this is Part II.
New Yorkers are the most nostalgic people in the world. Mention AZUMA and they start having orgasms...Part II.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | December 31, 2018 12:16 AM |
Bump
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 25, 2017 11:45 PM |
I never had an orgasm at Azuma. But it was on Sixth Avenue.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 26, 2017 2:52 AM |
The Adonis.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 26, 2017 4:20 AM |
The Cheyenne Diner on 9th and 33rd. A real tin can but I loved it for weekend lunch. I ate there every day the last week it was open.
The Luna in Little Italy (NOT the Bella Luna, which was nearby). Old style Italian restaurant full of all types of old style New Yorkers. One day several years ago I took some friends there but it was gone. I wept. (Mary!)
There was a great old dingy bar on 1st Ave and around 12th or 13th where they played the blues every night. Can't remember the name, but will never forget some of the nights I went there.
And I will never forget Cafe des Artistes.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 26, 2017 4:47 AM |
Does anyone remember the tiny conveyer belt sushi place that was near the Persian rug district. Somewhere in the 30s I believe ? My mother was always taking me to fun places as a kid in the 1970s.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 26, 2017 10:46 AM |
R4 I remembered a place like that but I remember it being on 2nd Avenue around 12th or 13th street. I grew up around that neighborhood and I got into bars as an underage teen, starting around 15 and without ID. That was in the 80s things sure are different now. My mother and aunt used to love taking me to Cafe des Artiste . It was my mother and aunts favorite brunch place ,as a kid i thought it was so genteel and magical and i would just stare at the murals.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 26, 2017 10:56 AM |
Angelica Kitchen, the vegetarian restaurant on East 12th Street just off 2nd Avenue. It closed in March of this year after 40 years. It was a great healthy alternative to all the eateries in the neighborhood.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 26, 2017 11:02 AM |
Of course we are nostalgic. Look at the boring place NYC has become. NY is becoming like any other city. It's a bunch of chain stores/restaurants and banks.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 26, 2017 11:16 AM |
The Magic Pan.
East 57th Street (Lexington & Third)
This was all I could find.
Funny, I remember the matches.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 26, 2017 11:27 AM |
Strangely, people say very little about "New York Magazine" on DL NYC nostalgia threads. It was such a thing in the 70s and 80s (but less so).
Year end issue 1977.
"It all happened here. Where else?"
Such a cool cover. Such a cool NYC year.
New York really was 'it' then.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 26, 2017 11:37 AM |
Hot Town - Summer 1977.
You'll have to click on it to see it >>
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 26, 2017 11:39 AM |
Did anyone here ever go to Catch A Rising Star?
This was how people (people like this, anyway) looked in 1977 - not like the kitschy weird look of 70s retro rubbish like you see in shows like Vinyl.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 26, 2017 11:43 AM |
[quote]The Luna in Little Italy (NOT the Bella Luna, which was nearby). Old style Italian restaurant full of all types of old style New Yorkers. One day several years ago I took some friends there but it was gone. I wept. (Mary!)
I think I used to eat at the Luna on Friday nights, if I'm thinking of the right place. Did it have a big white sign over the door, maybe hanging over Mulberry Street, backlit by fluorescent bulbs, and it just said LUNA in black caps?
Another place I liked eating was the somewhat more expensive Il Cortile. Since I didn't know how to pronounce Italian then, I called it "eel cor-TEEL."
[quote]And I will never forget Cafe des Artistes.
I wish I had eaten there, even once. I used to walk past it on my way to work every day (I lived on W. 69th), but my life blew up and I ended up leaving the West Side, and the next year, New York. I can't say "I will never forget Cafe des Artistes," and I wish I could.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 26, 2017 12:18 PM |
I wanted NY very much to survive the 70s in the worst way because there was still so much fucking beauty in it.
Little did I know it was going to survive it in literally the worst way and it wasn't going to be worth it.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 26, 2017 12:25 PM |
The Luna isn't there anymore. OMG. What's there now?
The food was HORRIBLE. Overcooked, mushy spaghetti with sauce from a jar.
But it was atmospheric and historic enough to make it worthwhile.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 26, 2017 12:25 PM |
R12 I see Elaine Boosler and Richard Belzer, who else is there in the group?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 26, 2017 12:28 PM |
Do anyone remember a 1970s Japanese restaurant called Hidè on west 56th street?
No one spoke English. It was probably one of the first sushi places in NYC. I have never had sushi that good.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 26, 2017 12:28 PM |
[quote][R12] I see Elaine Boosler and Richard Belzer, who else is there in the group?
I don't think may of those gurls' stars rose high enough for anyone to catch them.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 26, 2017 12:30 PM |
It's still a witty and eccentric place - sometimes.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 26, 2017 12:33 PM |
Looks like Cockapoos and Labradoodles are very popular in NYC
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 26, 2017 12:40 PM |
I remember The Luna. It wasnt fancy at all, I remember our waitress was like one of my old Italian aunts. I had ravioli, and I think some peppers. It was delicious. My mother told me she thought someone was rubbed out there many years prior (or on the sidewalk) but she might be thinking of another Little Italy eatery.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 26, 2017 1:01 PM |
I always had veal Marsala at the Luna. The entire dinner cost just $10, plus wine.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 26, 2017 1:07 PM |
R4 Was it called Dan Lynchs
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 26, 2017 5:06 PM |
[quote]Does anyone remember the tiny conveyer belt sushi place that was near the Persian rug district.
I wish more places had conveyor belt service. It was fun to sit there and watch the food go by.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 26, 2017 6:39 PM |
Does anybody remember the Gay movie houses? The Jewel, the Adonis and the 57th St Playhouse where I met my first partner who was married to a woman when I met him.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 26, 2017 6:58 PM |
I don't remember the 57th Street Playhouse being a gay movie house. I saw regular movies there. Though it was kinda sleazy.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 26, 2017 7:01 PM |
I went to the New David Cinema. A lot of old men there. I always wondered where they all came from.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 26, 2017 7:03 PM |
R21 Was it east across the avenue, behind St Pats? I know thats 51st/52nd, not 56th, but otherwise, your description is spot on. It was pretty formal, IIRC.
If so, that was the first Japanese restaurant I ever went to. My grandfather spoke fluent Japanese, as he was stationed in Japan for several yrs post WWII. He took us there numerous times. The owners & staff loved that an American could speak Japanese so well.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 26, 2017 7:15 PM |
OP, I fondly remember Part I. How I miss it. If only I could go back in time to visit it.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 26, 2017 7:40 PM |
R17 I would go to Cafe Des Artistes with 2 friends who were very well liked by the staff one time the waiter asked what we wanted for dessert and one of them said jokingly bring us one piece of every dessert . The waiter brought out a big platter with a small piece of every dessert in the house. After that whenever we dined there that was what we had for dessert, we never had to make a choice of desserts.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 26, 2017 8:01 PM |
More please.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 26, 2017 11:27 PM |
Hole in the wall Great Jones Cafe is possibly closing. The Lower East Side was the last area that held on to its dive restaurants, but they are quickly slipping away.
