MONDAY, JULY 6TH TIME TO TRAVEL BACK THRU TIME
Monday, July 6th, 2020
Our 97th Edition
MORE TREATS FROM THE PAST
LARGE, GLAMOROUS CANDY SHOPS GRACED THE CITY,
WONDERFUL CANDY SHOPS IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD
THOSE BARTONS ALMOND KISSES WERE YUMMY
LOFT’S CANDIES WERE MANUFACTURED ON VERNON BLVD. IN THE BUILDING THAT IS
NOW MOISHE’S MINI STORAGE
THERE ARE STILL SOME GODIVA SHOPS
DINING
LA FONDA DEL SOL IN THE TIME LIFE BUILDING
ABOVE: TOP OF THE 666’S
BELOW: MAXWELL’S PLUM ON FIRST AVENUE
ABOVE: MANY WOLFE’S STEAK HOUSE (THREE MARTINI LUNCH)
BELOW: GLOUCESTER HOUSE (ACROSS FROM ST. PAT’S, GREAT BISCUITS)
ON EAST 49TH STREET PATRICIA MURPHY’S WAS WHERE YOU TOOK GRANDMA FOR MOTHER’S DAY AND TO EAT LOTS OF POPOVERS.
STILL A FAVORITE IS THE OYSTER BAR IN GRAND CENTRAL. PROBABLY MY ADMIRATION OF THE GUASTAVINO TILES AND CLAM CHOWDER.
ICE CREAM PARLORS
RUMPLEMEYER’S AT THE ST. MORITZ
AIRLINES WE FLEW
CARTOON CHARACTERS OF THE PAST
CAN YOU NAME THEM?
MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
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WIN A KIOSK TRINKET
WEEKEND PHOTO
PART OF FDR FOUR FREEDOMS SPEECH
ENGRAVED ON WALL OF FDR FOUR FREEDOMS PARK
MULTIPLE WINNERS: BARBARA BROOKS, NANCY BROWN, ED LITCHER, ALEXIS VILLEFANE, BRENDA VAUGHAN
The family tradition continues. My brother Alan is the chief grilling specialist.
From Caroline Cavalli-
You forgot Alba’s Italian Pastries in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. But I sure do miss Ebinger’s. You could buy half the cake or pie, thereby getting a nice assortment. Caroline
Hi Judy, I loved your bakery issue!!! I’ve always adored bakery windows, from the time I was very little. I would ogle the pastries, wanting to taste everything on display. In my old Brooklyn neighborhood, there were alway Napoleans and cupcakes with whipped cream and a cherry on the top. And cakes with lots of frosting. There was an Ebinger bakery about a half-hour walk from our apartment (there was no transportation available to get there other than on foot), and for years, my birthday cake came from there: yellow layer cake with chocolate butter cream frosting.
Back in the 1950s they could sell you half a cake (the cake would be sliced into two perfectly even halves), for people like my parents, who couldn’t afford to pay for a whole cake. My mother never asked for any kind of decoration, or even the words “Happy Birthday” written on it. It wasn’t until I married Mitch that I got a real “birthday cake,” bought by his mother. It left me teary-eyed.
Ironically, when we moved to a more middle-class neighborhood (in the Midwood High School area, where Bernie Sanders grew up), there was an Ebinger’s bakery around the corner from our apartment building. That was absolutely heaven!! They would sell holiday-themed individual pastries, with icing that matched the holiday symbolically (e.g., green icing with a shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day, pink icing with a red heart for Valentine’s Day). These were made of yellow cake with butter cream in the center. My mother would buy two on Friday afternoons, one for me and one for Mitch, when we were dating.
The other picture that you included in the bakery issue that meant something special to me was the Hungarian pastry shop next to Columbia University. Amber was an undergraduate at Columbia, and she would frequent that place, because she loved my mother’s Hungarian homemade pastries, and she could buy things that she was fond of in that bakery (I think their Hungarian accent also gave her a lift). She also would visit my parents during those four undergraduate years, on Friday nights, for sabbath dinner. Mitch and I were based in Pittsburgh, so we missed out on those dinners. So, many, many thanks for the bakery issue!! Susan —
Susan Berk-Seligson
Research Professor and Professor Emerita
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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