NOT memories of national television shows, national gas prices....

Moderate Guy · 10-10-2008, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viralmd

Let's keep this ON TOPIC, Please: NY memories...NOT memories of national television shows, national gas prices....

A NY Memory:

My NY Memories bring a tear to my eyes and a throb in my heart. I remember as a lad of 15 my very first kiss and right here in NYC. It was a nice, balmy spring day in Central Park, the noonday sun was brilliantlly shining, the flowers were in full bloom, robins were singing a lovely tune while flapping their tiny wings up above, the grass was pure, rich, of a verdant color. All was beautiful and the mood was right.

I held her hands, embraced her, and gently kissed her on the cheeks as she mumbled unintelligible but sweet nothings back to me.

Yes, I'll always remember our first kiss - and that chihuahua continues to be adorable.

Irish Eyes · 10-10-2008, 02:12 PM

Mine are from Brooklyn. I remember the big checkered cabs - there was even a taxi stand around the corner from our house. Carving a skully board in the hot tar in the street. I don't think anyone does that anymore and kids certainly aren't lying face down in the middle of the street playing! Anyone remember Cookie's Steak Pub? The knish guy from Brighton Beach - yelling "ay the hot potato knishes, ice cold cokes here". Cops in leather jackets.

I've seen Alexanders mentioned, but what about Orbach's? And Martin's Dept. Store (my father worked there when I was very little).

1952 KID · 10-11-2008, 06:51 AM

i played skully in queens, a soda bottle cap with melted crayon in it. check out streetgames, type it in on google, its a site that has all the old nyc games we played. Seems like kids from the 1960' s were the last generation to play all day outdoors, in ny.

1952 KID · 10-11-2008, 06:58 AM

Old nyc photos you must see. 1965-1995 brutal new york , skysraper city, old harlem the things i remember seeing as a kid . You wont be the same after seeing these, haunting photos of how bad it really was.

zonababe · 10-11-2008, 09:08 AM

Remember the rides? We had a ferris wheel, the whip and the half moon. Cost a quarter.