Imagine a city where hole in the wall places like this were in every neighborhood. That's the New York that I loved.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 26, 2017 11:37 PM |
That was my take-out place for years, R7.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 26, 2017 11:42 PM |
OP, where is the link to PT.1?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | July 26, 2017 11:43 PM |
Looks like Lucky Strike is still going, all these years later.
People used to say Madonna had worked there.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 27, 2017 12:09 AM |
But "I Tre Merli" - another of my SoHo 80s haunts, has closed.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 27, 2017 12:11 AM |
The Cupping Room in SoHo is still there.
I always liked it very much.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | July 27, 2017 12:13 AM |
Cornellia Street Cafe - still there, since 1977.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | July 27, 2017 12:20 AM |
What about it, R50?
Joe's Pizza still there. Used to be on the corner of Carmine & Bleeker now @ 7 Carmine.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | July 27, 2017 12:24 AM |
Zito's Bakery on Bleecker closed in 2010, after 80 years.
I always thought their bread was very overrated, actually. So I won't be crying over that one.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | July 27, 2017 12:28 AM |
Disco Donut - 14th & Third - closed.
It was just a dive.
People used to say - "It's where the drag queens go!" Who gives a fuck, quite frankly?
I guess it did have a sort of 70s sleaze about it.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | July 27, 2017 12:33 AM |
I used to drink there, R51.
[quote]The Spring Street Bar opened in January 1972, and, according to Anderson and Archer’s SoHo: The Essential Guide to Art and Life in Lower Manhattan, it was “the crossroads of West Broadway and on any given day or night you [were] likely to see Holly Solomon, Leo Castelli or Paula Cooper having lunch with clients or an artist of two.” So I guess it was for the arty-types. It also supposedly set the tone for the “SoHo-style” restaurant when it expanded and renovated in 1977, with its “brown epoxy tables, angular windows and saffron orange bar” serving “Italian whole-wheat bread and potted butter, quiches, spinach salad and entrees that interpret both French and American cooking.” If that doesn’t sound like every neighborhood meal I had with my family in my tween years. . .
by Anonymous | reply 54 | July 27, 2017 12:35 AM |
[quote]Cornellia Street Cafe - still there, since 1977.
They're having a lot of problems and may fall to high rents. Cornelia Street has seen the closures of Home and Po this year.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | July 27, 2017 12:36 AM |
I used to like The Bell Telephone Stores, because I liked telephones and Bell Phones were beautiful and fantastic. Those stores all went in the 90s. This photo is from 1979.
(Americans always look slightly bemused when I say that about the phones - because they never even thought about them. They were so everyday to them).
by Anonymous | reply 56 | July 27, 2017 12:38 AM |
[quote]I used to drink there, [R51].
You used to drink at Joe's Pizza?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | July 27, 2017 12:40 AM |
Oh, I see - sorry, R54 - The Spring Street Bar.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | July 27, 2017 12:42 AM |
No, at 162 Spring Street. Aren't you the one who asked?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | July 27, 2017 12:42 AM |
where was it, Spring and what, R59?
by Anonymous | reply 60 | July 27, 2017 12:45 AM |
West Broadway, I think. On the southeast corner.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | July 27, 2017 12:48 AM |
Do you remember a place, it had a spiral staircase - the music would stop - and the owner would suddenly walk down it doing a Dusty Springfield impersonation. He'd do it every night.
Maybe that was the Spring Street Bar.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | July 27, 2017 12:50 AM |
No, that wasn't it, at least not in 1977-78. It was a mainly straight crowd. I used to go with my female roommate.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | July 27, 2017 12:51 AM |
No, it wasn't a 'gay place' - but the Dusty thing was pretty gay, yes, it was.
Inspired by this performance >>
by Anonymous | reply 64 | July 27, 2017 12:53 AM |
Who remembers Rounds, the hooker bar in the East 50s? A bleach blond older woman sat at the piano decked out in a 1950s tafetta dress. I never knew whether that was her real dress or if she was just trying to be retro. I doubt playing piano in a gay hooker bar paid much, so maybe it was her real dress.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | July 27, 2017 12:55 AM |
It's definitely something I'd've stayed for if I'd seen it happening, R64. I was a big Dusty Springfield fan in the mid-'60s.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | July 27, 2017 12:55 AM |
I miss the Royal Canadian Pancake House in the East 50s. So much better than IHOP.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | July 27, 2017 12:56 AM |
[quote]No, that wasn't it, at least not in 1977-78.
You must remember 'Food' in SoHo - if you were around SoHo then.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | July 27, 2017 12:58 AM |
[quote]I miss the Royal Canadian Pancake House in the East 50s. So much better than IHOP.
OMG. I remember that. On Lexington.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | July 27, 2017 12:59 AM |
[quote]I miss the Royal Canadian Pancake House in the East 50s.
I think it was around 71st & Lexington, actually.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | July 27, 2017 1:04 AM |
Did anyone ever go in the Life Cafe before Rent made it popular? I've always wondered what it was like.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | July 27, 2017 1:05 AM |
Did any one here go to Burger Heaven on East 53rd Street?
by Anonymous | reply 73 | July 27, 2017 1:08 AM |
[quote]I think it was around 71st & Lexington, actually.
They may have had a location at 71st, but the one I went to was definitely East 50s.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | July 27, 2017 1:09 AM |
[quote]Did anyone ever go in the Life Cafe before Rent made it popular?
Yes. I'm trying to remember where it was.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | July 27, 2017 1:09 AM |
[quote]Did any one here go to Burger Heaven on East 53rd Street?
Burger Heaven is still open. You can go eat there.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | July 27, 2017 1:10 AM |
[quote]They may have had a location at 71st, but the one I went to was definitely East 50s.
I'll look it up in my 1976 Manhattan Phone Book....which I still have.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | July 27, 2017 1:11 AM |
[quote]Burger Heaven is still open. You can go eat there.
I thought they closed it. There was a great sadness.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | July 27, 2017 1:12 AM |
They may have closed the specific location you are talking about, but there are still two Burger Heaven locations in Manhattan, one is on East 53rd Street. A friend of mine dragged me in there about 3 weeks ago.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | July 27, 2017 1:13 AM |
[quote]I miss the Royal Canadian Pancake House in the East 50s.
It's not in my 1976 Phone Directory.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | July 27, 2017 1:16 AM |
Oh, yes - I totally remember Life Cafe.
What's its connection to Rent?
by Anonymous | reply 82 | July 27, 2017 1:19 AM |
Oh, I see - it was much more recent than the 70s.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | July 27, 2017 1:22 AM |
[quote]Oh, yes - I totally remember Life Cafe. What's its connection to Rent?
