I grew up in the South Bronx, late 50's early 60's. My family never had a telephone. I remember when we had to call someone, we went to the candy store around the corner to use the payphones. 138 St between Willis Ave and Alexander Ave. Thank you for the memories!!!!
I remember the candy stores around my neighborhood in Morrisania. The hamburgers were 2 for 75¢ and the fries in a snow cone cup. Best darn burgers I ever had. Unfortunately, the Bodegas and Fast Food joints soon would take over.
Oh the sweet sweet memories. The owner of my corner candy store would let me read all the comic books all the time. That was so nice of him. His name was Victor and I will never forget him!
Great!!! A candy store to a boy was like a favorite bar to an adult. My favorite candy store was Maxi's on 20th avenue in Brooklyn. I hung out there in the 60s & 70s. You met your friends on a daily basis & argued who was better, the Mets or the Yankees. I bought my pretzel logs with a vanilla egg cream. You bought & traded or flipped baseball cards. One thing you left out along with Spalding & Pensi Pinky's, you purchased a stickball bat there. A magical time!
We had a candy store/soda fountain shop (and plenty Bodegas) on Allerton Ave in the late 80s/early 90s. My dad got me an egg cream there. Thanks for this video. It brought back some good memories of my old Bronx neighborhood. I lived at 630 Mace Ave and walked Allerton Ave nearly every day. In fact, this summer I built a mini Bodega in my Garage and filled it with drinks, comics and tons of Candy so my kids could experience the joy of a place like that growing up like I did. You might leave New York, but it never leaves you 😂 Thanks for taking me back.
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My comics of choice was always Archie. I used to buy Hot Stuff (the little devil) for my mother. Boy, this brought back memories... though we'd get our school supplies from Cheap Charlie's on Pitkin Ave!☺️
My parents owned candy stores back in the 60's. They where all in Brooklyn in different neighbourhoods. How nostalgic. I remember the soda fountain, cards, (my mom maid a great egg cream soda), magazines, newspapers, candiesassemble Its a time long gone, but not forgotten. Thanks again.
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My parents owned “Bill’s” candy store in East Flatbush thanks for telling the story they were owned by hardworking families in many cases that I can remember. One thing I remember my Dad used to give out prizes for high score in the shooting ducks game. Great memories.
I grew up in the 70s in Brooklyn and have wonderful memories of taking walks with my father to get the evening paper at the candy store. While we were there he would sometimes get an egg cream and I'd get either a candy bar, baseball cards or a comic book. There would always be somebody there that we knew and somebody to talk to. Its amazing how so many years have passed by yet I can still see that candy store so clearly in my mind. Oh, what I would give to have one more evening walk with my father.
My neighborhood candy store was Eddie's at University Avenue and W 174th St in the Bronx. This video brought back A LOT of memories. In the 60s, you could buy four candy bars or boxed candies and a Bazooka bubble gum for a quarter. On late summer nights, my mother, sister and I would walk to the subway station on Jerome Avenue to meet my father coming home from work. Thanks for this video.
Our Candy Store was in the corner of Decatur Ave and Bedford Park Blvd. I loved going there for ice cream. 2 cents wxtra for sprinkles. Thanks for the memories!
I LOVE THIS so much! Gives great context to all the old photos and video that is available. It was the connection of business owner and neighborhood that was so important; and so lacking in 2021. The sense of community.
Thanks for the great video! My father was the last owner of Carmine`s candy store located on Mayflower ave in the north east Bronx, Pelham Bay area. Some may remember the previous owners before 1960 who were Charlie and Mary. The store came to an end about 1965. There were several other candy stores in the area, kind of near ps 71. I remember Garbers at the corner of Hobart and Crosby ave. As you went up Crosby ave there were 4 more candy stores, a distance of about 2 miles. Like was said in this video there was a store every couple of blocks and the pretty much looked the same too. Thanks again..
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Growing up in my Brooklyn neighborhood in the 60s, we had five within a few minutes walking distance of where I lived, and many more within 20 or 30 minutes- each one was known by the name of its owner- Mike's, Ernie's, Harry's, Tanny's and Frank's, were the ones closest to me. Some of them even offered full meals. Along with all the items mentioned in the video some of them also sold model car kits, the building of which I took up when I was 9 years old in 1967. Overall they were just great cozy places to escape to when I needed to get away for a while from my fucked up family- thank you very much for this wonderful trip back in time...
There was a candy store on 238th st just east of Bailey Avenue. It was dark and dingy and only the elderly owner worked there. It had very old fashioned candy cases, that would today be considered beautiful. I went away for the summer and when I came back, it had been completely renovated by a new owner and it was bright, very modern and clean. They served lots of food items and we ate there often. But that particular one had a very small supply of comic books. They did have one circular rack of mass market paperbacks and I remember buying some of the James Bond books there. There was another candy store on 238th st and Broadway that's now a deli or bodega. I think it was called Murray's. They had a counter and served ice-cream but not food, but they had a tremendous selection of magazines. When I was 8 or 9 years old, I bought the second issue of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" there and Murray didn't want to sell it to me. He said, "your parents wouldn't want you spending money on that junk!", but I insisted and I bought it. I also remember him telling my mother that he was in deep financial trouble because he spend a fortune on greeting card inventory.
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My parents owned one in Queens, the store hours were 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM Mon-Sat and 6:00 to 3:00 on Sundays. The whole family had to kick in to run it. Even when I was 8 or 9 years old, my job was to maintain the stock of bottled and canned sodas in the fridges. Back then most of the bottles had a refund on them, so when I came home from school I had to carry the empty bottle returns into the basement, and on the way up carry the full bottles for the fridge. Also - We used to get credit from the Newspaper Distributors for the newspapers that didn't sell. We would return the cover page of the unsold papers for credit. I also had to carry the rest of the paper into the basement, where we would store it and then make a trip to the local junkyard ( the junkie as we used to call him ) with the paper. You can guess who carried the paper up and into the van. We used to end up getting about $12.00 per load. Eventually I got a paper route organized by the store, I delivered the Daily News , NY Times, Il Progresso, Die Staats Zeitung
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Our store was called Sam's. Walk in on the right side were the cases of candy. Walk towards the back of the store was the fountain drinks. On the left side of the store were the magazines and on the top shelves were the porm magazines. Just the way it was. Miss that time.
