June 27/28, 2020 Weekend Edition – A Variety of Dining Selections
THIS IS THE 90th ISSUE OF
FROM THE ARCHIVES
JUNE 27-28, 2020 WEEKEND EDITION
WHERE WE ATE
Horn and Hardart Automat
Chock Full O’Nuts
Schafft’s
Charleston Garden
Bird Cage
Good Humor Ice Cream
Howard Johnson’s
Lundy Brothers
Junior’s
Jahn’s Ice Cream
Longechamps
HORN AND HARDART AUTOMAT
You brought a dollar bill to the cashier and she gave you 20 nickels, enough for a grand dinner of a main dish bake beans, dessert and coffee with change to spare.
CHOCK FULL O’NUTS
Nutted Cheese, Donut and Coffee for about 60 cents, Sandwiches were made by women never touching the ingredients and magically wielding two spatulas.
SCHRAFFT’S
If I behaved all day at B. Altman, we would stop at Schrafft’s on 34th Street for a chocolate ice cream soda for me. Then off to Franklin Simon, Arnold Constable and Macy’s.
CHARLESTON GARDEN
B. ALTMAN
https://www.altmanfoundation.org/about/history/memories_milestones/AltmanBook2.pdf
FOUR LADIES TO A SHARED TABLE. THE TRAY FIT IN THE SLOTS ON THE TABLE. THE AREA IS NOW THE DINING AREA OF CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, WITH THE AMBIANCE OF A GYM.
THE BIRD CAGE
LORD & TAYLOR
THERE WE NO TABLES. THE CHAIR HAD A SWING AWAY TRAY ATTACHED. DESSERT WAS DELIVERED BY A WAITRESS PUSHING A PINK ROCKET-SHAPED CART.
GOOD HUMOR ICE CREAM
Run from the dinner table with a quarter to get an ice cream from the Good Humor man with the napkin that had a slit in it for the stick!
HOWARD JOHNSON’S
Stop on Queens Blvd and get ice cream cones for everyone in the station wagon, My day must have memorized everyone’s favorite flavor.
LUNDY BROTHERS
SHEEPSHEAD BAY
Long tables for family groups and watching the fishing boats across the street
JUNIOR’S
Darn, I never ate in the original Junior’s, but have consumed some slices from the branch in Grand Central Terminal
JAHN’S ICE CREAM
Come in on your birthday with identification and get a free sundae. Order a KITCHEN SINK for $6- and get 18 scoops of ice cream!!!
RESTAURANT LONGECHAMPS
UNFORTUNATELY, I WAS NOT INTO DECOR WHEN I DINED AT LONGECHAMPS. THERE WAS ONE IN MANHATTAN HOUSE IN THE EARLY 1970’S THAT LOOKED OUT INTO A GARDEN.
WEEKEND PHOTO
Can you identify this object and location?
Send you response to jbird134@aol.com
Winner gets a trinket from kiosk.
FRIDAY IMAGE OF THE DAY
Steps leading to Rivercross Lobby
Jay Jacobson and many others guessed it correctly.
EDITORIAL
Today I ventured back to my childhood and teen years when I was skinny, I mean skinny. Maybe, it was the choice of my parents dining selections. I remember fondly all of those listed. As you can see I liked a place with am gimmick.
My choices have improved, though I miss my dad’s choices of French Restaurants.
Tell me your favorite places to eat.
Judith Berdy
Judith Berdy
jbird134@aol.com
Funding Provided by:
Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation Public Purpose Funds
Council Member Ben Kallos City Council Discretionary Funds thru DYCD
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
ALL PHOTOS COPYRIGHT RIHS. 2020 (C)
ALL PHOTOS IN THIS ISSUE (C) JUDITH BERDY RIHS
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