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U.S. Route #18 offers 8 A.M.F. Automatic Bowling Lanes for your bowling pleasure, plus luncheonette. open all year round from 1 P.M. to 1 A.M. Stop in and enjoy the pleasant atmosphere.
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* DIY from the NWI!
* Tour de 2016’s best double-LPs!
* I can name that bassline in three notes!
* Q: Can you say gnarly 4x in one airbreak? A: Yes!
* Where philosophically Stoogely meets Shkreli-POV lyrics
* 80s art-damaged psych-punk of pivotal U.S. swing states
* This show was brought to you in part by the years 1980 and 1987
MATTRESS | Beautiful Moment | Looking for My People | Glacial Pace 2016
THE MEDIATERS | Time's Our Own? | v/a: Waiting Room | Object Music 1980
ERIK NERVOUS | Bridgeport Lathe | Shipshewana Swimming 7" | Lumpy 2016
SINKING SHIPS | Strangers | The Cinema Clock b/w Strangers 7" | Dead Good 1980
SPANGS | Safe in My Room | Frightened of the Night b/w Safe in My Room 7" | Carno 1980
FOR AGAINST | Autocrat | Echelons | Independent Project 1987
MOUTH | The Face of Inhumanity | Love Me or I'll Kill You b/w The Face of Inhumanity 7" | Bruise 1986
SECTION 25 | Haunted | Charnel Ground b/w Haunted 7" | Factory Benelux 1980
WHORL | Not Me | v/a: Neapolitan Metropolitan 3x7" | Simple Machines 1992
WHORL | Mind Revolution | Mind Revolution b/w Stupid Shit 7" | Slumberland 1990
WALKINGSEEDS | Kill, Kill, Kill for Inner Peace | Skullfuck | Probe Plus 1987
UNION CARBIDE PRODUCTIONS | Teenage Bankman | In the Air Tonight | Radium 226.05 1987
VULCAN | Noname | Meet Your Ghost 2xLP | Lysergic Sound Distributors 2010 [orig 1985]
BUTTHOLE SURFERS | Just a Boy | demo | no label 1982
THE LONE KETAMINE MILLIPEDE | Frogs in "Our" Town | v/a: The Train to Disaster | Bona Fide 1983
BILLY SYNTH & THE TURNUPS | The Mask | v/a: The Train to Disaster
DEMENTIA PRECOX | Mines | Mines b/w Dead on 2 Legs Luncheonette 7" | Hospital 1981
FLIP 'N' BOOGERS | Brakin' in the Fast Lane | Flip 'n' Boogers E.P. 7" | Waggletone 1993
A WITNESS | Loudhailer's Song | I am John's Pancreas | Ron Johnson 1986
A WITNESS | Red Snake | Red Snake 12" EP | Ron Johnson 1987
JACKDAW WITH CROWBAR | Crow | v/a: The First After Epiphany | Ron Johnson 1987
DAN MELCHIOR | City Lights [Shadow Ring] | Filthy Frozen River Rag 2xLP | Stolen Body 2016
DAN MELCHIOR | Seabed Boogie | Filthy Frozen River Rag
THE LAVENDER FLU | Demons in the Dusk | Heavy Air 2xLP | Meds 2016
INDIAN BINGO | Vomit on Your Coffee Table | split 7" w/ Ambulance | Independent Project 1990
SCRATCH ACID | Owner's Lament | Scratch Acid | Rabid Cat 1984
KEENING | Just a Man | v/a: More Coffee for the Politicians | Placebo 1985
SACCHARINE TRUST | A Human Certainty | Paganicons | SST 1981
TRIPOD JIMMIE | Autumn Leaves | Long Walk Off a Short Pier | Do Speak 1982
Have you ever had a dinner that was so good, you didn't want to brush your teeth before bed so that you could continue to experience some of the remaining flavors on your tongue for as long as possible?
Dinner with friends at Yume Wo Katare, an unusual ramen restaurant in Porter Square.
"Unusual, how?" you ask.
1) Long line to get in (even at 8 ish on a Wednesday night) for a restaurant with a luncheonette atmosphere.
2) The small restaurant consists of four long counters. All seats face the open kitchen area.
3) The menu consists of...exactly this. Ramen with pork. You can order it with five pieces of pork instead of two but that's it.