...I grew up at 135 W 238th Street....just off Bailey Avenue....lived there from 1964-1976...and then moved @4-5 blocks away...so have never left the neighborhood. We had the infamous Snookie's which was opene from 1930s through @1970 at the same loacation....then moved @150' away through the 90s....Bailey Avnue. Furhter down 238th Street...heading towards Broadway we had Murray's, Max's and Mike's...and until @1968...all 3 "M"s worked every day....newspapers, egg creams, greeting cards, penny candy., school supplies.
What a great and thorough trip down memory lane. You covered just about everything except for the soft pretzels sold fresh each day. I remember them being stacked on a verticle stick and selling for 5 cents each. Again, what a terrific video! Even the narrator has that great NYC accent.
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I grow up on 7th St BTW Ave C&D Corner of East River. In Front of us was a Candy Store name Rosey's. I and Friends bought items every week. I remember the penny candy's and 5cent Cookies. Good memories.1972
Great memories of Elsey and Leo's candy store. 17th Ave and 66th street Bensonhurst Brooklyn, near Benson bagels. So much is true down to "this is not a library" to the owner being a bookie. Thx
In Our Lady Of Refuge Parish , in the Bronx, on Briggs Ave. Carries and Larry's was the spot, for the best 1cent candies, and for egg creams, and just to meet up with someone, and then take a walk eating your candy bars. Grew up in the 50's, born in 1949, so 50's and 60's were my candy store days. A lot of my little change went to that store
72nd St & Elliot Ave Queens ... I can still smell the candy, cigars & magazines ... Born & live in Colorado but my summers in the 60s were with extended family & NYC wonderful!
Born in 76 left for college in 95. Went to the candy store primarily for comics. Sometimes for the paper. The adults in my life played numbers, but that's a different story! 😆
Thank you for those early photos. I grew up in Long Island city in the 1950s. Remember all those things that you brought out our candy store was called the raven because I lived in the projects called Ravenswood and many fond memories of going up there with my dad and getting the newspaper in the evening during the summer, and of course buy my favorite candies pretzels and something called a walk away Sunday. You may know what that is.
I don't know the official name of our candy store, we just called it Benny's. It was on Hopkinson Avenue near Pitkin, across the street from my home. I remember the wooden floors, the glass showcases of candy, the comic book rack, and Benny. He'd start singing "Barney Google", my name is Bonnie. I loved "splurging on the 2cent chocolate pieces, Ice Cubes, I think they were called. Fast forward to 1964.......I was 14. My future husband was working in the candy store we passed every day on the way to JHS 149, on Sutter Avenue, near Miller? I don't know the name of that candy store either, we just called it Joe's, as he was the owner(?). I would go there after school as well, my parents liked the ice cream they served, so I would have to get for them, a half-pint of coffee, and in the same paper carton, a half-pint of cherry vanilla. The boy working there must have thought I was a glutton, always buying this much ice cream. Well, 53 years later, we are still together, but this time, we are the ones that share the pints of ice cream. Thanks for the video.....the kids today have no idea what they missed out on...............
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Pete's on 47th Ave., Flushing, NY growing up, but when I was really small, my grandmother owned a candy store in Ridgewood, Queens. Loved chocolate sodas and egg-cream!
Loved your documentary!! We had a few real nice candy stores here in Bayside, Queens. If I knew how much some of those comic books go for now I would have bought them all up!! And just for the heck of it several months ago I checked on ebay and found that CANDY CIGARETTES are still being made and sold! I couldn't believe it, in this day and age when they are cancelling everything the least bit controversial. Oh and I remember a giant Three Musketeers candy bar went for 20 cents at Murray's Stationery store on 32nd avenue in 1973.
Thanks for posting this. These little candy stores were a New York institution. Most of them were TINY with maybe 2 or 3 swivel stools and there were LOTS of them. The one I mostly went to was Rosie's on the Lower East Side, she'd sell 2 or 3 cigarettes at a time, penny candy and of course newspapers and comic books and egg creams. "Spaldeens". There was always something that a kid could afford, along with baseball cards. My father used to talk about getting a 2 cent plain which was just seltzer water from the tap in those little coca cola glasses, you know the ones. I don't think many of these are left, one being Gem's Spa on St. Marks which was also pictured here in the 1960's, I swear one of the guys hanging out out front in the picture looks just like my friend Walter.
We had two candy stores in my immediate neighborhood in Park Slope Brooklyn - neither had a counter nor served food or fountain treats. Other items mentioned in the film rang true for me. We went to the soda fountain or the luncheonette for counter service or sit down eating.
RG thank you so much! Our comic book connections were in a drug store and a candy store, but that was the 1960s. My grandfather operated one in Atlantic City in the 1930s that I have always been curious about and this helps!
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Candy stores were popular out on Long Island too. Virtually every town had at least one. In Wantagh, Nassau County, our town had at least three, with the "coolest" one being Al's on Merrick Road. How, or why, Al made any money while allowing us teenagers to hang around all of the time is beyond me.
@mrmalco11 I remember the candy store on the corner of Hemstead Avenue and Springfield Boulevard and across the street was the Golden Brick Diner and Woolworths luncheon counter on Jamaica Avenue near 217 street and a couple doors down was Winter's...
I can remember the soda fountains, the candy stands, and the magazine racks, I loved the comic books when I didn't have the money to buy them, after mowing a few lawns I'd head back to the candy store and load up on candy and comic books, lol. Thanks so much for refreshing our memories.
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8 Times a year I rushed to get the new "Mad Magazine". Also, to this day, I've never had a chocolate malted like the ones at the candy store. We called a Spalding...a spaldine (with our NYC accents). Every kid had one of the two balls in our pocket (Other being Pensy Pinky) and we could play at least 25 different games with them. Stick Ball, Box Ball, Hit the Penny, Box Baseball, Stoopball......the list goes on!
Video brings back many fond memories of the neighborhood candy stores from the 50's & 60's even the 70;s when you went back to the old neighborhood Thanks
Wow, I see good ole Gems Spa there at 1:57! Corner of 2nd Ave & St Mark’s (8th St)...we’d head there from all over the city in the late 60s to get “hip” periodicals like Rolling Stone, Village Voice it Down Beat, especially before continuing to Fillmore East. Solid egg cream I might add. My favorite early 60s candy store was Moe’d on Amsterdam btwn 165th-166th. He got all Marvel comics before other stores, and had the best candy selection. Wonderful days, thanks for creating this lovely documentation.
