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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Re: Joe's Candy Store
« on: January 23, 2011, 02:39:06 PM »
I think we are talking about the same store - on the north side of the street?  If so, there was a funny story about it.  My aunt lived on 83rd and used to often stop and chat with the owner.  She was single and, as they said back then, "went to business."  One day, the owner told her about a really lovely man who stopped in on Sundays to buy a paper.  He went on that the guy seemed a fine, refined man and that he, the owner, would like to introduce them.  He must have been an awfully nice man to take such an interest in her, but it turned out the fellow he was trying to fix her up with was her own brother - who used to visit her on Sundays!

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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Trader's Joe's in Jackson Heights or Woodside
« on: August 23, 2009, 05:26:26 PM »
Quote from: Ed on August 23, 2009, 01:06:39 AM
What's up with the old EXPO site over by the Bulova building? Next to Bed Bath and Beyond (is that still there?) That's definitely got the square footage and the parking....

Bed Bath and Beyond is still there.  The Expo is a Home Depot now.

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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Re: Where was the Two Pigs Meat Market?
« on: August 23, 2009, 01:33:39 PM »
I don't know if this helps, but I have read an interview with Les Paul, where he mentions living at 81st Street and Roosevelt Avenue and another where he mentions living in the Electra Court Building, and that he had a studio in the basement.  Could the Two Pigs have been at 81st and Roosevelt? 

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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Re: North Beach
« on: June 20, 2009, 01:25:54 PM »
Wow - thank you so much for this thread.  My grandmother was a waitress at North Beach.  I never knew her, but  seeing these pictures and checking the links is a wonderful connection with her.

Mary

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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Re: JH People and Places in Film
« on: June 02, 2009, 08:45:21 PM »
The above website lists Ms. Kane's address at the time of her death in the 60s as 77-12 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights.  That's the Berkeley building.

Chuckster - I'm just now reading this thread.  I remember shopping inthe A&P on Northern and 81st Street with my mother and she discretely pointing out to me "the lady who was Betty Boop."  When Helen Kane died she ws buried from St. Joan of Arc Church and the Long Island Star Journal had a photo of Rosalind Russell attending the services.


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Neighborhood Chat / Re: Famous JH Residents
« on: May 30, 2009, 12:43:59 PM »
There was a story that Ruby Keeler (does anyone remember her?)'s family lived above Cincotta's Fish Market on Northern Boulevard when she married Al Jolson and that he bought the family a house on -  84th Street, or maybe 85th - on the south side of Northern.  The story was that the house had an indoor pool.  I used to walk up and down those blocks and try to guess which house it was. In biographies they mention that she was born in Manhattan, but this was a story I heard fairly often growing up and the old people were specific that it was above Cincotta's that the family lived.

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary lived in Jackson Heights at one time, and Telly Savalas (sp?) lived over near Our Lady of Fatima, as did Kevin Dobson.  On the show Kojak, Savalas' character would often say to Dobson's character "You wouldn't know about that.  You come from -- what's that place -- Jackson Heights."  The joke was that, in reality, both actors were from Jackson Heights. 


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Jackson Heights of Yesteryear / Re: Quonset Huts
« on: May 29, 2009, 09:01:06 PM »
My mother spoke of the quonset huts and I believe she said they were on Northern, but they were gone by the late 50's when I was little.  We did attend Our Lady of Fatima, and I loved our little quonset hut church.  One of the priests there told me that, when Fatima built it's permanent church, the quonset hut was moved to Astoria to be the first home of St. Margaret Mary parish.

Mary

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