Have you never seen Rent? The song La Vie Boheme is performed in The Life Cafe.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | July 27, 2017 1:24 AM |
I would go to the Donut Pub on 14th St after having fun at the after hours clubs, (The Mineshaft) I would pick up a few fresh donuts and the Sunday Times and head uptown on the #1 to 112th St. I haven't been there in a long time, The Donut Pub is still there!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | July 27, 2017 1:25 AM |
[quote]Have you never seen Rent?
No. Never saw it. Thanks for the clip.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | July 27, 2017 1:26 AM |
Village Comics which was at 163 Bleecker Street on the 2nd Floor for about 2 decades was a great place to buy new releases and back issues of comics. They moved to Sullivan Street in the late 1990s, but ended up closing soon afterwards.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | July 27, 2017 1:28 AM |
[quote]I would go to the Donut Pub on 14th St after having fun at the after hours clubs, (The Mineshaft)
The Mineshaft was some pretty heavy duty shit. I remember when they closed it. The police went in to shut it down.
Did you dress like THIS >> ?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | July 27, 2017 1:29 AM |
Donut Pub is still there, but it's really expensive. $4.00 donuts? C'mon!!
by Anonymous | reply 89 | July 27, 2017 1:31 AM |
I think once Rent made the Life Cafe a tourist spot, they changed. I have a feeling it used to be just a casual hangout place. I walked by it a few years after Rent was on Broadway and it seemed full of tourists.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | July 27, 2017 1:32 AM |
[quote]I think once Rent made the Life Cafe a tourist spot, they changed. I have a feeling it used to be just a casual hangout place.
Yes, it was. Nothing fancy. Just an East Village Hangout - nice outside eating space, overlooking the park.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | July 27, 2017 1:34 AM |
Anyone miss Carl Fischer at Cooper Square? I used to love to dive into their filing cabinets for music. I shopped there the last day it was open and was in a very long line when they locked the doors. It took about 3 hours to get up to a cashier, but in the last 20 feet or so there were numerous stacks of music books that people had dumped at the last minute. Either they couldn't afford them or changed their mind. I found a lot of fantastic music in that pile that I somehow carried home.
After that, Colony was my only resource. May they both RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | July 27, 2017 6:00 AM |
Yes, r92, I miss Carl Fischer. I hate what they've done to the Astor Place area. It's just not that funky, off-beat East Village that it once was.
Kids who come to NYC today don't see how divese the city once was. They see generic glass building after generic glass building. They don't understand how great it was.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | July 27, 2017 12:41 PM |
^^^^^diverse
by Anonymous | reply 94 | July 27, 2017 12:41 PM |
There you go, R96.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | July 27, 2017 1:24 PM |
[quote]Kids who come to NYC today don't see how divese the city once was. They see generic glass building after generic glass building.
I think the New York of today is the New York people who had never been there used to expect. They were surprised how old so much of it was.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | July 27, 2017 1:25 PM |
I think there were already references to One Fifth in the last thread - so we won't be going there again.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | July 27, 2017 1:28 PM |
actually, I'd forgotten how fucking good that soundtrack is/was.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | July 27, 2017 1:29 PM |
yes, we had that photo - posted by - guess who? Where were you?
by Anonymous | reply 102 | July 27, 2017 1:37 PM |
Probably outside on E. 8th Street
by Anonymous | reply 103 | July 27, 2017 1:38 PM |
I miss good bagels. I haven't had a decent bagel in years. I think they stopped boiling them and just went to baking them. They're so hard now rather than being chewy like a bagel should be.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | July 27, 2017 1:40 PM |
I already miss the nostalgification in the first thread of Ray's Pizza (the [bold]real[/bold] Ray's Pizza, at 11th Street and Sixth Avenue.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | July 27, 2017 1:51 PM |
In NYCs outer boroughs, we had guys who came around to sharpen knives, scissors, etc. Another who sold fruits & vegetables, another who sold fresh seafood, on ice.
We had uniformed milkmen who delivered dairy products to your front door & another uniformed guy who picked up/delivered laundry & dry cleaning, from your home.
All until the early 1980s.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | July 27, 2017 2:15 PM |
Does anyone remember the Gilded Grape on 8th Avenue.
Today everything is so prudish. Young people today will never know or believe how blatantly sexy NYC was in the past.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | July 27, 2017 2:16 PM |
I wonder how many of today's kids actually want to be in NYC. When I was growing up, it was my passion. I *had* to go to NYC. It was electric. It was chic. It was nothing I'd ever known before. I'm wondering if today's kids, their parents want them to go to NYU and they just end up in NYC by default, with no real passion for being here.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | July 27, 2017 2:22 PM |
Remember when the executive office in Washington wasn't filled with corrupt New Yorkers?
by Anonymous | reply 109 | July 27, 2017 2:22 PM |
Look what I've done! - don't say I don't love you.
& it was tricky to scan because AZUMA was on the edge.
This is from my 1977-78 New York Phone Book - that I've had for forty years and schlepped all the way back to London.
Posted here for clarification purposes.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | July 27, 2017 2:30 PM |
Thanks r110, that's great.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | July 27, 2017 3:11 PM |
You're welcome, R111.
Did you see the names on that thing?
Imagine having to spell "Vaghef Azarpayvand" over the telephone with a foreign accent, on a daily basis.
or
"Girmachew Azbite".
by Anonymous | reply 112 | July 27, 2017 3:27 PM |
I love r110 We would get on very well. 😘
by Anonymous | reply 113 | July 27, 2017 4:19 PM |
R85 here, R88 I was just a twink at that time I dressed in faded jeans, sneakers and tight t-shirts.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | July 28, 2017 10:35 AM |
R110 I knew I recalled correctly that there was an Azuma on 8th Street on the corner of University Place.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | July 28, 2017 10:49 AM |
Twinks used to go to The Mineshaft? To 'the back room', R114?
[quote][R110] I knew I recalled correctly that there was an Azuma on 8th Street on the corner of University Place.
Yes, that's the one I remember too. I'm trying to locate it on google maps - but the street looks so different now.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | July 28, 2017 10:57 AM |
[quote]Twinks used to go to The Mineshaft? To 'the back room',
I was still a twink then. Once, they wouldn't let me in because I was wearing cologne. Another time, they didn't want to let me in because I was wearing an alligator shirt. So I took it off and stuffed it down the back of my jeans. No problem getting in after that. And IIRC, wasn't "downstairs" the hotter part?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | July 28, 2017 2:39 PM |
[quote]there was an Azuma on 8th Street on the corner of University Place.
The one on Sixth below W. 8th is the one I remember best. But it wasn't my kind of place, so I never went it. I just walked past it a lot. I usually went across E. 10th to get to University.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | July 28, 2017 2:41 PM |
I think they still make stuff. If this is the same place.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | July 28, 2017 2:49 PM |
Yes R116 if you were dressed right they let you in.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | July 28, 2017 3:17 PM |
Azuma had a dress code, r120?
by Anonymous | reply 121 | July 28, 2017 3:31 PM |
I miss Dosanko. The best Japanese fried chicken.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | July 28, 2017 3:45 PM |
The Four Seasons. Mortimer's, The first Le Cirque.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | July 28, 2017 5:46 PM |
And thanks another million times to whoever it was who sent me the tracks to the soundtrack a couple of years back.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | July 28, 2017 6:19 PM |
It was ME, gurl.
