If you are ever near E 234 and White Plains Poad look for 4227A that is where my folks owned what useto be a Candy Store from 1953 to 1966 It was called Micky & Helen Dolan's. I have not been back to the Bronx for about 4 years my brother now lives upstae NY so we head that way when we visit NY. Thanks
Originally posted by Rosie D: John, I hung out once in a while at Moms. Remember my mother didn't like it because she thought the kids there were wild. I remember she came after me one day and I hid in the telephone booth there. funny, I hadn't thought of that in 40 something years.
I bought my first real cigaretts there in about 1947 they sold loosies at 2cents. Bought them with the deposit of a couple of bottles found in St. Mary's Park. I lived on the other side of the park so figured I wouldn't get caught. (8/9 years old at the time).Had a girl friend at 500 Trinity and I was trying to impress her by smoking in public.
ok kathleen had a chance to swing by there today there is no 4227a least not anymore 4227 itself is realty place. kinda small looks like they might have broken the stores up to smaller ones 4227 is like 5 stores from the corner store which is a candy store ..hope this helped you if you need anymore info just let me know..bob
Posts: 150 | Location: PELHAM BAY | Registered: 23 February 2006
4227a the Candy Store was the second half of a hoisery store to the right and Prestano Bakery was on the other side. Their was a grocery store called Loven's on the corner. How do you manage to get around the Bronx "finding nostalgia?" It must be an interesting job thanks again Bob. Kathleen
Im a union rep and have guys working all over the bronx. yea guess its got its perks not having to sit behind a desk all day or having to work out in the weather...anything else i can do kathleen just give a holla
Posts: 150 | Location: PELHAM BAY | Registered: 23 February 2006
Send me a cheese pizza from Sorrento's on 232nd st& White Plains Rd, and then send some black/whites from the bakery on 238th st White Plains Rd. and then a hot Pastrami sandwich and fries from the Jewish deli in Cross County? I can taste them all now? Can you do that? lol have a great evening Bob. Thanks Kathleen
no i dont barb not that i remember. fenton is on the north end of pelham pkwy pelham bay itself is on the south end..if you throw a few names i might remember
Posts: 150 | Location: PELHAM BAY | Registered: 23 February 2006
corner of 173rd street and bryant avenue. comic books .10 and small sundaes with whip cream and cherry on top. best cream soda from the fountain ever. bazooka bubble gum .01, babe ruth .05. the owner were refugees from ww2 concentration camps - we loved them alot. they would tell stories of their lost families. we didn't get it back then. when i was in college is when i learned about the tattoos and such. by the time i grew up and left. they had gone to be with their families. they were great people.
Originally posted by Tony_CollegeAve: I happened to notice that there is a list of candy stores on this site. One of the stores is listed as Wilkins Sweet Ctr. 1342 Wilkins Ave. That was my grandfathers restaurant/luncheonette, not a candy store. The name of the store in the 60's/70's was Willies Sweet Shoppe (I'm pretty sure it said Willies as my Grandfather's name was Willie, I could be wrong though, It very well may have said Wilkins). Every member of our family worked in this luncheonette. I was only in the 3rd grade when I was waiting tables there and/or working the cash register. Yes, I got in trouble for working the cash register too well, if you know what I mean. Across the street? BusterBrown, Hardware Store, Candy Store. Next to the Sweet Shoppe? Woolworths, Drug Store, G.M.C. clothing store, Meat Market. Those were great times, every shopowner on Wilkins Ave. came into our luncheonette every single day to get basically the same dishes, unbelievable!
Tony;I used to live directly across the street (right over the Buster Brown store, 3rd floor) I knew your grandfather Willie. I use to go in there all the time, my father would send me over to get meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and green beans, it was delicious. The store was originally called Wilkins Sweet Shoppe, when Willie bought the store, the original sign was not taken down, but it was definitely Willie's. The inside of the restaurant had the original tables and chairs from the sweet shoppe (this is the way it was spelled on the pink neon sign) and a counter with stools. If I close my eyes I can visualize Willie's face with his black rimmed eyeglasses and white cap. Thanks for the memory. Do you have any pictures of Wilkins Avenue? Would love to see.
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Kitty's for candy, and Moe's for comics and those great rinky-dink toys like miniature cameras with built-in pictures, and cotton-tipped "cigarettes" that would puff powder "smoke." Both stores were within a couple blocks of each other on East 183rd, not far from PS 32.
The best and there were 2 of them growing up in the norheast bronx in the 60s and 70s were The Round-Up on 233rd street owned by the nicest people you ever wanted to meet.The other was Danny and Roses near Saint Francis of Rome school.
Does anyone remember Kramer's candy store on Tremont and University? 2 for 1 cent malted milk balls, egg creams. Does anyone know where I can buy candy apples- they were a hard candy with yellow on one side and red on the other and had a hard light pink inside?
I've looked for that forever and I just can't find it.
The round up on the south side of 233 st. near white pls. rd. between Barnes ave. and wpr. Anybody remember the name of the candy store near the corner of white pls. rd. and 233 st. and the one on white pls. rd. near 233 st. it was near the Grand Union, and i think two brothers ran it.
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Kitty Morance and her husband's candy store, lower Tremont Avenue, near West Farms Road.They let us hang out and made a nice black and white soda..I loved to collect the bubblegum charms, too when I was at PS6 across the street Coveted them like gold, lol. Then there was Luhrs on University Avenue....boy what great stuff they had.
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