ANY BODY REMEMBER CHESTERS, ON EAST TREMONT AVENUE...IT WAS NEXT TO STEINS BUTCHER STORE AND SOL'S BARBER SHOP, SUNSHINE GROCERY WAS ON THE CORNER....50'S - 60'S. IT HAD A COUNTER WITH WITH SEATING FOR MALTEDS AND EGG CREAMS...A COKE MACHINE IN THE BACK...YOU COULD PURCHASE GREETING CARDS, HAND BUZZERS, SMOKE SNAKES, CAPS, JACKS AND PUZZLES...AROUD THE CORNER WAS DORSKY'S CANDY STORE WHERE YOU COULD PUIRCHASE THE DAILY NEWS, THE POST, THE HERALD TRIBUNE, THE JEWISH DAILY FOWARD, AND INSIDE WAS COMIC BOOKS GALORE....WE HAD SHOPPING BAGS OF COMIC BOOKS STORED IN OUR CLOSETS AT KIDS...ALL PURCHASED AT DORSKY'S...THEY HAD THE BEST PENNY CANDY! AND THE BEST FREST ICECREAM....10 CENTS A SCOOP ...12 CENTS WITH SPRINKLES....15CENTS FOR A DOUBLE SCOOP...EVERY TOOTH IN MY MOUTH HAD A FILLING BY THE TIME I WAS 12!

i remember going to the butcher for my mother and i would go geta malt or eggcream too.

WHENEVER I HAD TO GO TO THE STORE FOR MY MOTHER HER CHANGE WAS ALWAYS SHORT BY 5 CENT OR MORE SO I COULD GET SOME SORT OF TREAT LIKE A BAG OF POTATO CHIPS OR A PICKEL FOR A NICKEL AT THE APPETIZING STORE.

CHARLIES APPETIZING STORE ON EAST TREMONT! ALMOST FORGOT...HOMEMADE HORSERADISH IN THE WINDOW WITH AMAZING PICKLES AND BEAUTIFULLY WRAPPED COLORFUL FOILED CHOCOLATES BY THE PIECE...AND OTHER WONDERFUL DELICACIES!

There was a candy store accross the street from PS 67 I wish I knew the name, but you could go in with a nickel and walk out with a full bag of candy. Red wax lips, buttons, icing pies, mini coke bottles filled with flavored syrup and my favorite CHOCOLATE!

Much of the initial interest a young reader has with comic books is that they can identify, or someday hope to BE the protaganist. Needless to say, much of the initial glamour was lost on me very early on when I realized that I could never be a Batman, a Spider-Man, Iron Man, Lone Ranger or Superman. They weren't heroes of color.

• From then on I had to enjoy the stories as just stories, always from the vantage point of a layer further removed than the enjoyment of my white peers.
• Sure, there were some heroes of color, such as the Falcon or Luke Cage (who was nothing more than a blaxploitation caricature), but they were few and not nearly the major players that the other heroes were.
• Curiously enough, the allure of the X-Men comics can be attributed directly from the story of the civil rights struggle itself.

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Huey's Candy Store on 194th Street just off the corner of Marion Ave. Big tub with ice cold bottles of soda, egg creams and lime rickeys, spaldeens,baseball cards...etc...etc
GREAT MEMORIES!

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Huey's Candy Store on 194th Street just off the corner of Marion Ave. Big tub with ice cold bottles of soda, egg creams and lime rickeys, spaldeens,baseball cards...etc...etc
GREAT MEMORIES!

---mike, what year did you hang out at that candy store. i went out with a girl who lived very near that candy store--johnny

Johnny, I lived down the street from 1965-74.

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Johnny, I lived down the street from 1965-74.

I WENT OUT WITH HER IN 1959, HER NAME WAS CAROL. JOHNNY

She was probably gone from the area by 1965 when I moved into the nabe. Johnny, you would not believe what has happened to that area. Really SAD!

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She was probably gone from the area by 1965 when I moved into the nabe. Johnny, you would not believe what has happened to that area. Really SAD!

--mike--I lived just up the concoures from you at 205 st. I left the area in 1962, It was still good then. you could still walk down any street then. johnny

That area up there on the GC above Bedford Park BLVD (200th ST) is still hanging in with some old timers. South of 199th from the Concourse to Webster is shot!

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That area up there on the GC above Bedford Park BLVD (200th ST) is still hanging in with some old timers. South of 199th from the Concourse to Webster is shot!

--I WENT OUT WITH ANOTHER GIRL WHO LIVED ON 198 ST. ONE BLOCK EAST OF G. C. YOU WOULD NOT BE LIVE WHAT A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT AREA WAS IN THE 50'S, I AM ALMOST GLAD I AM NOT YOUNG TO DAY. JOHNNY

Amen! I think I prefer to remember the Bronx of "days gone by."

Years back (2003), Marvel Comics ran a 7-issue story of an untold secret origin of one of their iconic characters - Captain America. It told of another prior unsung Captain America who wasn't blond-haired,blue-eyed. It told of black military draftees forced to become lab rats in order to make a super soldier. It was an amazing concept.
The issues were relatively ignored on the shelves. (Drawn by Kyle Baker)

• TRUTH: Red, White & Black

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