4) A sign in the window outside -- which you will have plenty of time tocontemplate while you wait to get in -- explains that "Ninniku iremasuka?" means "Do you want garlic?" Because when the chef is preparing your order, this is what he will ask you. You can also ask for extra veggies or fat.
5) For $10, you can write down one of your wishes and have it hanging on the wall for a month. The walls are covered with them.
6) If you finish the whole bowl, the sever will raise it up on high and cheer "Good job!" and the rest of the diners will cheer for you as well.
7) It is the happiest restaurant I've ever eaten at. The chef and the servers are happy, the room is happy, the food is happy.
This ramen was one of the most satisfying meals I've ever had. The noodles are made and stretched by hand every morning. The broth, I've learned, is slow-cooked over a period of 24 hours. It's an intense, rich flavor that defines "savory." Asking for garlic is very much the right choice: it adds an intensity that's pleasing without being punitive.
And the pork! You bite into it and after just a couple of chews it collapses into a sensation of pure flavor. The visible fat is off-putting, but only because of your past recollections of fatty bits of meat that are chewy and gross. This fat is the consistency of gelatin. It melts in your mouth instantly.
The portion is quite generous. It was precisely as much as I could eat comfortably (but keep in mind that I'd skipped lunch and had two slices of toast for breakfast). But after seeing other diners finish their bowls and how happy it made the servers and the rest of the room, I was determined to please these complete strangers whose names I didn't know.
(Also: a base instinct kept urging me on. "This is delicious. A wise man would continue to eat this until there was no more to eat.")
Whether you empty your bowl or not, the server arrives promptly when it appears as though you're through. I wouldn't say that the attitude is "Eat and get out." This is a very happy place. You simply sense that you could make the establishment and the many people visibly waiting outside very happy if you would eat your ramen without the distractions of your phone or a book, and then vacate your seat with a certain degree of efficiency.
And you want to contribute to the overall happy environment, so you happily depart.
I have set a recurring calendar item on my phone. Every six weeks, I think, I can eat another bowl of this supremely satisfying deliciousness without the habit leading to any medical contraindications. "Every five weeks" would take a year off my life and "every seven" would result in eating fewer bowls of this during that life. So six it is.
Wayne, NJ
Located across from the NJ Transit Mountain View Station (Boonton Line), this diner/luncheonette (closed 2018) was used in a scene in the Castle Rock Entertainment film 'City Hall' (1995) with John Cusack and Bridget Fonda.
Delmonico’s, at 56 Beaver Street, was America’s first fine dining restaurant. The birthplace of the Delmonico Steak, Delmonico Potatoes, Eggs Benedict, Lobster Newburg, and Baked Alaska, the original Delmonico’s offered a new novelty in dining, including the Parisian "bill of fare", or a carte, (which today we call a menu) instead of a price fix meal. The brick, Beaux-Arts structure was built in 1891 by James Brown Lord. The Renaissance-inspired building is faced in orange brick with a brownstone base and terra-cotta trim.
On December 13, 1827, Swiss brothers Giovanni (John) and Pietro (Peter) Del-Monico opened a small pastry shop at 23 William Street called Delmonico and Brother. Business was growing an in 1829, they rented a room in the adjoining building, at 25 William Street and by 1830, they rented the entire building, which served as a restaurant next to the cafe.
In 1834, the brothers used purchased a 220 acre farm on Long Island (incorporated into Brookln in 1855), where they grew vegetables, many that were not otherwise available in America, for the restaurant. In 1834, they purchased a lodging house at 76 Broad Street.
The Fire of 1835 destroyed much of lower New York including the restaurant and cafe and just two months later, the brothers started rebuilding at 2 South William Street. The building was 3 1/2 stories high, and the entrance featured marble pillars imported from Pompeii, that today flank the corner entrance of the Beaver Street location. The first and second floors featured large "saloons" (dining rooms), decorated with inlaid floors and the most expensive decor. The third floor held several private dining rooms, as well as the kitchen. The cellar included wine vaults stocked with 16,000 bottles of French wine. For the first time, the brothers gave it the name Delmonico's Restaurant. But the public soon called it The Citadel.
In 1845, another fire swept through the city destroying the lodging house, but sparing The Citadel. Under Lorenzo, Peter's nephew, the family business leased a parcel of land at Broadway and Morris Street to open the new Delmonico Hotel, which was the first hotel in the United States to operate under the European plan--with rooms and and meals price separately.