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In the late 1920s, early 1930s, my maternal grandmother owned one! On 4th Ave in Brooklyn, in the Park Slope area. It was a small one, no luncheonette or fountain.
What a great video. Brings back some great memories.l My father had a candy tore in the Bronx in the 60's. Me and my brothers worked there. It was a big hangout for all our friends. We actually turned it into a candy store and Luncheonette. It was some of the greatest times growing up
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This brings back fond memories of when I was a kid growing up in Williamsburg Brooklyn and going to "Sid's" in the 60's and 70's with my mother Rose and my aunt Anna and usually getting a tuna melt with an egg cream. Those were the days as we say.
As a small kid there was Cheep Charlies on Bay Parkway off 65th st in Bklyn but one of the last hold outs was a great family and wonderful Husband and wife team @ Hobbyland where toys were sold as well on 20th ave 63rd.
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Pepsi didn't sell till 1965, we had egg creams, coke or orange crush. We had Nick's in Flushing then it was Vera's, I worked there, such a good time. My breakfast every morning before school was egg cream and a buttered roll, miss those days. God Bless all
Our candy store in Woodside, Queens was Willies..My mom would send me around the corner for a pack of Chesterfield King.They had Breyers ice cream at the fountain, penny candy and a coca-cola cooler with green glass bottles of coke on ice..plunging your arm into the ice water on a hot summer day was like heaven.
I grew up in the early seventies and my candy store was Garbers in the Bronx. Bazooka gum was a penny, baseball cards and whacky packages were .20 cents a pack and comics were .20 cents as well. I wanted every Aurora glow in the dark monster model in those square boxes and when I had enough saved I'd go and get a new one, $2.49 if I remember right but the best part of going to Garbers was sitting up on the stool and getting an egg cream and pulling out a long pretzel. I so do miss those days, thought they would last forever.
Dude ; I am your age! Funny ; $2.49 for an Aurora Monster kit was kinda high - BUT "candy stores" ALWAYS upped the cost on toys! In a TOY STORE like Buy Rite it would have been like a dollar less . Now the Godzilla and King Kong and the Witch were considered "larger" (well the boxes were larger) so at $2.49 - it would not be that much higher. Yes; Wacky Packs were 20 cents . Marvel Comics JUMPED from 15 cents to 20 cents by 1972. A candy bar , like a Chunky was 25 cents . What was your FAVORITE Aurora model ? Mine was the Phantom of the Opera because of the bloody slave he had in his cave/cell below. Do you also remember the models kits of Dr. deadly and Vampirella ?
From 1950 to 1966 we lived in an apartment situated directly above a candy store. "Fink's" candy store was on the corner of 54th street & 6th Ave in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It was, as you described, central to the neighborhood. Kids, teens and adults would always be seen in and around the store. The owner and his wife were really nice people, they would let me read the monster magazines and comic books. One problem that we had because of the sweets in the store was roaches, I'd have to check my shoes before putting them on in the morning. After we moved away, the store became a laundromat, later to be converted into an apartment.
It would be awesome to find a photo of it. Back then , nobody took photos of stores. Unless a parade went by. I am ALWAYS looking for vintage Bensonhurst shots (1960-1969) and NEVER see ANY .
Kappy's at the corner of Gun Hill & White Plains. Rd. ... He sold it in the 60's and it became Evander Sweet Shop. I worked for Kappy as a young boy in the early 60's .... Great memories of the day.
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I Remember My favorite candy store, Mike's, It Was Mike & Dotties On Mermaid Avenue In Coney Island. I have so many great memories from there.I Loved My Egg Creams They made Me, And All The Other great Things I Got There. I Miss Those Stores.
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I remember them dearly, and miss them sorely. They were every few blocks away, and always had some little thing different. I remember the two in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, on the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Glenwood Road, and the other on Flatlands Ave and Rockaway Parkway. I sure do miss them. Thanks for the vid, and the memories.
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Excellent! Love it! I always ordered a black and white ice cream soda. Ours also made a "half and half". Toasted english muffin that was half tuna and half egg salad. Good old days indeed.
what a fabulous piece ou put together. So nostalgic. I loved Louies on Tryon Ave. On rainy days when it was too far to walk home, I could get a hamburger for lunch there.
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My Family owned three similar stores in Vailsburg, Newark and Irvington NJ. Your film was very very familiar to what we had. We also had pinball machine in each location. Thanks for wonderful memories. Ones our children will never know
We lived on Mohegan Avenue, and 180th Street, my Uncle owned a "candy store/Luncheonette, called George's Luncheonette, this was late 40's to the mid 50'ls, great memories, Uncle George also had a Juke Box, and terrific food. RIP Uncle George and Aunt Sally.... Thanks for the memories....
OMG...this is a great stroll down memory lane. I forgot all about seltest ice cream and Bohack. My grandparents would take me to candy stores for chocolate egg creme fountain drinks in the summer. I miss those candy stores so much.
Great video! Brought back a lot of memories. My favorite candy store in the late 1960s was "Minnie's" at 374 Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn, NY. Anyone else remember it?
We lived upstairs from a dentist just across from the Sunoco gas station...where New York Blvd merged with Farmers Blvd...but on Farmers in Springfield Gardens, Queens. The dentist office, Dr. D;Isidori(Dr. Pernak's doctor office was in the back)was next to OUR candy store. OUR candy store was owned by 2 Jewish couples and was THE best! Down the road a piece on New York Blvd, across the street from P.S.52, was another candy store. The only reason we went there was in the hopes of purchasing baseball cards not in the packs we bought at OUR candy store. I'll never forget the 16 cents bottles of RC Cola after an exciting basketball or stickball game(using a Pensy Pinky and stickball bat bought at OUR candy store). Unforgetable as well were the 35cents malteds, the 15 cents Rock n Root root beer, egg creams, ice cream cones, and 5 cents a scoop Italian Ices. Don't know what we would have done with out OUR candy store!
Sol and Lefty's, 249th Street and Union Tpke in Queens. Spent the 70s in there, buying candy. The only time I got to sit at the counter was when my mom wanted an egg cream.
Our candy store was located in the South Bronx. We lived on Teasdale Place - 3rd Avenue. Our candy store on the corner sold pickled pig feet in a large glass jar for 5 cents. Thank you for the memories.
