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Posted by Edwards! on Thu Oct 4 13:47:27 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Thu Oct 4 00:36:09 2018. A&P is still around.Just spreaded out. |
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Posted by Edwards! on Thu Oct 4 13:47:37 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Thu Oct 4 00:36:09 2018. A&P is still around.Just spreaded out. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 13:48:32 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Edwards! on Thu Oct 4 13:47:18 2018. Is Pathmark around anywhere ? |
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Posted by rbseabeach on Thu Oct 4 13:56:01 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 11:31:10 2018. it was actually @ the 2/3 Hoyt st station. there was direct access to the Brooklyn bound platform from the basement level of A&S.that entrance was closed many years ago. The Macy's that exists there today is being rebuilt. The new store will have 4 levels and several levels above for office space. Also the garage on Livingston Street was torn down and a new luxury condo complex is currently rising on the lot. |
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Posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Oct 4 14:05:30 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by FormerVanWyckBlvdUser on Thu Oct 4 00:36:09 2018. Waldbaum's?--Mark |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:07:48 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Wed Oct 3 18:32:46 2018. Bohack will live on as long as people watch the movie version of The Odd Couple. There is a shot of Felix (Jack Lemmon) exiting a Bohack after going grocery shopping. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:08:14 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Catfish 44 on Wed Oct 3 18:33:04 2018. When did TSS become TSS/Seedman's? |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:09:12 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Oct 3 23:01:45 2018. I believe the original anchor stores of the Queens Center Mall were A & S and Ohrbach's. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:10:12 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 11:32:34 2018. There was also one on Kissena Boulevard near Main Street in Flushing. |
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Posted by northshore on Thu Oct 4 14:26:07 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Oct 3 18:19:38 2018. Fulton St Brooklyn had the upscale department stores of Abraham & Straus, Loeser's, Namm's and Martin's.Loeser's had a subway entrance which signage is still located on the mezzanine level |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Oct 4 14:35:28 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:08:14 2018. I don't know I always knew them as TSS Seedman's. |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Oct 4 14:46:13 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:07:48 2018. That name just reminds me of Bojack Horseman. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 4 15:17:05 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Edwards! on Thu Oct 4 13:47:18 2018. Thanks. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Thu Oct 4 15:18:37 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Oct 4 14:05:30 2018. seemingly vanished, like rain in the Sahara, but they'd been in trouble for quite awhile correct? |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 4 15:24:21 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by MorningsideHeightsM100 on Thu Oct 4 11:42:59 2018. Ugh sorry for the double post.Don't apologize for something that's not your fault. Nobody deliberately makes multiple posts. The slow server on this web site is the cause. Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by Bill Newkirk on Thu Oct 4 15:30:29 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Wed Oct 3 18:33:41 2018. Smelled awful.You needed an antibiotic if you touched any surface. Yes, you're right. Also the single 40W fluorescent ceiling lights every few yards that made it very dingy. Bill Newkirk |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:00:08 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by MorningsideHeightsM100 on Thu Oct 4 10:27:24 2018. Closest Jack's are hundreds of miles away, but there are actually still a few Arthur Treachers Restaurants out in Suffolk. Nut there are a bunch operated through franchiser Trufoods, and many operated along side Nathan's in co branded franchise locations. I saw one Monday at a NJ Turnpike rest area (Molly Ptcher) going to Philly. We used to have lots of Roy Rogers, now rarely seen around here beyond "travel plazas", but someone bought the rights to open a few again on Long Island. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:10:02 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Oct 4 09:56:12 2018. Gertz became Stern's and both A&S and Sterns were eliminated as brands when Federated, the operator of Macy's decided to reduce the number of brands under it's umbrella to Macy's and Bloomingdales. Marshall Field's in Chicago was another name they eliminated. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:13:15 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Oct 4 14:05:30 2018. Waldbaum family sold to Pathmark, and they continued to operate some of the better stores, Pathmark was acquired by the parent of A&P....Now A&P is gone along with it's subsidiary brands.... |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:15:48 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 13:48:32 2018. A&P is gone completely, as well as their subsidiary brands. Defunct as of Nov 2015. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:19:43 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Catfish 44 on Wed Oct 3 18:33:04 2018. George Seedman, founder and owner until he sold the company in 1987, a few years before it closed for good. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:21:16 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:09:12 2018. And you would correct.... |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 19:31:42 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:15:48 2018. OMG. I though there were a few left. |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 19:32:51 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:10:02 2018. Marshall Field's succumbing to Sears was a real tragedy. The flagship store in Chicago was classic. |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Oct 4 19:44:21 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:13:15 2018. My Waldbaums in Rockaway was certainly one of the best stores and now it's stop n shop which I can't stand. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:50:47 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 19:31:42 2018. They had some left after a previous big restructuring, but the last bankruptcy was the end, the remainder of real estate and store leases were auctioned off by the court. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:53:41 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Catfish 44 on Thu Oct 4 19:44:21 2018. Waldbaums was a very good regional chain. I had a medium sized one in my neighborhood that was closed because of the "very large store" movement, but nothing has come close around here since then. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:58:31 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 19:32:51 2018. It's a Macy's now.....There were protests when the location changed, people did not like a name so closely associated with Chicago to go away...think Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium (Shedd wa a protege of Field) |
