In article >,
"W. Baker" > wrote:
> Peppermint Patootie > wrote:
> : In article >,
> : "W. Baker" > wrote:
> :
> : > You may be right, but when I was oung a quick lunch place, Chock Full
> : > O'Nuts used to make a simply delicious whole wheat doughnut with powdered
> : > sugar on it. Any other New Yorkers remember them?
>
> : Yes! And their shrimp salad sandwiches! And orange drink, bitterish
> : with lots of pulp.
>
> : There was a Chock Full on the corner of 116th and Broadway that I ate at
> : a lot in my childhood. I can remember eating at one on 34th Street,
> : too, when down shopping at Macy's.
>
> : Do you remember Paddy's Clam House on 34th Street, west of Macy's, IIRC?
> : LOVED that place, with their formica atmosphere, fresh fish, and
> : mile-high cream pies? I had my first lobster there!
>
> Oh Memory lane!
>
> That Chock Full O'Nuts on 1116th st sustained me al ong with teh rickers
> on the same block when I was in Ccollege at Barnard:-) Cheap, clean,
> unifirm taste, so you knw exactly what you were getting. I loved the
> nutted cheese-kind of cream cheese with nuts and it was CHEAP! 15cents a
> sandwich an 5 cents a doughnut. Of course, minimum wage went from
> 75cents an hour to $1.00 during my undeergraduate days.
>
> I used to love Paddy's Clam House. they had something like $1.49 lunches
> with a fish, potato and veg, with, I beieve soup too. I never had their
> pies, but they were very good and a great value for a young working womman
> making about $60 a week. Those fish lunches were not just fried fish
> either, but broiled or baked.
>
> thanks for reminding me.
>
> Wendy

Happy memories, indeed!

When I was growing up, there was a grocery/deli almost next to that
Chock Full. Its name was "TA-KOME." When my grandparents, who had
spent years as missionaries in China, moved into the neighborhood for a
while, they thought when they saw it that it was a Japanese store -- you
know, pronounced Tah-Komay. LOL Of course, it was actually pronounced
"Take Home." When I was a kid and went into my father's office at
Columbia with him on Saturdays, we'd get lunch from Ta-Kome. For a
while there I was on a sardines with butter on white bread sandwich and
Yoo-Hoo to drink kick. Eeewww!!!

In June, 2010, I was back in the neighborhood for a reunion at the
school I'd attended from first grade through high school. The spot
where Chock Full was is now a very good pan-Asian restaurant. It packs
people in at tiny tables with table service. Moderately priced, tasty
food. Perfect for students.

The West End bar, where many literary figures (and some of my high
school classmates, both before and after graduation) drank, is now a
Cuban restaurant. Also good. Much good eating in Morningside Heights!

PP
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