Mr. Pease was the owner of the candy store on Glenwood Road and Albany Avenue. One thing not mentioned here - and one important ingredient in my life - was the song book. This was a magazine that listed the lyrics of all the most popular songs of the day, So while I listened to WNEW on the radio, I could listen to records of the "big bands" and sing along with Frank and Ella, Tony and Rosemary, and all the top singers of the day.
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Loved this! The candy store near me was on Brighton 10th street and Coney Island Ave. It was called "Mermi's" and we had egg creams there. My last name is "Diamond" and my dad had a jewelry store--Diamond Jewelers---right across from Mermi's!!! AH, THE MEMORIES!
Herzogs at the corner of Ocean View Avenue and Brighton 11th Street in the 1930's and '40's. Most embarrassing moment was when I got caught swiping a licorice candy when I was about 5 years old! Stopped my crime spree in its tracks!
Grew up on Audubon Ave, in Washington Heights, NYC.(1946-58) Our corner Candy Store was Barnett's on 186th and Audubon. I loved getting the penny candies, And the Egg Creams when we had the money for that! Good memories.
Elizabeth McDavid my grandmother lived on laurel hill terrace,Washington heights.I spend a month with her every summer.My grandfather owned a drug store on Audubon that had candy and soda fountain....great memories!
Elizabeth McDavid I don't recall that Audubon candy store but I lived a bit west, so my favorite candy store was on St. Nicholas between 186-185th streets (the best egg creams). There was also one near the little church on St. Nicholas between 187th-188th streets. Also liked the one on St. Nick between 189-190th streets (carried my Marvel comics). I had so many to choose from :)
That was awesome !!! We claimed Pizzi's in Mount Vernon as our store. One block past Sanford Blvd. If you crossed the street you were in The Bronx where all of us lived. I lived on Monticello Ave. My cousin once grabbed a $5.00 bill from his dad's wallet and we spent the entire day at Pizzi's. When we left we still had almost $3.00. We couldn't even spend it all. We couldn't go home with that kind of loot so we placed it around my house under the hedges and by the garbage cans and pretended we found money. First a $1.00 bill then two quarters and so on. We even let my little brother Danny find and keep a dime and a nickel. My dad came out and said "come on, where did you really get the money". Guess he didn't believe us. Man those were the greatest times of my life. Thanks for this.
Anyone who had the Candy store experience knows how it mean't a social place for young people. You could get a hot dog hamburger ice cream cones banana split penny candy. You would sit at the soda fountain malteds coke egg cream coc or vanilla. We had Petes Cany store in Williamsburg directly accross from St. Marys Convent on Leonard St. Another candy store was Thomas Candy Store on Calyer and Eckford St. He was a nice man but my favorite memories are from Pete's . We were respectful and if not you couldn't come back unless you came with a parent mostly we were on our best behavior because we lived hanging out and watching the older kids play the Jute Box with all the new songs by Connie Francis Toni Bennett and so on. We grew up do different then today. They don't know what they missed. It was grand.
Our candy store was on the corner of 66th Street and 15th Avenue in Brooklyn. We called it Tony the Candy Store. He had everything the video mentions and it was the only place you could get a charlotte reusse and a Clincher.
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Spent many days in Harry's Candy Store on 31st street, across from Carvel in Astoria Queens. He always called my friends and I " Bums ". Great memories.
my Russian grandpa had a corner candy store in Irvington, New Jersey. He kept a couple barrels of whole dill pickles near the entrance. When we visited we'd get a pickle and milk shake of choice.
My parents owned a candy store in the 70s it was an old school coca-cola bottle caps on either side above the store. Long soda fountain,tons of candy and pennies candy and pretty much everything else described in this video, however it being the 1970s and the advent of the video games /pinball generation. We had a game room in the back of the store that became the neighborhood hangout. I was 10 and would work at the counter at times to give my mother or father a break for a little while was an experience I'll never forget . My parents didn't enjoy the experience as much because the store was opened 530 am till 10 pm 7 days a week it took a toll the revenue wasn't good enough to be worth all the hours .
I grew up in the South Bronx, late 50's early 60's. My family never had a telephone. I remember when we had to call someone, we went to the candy store around the corner to use the payphones. 138 St between Willis Ave and Alexander Ave. Thank you for the memories!!!!
Same here melrose ave n 161 st. 1960's moved out in 1975 to the northeast bronx which was called eastchester section just above co-op city
I remember the candy stores around my neighborhood in Morrisania. The hamburgers were 2 for 75¢ and the fries in a snow cone cup. Best darn burgers I ever had. Unfortunately, the Bodegas and Fast Food joints soon would take over.
Oh the sweet sweet memories. The owner of my corner candy store would let me read all the comic books all the time. That was so nice of him. His name was Victor and I will never forget him!
Great!!! A candy store to a boy was like a favorite bar to an adult. My favorite candy store was Maxi's on 20th avenue in Brooklyn.
I hung out there in the 60s & 70s. You met your friends on a daily basis & argued who was better, the Mets or the Yankees.
I bought my pretzel logs with a vanilla egg cream. You bought & traded or flipped baseball cards.
One thing you left out along with Spalding & Pensi Pinky's, you purchased a stickball bat there.
A magical time!
We had a candy store/soda fountain shop (and plenty Bodegas) on Allerton Ave in the late 80s/early 90s. My dad got me an egg cream there. Thanks for this video. It brought back some good memories of my old Bronx neighborhood. I lived at 630 Mace Ave and walked Allerton Ave nearly every day. In fact, this summer I built a mini Bodega in my Garage and filled it with drinks, comics and tons of Candy so my kids could experience the joy of a place like that growing up like I did. You might leave New York, but it never leaves you 😂
Thanks for taking me back.
Thanks you for this childhood memory. Made me forget today for a minute and enjoy looking back!!!
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My comics of choice was always Archie. I used to buy Hot Stuff (the little devil) for my mother. Boy, this brought back memories... though we'd get our school supplies from Cheap Charlie's on Pitkin Ave!☺️
My parents owned candy stores back in the 60's. They where all in Brooklyn in different neighbourhoods. How nostalgic. I remember the soda fountain, cards, (my mom maid a great egg cream soda), magazines, newspapers, candiesassemble
Its a time long gone, but not forgotten. Thanks again.
Any in Bensonhurst ?
..my Grandparents owned a candy store in the Bronx, N.Y...on east Tremont Avenue. R.I.P. Grandma and Grandpa. ..thank You for this video, Sir. amen.