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Posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 20:05:02 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:58:31 2018. The "Second City" did not like the New York ification.Bank One renamed Chase. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 20:33:58 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 20:05:02 2018. In Boston Shawmut Center became Fleet which didn't make anyone happy, and now it's worse, it's TD (which is Toronto-Dominion)Buffalo went from Marine Midland to HSBC to First Niagara and now KeyBank which acquired F/N... Not uncommon with naming rights for sale.... |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 5 02:53:40 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by rbseabeach on Thu Oct 4 13:56:01 2018. The station agent at the entrance from A&S was not an NYCTA employee but an employee of A&S and I was told that NYCTA employees could not enter there with their passes. |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 5 02:56:01 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 11:32:34 2018. The first Korvettes I remember was on w 48 St on the south side of the street just east of 6 Ave next door to another discount house called Masters. |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 5 02:57:01 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by northshore on Thu Oct 4 14:26:07 2018. The sign is on the mezzanine level of the IND Hoyt-Schermerhorn station. |
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Posted by Chicago44 on Fri Oct 5 05:39:09 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by randyo on Fri Oct 5 02:56:01 2018. Korvettes was on East 47th St & 5th Av, not West 48th St. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Oct 5 07:19:55 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by pragmatist on Thu Oct 4 19:15:48 2018. A&P merged with Waldbaum's in 1986, and then PathMark in 2008. The whole thing died in 2015. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Fri Oct 5 07:20:29 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mark S. Feinman on Thu Oct 4 14:05:30 2018. DEAD. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Fri Oct 5 09:22:53 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:10:12 2018. Kissena Blvd & Sanford, and also Douglaston, which saw later life as Gertz/Sterns, and Macy's, soon to be a Lowe's |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:26:05 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by randyo on Fri Oct 5 02:56:01 2018. First Korvettes LION saw in East Meadow. A neighbor worked there. They also sold soft pretzels in the parking lot. a dime each. Now try to catch a soft pretzel for ten cents!ROARING |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:29:38 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by rbseabeach on Thu Oct 4 11:19:42 2018. The Gimble's passageway was always on PRIVATE property. It was put there so that people could get into Gimble's Bargain Basement.ROAR |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:32:08 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Thu Oct 4 11:34:57 2018. Nedicks had the second best hot dogs in NYC.Now that Nathans has been sold out, the flavor is not the same. ROAR |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:35:12 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by MainR3664 on Fri Oct 5 07:19:55 2018. PathMark was a growth of Bohack's |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:38:01 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Oct 4 14:08:14 2018. TSS out here = Traffic Safty Systems... They Rent and place construction sighs cones and etc.ROARING |
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Posted by TransitChuckG on Fri Oct 5 13:16:46 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:32:08 2018. One time on a Subway fan trip to Coney Island, I had a Nathan's hot dog, it was the best I ever tasted! |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Fri Oct 5 14:09:50 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Chicago44 on Fri Oct 5 05:39:09 2018. correct--great bargains on LPs and KKodak film/mailers for photographing trains. |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 5 16:32:20 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Chicago44 on Fri Oct 5 05:39:09 2018. The 47/5 Av location came later. It was probably relocated from 48 St/6, but I do recall both locations. |
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Posted by Joe V on Fri Oct 5 17:44:28 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Chicago44 on Fri Oct 5 05:39:09 2018. I used to work at 3rd Av at 45th. I walked a block or two south, then west, but did not cross GCT to get to it. |
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Posted by Joe V on Fri Oct 5 17:51:58 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Oct 5 10:32:08 2018. Did Nathan's sell the formula ? |
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Posted by pragmatist on Fri Oct 5 18:07:30 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by Joe V on Fri Oct 5 17:51:58 2018. No, the company went into the franchising business, and has contract manufacturers supply product. There are a few "company stores" including Coney Island. You can still get the original style natural casing there, quite good. But like most similar operations, consistency across franchises is lacking, and high volume production does no favors to product quality |
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Posted by Edwards! on Fri Oct 5 18:11:58 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by pragmatist on Fri Oct 5 18:07:30 2018. 👍👀 |
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Posted by Wallyhorse on Fri Oct 5 21:43:09 2018, in response to Re: gimbels passageway, posted by randyo on Thu Oct 4 13:40:23 2018. Now, maybe, but the stores that became The Food Emporium originally in the early 1980's were first Shopwell. |
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