& you're welcome.
It's so beautiful, isn't it? To think there were cunts on imdb who used to complain about the soundtrack.
I always loved THIS location down by the river. I must watch it again.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | July 28, 2017 10:28 PM |
[quote]To think there were cunts on imdb who used to complain about the soundtrack.
That had to have been before my time. Or I'm better than I imagined at ignoring those whose opinion doesn't count. Again, thank you, thank you, thank you.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | July 28, 2017 10:48 PM |
Talking of New York Phone Directories - here's the 1940 one, in its full glory.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | July 28, 2017 11:52 PM |
Anyone remember soda trucks? I grew up in Bed-Stuy in the 70's and there was this broken-down truck that came though every 3 weeks or so, selling bottled soda (this was before the change to plastic bottles). There were cases stacked on open shelves and you could hear the clinking of glass as soon as it hit the block. They sold to individuals, not just to stores. We were so envious when it would stop and deliver bottles to the people on the block who were customers. Our parents didn't splurge for stuff, having 5 kids, so we could only watch others get this treat until eventually us kids saved some money and bought a few bottles.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | July 29, 2017 12:22 AM |
Anyone remember a gourmet food store in the early-mid 80's, (trying to be another Dean & Deluca) briefly in Chelsea on a Northeast corner of 8th Ave and maybe West 19th or 20th Street? Green awning and the name was? Think it began with an 'M'?
by Anonymous | reply 132 | July 29, 2017 1:55 AM |
^^ Miss Marys Meat Market?
Well, you said Chelsea..
by Anonymous | reply 133 | July 29, 2017 2:02 AM |
r133 you've been an ENORMOUS help.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | July 29, 2017 2:04 AM |
I think this was posted in the first thread but I think it should be reprised in this one it is a wonderful video.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | July 29, 2017 1:51 PM |
People get ticked off when I tell this story, buuuuuuuuuuuttttt...
When Uncle Charlies gay bar was in the West Village, they had a Ladies Room sign on a door. When the door was opened, it was a fire exit to the alley outside. They did not encourage women to visit there.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | July 29, 2017 7:52 PM |
Banana Republic - remember when it looked like this?
Sixth & Bleecker
'80s
by Anonymous | reply 137 | July 29, 2017 10:55 PM |
All Banana Republics looked like that, R137. Not just the one in NY.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | July 29, 2017 10:58 PM |
[quote]Not just the one in NY.
I didn't say it was.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | July 29, 2017 11:02 PM |
[quote]Sixth & Bleecker
That was a grocery store before Banana Republic. A Grand Union, I think.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | July 29, 2017 11:07 PM |
No, gurl - that was Bleecker & La Guardia.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | July 29, 2017 11:11 PM |
Thank you, R141. What are those buildings called?
by Anonymous | reply 142 | July 29, 2017 11:13 PM |
[quote]Thank you, [R141]. What are those buildings called?
What do you mean?
by Anonymous | reply 144 | July 29, 2017 11:14 PM |
R144 Those apartment buildings below NYU on La Guardia Place where the Grand Union was located.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | July 29, 2017 11:25 PM |
Yes, R145. You posted that already.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | July 29, 2017 11:26 PM |
[quote]No, gurl - that was Bleecker & La Guardia.
Yes, I know there was a Grand Union there, now it's a Morton Williams. But there was also a grocery store at 6th and Bleecker before the Banana Republic. I just can't remember whether it was Grand Union or another chain.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | July 29, 2017 11:26 PM |
[quote][R144] Those apartment buildings below NYU on La Guardia Place where the Grand Union was located.
Washington Square Village?
by Anonymous | reply 149 | July 29, 2017 11:28 PM |
[quote]Yes, I know there was a Grand Union there, now it's a Morton Williams. But there was also a grocery store at 6th and Bleecker before the Banana Republic. I just can't remember whether it was Grand Union or another chain.
I can't remember.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | July 29, 2017 11:30 PM |
[quote]Washington Square Village?
That's it. Thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | July 29, 2017 11:33 PM |
[quote]Yes, I know there was a Grand Union there, now it's a Morton Williams. But there was also a grocery store at 6th and Bleecker before the Banana Republic. I just can't remember whether it was Grand Union or another chain.
It was Pioneer.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | July 30, 2017 12:05 AM |
Anyone remember David's Potbelly on Christopher St? I would pick up guys in Ty's bar and bring them into the Potbelly restaurant so I could see them in normal light.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | July 30, 2017 12:10 PM |
R153 Blue Cheese Burgers
by Anonymous | reply 154 | July 30, 2017 12:18 PM |
R153, someone mentioned in another thread that David's was co-owned by John James, of DYNASTY, who was 77 WABC dj Herb Oscar Anderson's son.
A friend of mine worked there in the '70s, the same friend who introduced me to good coffee, from McNulty's, where he also worked.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | July 30, 2017 12:19 PM |
Talking of which - remember David's Cookies - they were all over New York.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | July 30, 2017 12:21 PM |
or is that what you're talking about, R155?
I'm confused.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | July 30, 2017 12:24 PM |
R157, I am referring to David's Pot Belly, a restaurant on Christopher Street, which R153 asked about.
Was David's Cookies attached to Larry's Ice Cream? The two shared a store in Dupont Circle during the 1980s, maybe longer.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | July 30, 2017 12:35 PM |
I don't know.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | July 30, 2017 1:08 PM |
I miss Manatus. It was a nice little diner on Bleecker Street. Now it's just another empty building the owner is holding to try and get an exorbitant rent. And some eclectic restaurant might eventually take it, but it won't be what's needed in the West Village, which is a diner like Manatus.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | July 30, 2017 1:43 PM |
I miss the Factory Cafe, which was located at 104 Christopher Street. I would go on Sundays, and read the New York Times. It was an alternative to the more youthful Big Cup in Chelsea.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | July 30, 2017 1:55 PM |
I had asked on the previous thread, but I think my question got lost, so I'll ask here.
The 60s and 70s had Truman Capote, Babe Paley, Jackie Kennedy
The 70s and 80s had Andy Warhol, Liza, Studio 54
What are the 90s, 00s and 10s known for? To me, they seem drab in comparison to the color that used to be NYC. But maybe I'm just looking through my own experience? I saw the 60s-80s in glossy magazines. the 90s - present, I've lived them.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | July 30, 2017 2:01 PM |
Please help an eldergay remember the name of a most-loved neighborhood watering hole from the 1980's.