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where did they own it east tremont runs from jerome ave to throggs neck
@@christorpher84..i believe it was near Jerome Ave.
My parents owned “Bill’s” candy store in East Flatbush thanks for telling the story they were owned by hardworking families in many cases that I can remember. One thing I remember my Dad used to give out prizes for high score in the shooting ducks game. Great memories.
I grew up in the 70s in Brooklyn and have wonderful memories of taking walks with my father to get the evening paper at the candy store. While we were there he would sometimes get an egg cream and I'd get either a candy bar, baseball cards or a comic book. There would always be somebody there that we knew and somebody to talk to. Its amazing how so many years have passed by yet I can still see that candy store so clearly in my mind. Oh, what I would give to have one more evening walk with my father.
That would have been the Daily News "NIGHT OWL" edition ! Little owl icon up in the corner.
What area of Brooklyn ?
My neighborhood candy store was Eddie's at University Avenue and W 174th St in the Bronx. This video brought back A LOT of memories. In the 60s, you could buy four candy bars or boxed candies and a Bazooka bubble gum for a quarter. On late summer nights, my mother, sister and I would walk to the subway station on Jerome Avenue to meet my father coming home from work. Thanks for this video.
I remember eddies! i lived around the corner on Nelson ave in 1965 to 1967!!!! i loved that area! we moved up to Walton ave above Burnside ave
Our Candy Store was in the corner of Decatur Ave and Bedford Park Blvd. I loved going there for ice cream. 2 cents wxtra for sprinkles. Thanks for the memories!
I LOVE THIS so much! Gives great context to all the old photos and video that is available. It was the connection of business owner and neighborhood that was so important; and so lacking in 2021. The sense of community.
Thanks for the great video! My father was the last owner of Carmine`s candy store located on Mayflower ave in the north east Bronx, Pelham Bay area. Some may remember the previous owners before 1960 who were Charlie and Mary. The store came to an end about 1965. There were several other candy stores in the area, kind of near ps 71. I remember Garbers at the corner of Hobart and Crosby ave. As you went up Crosby ave there were 4 more candy stores, a distance of about 2 miles. Like was said in this video there was a store every couple of blocks and the pretty much looked the same too. Thanks again..
What a beautiful time in NY. Grew up in the early 70's. My favorite candy store was Stanley's in Rego Park Queens, but I knew of a dozen others.
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I used to live in Lefrak city Right by Macy’s and the late 60s
This is a fabulous trip down memory lane! Thank you!
I loved seeing those old candy store signs. Brooklyn was full of them; we had one right on the corner of our street and it was great!🤫
Growing up in my Brooklyn neighborhood in the 60s, we had five within a few minutes walking distance of where I lived, and many more within 20 or 30 minutes- each one was known by the name of its owner- Mike's, Ernie's, Harry's, Tanny's and Frank's, were the ones closest to me. Some of them even offered full meals. Along with all the items mentioned in the video some of them also sold model car kits, the building of which I took up when I was 9 years old in 1967. Overall they were just great cozy places to escape to when I needed to get away for a while from my fucked up family- thank you very much for this wonderful trip back in time...
There was a candy store on 238th st just east of Bailey Avenue. It was dark and dingy and only the elderly owner worked there. It had very old fashioned candy cases, that would today be considered beautiful. I went away for the summer and when I came back, it had been completely renovated by a new owner and it was bright, very modern and clean. They served lots of food items and we ate there often. But that particular one had a very small supply of comic books. They did have one circular rack of mass market paperbacks and I remember buying some of the James Bond books there.
There was another candy store on 238th st and Broadway that's now a deli or bodega. I think it was called Murray's. They had a counter and served ice-cream but not food, but they had a tremendous selection of magazines. When I was 8 or 9 years old, I bought the second issue of "Famous Monsters of Filmland" there and Murray didn't want to sell it to me. He said, "your parents wouldn't want you spending money on that junk!", but I insisted and I bought it. I also remember him telling my mother that he was in deep financial trouble because he spend a fortune on greeting card inventory.
now thats how you do it!!! location is everything
Nice video! I could always scrap together $0.05 for Bazooka gum, all I needed was a quart bottle....
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My parents owned one in Queens, the store hours were 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM Mon-Sat and 6:00 to 3:00 on Sundays. The whole family had to kick in to run it. Even when I was 8 or 9 years old, my job was to maintain the stock of bottled and canned sodas in the fridges. Back then most of the bottles had a refund on them, so when I came home from school I had to carry the empty bottle returns into the basement, and on the way up carry the full bottles for the fridge.
Also - We used to get credit from the Newspaper Distributors for the newspapers that didn't sell. We would return the cover page of the unsold papers for credit. I also had to carry the rest of the paper into the basement, where we would store it and then make a trip to the local junkyard ( the junkie as we used to call him ) with the paper. You can guess who carried the paper up and into the van. We used to end up getting about $12.00 per load.
Eventually I got a paper route organized by the store, I delivered the Daily News , NY Times, Il Progresso, Die Staats Zeitung
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Where in Queens was the store
Our store was called Sam's. Walk in on the right side were the cases of candy. Walk towards the back of the store was the fountain drinks. On the left side of the store were the magazines and on the top shelves were the porm magazines. Just the way it was. Miss that time.
Spent a lot of time at Sam's..
Ours was called Sam's, too. On Rockaway Boulevard in Idlewild. Sound's similar.
We had Sam's at 205th and Webster in the Bronx. Best Egg Creams in the world!
I remember my Sam's in Ozone Park, Queens..at the corner of 81st Street and 101st Avenue. where was yours????
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...I grew up at 135 W 238th Street....just off Bailey Avenue....lived there from 1964-1976...and then moved @4-5 blocks away...so have never left the neighborhood. We had the infamous Snookie's which was opene from 1930s through @1970 at the same loacation....then moved @150' away through the 90s....Bailey Avnue. Furhter down 238th Street...heading towards Broadway we had Murray's, Max's and Mike's...and until @1968...all 3 "M"s worked every day....newspapers, egg creams, greeting cards, penny candy., school supplies.
This is wonderfully nostalgic! Thank you so much!
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I use to love the long stick pretzels
What a great and thorough trip down memory lane. You covered just about everything except for the soft pretzels sold fresh each day. I remember them being stacked on a verticle stick and selling for 5 cents each. Again, what a terrific video! Even the narrator has that great NYC accent.
