Cannot say enough about GORMAN'S..The BIG BURGER was next to the RKO Fordham theater.
I worked after school and Saturday at Krums in 67. Worked at John Ward shoes down the hill near Elm Place (68-69)

Old Fordham Road is gone. I dont think there is one of the old stores left. If you go down to the Hub in many ways it looks the same. Go to Alexanders. It looks like it did 60 years ago. Its now called Conways. One of the old stores is still there, I think its been there close to 100 years. I will not tell you what it is but if you see it you will remember it.

dbob, the only 2 stores that are left from the 60's are the luncheonette at the Metro North Station and of course...White Castle.

The oldest store on Fordham,,hmmmmm The Army recruiting place?

Is Sears still there?

Duane Read??

Maybe it's Blockbuster.

White Castle is on Forham but out of the shopping area. I heard sears is going or already gone. When ever I tell friends Im going to White Castle they up chuck. Well at least my kids like it.

The Recruiting booths have been torn down and new structures built. I joined the Navy there on the overpass across the street from Alexanders in 1970. Sears is being re-opened in the same location as a retail store (again)

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dbob,

Madows Jewelry store?

Elrod'
I have to admit I only went up to Fordham once a year. We did most of our shopping in the Hub. We could walk there. If we were going to take a bus or a train we went downtown. I did not know most of the small stores at Fordham.

There was National Shoe Stores, Kinney shoes, Flagg Brothers, Plymonth Stores, Woolworth, Bond Jewelers, Daviga's, Alexanders, Gormans, there was a sweater shop,there was a record store on the hill, the Valentine Theater. I can see the stores but can't remember all the names, but sheesh, all those shoe stores and the shoes were cheap back then like $3.99, I would buy two pairs of ballerina flats at a time I still have some of the old shoe boxes from back then.

My girl friend now my wife loved Lomanns

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My girl friend now my wife loved Lomanns

LOEHMAN'S WAS THE PLACE TO SHOP FOR CLOTHING FOR WOMEN.....I WAS THERE EVERY DAY, LOOKING FOR THE MARKDOWNS....

Remember the crack sound when you bit into one of Gorman's hot dogs? Yummm!

Mike: I remember that overpass opposite Alexanders! They used to set up mobile post office trucks there during the holiday season.

Paradise: Oh thanks for the memories! I forgot about National Shoes and Kinney shoes! But I remember Albrechts's and Lerner Shops, for women's clothes. And I remember seeing "Let The Good Times Roll" at the RKO Fordham movies on my first date with my husband in the seventies.

Barb: I remember Loehman's too on Jerome Avenue. There was a fast food place next door called "B&B Burgers" that had awesome fried chicken. There was another B&B Burgers near Korvette's on Bruckner Blvd. Loved their hush puppies. I don't think I ever had a burger at B&B Burgers. LOL

Cousins record shop between Marion and Webster, you could listen to the record in one of the
booths in the back. Across the street Scotty's pool hall, Bobkoffs, Wallachs, Bonds, H&H.

Today I would have to drive for miles to get what was on Fordham. Back in the day, I could walk out my door and go to a great bakery (Webers) or Telstar or Olympic dinners, Jackson Steak House, Hom and Homs Chinese, Joes Army Navy, Woolworths, Alexanders… all those shops, all those theaters (RKO, Valentine, Paradise). We didn’t have to go anywhere else.

Also I had sooo many friends. We would play a game of ring-a-levio with about 20 neighborhood kids running around between University and Grand..it was awesome.

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Exactly my sentiments.....Circa62, Welcome to the Nostalgia Forum.

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Who could forget Fordham Rd. we'd walk it every night especially in the summer, a warm night, usually a Friday night the guys would be hanging around the movie house RKO or near one of the Hot Dog joints, I remember the recruiting stations, Sharfts (sp) and that place where you could buy all kinds of nuts they had a restaurant in the back, it was burned out in the 60's. There were sooo many shops on Fordham to choose from, the record shops, Woolworths, so many memories from long ago.

HITNMISS....What neighborhood are you from?..where did you go to HS and what year did you graduate?

Reading about the Concourse, and the huge number of stores there brings back so many memories....for starters, wasnt there a Navy Recruiting Office across the street from Alexanders?....It was there, I believe, that I joined the Navy in 1968. I also worked in Alexanders while a high school student. It was a different world for me! I had to take the 6 train from Elder Ave and Westchester Ave to 125th St, change for the 4, and get off on Fordham and walk down Fordham to the Concourse. Fordham Road was a world unto itself....it seemed so large..... My job was to deliver gift boxes to the various sales areas, especially during the Christmas Holiday. I remember there were so many people in that store. Wasn't Poe Park across the Concourse from Alexanders, one block north? I recall in the summers of 1962 and 1963 us southeastern Bronxites used to hang out there with friends from Roosevelt. I also remember that some guys from that area didnt like us in their neighborhood, and a few fights almost broke out. Imagine, we were 17, and already involved in territorial behavior, just because we wanted to hang out in Poe Park! I have the distinct memory that the West Bronx seemed so much larger and with with more people that where I came from, in the southeast Bronx. Nevertheless, we had so much fun, meeting so many people from a different universe, the West Bronx!

I recently walked down Fordham....alas, it has changed........

DA BRONX!!!!

Dances at Poe Park I think were on Wed. nights or Thurs. Alexanders with their bins of shoes, searching for a right and left shoe, ha, what fun. Riding the elevator up/down, hiding under the racks of clothing when mom wasn't looking.
After shopping it was always a treat to get a hot dog from Gorman's and a orange drink, yummy there was a leather goods store, I used to buy my wallets there, they would put your initials on them in gold for "free". There was a baby/toddler store near the leather goods store on the South bound side of the Concourse. Back then you could walk the whole length of the Concourse and not worry about anything, today its a different story, I was in the Bronx and drove on Fordham, OMG what happened, I heard that you don't even want to live in the area too nasty. But hey guys we grew up there and it was good for us and look at all the memories we have to last us a lifetime.

Steve, I joined the Navy at that Recruiting Station across the street from Alexander's in 1970. I've seen some recent photos of Fordham Road and it's enough to make ya want to cry...what have they done to my old nabe?

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