Flushing, NY Trivia: Do You Remember This?

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Permalink Reply by Ed Siegel on February 15, 2008 at 10:39pm

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ok - I remember Mama Lucy's too. Now it is Benji's Kosher Pizza. I worked at Baskin Robbins in high school with Howard Goldman, my brother Mark and Eric Morgenstern. I remember Howie and I would make clown cones look like monster cones. I think Mr. Chen was our manager.

There was also the 5&10 where we used to get our school supplies, baseball cards, stickball bats and Spaulding balls. The other pizza place was Capri's down on the other end of the street by 73 Ave. By the way, if you haven't been back lately, the Baskin Robbins is now a bank...so sad!

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Permalink Reply by Howard Goldman on February 15, 2008 at 10:48pm

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LOL, yes, Ed. Chen wanted the clown cones to look one way but we made them all 'angry' with crazy teeth and wicked eyes. Those were the days when I would drink a black and white shake every shift and still eat several scoopes of ice cream. Gee, look at the time, I 've got to get up early for my spinning class.

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Permalink Reply by Janet R. Perlmutter/Schwartz on February 15, 2008 at 10:52pm

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Yes. Only about 3 or 4 years ago, I went into the Baskin Robbins with my family and actually bumped into someone I knew (a friend of my parents) and hadn't seen since I graduated from PS164 and moved, in 1975! Talk about coincidence! Then, last June, we went back and saw that the ice cream parlor was no longer there. Sigh...

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Permalink Reply by Kris Kelkar on May 2, 2008 at 1:01am

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I remember once when Howard Goldman made a bunch of his scary clown cones and a little kid came in, dragging his mother along, insisting on her buying one for him. With one look at the display window, he ran out of the store.

I remember the whipped cream and icing fight that John Cosachov and I once had. In about 5 minutes we managed to get the store so messy that we had to close it for about an hour to clean up. Good thing Mr. Chen was a manager in absentia.

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Permalink Reply by Helen Haley Kells on February 16, 2008 at 10:50am

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I remember that once you were in sixth grade AND if you had a note from home, you were able to go OUT for lunch. We would go to Mama Lucy's and with $1.00 you could get a slice and a coke and then go get ice cream from Baskin Robbins. I also remember the shock I felt when a slice went up to .50.......Did they think we were made of money!! :)
I also remember many birthday parties at Mama Lucy's....I'll have to find my pictures.....I worked at Maxi Discount Drugs which was right next door to the Movie Theater....What a line we would get right before a movie!! I would always eat those Jelly Rings that we sold - They were in an open box on the counter, unwrapped and you would buy them that way. That's what made them easy to "borrow"!!! I remember DebTeen & the 5&10...that guy was a little cranky but Ruth was the best!!

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Permalink Reply by Janet R. Perlmutter/Schwartz on February 16, 2008 at 11:52am

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Maxi Discount Drugs! There's a name from the past!!! I used to love to look at the makeup in there. Thanks for reminding me! (I moved after 6th grade, so it's harder for me to remember names of places than it is for the rest of you who continued on through JHS and HS in NYC.)

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Weppler on February 18, 2008 at 9:13am

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I remember Maxi! I loved looking at all the nail polish!!!!!!! There was so much stuff in that little space! Very fun for a kid.

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Permalink Reply by Kris Kelkar on May 2, 2008 at 1:05am

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My first job was delivering prescriptions for them on my bike to people in the neighborhood. I don't imagine that they even deliver prescriptions to people's houses anymore, let alone trusting a 15 year old to do it.

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Permalink Reply by Deena Dorn Tanzman on February 17, 2008 at 4:31pm

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The best pizza was Gloria's in down town flushing. Near John's Bargin store. It was the best. I still remember the taste and you could get a slice for .35 Those were the days!

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Permalink Reply by ellen ( Goldman) lipkind on February 18, 2008 at 12:56am

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yes, i remember glorias, they had the best cheese on their pizza!! I can still taste it....

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Permalink Reply by Maxine Pinkas Smith on March 15, 2009 at 6:01pm

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Yes! And people would line up down the street waiting. I always used to burn the roof of my mouth at Gloria's because the pies were always straight out of the oven. They could not make htem fast enough.

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Permalink Reply by Patricia Weppler on February 18, 2008 at 9:14am

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All this talk about Mama Lucy - here is the ad they ran in the school newspaper........

I wonder if the phone number still works? :-)

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