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Loved going around the corner to Moes candy store in Inwood to get an egg cream and a pretzel. Great times
I couldn't think of the name! Moe's! Great egg creams!
They gave out free cigar boxes if you asked, which were wonderful for all sorts of uses.
Brings back memories of the Bronx! I love hearing the great milk confection, known as a malted, but correctly pronounced “mawltid” by us natives!
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I love this, some of the best memories growing up in the Bronx
I grow up on 7th St BTW Ave C&D Corner of East River. In Front of us was a Candy Store name Rosey's. I and Friends bought items every week.
I remember the penny candy's and 5cent Cookies. Good memories.1972
Great memories of Elsey and Leo's candy store. 17th Ave and 66th street Bensonhurst Brooklyn, near Benson bagels.
So much is true down to "this is not a library" to the owner being a bookie. Thx
In Our Lady Of Refuge Parish , in the Bronx, on Briggs Ave. Carries and Larry's was the spot, for the best 1cent candies, and for egg creams, and just to meet up with someone, and then take a walk eating your candy bars. Grew up in the 50's, born in 1949, so 50's and 60's were my candy store days. A lot of my little change went to that store
By the way, I was Patricia Kelly then, and went to Our Lady of Refuge, across the street from Carrie's and Larry's
Some of the pics in the film were of Abe Zimmerman s store on allerton and olinville in the bx
I loved zimmys
THERE YOU GO THATS THE WAY TO TELL THE STORY!!! LOCATION IS EVERYTHING !!!!😊
72nd St & Elliot Ave Queens ... I can still smell the candy, cigars & magazines ... Born & live in Colorado but my summers in the 60s were with extended family & NYC wonderful!
Born in 76 left for college in 95. Went to the candy store primarily for comics. Sometimes for the paper. The adults in my life played numbers, but that's a different story! 😆
One other thing: many candy store owners were also Notary Publics, so you could get documents notarized when necessary.
I did not know that, but thanks for the information.
Thank you for those early photos. I grew up in Long Island city in the 1950s. Remember all those things that you brought out our candy store was called the raven because I lived in the projects called Ravenswood and many fond memories of going up there with my dad and getting the newspaper in the evening during the summer, and of course buy my favorite candies pretzels and something called a walk away Sunday. You may know what that is.
I don't know the official name of our candy store, we just called it Benny's. It was on Hopkinson Avenue near Pitkin, across the street from my home. I remember the wooden floors, the glass showcases of candy, the comic book rack, and Benny. He'd start singing "Barney Google", my name is Bonnie. I loved "splurging on the 2cent chocolate pieces, Ice Cubes, I think they were called. Fast forward to 1964.......I was 14. My future husband was working in the candy store we passed every day on the way to JHS 149, on Sutter Avenue, near Miller? I don't know the name of that candy store either, we just called it Joe's, as he was the owner(?). I would go there after school as well, my parents liked the ice cream they served, so I would have to get for them, a half-pint of coffee, and in the same paper carton, a half-pint of cherry vanilla. The boy working there must have thought I was a glutton, always buying this much ice cream. Well, 53 years later, we are still together, but this time, we are the ones that share the pints of ice cream. Thanks for the video.....the kids today have no idea what they missed out on...............
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Pete's on 47th Ave., Flushing, NY growing up, but when I was really small, my grandmother owned a candy store in Ridgewood, Queens. Loved chocolate sodas and egg-cream!
Loved your documentary!! We had a few real nice candy stores here in Bayside, Queens. If I knew how much some of those comic books go for now I would have bought them all up!! And just for the heck of it several months ago I checked on ebay and found that CANDY CIGARETTES are still being made and sold! I couldn't believe it, in this day and age when they are cancelling everything the least bit controversial. Oh and I remember a giant Three Musketeers candy bar went for 20 cents at Murray's Stationery store on 32nd avenue in 1973.
Thanks for posting this. These little candy stores were a New York institution. Most of them were TINY with maybe 2 or 3 swivel stools and there were LOTS of them. The one I mostly went to was Rosie's on the Lower East Side, she'd sell 2 or 3 cigarettes at a time, penny candy and of course newspapers and comic books and egg creams. "Spaldeens". There was always something that a kid could afford, along with baseball cards. My father used to talk about getting a 2 cent plain which was just seltzer water from the tap in those little coca cola glasses, you know the ones.
I don't think many of these are left, one being Gem's Spa on St. Marks which was also pictured here in the 1960's, I swear one of the guys hanging out out front in the picture looks just like my friend Walter.
We had two candy stores in my immediate neighborhood in Park Slope Brooklyn - neither had a counter nor served food or fountain treats. Other items mentioned in the film rang true for me. We went to the soda fountain or the luncheonette for counter service or sit down eating.
Was one of them named Sweets, Etc. on 7th Ave.? I used to go to that store every Saturday in the 70’s. Great memories.
RG thank you so much! Our comic book connections were in a drug store and a candy store, but that was the 1960s. My grandfather operated one in Atlantic City in the 1930s that I have always been curious about and this helps!
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Candy stores were popular out on Long Island too. Virtually every town had at least one. In Wantagh, Nassau County, our town had at least three, with the "coolest" one being Al's on Merrick Road. How, or why, Al made any money while allowing us teenagers to hang around all of the time is beyond me.
Michael's on Hillside Ave. in Queens Village. I used to work there. Ah the good old days.
@mrmalco11 I remember the candy store on the corner of Hemstead Avenue and Springfield Boulevard and across the street was the Golden Brick Diner and Woolworths luncheon counter on Jamaica Avenue near 217 street and a couple doors down was Winter's...
I can remember the soda fountains, the candy stands, and the magazine racks, I loved the comic books when I didn't have the money to buy them, after mowing a few lawns I'd head back to the candy store and load up on candy and comic books, lol. Thanks so much for refreshing our memories.
I remember the Irish Echo being sold in a local Candy store...
Excellent short documentary! Thank you
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I wish my mom was still here
8 Times a year I rushed to get the new "Mad Magazine". Also, to this day, I've never had a chocolate malted like the ones at the candy store.
We called a Spalding...a spaldine (with our NYC accents). Every kid had one of the two balls in our pocket (Other being Pensy Pinky) and we could play at least 25 different games with them. Stick Ball, Box Ball, Hit the Penny, Box Baseball, Stoopball......the list goes on!