It was on Ninth Avenue, mid block between 55th and 56th, on the east side of the street. In front was a long bar in the middle of the room. In the back, a small balcony overlooking the bar. Maybe (probably?) where Route 66 has been for years.
I scored my first orgy in that room. Conveniently held right across the street. And so much other great sex got its start in that bar.
But the name of it. What was the name?
Thank you.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | July 30, 2017 2:16 PM |
[Quote]What are the 90s, 00s and 10s known for?
That might be an interesting separate thread, especially if you focus from around 1995, when the Giuliani administration was in full swing with the debilitating changes to New York's then gritty and creative character.
I pretty much remember the early 90s Club Kid scene, which had actually started in the late 80s. I suppose the East Village/Williamsburg hipster scene would be another topic of discussion.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | July 30, 2017 2:16 PM |
R163, was it Bar Nine?
by Anonymous | reply 165 | July 30, 2017 2:21 PM |
actually some of the NYC street scenes were excellent in Kojak. really caught New York in its beautiful 70s-ness.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | July 30, 2017 3:28 PM |
R162 I agree with others that would be a great separate thread.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | July 30, 2017 4:27 PM |
623 East 68th Street. Thin air.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | July 30, 2017 6:48 PM |
R163 - was it "Cross Road" ?
by Anonymous | reply 171 | July 30, 2017 7:13 PM |
This is a wonderful thread.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | July 30, 2017 8:36 PM |
I used to love cruising The Rambles in central park on my 10 speed bike, good times.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | July 30, 2017 9:01 PM |
Funny, I just remembered my father, who was English, used to say " If you don't look up it, becomes a very friendly place".
by Anonymous | reply 174 | July 30, 2017 9:11 PM |
this intro seems to capture an old NYC of circa 1970, very well >>>
by Anonymous | reply 175 | July 30, 2017 9:24 PM |
That Girl - New York locations.
A must if you're a fan of That Girl (I almost wrote That Gurl) - or New York in the 60s.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | July 30, 2017 9:49 PM |
Both That Girl and The Odd Couple filmed in California, but made regular trips to NYC to film outdoor scenes to make it all look legit.
by Anonymous | reply 178 | July 30, 2017 10:25 PM |
Kojak as well, R178.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | July 30, 2017 11:10 PM |
I worked with Sharon Gless one time. She said they would shoot street scenes in NYC for Cagney & Lacey. One day after a lot of shooting, she was exhausted and she was trying to catch a cab back to her hotel. No cabs were stopping for her, so she finally went up to a policeman and said, "How does anyone catch a cab in this city?"
by Anonymous | reply 180 | July 31, 2017 12:16 AM |
[quote] I used to love cruising The Rambles in Central Park
It's The Ramble
by Anonymous | reply 181 | July 31, 2017 1:03 AM |
I remember those gurls in the Ramble.
(Not that I went ramblin')
by Anonymous | reply 182 | July 31, 2017 1:04 AM |
The Ramble used to be rocking. Group sex, 1:1 behind trees. It was a sexual mecca.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | July 31, 2017 1:13 AM |
Thank you, r177! What's amazing is how recognizable everything is some 50 years later. New York is wonderful in that way. In many ways, it's as if you never left.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | July 31, 2017 2:06 AM |
[R106] the West Village in the 60s had a horsedrawn fruit and vegetable wagon, a junk man with a green push cart and a bell, a knife sharpener in an odd scooter, at least one milkman and an ice man.
[112] people used to invent names, just for fun, for their telephone listings. Also, at the very beginning and at the very end of the phone book, you'll see names listed with multiple A's or Z's, clearly designed to make it easy to find someone's listing.
Did David's Potbelly have mini potato pancakes?
by Anonymous | reply 185 | July 31, 2017 3:28 AM |
Bless you, R171. That's it! Cross Road. It was a GREAT neighborhood bar.
Thank you!!!
by Anonymous | reply 186 | July 31, 2017 4:08 AM |
Glad to be of help.
by Anonymous | reply 187 | July 31, 2017 9:19 AM |
[quote]R112, people used to invent names, just for fun, for their telephone listings. Also, at the very beginning and at the very end of the phone book, you'll see names listed with multiple A's or Z's, clearly designed to make it easy to find someone's listing.
No kidding!
by Anonymous | reply 188 | July 31, 2017 9:22 AM |
But those freaky names were real in fact.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | July 31, 2017 9:22 AM |
There must have been NYers in the 1920s who missed the New York of their youth as well.
Lexington & 83rd, 1900.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | July 31, 2017 12:02 PM |
R191 Good find. It took me several minutes to figure out this was 6th Avenue looking north from Houston to Bleecker street. That red 3-story building on the left is the Little Red Schoolhouse.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | August 2, 2017 12:20 AM |
Anyone ever visit the original Museum of the American Indian on Audubon Terrace around 155th St? It was 3 floors of artifacts. The first floor was about North American Indians the second floor was Central American Indians and the top floor was South American Indians. The South American Indian display had an area devoted to shrunken heads, there was 3 shrunken people as part of the display. When I first saw them I thought what cute dolls until I was closer and realized it was 3 people about 2 ft tall. One was an Indian another was an African and the third was a blond white guy. The collection was divided many years ago and the bulk of the collection went to the new Museum of the American Indian in DC. The shrunken people were sent to DC I don't know if they were put on display.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | August 2, 2017 12:43 AM |
R188. Damn! Good one. 50 points. Mrs. David X. Cohen. It's the only Cohen with an X in the book!
by Anonymous | reply 194 | August 2, 2017 1:40 AM |
I thought her new husband was called Cohn, not Cohen.
But anyway, thank you for the 50 points.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | August 2, 2017 2:08 AM |
I fondly remember part one of this topic.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | August 2, 2017 2:14 AM |
More misery from the folks who want New York to remain the same >>
by Anonymous | reply 197 | August 2, 2017 2:40 AM |
[quote]I fondly remember part one of this topic.
What's wrong with Part 2?
by Anonymous | reply 198 | August 2, 2017 2:47 AM |
I can't be nostalgic about the current thread, R198, though I have warm memories about your post of 29 minutes ago.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | August 2, 2017 3:16 AM |
My heart broke when The Ballet Shop closed. It was located on Broadway in the ground floor of the Empire Hotel. It was the best collection of ballet related materials I have ever seen offered for sale. Ballet programs stretching back for decades. Toe shoes from favorite ballerinas. Scores. Recordings. Posters Photos. Autographs. All of it devoted to ballet. The Ballet Shop was magnificent. But doomed. It probably didn't make it to 1990.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | August 2, 2017 3:25 AM |
R198, how can I miss you if you won't go away?
by Anonymous | reply 201 | August 2, 2017 3:46 AM |
R200 I remember passing the Ballet Shop in the early 1990s and it was still open. It probably closed in the mid 1990s.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | August 2, 2017 10:43 AM |
[quote]My heart broke when The Ballet Shop closed. It was located on Broadway in the ground floor of the Empire Hotel.
