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10-13-2008, 12:35 PM
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I also miss the Twin Towers.
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10-13-2008, 03:33 PM
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I also miss the Twin Towers.
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Lots of people forget that when the World Trade Center went up, the buildings got a lot of criticism for, well, being ugly and not fitting in with the rest of the city skyline. Now lots of people are nostalgic for them! |
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10-13-2008, 05:44 PM
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No Wise Potato Chips, no Drakes Coffee Cakes or Yodels"
How about I asked for a hero in Virginia and the clerk at the store looked at me like I was crazy
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This KILLED me! You are right! I haven't had a Drake Coffee Cake since I moved out of NYC! God, my mouth is all H2O just thinking about it.
The "hero" story was really good... Similar story: Minnesota. The land of the Vikings and the never ending “Minnesota Nice” routine. My first month there fresh out of NY. Walk into a pizza place and ask for a slice and a coke. The two blond, proper accented Minnesota boys beyond the counter got the look of the deer caught in the headlights. They looked and behaved as if I was just going to rob that place! To them I must have looked and sounded like one of the guys from the Sopranos! HAHAHA!!!
“Huh, sir we only sell our pizza by the pie”
“Are you kiddin’ me? It’s only ONE of me! Who’s gonna eat the whole freaking pizza?! Just cut me a slice let me have a coke and I’ll be outta here!
Priceless!
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10-13-2008, 06:12 PM
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Location: Queens
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Originally Posted by NYCGeek
This KILLED me! You are right! I haven't had a Drake Coffee Cake since I moved out of NYC! God, my mouth is all H2O just thinking about it.
The "hero" story was really good... Similar story: Minnesota. The land of the Vikings and the never ending “Minnesota Nice” routine. My first month there fresh out of NY. Walk into a pizza place and ask for a slice and a coke. The two blond, proper accented Minnesota boys beyond the counter got the look of the deer caught in the headlights. They looked and behaved as if I was just going to rob that place! To them I must have looked and sounded like one of the guys from the Sopranos! HAHAHA!!!
“Huh, sir we only sell our pizza by the pie”
“Are you kiddin’ me? It’s only ONE of me! Who’s gonna eat the whole freaking pizza?! Just cut me a slice let me have a coke and I’ll be outta here!
Priceless!
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hahaha too funny!!! Wait, do a lot of states not sell pizza by the slice??? |
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10-13-2008, 07:57 PM
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"made the state olympics in hockey--Lake Placid '10"
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Location: NYC & Long Island
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My friends from out of state laugh at me when I call it a "pie." lol
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10-13-2008, 08:27 PM
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Location: hinesburg, vt
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I lived in Flushing from '61 to '76. In the beginning we did get milk delivery I believe from Kingsway Farms. Transit tokens were .15 cents, the #7 trains were clean and a nice bright blue sporting the TA logo, then in the 70's graffiti and new paint jobs took over. The transit busses were green and silver. The World's Fair and the opening of Shea Stadium. Pay phones. The fire pull boxes at the corners. Cop cars which were green, black, and white with the seven digit precinct phone numbers on them pre 911 era. Also remember when all the apartment building supers would fire up the incinerators which on a hot humid summer mornings combined with jet fumes from LaGuardia really made breathing a chore. Of course, we had all the now defunct department stores, S Kleins, Gertz, Grants, Masters, Woolworths, etc. Finally, a trip out east over the Nassau line was like going to the sticks where even on the LIE there was no street lighting.
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10-14-2008, 01:33 AM
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Visitor from Planet Quatt =^..^=
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Cosmic Consciousness
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Okay --
How about roller skating on the sidewalks with large, noisy groups of kids?
Yes, that's roller skating. Sheesh, I still own my skate key. Viralmd and flu189, how 'bout you?
How about Channel 9's amazing Playhouse 90 series -- especially O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards, Jr.?
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10-14-2008, 09:03 AM
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We have snow in Arizona!
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sometimes located below the Mogollon Rim other times located on the banks of the Colorado River
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Thanks for the memories, you guys are great!
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10-14-2008, 10:05 AM
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im from queens, moved to nc now,my wife ordered tea with milk, she got a full glass of milk and a full glass of ice tea. thank god a guy from brooklyn opened a normal pizza place here, wonderfull thin crust pie. i do remember once u got off long island they put mustard on hambergers.
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10-14-2008, 10:22 AM
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Location: Living in Hampton, VA
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Originally Posted by 1952 KID
im from queens, moved to nc now,my wife ordered tea with milk, she got a full glass of milk and a full glass of ice tea. thank god a guy from brooklyn opened a normal pizza place here, wonderfull thin crust pie. i do remember once u got off long island they put mustard on hambergers.
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You are so right about once you leave NY they put mustard on the burgers. |
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