Video brings back many fond memories of the neighborhood candy stores from the 50's & 60's even the 70;s when you went back to the old neighborhood Thanks
Wow, I see good ole Gems Spa there at 1:57!
Corner of 2nd Ave & St Mark’s (8th St)...we’d head there from all over the city in the late 60s to get “hip” periodicals like Rolling Stone, Village Voice it Down Beat, especially before continuing to Fillmore East. Solid egg cream I might add.
My favorite early 60s candy store was Moe’d on Amsterdam btwn 165th-166th. He got all Marvel comics before other stores, and had the best candy selection.
Wonderful days, thanks for creating this lovely documentation.
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In the late 1920s, early 1930s, my maternal grandmother owned one! On 4th Ave in Brooklyn, in the Park Slope area. It was a small one, no luncheonette or fountain.
What a great video. Brings back some great memories.l My father had a candy tore in the Bronx in the 60's. Me and my brothers worked there. It was a big hangout for all our friends. We actually turned it into a candy store and Luncheonette. It was some of the greatest times growing up
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Loved those candy cigarettes! Thanks for the great memories
This brings back fond memories of when I was a kid growing up in Williamsburg Brooklyn and going to "Sid's" in the 60's and 70's with my mother Rose and my aunt Anna and usually getting a tuna melt with an egg cream. Those were the days as we say.
As a small kid there was Cheep Charlies on Bay Parkway off 65th st in Bklyn but one of the last hold outs was a great family and wonderful Husband and wife team @ Hobbyland where toys were sold as well on 20th ave 63rd.
I grew up on Allerton ave in the Northeast Bronx and we had Abe& Sally's and also Zimmerman's what great memories
I can almost taste the candy & Fountain Soda’s 😛
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Pepsi didn't sell till 1965, we had egg creams, coke or orange crush. We had Nick's in Flushing then it was Vera's, I worked there, such a good time. My breakfast every morning before school was egg cream and a buttered roll, miss those days. God Bless all
Our candy store in Woodside, Queens was Willies..My mom would send me around the corner for a pack of Chesterfield King.They had Breyers ice cream at the fountain, penny candy and a coca-cola cooler with green glass bottles of coke on ice..plunging your arm into the ice water on a hot summer day was like heaven.
Do you have any old photos of the candy store?
I grew up in the early seventies and my candy store was Garbers in the Bronx. Bazooka gum was a penny, baseball cards and whacky packages were .20 cents a pack and comics were .20 cents as well. I wanted every Aurora glow in the dark monster model in those square boxes and when I had enough saved I'd go and get a new one, $2.49 if I remember right but the best part of going to Garbers was sitting up on the stool and getting an egg cream and pulling out a long pretzel. I so do miss those days, thought they would last forever.
Dude ; I am your age! Funny ; $2.49 for an Aurora Monster kit was kinda high - BUT "candy stores" ALWAYS upped the cost on toys! In a TOY STORE like Buy Rite it would have been like a dollar less . Now the Godzilla and King Kong and the Witch were considered "larger" (well the boxes were larger) so at $2.49 - it would not be that much higher. Yes; Wacky Packs were 20 cents . Marvel Comics JUMPED from 15 cents to 20 cents by 1972. A candy bar , like a Chunky was 25 cents . What was your FAVORITE Aurora model ? Mine was the Phantom of the Opera because of the bloody slave he had in his cave/cell below. Do you also remember the models kits of Dr. deadly and Vampirella ?
Amazing documentary. Thank you! I remember Nelson's Candy Store at the corner of Bryant and Seneca Avenues in Hunts Point, the Bronx.
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From 1950 to 1966 we lived in an apartment situated directly above a candy store. "Fink's" candy store was on the corner of 54th street & 6th Ave in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. It was, as you described, central to the neighborhood. Kids, teens and adults would always be seen in and around the store. The owner and his wife were really nice people, they would let me read the monster magazines and comic books. One problem that we had because of the sweets in the store was roaches, I'd have to check my shoes before putting them on in the morning. After we moved away, the store became a laundromat, later to be converted into an apartment.
It would be awesome to find a photo of it. Back then , nobody took photos of stores. Unless a parade went by. I am ALWAYS looking for vintage Bensonhurst shots (1960-1969) and NEVER see ANY .
Kappy's at the corner of Gun Hill & White Plains. Rd. ... He sold it in the 60's and it became Evander Sweet Shop. I worked for Kappy as a young boy in the early 60's .... Great memories of the day.
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I Remember My favorite candy store, Mike's, It Was Mike & Dotties On Mermaid Avenue In Coney Island. I have so many great memories from there.I Loved My Egg Creams They made Me, And All The Other great Things I Got There. I Miss Those Stores.
Great memories . Thank you for posting this .
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great stuff....my candy store Zimmerman's on Allerton ave the Bronx is in the video at 1 min mark and several times after...abe made great egg creams
Abe's Candy store up Allerton at Barnes was my go to candy store. I went to Zimmerman's also because they had a better comic section.
I remember them dearly, and miss them sorely. They were every few blocks away, and always had some little thing different. I remember the two in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, on the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Glenwood Road, and the other on Flatlands Ave and Rockaway Parkway.
I sure do miss them.
Thanks for the vid, and the memories.
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Excellent! Love it! I always ordered a black and white ice cream soda. Ours also made a "half and half". Toasted english muffin that was half tuna and half egg salad. Good old days indeed.
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The owners were Abe and Gertie
Love this
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what a fabulous piece ou put together. So nostalgic. I loved Louies on Tryon Ave. On rainy days when it was too far to walk home, I could get a hamburger for lunch there.
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My Family owned three similar stores in Vailsburg, Newark and Irvington NJ. Your film was very very familiar to what we had. We also had pinball machine in each location. Thanks for wonderful memories. Ones our children will never know
We lived on Mohegan Avenue, and 180th Street, my Uncle owned a "candy store/Luncheonette, called George's Luncheonette, this was late 40's to the mid 50'ls, great memories, Uncle George also had a Juke Box, and terrific food. RIP Uncle George and Aunt Sally.... Thanks for the memories....
OMG...this is a great stroll down memory lane. I forgot all about seltest ice cream and Bohack. My grandparents would take me to candy stores for chocolate egg creme fountain drinks in the summer. I miss those candy stores so much.
Great video! Brought back a lot of memories.