There was also a theater bookshop near there - where you could get scripts etc...
Anyone remember?
Might still be there!
by Anonymous | reply 203 | August 2, 2017 3:37 PM |
The NY Times reports that The Ballet Shop closed in 1996.
The owner seems to be the stuff from which DataLounge legend is made.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | August 2, 2017 9:47 PM |
[quote]I can't be nostalgic about the current thread, [R198], though I have warm memories about your post of 29 minutes ago.
gurlfriend, you're talking like a crazy gurl.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | August 2, 2017 9:51 PM |
[quote]There was also a theater bookshop near there - where you could get scripts etc...
Applause Books was in that basement store at 71st and Broadway.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | August 2, 2017 11:50 PM |
No, the place I remember was circa 63rd St.
by Anonymous | reply 207 | August 3, 2017 12:20 AM |
R163 Was it the rectory of St Malachys Church?
by Anonymous | reply 208 | August 3, 2017 12:35 AM |
MORE misery for the olde tyme New Yorkers >>>
by Anonymous | reply 209 | August 3, 2017 10:23 PM |
Thanks for posting r209. That's a good article. I bet they tear that building down and build a 5-6 story luxury co-op building. That seems to be what they are doing with every building in the Village.
by Anonymous | reply 210 | August 3, 2017 10:35 PM |
It was always a sun spot, that place.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | August 3, 2017 10:37 PM |
The Grand Finale on 70th Street, just west of Broadway. What a great nightclub. I saw Dorothy Collins perform there in 1976. What a treat.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | August 4, 2017 3:08 AM |
R212 Singing waiters?
by Anonymous | reply 213 | August 4, 2017 3:11 AM |
No singing waiters. The Grand Finale was one of the top nightclubs in NYC during the 1970 's.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | August 4, 2017 3:21 AM |
Do you remember a restaurant with singing waiters in the W. 70s during the '70s, R214? I think it was on the south side of 72nd.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | August 4, 2017 3:25 AM |
Sounds like Palsson's, the original venue for FORBIDDEN BROADWAY.
I'm so fucking old that I saw that first version. At Palsson's.
Nurse, get my oxygen, please.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | August 4, 2017 12:43 PM |
Were all the old Supper Clubs torn down? For example, in I Love Lucy you see the Ricardos go out for a night of dinner and dancing. I guess those places fell out of fashion and were replaced by discos? Ballroom dancing gave way to a style of dance where the partners didn't touch but did individual moves?
by Anonymous | reply 217 | August 4, 2017 12:47 PM |
R217 Most have gone away the few that remain are dinner theaters, not my thing.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | August 4, 2017 8:46 PM |
The building that houses the Riviera probably can't be torn down under landmark laws. Expect a bank. Or a European clothing company (that will last 2 years).
by Anonymous | reply 219 | August 4, 2017 10:48 PM |
Love the pic R190. Especially the house right next to the brick building.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | August 5, 2017 9:01 AM |
The whole of the wonderful film Hester Street is on Youtube >>
by Anonymous | reply 225 | August 5, 2017 9:31 AM |
Never went there, but it's a place old New Yorkers of a certain age like to wax lyrical about.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | August 5, 2017 10:20 AM |
finally I've found a photo of Azuma. The 8th Street location.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | August 7, 2017 11:01 PM |
I had a friend who liked to get in fights with store clerks. One of his most memorable scenes was at that Brentano's.
So embarrassing.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | August 7, 2017 11:02 PM |
What was Brentano's?
by Anonymous | reply 230 | August 7, 2017 11:49 PM |
[quote]What was Brentano's?
A bookstore which was later bought by Waldenbooks which was later bought by Borders Books.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | August 7, 2017 11:56 PM |
Here are some interesting photos to flick through.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | August 8, 2017 8:32 PM |
Thanks R232, those pics are wonderful.
More more more from you New York boys. I love this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | August 11, 2017 11:12 AM |
Rocks In Your Head, the punk and alternative rock record store on Prince Street in Soho was a great place to search for independent rock music. It was at the same location from 1978 - 2006, when it closed up shop due to high rent and moved to Williamsburgh Brooklyn. I visited the new store once, but it doesn't have the same vibe and the selection is not at all the same.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | August 12, 2017 12:50 PM |
On the west side of Columbus Avenue, probably between 73rd and 74th streets, was a great little toy store called The Last Wound Up. All the toys for sale there were wind-up toys. It was such a great place to investigate or to buy a small gift for someone.
"Don't Postpone Joy" was the store's motto. Good advice.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | August 13, 2017 3:47 AM |
My favorite aunt used to bring me there as a child in the 70s she lived on 74th and Amsterdam r235 one of my better memories from childhood. Thanks for reminding me of that store. I remember the owner being friendly and gregarious.Z
by Anonymous | reply 236 | August 13, 2017 4:08 AM |
R235 I was trying to recall the store name and location but couldn't. I knew it was somewhere in the West 70s but that's all I knew for sure. It was such a great place.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | August 13, 2017 11:57 AM |
"Love Saves the Day" was another astounding independent business that could constantly amaze and delight. So many wonderful things to be found there. And the owners had a remarkable sense of color and style. A visit was always a treat.
A new comer to NYC would never know the wonders the city used to contain. If I came to NYC today, I would leave thinking, "What's so great about nail salons and Chase Bank branches?"
by Anonymous | reply 238 | August 13, 2017 2:35 PM |
You might be impressed with the energy of the place. The incredible buildings. The history. The extroverted people. The food.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | August 13, 2017 2:42 PM |
The old New York grew organically into a complex, multifaceted, multicultural megacity. The new New York is just a cheesy, bland corporate imitation of it.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | August 15, 2017 3:53 PM |
I'm watching An Unmarried Woman again, R240. Erica and Martin's meals came to a total of $3.75 or $3.95.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | August 15, 2017 3:56 PM |
[quote][R12] I see Elaine Boosler and Richard Belzer, who else is there in the group?
I recognize Larry David, Elaine Booszler, Richard Belzer and Bob Shaw (or Shore). Bob was a writer on Seinfeld, obviously Jerry knew him from the comedy club scene. Bob also had small roles on Seinfeld.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | August 15, 2017 4:00 PM |
FOOD was run by Cornell educated installation artist Gordon Matta Clark, he died too young, think he was around 35-36.
Very little of his art remains.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | August 21, 2017 5:31 PM |
Dongful looking, R248.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | August 21, 2017 5:33 PM |
Yes, R249, what a shame!
by Anonymous | reply 250 | August 21, 2017 5:35 PM |
Gordon died of pancreatic cancer. Think he was gay. So he'd have someone to run his art estate, Gordon's father forced him to marry a female artist/curator friend. Gordon's father was Roberto Matta, a famous Chilean Surrealist painter.
Years before, Gordon's brother committed suicide, he jumped from the window of Gordon's Soho loft.
