New York City memories (Nassau: price, department stores, delivery)

[Moderate Guy]

Originally Posted by Aylalou

The wicker seats in the unairconditioned subway but the windows stayed open.

as versus today where the AC doesn't work and the windows stay shut.

[Aylalou]

And the subways had no numbers - no 6 train, no 7 train, etc. IND - West Side
IRT - Lexington Ave.
BMT - East Side - Downtown and Brooklyn

[Moderate Guy]

Originally Posted by Aylalou

And the subways had no numbers - no 6 train, no 7 train, etc. IND - West Side
IRT - Lexington Ave.
BMT - East Side - Downtown and Brooklyn

no numbers?? how did you know which track the train was taking?

[Aylalou]

It wasn't determined by tracks. You had to take a train - say the BMT - and transfer at a station that would get you to an IND train. I would catch the BMT at 14th Street and First Avenue - take it to Union Square and transfer to the IND to get me to Eighth Avenue.

[1952 KID]

Nyc memories of million dollar movie, channel 9 , hear that theme and see it on that tube site, there are two versions the one you can see is the 1970's version, still good. But no one has found the 1960's version with the swinging phone at the end. Total nostalgia as you watch and listen. The theme will really get to you.

[zonababe]

Originally Posted by Aylalou

The wicker seats in the unairconditioned subway but the windows stayed open.

Those trains looked so charming. They had wicker seats and old fashioned ceiling fans. All they needed were flower boxes in the windows!

[Rachael84]

Go to the train museum in downtown Brooklyn. It has all the old subway cars and you can go inside of them. I really recommend going. I went twice, and each time they brought in new and different subway cars.

[NYCGeek]

What I remember the most and miss of NYC was the most amazing melting of so many different people. The greatest Chinese food, the greatest pizza… Park Pizza right on Cross Bay Blvd. “Cuofee”. Regular or Lite. No other place in this country understands this vernacular anymore. You say “regular” they think you mean “regular flavored coffee” Pastrami on a rye with kosher pickles and lots of dripping-around the edges mustard. Bialys. I live in the Midwest now – no one knows what they are.! The ocean—Jones Beach and the beach theatre. Nothing like a Sunday at the beach on a hot, NY summer day!

Speaking of NY summer day – do you guys remember how we used to get free car washes while driving through Queens, Upper Manhattan or Bronx neighborhoods where kids would open the fire hydrants and hose everyone and every car that passed by? You’d get arrested and thrown in jail if this happens where I live now. What a nice way to keep cool…

Mets games… 4th of July trying to figure out where the fireworks would take place and try to find the best spot. 1010 News Where the traffic is and trying to find a way around it.

But what I miss the most is the overall NY attitude—straight up and no BS!

[zonababe]

Originally Posted by NYCGeek

What I remember the most and miss of NYC was the most amazing melting of so many different people. The greatest Chinese food, the greatest pizza… Park Pizza right on Cross Bay Blvd. “Cuofee”. Regular or Lite. No other place in this country understands this vernacular anymore. You say “regular” they think you mean “regular flavored coffee” Pastrami on a rye with kosher pickles and lots of dripping-around the edges mustard. Bialys. I live in the Midwest now – no one knows what they are.! The ocean—Jones Beach and the beach theatre. Nothing like a Sunday at the beach on a hot, NY summer day!

Speaking of NY summer day – do you guys remember how we used to get free car washes while driving through Queens, Upper Manhattan or Bronx neighborhoods where kids would open the fire hydrants and hose everyone and every car that passed by? You’d get arrested and thrown in jail if this happens where I live now. What a nice way to keep cool…

Mets games… 4th of July trying to figure out where the fireworks would take place and try to find the best spot. 1010 News Where the traffic is and trying to find a way around it.

But what I miss the most is the overall NY attitude—straight up and no BS!

I live is AZ. No Wise Potato Chips, no Drakes Coffee Cakes or Yodels. A Bialye, they would look at me like I had two heads of I asked for one of those! If I ask for a slice of pizza, they say, "oh you mean a triangle?' If I say a cheese pie, they say, "you mean pizza, what would you like on it?" They have the nerve to call it New York style pizza! It's awful.

[nyc2va76]

Originally Posted by zonababe

I live is AZ. No Wise Potato Chips, no Drakes Coffee Cakes or Yodels. A Bialye, they would look at me like I had two heads of I asked for one of those! If I ask for a slice of pizza, they say, "oh you mean a triangle?' If I say a cheese pie, they say, "you mean pizza, what would you like on it?" They have the nerve to call it New York style pizza! It's awful.

How about I asked for a hero in Virginia and the clerk at the store looked at me like I was crazy. It's also hard trying to find Boars head deli products out here. I also miss the Castro Convertibles Commercials.