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Brooklynian » Topic: John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store en-US Mon, 20 May 2013 02:40:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://brooklynian.com/forum/search.php John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767718 Sat, 04 May 2013 09:23:02 +0000 prodigalson 767718@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ He must have been seeing this: <img src="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2011/10/cbseyes_a_p.jpg"> Instead of just this: <img src="https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1213095644/CBS-eye-white-bg.jpg"> John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767692 Fri, 03 May 2013 11:35:14 +0000 Hamilton 767692@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ It's rumored, after Hardy had the plumber fired , he wound up on CBS'S Eye On New York, unfortunately he was fired again for constantly reading off the wrong teleprompters. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767678 Fri, 03 May 2013 09:26:49 +0000 prodigalson 767678@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <blockquote>we never see eye to eye</blockquote> I can relate to that: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47Ecopu6yk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47Ecopu6yk</a> John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767637 Wed, 01 May 2013 15:16:07 +0000 Hamilton 767637@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ <blockquote><cite>prodigalson <a href="http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767626">said</a>:</cite> So true, Ben. Entertainment was a lot more wholesome in your time. <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMjkS_WCOzRTheAMAQ_SfL1YahZP3NxsaB4avM5ntWBZhtae8E9A"> I loved watching the old comedies on TV's "Silents Please" and this great gem: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeCOD9kT1I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeCOD9kT1I</a> So sad that they just don't make them like they used to. </blockquote> I'm delighted you enjoyed the work done by the guys of my time, we would always curse during filming and no one ever knew it. It was also an honor to work with all those beautiful women, but on the personal level it never worked out , we never saw eye to eye . John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767626 Wed, 01 May 2013 10:50:52 +0000 prodigalson 767626@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ So true, Ben. Entertainment was a lot more wholesome in your time. <img src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSMjkS_WCOzRTheAMAQ_SfL1YahZP3NxsaB4avM5ntWBZhtae8E9A"> I loved watching the old comedies on TV's "Silents Please" and this great gem: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeCOD9kT1I" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVeCOD9kT1I</a> So sad that they just don't make them like they used to. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767530 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:14:08 +0000 Hamilton 767530@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Our culture has made some advances since the 50's. The punks were more creative in those days, they would use their shop class to make Zip guns, now they purchase them. One of the big hit of the day was, Zippity Doo Dah, but we've progressed and have Zip Cars and Zip codes. But your right we now have a more violent society due to drugs and violent, so called entertainment. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767516 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:56:00 +0000 prodigalson 767516@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ I just watched "City Across The River" online. I had forgotten that Anthony (Tony) Curtis made his debut in that movie. Hadn't seen it in close to 50 years and its message remains the same to day as it did in those days. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767479 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:01:26 +0000 prodigalson 767479@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Don't have the book anymore but now have the movie online. Will watch it later today. Thanx for offering the movie - am looking forward to seeing it again. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-767011 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:49:44 +0000 Hamilton 767011@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Prodigalson if you still have your copy, the sexual content starts on page 171, where Rosie Beanbags wants to entertain the club members in the back room, the funniest comment in the book is when one of the gang claims if she hit you on the head with her breast, you'd be ankle deep in cement . I have a dvd copy, if you PM me with your address I'll send you a copy. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-766984 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:08:32 +0000 Hamilton 766984@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ if you still have your copy, the sexual content starts on page 171, where Rosie Beanbags wants to entertain the club members in the back room, the funniest comment in the book is when one of the gang claims if she hit you on the head with her breast, you'd be ankle deep in cement. I have a DVD copy, if you PM me with your address I send you a copy. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-766965 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:00:35 +0000 prodigalson 766965@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ ^ Strange, I don't recall sexual content but perhaps it is my aging mind(lessness) that forgets what year we're in [among other hassles!]. Haven't seen City Across the River since way back when. Perhaps there's a DVD for it. Will check soon ... John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-766878 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:41:17 +0000 Hamilton 766878@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ I had read Shulman's The Amboy Dukes Last year, the paperback was a hugh seller in it's time due to it's sexual content and study of an era when street gangs started to take off. The book was made into the movie, City Across The River, which was an introduction to some guy named Tony Curtis, I wonder what ever happened to him. This is a very interesting blog. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765523 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:16:52 +0000 prodigalson 765523@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ I have read thousands of books and articles over my many years. The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman - a novel about East New York in 1947 stands among my all times faves: <img src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/148/412781329_e0828ffd46.jpg"> Yes, we had great markets on Belmont Avenue, the Fortunoffs, malt shops galore, movie houses, parks, and lots of good things. But we also had the bad things which got even worse with the passing years. But one thing that can never and will never be taken away is the good people that we have had, and still have, in this area. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765445 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:22:50 +0000 whynot_31 765445@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Modern Fordham Road in the Bronx, and Church ave in Brooklyn come to mind. ...thriving commercial strips. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765444 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:11:51 +0000 PragmaticGuy 765444@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Brownsville/East New York may have been a "ghetto" in the early part of the 20th century but it was a shopping mecca for all. It was wall to wall people on Saturdays and Sundays. I remember going with my parents back in the late 50s and 60s. Fortunoff had seven store fronts on Livonia Ave. each one having its own department so to speak, housewares in one, linens in another and so on. Belmont Ave. one block north was also a busy place to shop. And of course there were the pickle, hot dog and knish vendors on the street. Life was a hell of a lot simpler back then. John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765435 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:51:18 +0000 whynot_31 765435@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Prodigalson- Your memories of Brownsville and ENY match with what I have heard. Since around the time of WWI, it has been plagued by the problems associated with crime and poverty, despite the changing make up of its residents. For example, the wiki article I link below states that for a long time the area was a Jewish "ghetto" (my word, not theirs), and now is a mostly black one. Like you, I wish that the area and its residents could prosper, but am not sure how this will be achieved. The area has many obstacles, including a large number of housing projects, and a dearth of productive, constructive opportunities. As a result, not only is the area difficult for residents and "outsiders" to improve, it is difficult for residents to escape. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville,_Brooklyn" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownsville,_Brooklyn</a> Related thread: <a href="http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-and-beyond/the-brooklyn-hoodstars-eny-and-brownsville-gang" rel="nofollow">http://brooklynian.com/forum/brooklyn-and-beyond/the-brooklyn-hoodstars-eny-and-brownsville-gang</a> John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765432 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:23:43 +0000 prodigalson 765432@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Hi Robert - thanx for those kinds words. What is really surprising to me (being the amateur historian that I am) is what occupied that land we are talking about. Guess what ... It was Eastern Park: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Park" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Park</a> <a href="http://www.luckyshow.org/football/ep.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.luckyshow.org/football/ep.htm</a> The Mecca of American sports during the 1890s! I have always had some form of artistic vision and been a very creative person all my life. I've even had a few psychic dreams that did come true. In my youth I distinctly recall that when we as a family ventured there, I had a sense that something was missing. That this was (funny as it may sound) a sacred or once sacred land. That it had an energy and creativity that was suppressed or had been taken away. And all that may sound silly. But years later, when doing historical research, I found much data about all the great things that took place in ENY-Brownsville. To think - the neighborhood was once the Mecca of professional cricket in the USA - people actually came all the way from England just to watch our pro team play! In my mind and in my heart, I wish there was some way I could go back in time, correct the rights from wrongs, and perpetuate the good times and good things this area was once known for. Alas, that is up to the higher powers ... John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765412 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:25:16 +0000 RobertPrevost 765412@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Hi, prodigalson. Omg! I know exactly where that is. My cousin, Miles Welch, went to Jefferson. I don't remember Fortunoff's at all, but the Times Square Stores sounded familiar. Just Wikipedia'd them both, it's amazing how many things are gone now. My last visit (I now live in Los Angeles)to NY was back in '85, even then so much had changed, it was really depressing. Sometimes I wish I could go back to those 'good old days' (sometimes not) I do miss the pizza, egg creams and black & white cookies <img src="http://brooklynian.com/forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" /> And I sure would love to visit the '64 World's Fair again. Been nice 'chatting' with you here. ~Robert~ John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765378 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:52:05 +0000 prodigalson 765378@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Hi Robert! Yes, I grew up on Sheffield & Livonia Avenue just one block south of Jefferson High School - we lived there for 20 years until 1976. The New Lots Avenue IRT ran just above the apartment house that we lived in. Today, the building has been razed and there is a parking lot there. My dad worked for Fortunoff's for a year. While the prices were generally good and it was very convenient to go shopping there, John's Bargain Store beat every other competitor for good prices. Therefore, it was worth taking the long walk to get there. Another great place to go shopping was the Times Square Store (TSS) on Linden Boulevard: <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fp4Jm854MKQ/TZ8t6YhCzrI/AAAAAAAABwk/YX3pgLtBWlk/s200/z%2B-%2Btss.jpg"> Again, another long walk but that's what we did in those days - very few people owned any cars and we had to take those long walks! John's Bargain Store http://brooklynian.com/forum/park-slope/johns-bargain-store#post-765374 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:31:29 +0000 RobertPrevost 765374@http://brooklynian.com/forum/ Wow, prodigalson, you have a great memory....there was one on Blake, I think on the corner of Junius St. Just up the block from the tracks. She could have lived around there. My aunt lived not far from there, somewhere on Stewart St, ugly bldg, but large apt. inside, maybe six rooms. 2nd floor. The train passed right by the windows. We lived on Evergreen & Moffat, right across from my school (PS113). Took the el to Eastern Pky./B'way Junction. Lived there 'til 1961 when we moved to Putnam Ave, across from Bushwick High. Did you live nearby there around then?