Gordon was also friends with Laurie Anderson.
by Anonymous | reply 252 | August 21, 2017 6:13 PM |
[quote]Gordon died of pancreatic cancer. Think he was gay.
You think?
by Anonymous | reply 253 | August 21, 2017 6:17 PM |
Gordon was a mysterious downtown art figure, there was never a mention of a girlfriend, or wife, until he quickly married during the last months/weeks before his death. It's assumed he was gay.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | August 21, 2017 7:25 PM |
I'm a big fan of Gordan Matta-Clark's work. His deconstruction art/architecture work was very creative and groundbreaking. He was diagnosed with Addison's disease and was prescribed cortisone for years to counter the side effects. It may have contributed to his pancreatic cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | August 22, 2017 12:21 AM |
Addison's Disease is usually a disorder middle aged women get.
Poor Gordon, had he lived, I wonder if he'd be an art star like Cindy Sherman. Cutting buildings in half was pretty out there and definitely groundbreaking for it's time! The art world is so weird, lots of hype and just plain bullshit, for sure, yet so random who actually makes it. I think of Damien Hurst, putting dead cows and sharks in formaldehyde, which fetched millions.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | August 22, 2017 5:43 PM |
The Village Voice is ending its print edition. Technically, it hasn't been a good paper for several years, but I wish it had gone out with a bang instead of a whimper.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | August 23, 2017 12:27 AM |
I only ever read it for the property.
& awful memories of that.
NEVER found a place thru The Voice. It was always word of mouth.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | August 23, 2017 12:39 AM |
The Pan Am building lit up at night. Looking up nowadays and seeing "MetLife" isn't too inspiring.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | August 23, 2017 12:58 AM |
R226. My apartment is around the corner from the old (and historical) Max's Kansas City. It is now a Korean deli called Fraiche. In a small vestibule just next door, through the glass door, they have two black and white photos of Max's back in the day. Truly historic place. Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick. All of them ended up there to end a night (morning). It was there one drunken night that Mick Jagger got idea for cover of Sticky Fingers album w Andy.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | August 23, 2017 1:11 AM |
While re-arranging my glassware, I came across some Max's swizzle sticks. My brother was a regular, he used to collect everything and gave me a lot of his NYC club collectibles. I even have invites to private parties at Danceteria.
Can you imagine this double bill at Max's! I did see Television perform there and Lou Reed hanging out in the first floor's 'backroom'.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | August 23, 2017 3:42 AM |
R193 - I visited that location decades ago.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | August 23, 2017 4:00 AM |
R261 Apparently that was in 1973. I wonder why rock concert tickets and posters so seldom print the year.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | August 23, 2017 12:50 PM |
I often wonder what would have happened if I'd stayed. I moved to Los Angeles, but I could have kept my Village apartment instead and had this boy move in me whom I was fucking at the time. He was my best friend in high school's cousin, he had given me mono (smoking pot, not kissing) when we were juniors, so we had history.
He was absolutely the best fuck of my life up to that point, but he insisted he was bi, and I knew from past experience that that meant he would end up with a woman, breaking my heart. He hinted that he was looking for a place to live, and how nice it would be if we shared a place, but I ended up saying "no" and moving to LA. No more bis for me.
He died of AIDS somewhere in California, while living with a woman. She made his quilt, which is how I found out he'd died. Still, I wonder "what if" from time to time.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | December 21, 2018 1:07 AM |
R249 Dongful looking? Love that!
Anyhoo does Twilight, Star Sapphire mean anything to anyone out there?
by Anonymous | reply 265 | December 21, 2018 1:50 AM |
Little mention of the fantastic gay nightclub scene. Maybe theres more mention in Part 1 ?
Anyway....The Saint, The Ice Palace, The Peppermint Lounge, Styx, Alex in Wonderland, the various Uncle Charlies, Waterworks, Private Eyes, Area, the Tunnel, the original Limelight....and thats only a few & only in Manhattan.
The outer boroughs had plenty of gay clubs & bars of their own. So did Jersey, Long Island & even Westchester County.
The Azuma I remember best was on 86th & 2nd. Back then, Yorkville was almost a completely German & Hungarian neighborhood.
Fioruccis IN 58th/Lex.
Anyone remember the 80s punk/new wave stores in the LES & Village? Manic Panic, Reminiscence?
by Anonymous | reply 266 | December 21, 2018 3:04 AM |
I remember getting Marimekko prints and stretching them over frames to hang on my walls.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | December 21, 2018 5:09 AM |
Anyone remember a mafia bar from 1969 called The Gold Bug on W. 3rd? It was located in the basement of the building Edgar A. Poe lived in with his wife in the 1880s. Now gone.
by Anonymous | reply 268 | December 21, 2018 5:11 AM |
What was that Italian restaurant on the corner of Carmine and Bleeker catty-cornered from Joe's Pizza? It was run by nice people who took pity on students and small bank accounts. You could get a large bowl of minestrone soup and a generous chunk of Italian bread for three dollars.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | December 21, 2018 8:34 AM |
I don't remember the name, r269, but there was one place on Carmine (not sure of the intersection, but it could have been Bleecker) where I really liked the food. My friend who always got in fights with waiters took me there, and what do you know—he got in a fight with our waiter. So I never wanted to go back. But it might have been your place. I thought everything was lovely. I never saw things the way this person saw things. It got to be so embarrassing...and nervous-making, never knowing when he would blow up at nothing.
He is one reason I'm glad I don't live in NY any longer. I was adDICKted to him.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | December 21, 2018 8:45 AM |
[quote]Anyone remember a mafia bar from 1969 called The Gold Bug on W. 3rd?
Yes. My friends in NJ my last two years in HS and I used to drink there and the Red Witch on W. 4th. St. I probably wouldn't remember either place, but I was with them at the Red Witch when I saw my first gay man, a tiny little leprechaun of a man who approached us to buy us a drink. One of my "friends" suggested letting him buying us a drink then taking him out in the alley—were there even alleys?—and beating the shit out of him.
In order to keep the guy from getting beat up, I just said, "No, get the fuck outa here." And I wasn't friends with that group of friends anymore. I've googled the beater-upper, but his name is either ungoogleably common or he died. Perhaps of AIDS. If anyone I knew was one of those self-hating closet cases we talk about so often, it was this guy Sam.
by Anonymous | reply 271 | December 21, 2018 8:52 AM |
I had no idea so many great establishments have closed down.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | December 22, 2018 6:33 AM |
[quote]I had no idea so many great establishments have closed down.
It's just age. How many great establishments from 1938 were still open in 1978 (the same amount of time between 1978 and now)?
by Anonymous | reply 273 | December 22, 2018 7:58 AM |
Whew. I shouldn't worry then. Carry on.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | December 22, 2018 8:19 AM |
[quote]I saw my first gay man, a tiny little leprechaun of a man who approached us to buy us a drink.