My favorite candy store in the late 1960s was "Minnie's" at 374 Metropolitan Avenue - Brooklyn, NY.
Anyone else remember it?
We lived upstairs from a dentist just across from the Sunoco gas station...where New York Blvd merged with Farmers Blvd...but on Farmers in Springfield Gardens, Queens. The dentist office, Dr. D;Isidori(Dr. Pernak's doctor office was in the back)was next to OUR candy store. OUR candy store was owned by 2 Jewish couples and was THE best! Down the road a piece on New York Blvd, across the street from P.S.52, was another candy store. The only reason we went there was in the hopes of purchasing baseball cards not in the packs we bought at OUR candy store. I'll never forget the 16 cents bottles of RC Cola after an exciting basketball or stickball game(using a Pensy Pinky and stickball bat bought at OUR candy store). Unforgetable as well were the 35cents malteds, the 15 cents Rock n Root root beer, egg creams, ice cream cones, and 5 cents a scoop Italian Ices. Don't know what we would have done with out OUR candy store!
Pure nostalgia. And I love it. Thank you.
Sol and Lefty's, 249th Street and Union Tpke in Queens. Spent the 70s in there, buying candy. The only time I got to sit at the counter was when my mom wanted an egg cream.
That's Glen Oaks. I remember going to Mays Dept. store there. Still a nice decent area, near the Queens/Nassau County line.
Our candy store was located in the South Bronx. We lived on Teasdale Place - 3rd Avenue. Our candy store on the corner sold pickled pig feet in a large glass jar for 5 cents. Thank you for the memories.
Mr. Pease was the owner of the candy store on Glenwood Road and Albany Avenue. One thing not mentioned here - and one important ingredient in my life - was the song book. This was a magazine that listed the lyrics of all the most popular songs of the day, So while I listened to WNEW on the radio, I could listen to records of the "big bands" and sing along with Frank and Ella, Tony and Rosemary, and all the top singers of the day.
Thanx for stirring up some fond memories
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Did someone say egg cream????
Bruce don't forget the Cherry Cokes.
I was waiting to hear that one :) These store have to make a come back.
Grew up on Egg Creams. Fox's U bet and seltzer bottles.
@@dmf30 do you remember fountain cherry cokes?
Loved this! The candy store near me was on Brighton 10th street and Coney Island Ave. It was called "Mermi's" and we had egg creams there. My last name is "Diamond" and my dad had a jewelry store--Diamond Jewelers---right across from Mermi's!!! AH, THE MEMORIES!
Herzogs at the corner of Ocean View Avenue and Brighton 11th Street in the 1930's and '40's. Most embarrassing moment was when I got caught swiping a licorice candy when I was about 5 years old! Stopped my crime spree in its tracks!
My Grandparents had a Candy Store & used Diamond Brand Syrup 17th Ave. between 83rd&84th!🇮🇹🌷❤️
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Bohacks wow!
Grew up on Audubon Ave, in Washington Heights, NYC.(1946-58) Our corner Candy Store was Barnett's on 186th and Audubon. I loved getting the penny candies, And the Egg Creams when we had the money for that! Good memories.
Elizabeth McDavid my grandmother lived on laurel hill terrace,Washington heights.I spend a month with her every summer.My grandfather owned a drug store on Audubon that had candy and soda fountain....great memories!
Elizabeth McDavid I don't recall that Audubon candy store but I lived a bit west, so my favorite candy store was on St. Nicholas between 186-185th streets (the best egg creams). There was also one near the little church on St. Nicholas between 187th-188th streets. Also liked the one on St. Nick between 189-190th streets (carried my Marvel comics). I had so many to choose from :)
That was awesome !!! We claimed Pizzi's in Mount Vernon as our store. One block past Sanford Blvd. If you crossed the street you were in The Bronx where all of us lived. I lived on Monticello Ave. My cousin once grabbed a $5.00 bill from his dad's wallet and we spent the entire day at Pizzi's. When we left we still had almost $3.00. We couldn't even spend it all. We couldn't go home with that kind of loot so we placed it around my house under the hedges and by the garbage cans and pretended we found money. First a $1.00 bill then two quarters and so on. We even let my little brother Danny find and keep a dime and a nickel. My dad came out and said "come on, where did you really get the money". Guess he didn't believe us. Man those were the greatest times of my life. Thanks for this.
Baseball cards. Comic books. My first Mad Magazine. These stores were a real treat.
Anyone who had the Candy store experience knows how it mean't a social place for young people. You could get a hot dog hamburger ice cream cones banana split penny candy. You would sit at the soda fountain malteds coke egg cream coc or vanilla. We had Petes Cany store in Williamsburg directly accross from St. Marys Convent on Leonard St. Another candy store was Thomas Candy Store on Calyer and Eckford St. He was a nice man but my favorite memories are from Pete's . We were respectful and if not you couldn't come back unless you came with a parent mostly we were on our best behavior because we lived hanging out and watching the older kids play the Jute Box with all the new songs by Connie Francis Toni Bennett and so on. We grew up do different then today. They don't know what they missed. It was grand.
My favorite candy store was Arty's on fifth ave and Union St. in Bklyn.
Thanks for all the memories
Our candy store was on the corner of 66th Street and 15th Avenue in Brooklyn. We called it Tony the Candy Store. He had everything the video mentions and it was the only place you could get a charlotte reusse and a Clincher.
We called them "Charlie-roos"!
Loved this, great job. Thanks
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Spent many days in Harry's Candy Store on 31st street, across from Carvel in Astoria Queens. He always called my friends and I " Bums ". Great memories.
47 seconds was the store on Westchester Avenue and Zerega Avenue in the Bronx.
My dad was 138th and cypress. 50s, 60s. He's 75 now.
my Russian grandpa had a corner candy store in Irvington, New Jersey. He kept a couple barrels of whole dill pickles near the entrance. When we visited we'd get a pickle and milk shake of choice.
My parents owned a candy store in the 70s it was an old school coca-cola bottle caps on either side above the store. Long soda fountain,tons of candy and pennies candy and pretty much everything else described in this video, however it being the 1970s and the advent of the video games /pinball generation. We had a game room in the back of the store that became the neighborhood hangout. I was 10 and would work at the counter at times to give my mother or father a break for a little while was an experience I'll never forget . My parents didn't enjoy the experience as much because the store was opened 530 am till 10 pm 7 days a week it took a toll the revenue wasn't good enough to be worth all the hours .