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On a hot summer’s day, a…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 11, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
Original author: Butirfli [at] aol [dot] com
 

On a hot summer’s day, a friend and I decided to go into business. We took one of our Mom’s glass pitchers and filled it with icecubes and lemonade. We set up a folding table in front of a neighborhood park bench, placed the pitcher and some paper cups on top, and waited … Soon, wide eyed thirsty kids appeared. We charged 10 cents a cup, and at the end of the day, we had a total of 50 cents. We split the profits and gave it all away to Jack the icecream man! ; )

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories, Street Lifestyle | Tagged lemonade stands, Summer

Anybody out there remember…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 11, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Steve G [e-mail]
 

Anybody out there remember your favorite penny candy, candy bars, ice cream bars, sodas, cookies and 4″ pies? A kid with a sweet tooth and no flouride in the water, what chance did my teeth have to last me this long? Blue Bird pies – cherry – oh how it hurts to dredge up this memory. Nehi Grape soda – with a Blue Bird pie – now that is a complete food group! Moon Pies – gourmet food for a kid. Bottle Cap candy – with those little tin spoons that cut your lip. Wax coke bottles – chew the wax til the flavor is gone. Write on the store windows with the ABC wax (Aready Been Chewed wax). Any of this sound familiar? Your phone number started with a word – Juniper 5868 The smell of a rainy after noon in the 50’s The smell of Ivory soap on the nuns as the hustled you off to mass. These are a few of my favorite things, add yours.

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Ding a ling!!! Ding a ling!!!…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 11, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
Original author: butirfli [at] aol [dot] com
 

Ding a ling!!! Ding a ling!!! Ding!!!! Ding!!!!! That sound was music to our ears. Growing up in a Garden apartment complex near Queens College, that sound would cause every kid on the block to stop whatever game they were playing, and run home or call up to their window for money. I lived on the second floor and I preferred to call up for money… (no cel phones then!) “MO-OM”!!! “The icecream Man is here!!!” In gobs of white tissue, my mother would throw down the required 15 cents, and off I’d go to buy icecream from the Good Humor Man. Cola or Blue italian ices were the “hot” items of my day. Our neighborhood Good Humor man man was a tall, thin, silverhaired, mustached man named Jack, whom everyone loved. Dressed in sparkling whites, (shirt, slacks, shoes) “Jack the icecream man” would let neighborhood kids ring his bell, and ride his truck for a block or two. It was such fun, and the high point of a summer’s day! Back then, delivery men were on a first name basis with their customers …. We had Jack the icecream man, Louie the eggman, and Milt the Milkman …

Posted in Food & Drink, Queens, Reader Stories | Tagged egg cream, Summer

Sorry,, I called Nabisco…..

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 10, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Mike0716
 

Sorry,, I called Nabisco.. They were called Marshmallow Sandwich Cookies.. They had no chocolate and they stopped making them in 1989..

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Mike0716 … Scooter Pies…….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 9, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: MConroy
 

Mike0716 … Scooter Pies…. two wafers with marshmallow in between and covered in chocolate !

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What a feast. From the Marshmaloow…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 9, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Anonymous
 

What a feast. From the Marshmaloow Cookies between two vanilla wafers, to the great Hero Sands at the local Deli in Brooklyn. To the eggnogs at the local candy stores. To the great Hot Dogs at Ebbetts’s field. To the great Knishes. And to GOOD HUMOR trucks, and the Bungalow Bar trucks… And to Stoop Ball and all that… What a pleasure growing up in Brooklyn!!! Love the Stoties hear!!! Reference ID: B

Posted in Brooklyn, Food & Drink, Locales, Stoopball

Does anyone remember a candy…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 8, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: webdiva
 

Does anyone remember a candy bar called “Lunch Bar”? I think that’s the name but I could be wrong. The same luncheonette where I bought my weekly egg creams sold a little chocolate bar wrapped in a green and red wrapper. I remember that is was only 3 cents instead of the usual 5 cents that most candy bars cost. I had to make my weekly $1.50 allowance stretch — after I bought a few Superman, Flash, Green Lantern and Archie comics, there wasn’t much left. After the luncheonette closed down, I never saw the “lunch bar” again.

Posted in Food & Drink, Reader Stories | Tagged Does anyone remember..., egg cream

I grew up in New York on…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: jonathan amson
 

I grew up in New York on the upper West Side, and we played stickball against the Firemen’s Monument at 100th Street and Riverside Drive. We drew a strike box on the side of the monument with chalk, a pitcher’s mound about 50 feet up the street, and a batter’s box on the street. We used a broom handle (usually wrapped with electrical tape on the handle) and pink rubber balls made by the Spaulding Company (which were universally known as Spaldeens). A single was a ball hit past the pitcher’s rubber on the fly, which hit before the doorway of a building about 75 feet up the street; a double had to be hit on the fly between the marker for a single and another building about 150 feet up the street; a triple had to be hit between the end of the marker for a double and the top of the hill; and a home run was a ball hit over the top of the hill on 100th Street. When I went to buy Spaldeens at the candy store, I looked for ones that had a little extra rubber at the seam from the molding process, because I was one of the few guys who could throw a curve ball with a Spaldeen. There was this one guy I played against, who every time I threw curve balls to him and he swung and missed, who would scream at me, “You cheated! You threw a curve ball!” He could never hit a curve ball, and he was a patsy every time he came up to bat against me. I would set him up with pitches low and inside just over the corner of the plate, then strike him out any time I wanted to with a curve ball that started outside, and broke in at his hands. And you could guarantee that he would be yelling that I cheated, because I threw the curve ball he couldn’t hit. The funny thing is that 45 years later I am now a senior scientist at a major corporation, and he is a big-shot Wall Street lawyer pulling in megabucks, and every time I see him (about twice a year), I can still piss him off by reminding him that he could never hit a curve ball. And you can guarantee he will still be complaining that I won because I cheated, throwing him curve balls.

Posted in Food & Drink, Johnny on the Pony, Stickball | Tagged candy store, I grew up...

How about Bungalow Bar ice…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Mike B [e-mail]
 

How about Bungalow Bar ice cream .. and the old saying “Bungalow Bar taste like tar, the more you eat the sicker you are”. Us Good Humor fans used to yell the at the BB driver as kids in Sunset Park area if Brooklyn..

Posted in Brooklyn, Food & Drink, Reader Stories

Okay, you’ve given me more…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Cheryl B. Ratner [e-mail]
 

Okay, you’ve given me more Brooklyn memories. It seems like my Brooklyn recollections are a shared collective across Boroughs and State lines. Of course there was the knishman. And no potato knish since then has tasted quite so right. There was also the Chow Chow Cup, which sold Chinese food in a cup that could be eaten. And there was the Good Humor Man who sold ice cream out of a truck. And of course the trucks that had the rides in the back of them. When I think of those trucks I can’t believe they never tipped over. All those memories of living in the City. Are my kids deprived because they won’t have them?

Posted in Brooklyn, Food & Drink, Reader Stories

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