Sounds about right. The Gold Bug had a door with a little window. A guy would look at you, close the peephole and if the door didn't open you didn't try to open it yourself. All these places were operated by mobster Matty Ianello. He was the gay bar kingpin. Young guys were never carded. I went to the Gold Bug when I was 16 and ordered a 7&7. They had a DJ who played songs like "Woman to Woman" by Shirley Brown for slow dancing. A lot of wronged women in that bar!
by Anonymous | reply 275 | December 28, 2018 5:07 AM |
[QUOTE] While re-arranging my glassware
by Anonymous | reply 276 | December 28, 2018 5:18 AM |
[quote]he had given me mono (smoking pot, not kissing) when we were juniors, so we had history.
Ah, young love!
by Anonymous | reply 277 | December 28, 2018 5:22 AM |
There used to be a little hole in the wall on W. 4th called "The Bagel," which was good for breakfast (obv.) and celebrity spotting. And then there was The Pink Tea Cup (the original).
by Anonymous | reply 278 | December 28, 2018 5:27 AM |
R269 that place made great soup! I miss the drinking at Dew Drop Inn, Holiday cocktail bar, BBar, and Peggy Sue's.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | December 28, 2018 12:31 PM |
I remember shopping at the Azuma on 8th Street and there was one near my old high school, near Bloomingdales, Art & Design.
I'd also go to Alexanders department store once or twice a month to buy a few LPs. They had a great selection, the sale prices were amazing, around $2.59 for a single LP. They also had a great $1 LP bargain bin where I found some obscure gems! I bought Yoko's Grapefruit book at Alexanders, I still have it somewhere. IIRC, Dump was involved in Alexanders downfall. Quelle surprise!
Fiorucci was across from Bloomingdales, on East 59th Street. I bought black jeans and their cool T-shirts, as well as gifts for the hip trendy female friends in my life.
It's incredibly sad that NYC will never be the same.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | December 28, 2018 1:10 PM |
Once a year Mom would put us in the station wagon and drive into the city so we could go to Luchow's on 14th Street (near S. Klein on the Square) for Sauerbraten and potato pancakes with apple sauce. The space eventually became the Palladium Disco and is now a PC Richards.
by Anonymous | reply 281 | December 28, 2018 2:47 PM |
R281, NYU student housing took over most of that block where the Academy of Music/Palladium and Luchow's were located.
RIP NYC.
by Anonymous | reply 282 | December 28, 2018 4:30 PM |
Getting my hair cut at Paul McGregor's in the Village and thinking how cool I was, even though I was still buying my clothing at Chess King at the mall.
by Anonymous | reply 283 | December 30, 2018 6:37 PM |
[quote]I don't remember the name, [R269], but there was one place on Carmine (not sure of the intersection, but it could have been Bleecker) where I really liked the food. My friend who always got in fights with waiters took me there, and what do you know—he got in a fight with our waiter. So I never wanted to go back
I used to go there. I lived on Carmine. The staff were notoriously horrible. Their soup was famous. You ordered. You didn't smile. You kept your mouth shut, except to eat.
>>
by Anonymous | reply 284 | December 30, 2018 7:04 PM |
[quote]Fioruccis IN 58th/Lex
Yes. Remember it well.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | December 30, 2018 7:06 PM |
[quote]There used to be a little hole in the wall on W. 4th called "The Bagel," which was good for breakfast (obv.) and celebrity spotting. And then there was The Pink Tea Cup (the original).
I think we covered these in Part One.
by Anonymous | reply 286 | December 30, 2018 7:10 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 287 | December 30, 2018 7:10 PM |
Does Macy’s still have its wooden escalators?
by Anonymous | reply 289 | December 30, 2018 7:13 PM |
I don't know.
Who really cares, quite frankly?
by Anonymous | reply 290 | December 30, 2018 7:16 PM |
1968 - name the location.
(love the traffic lights)
by Anonymous | reply 291 | December 30, 2018 7:27 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 292 | December 30, 2018 7:29 PM |
^^ '68 again
by Anonymous | reply 293 | December 30, 2018 7:29 PM |
R44, Tortilla Flats closed a few months ago after 30 years thanks to a greedy landlord.
by Anonymous | reply 295 | December 30, 2018 7:41 PM |
R291, Sheridan Square Park. IIRC, The Duchess is on the left.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | December 30, 2018 7:43 PM |
I was looking at Part 1 of this and a few of the places mentioned as still open have since closed - in just the last 18 months.
by Anonymous | reply 297 | December 30, 2018 7:43 PM |
R289, one is still operating.
by Anonymous | reply 298 | December 30, 2018 7:45 PM |
R286, The Bagel is now part of Tio Pepe who owns the building.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | December 30, 2018 7:47 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 301 | December 30, 2018 7:48 PM |
^ 1980
by Anonymous | reply 302 | December 30, 2018 7:49 PM |
The Bagel was never that great. Dark little hole in the wall. Food - mediocre.
But it had character.
by Anonymous | reply 303 | December 30, 2018 7:49 PM |
Someone was trying to name the little coffee shop at 65th & Madison - it was called The Mayfair.
by Anonymous | reply 304 | December 30, 2018 7:52 PM |
R33, Boots had to move. Landlord doubled rent. Relocated to former Actor's Playhouse, 100-A Seventh Avenue South. After three years closed in April 2017. Pieces's from Christopher Street has applied for a liquor license on Seventh.
by Anonymous | reply 305 | December 30, 2018 7:53 PM |
R284, Bleecker Luncheonette has been Spaghetto Trattoria since 1992.
by Anonymous | reply 306 | December 30, 2018 7:56 PM |
[quote]Bleecker Luncheonette has been Spaghetto Trattoria since 1992.
Remember Caffe Lucca - just a little farther down Bleecker?
by Anonymous | reply 307 | December 30, 2018 8:01 PM |
R257 The Village Voice was at Seventh and Christopher, now The Duplex.
by Anonymous | reply 308 | December 30, 2018 8:10 PM |
R225 The street scenes were shot on Morton between Bleecker and Seventh Avenue South.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | December 30, 2018 8:15 PM |
R1122 to avoid paying a monthly fee for a Non-Published number, Tony Randall was listed as Rudolph von Egg Cream.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | December 30, 2018 8:22 PM |
R52 read about a longtime Italian bakery that was going out of business. Today people are concerned about carbs and don't want to eat white flour that has no nutritional value.
by Anonymous | reply 311 | December 31, 2018 12:00 AM |
R55 Cornelia now pays $33,000 a month. Landlord wants more. They are closing in a few days.
by Anonymous | reply 312 | December 31, 2018 12:03 AM |
R140, this was Pioneer Super Market. Grand Union was at Bleecker and La Guardia, now Morton Williams Associated.
by Anonymous | reply 313 | December 31, 2018 12:06 AM |
New York was special and different. The internet and money have leveled that out. I had a festive early Christmas dinner at Cornelia, sorry they are being erased.
by Anonymous | reply 314 | December 31, 2018 12:16 AM |