In 1848, Peter retired and sold his half interest to Lorenzo, paving the way for a grand era until 1856 when Lorenzo let the lease expire, closing the hotel In 1856, he opened a new restaurant at Broadway and Chambers Street, turning the Citadel into a luncheonette. In 1862, Lorenzo opened a second restaurant uptown at Fifth Avenue and East 14th Street. He followed in 1865 with a new branch at 22 Broad Street. In 1876, he moved his Union Square branch uptown near Madison Square, and his Chambers Street location to 112-114 Pine Street. Lorenzo died in 1881 and chef Charles Ranhofer took over the franhcise until he died in 1884.
Under the guidance of general manager, Young Charly, a new location was opened on July 7, 1891. By 1923, all the Delmonco's restaurants were closed. In 1929, shortly before the Wall Street Crash, Oscar Tucci opened the South William Street building as a restaurant, which he called Delmonico's Restaurant but which the public knew as Oscar's Delmonico's. In July, 1977, the Huber Family acquired the premises and opened a restaurant called Delmonico's Restaurant. It closed in 1992, and the building remained vacant for six years. In 1998, the Bice Group, which operated a chain of restaurants, opened a restaurant on the South William Street property which it called Delmonico's Restaurant. The new owners, Robert Ruggeri and Stefano Frittella, spent $1.5 million to recreate the Old World feel. The new Delmonico's featured executive chef Gian Pietro Branchi, from the Bice Restaurant in New York. In 1999 ownership changed hands again.
The Delmonico's Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.
This building with the moonshine jug shape is a long-standing landmark in Portland. Originally built in 1928 as a tire shop and repair garage, the mouth of the jug is corked with an eight ball. Over the decades, the jug has contained assorted businesses, including a popular luncheonette and soda shop, and was called the "Sandy Jug." For the last few it's been a nude strip club, the windows paneled shut.
Miracles of miracles! For some reason I woke up at 4:00 a.m. this morning (I don’t know how I got back on Army Time!) and decided to go out on the Jersey Shore for breakfast at 5:00. I seldom, if ever eat breakfast other than a piece of fruit or some yoghurt.
The quickest place was this little luncheonette near where I live that I’ve probably passed by a hundred times in the 15 years I’ve been stationed/lived on the Jersey Shore but have never visited. When I went in, I was amazed! It reminded me of some of the places I used to go when I was stationed in Georgia or Alabama. Except, of course, I could understand the English spoken by the people in New Jersey unlike many of the people I met in the Old South.
They had sausage gravy and biscuits on the menu which caught my eye. You almost never see that in Jersey! The had almost 20 different types of omelets including a “Nutella Omelet” which had Nutella, banana & blueberries tucked inside. Also interesting were the chicken fried steak omelet, omelet stuffed inside a pancake, fish omelet, sausage gravy omelet, broccoli garlic omelet, and grilled chicken omelet. There omelets were light and fluffy, unlike the flat, scorched ones which seemed to be the standard for Georgia!
Add to that selection 8 different types of Benedict, 7 different types of pancakes including pancakes stuffed with mascarpone cheese and fresh fruit topped with whipped cream and chopped hazelnuts and Nutella sauce or a “Smored” pancake with chocolate, marshmallows and graham cracker crumbs.
Best of all, they had GRITS!!!!
I went with the Waffle Sampler which is a Belgium waffle topped with corn beef hash, scrambled eggs, and sausage gravy (which was excellent) by the way and a side of grits on the side.
My low calorie/low cholesterol breakfast was truly an embarrassment of riches!
The Lexington Candy Shop is a historic luncheonette located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It's known for its old-fashioned charm, classic American fare, and being one of the oldest family-owned establishments of its kind in the city. The shop, which opened in 1925, has retained much of its original decor and atmosphere, transporting visitors back to a bygone era.
(29Jun34) Buckmeier's Tavern, restaurant, luncheonette and booze emporium. And for you're flying pleasure, tall telephone poles to make every landing and take off a thrill ride. Photo from Rob Bitunjac from the Clearing Library.
Window of Lexington Candy Shop on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
An old collection of coke bottles and a great neon green Luncheonette sign make this one of my favorite windows on the Upper East Side. The diner has been in existence since 1925.
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I was thrilled to join a friend and his family at Gale's today. This tiny diner is reputed to be the cheapest eats in Toronto. Prices on the menu have not changed in decades, lunch for four was just over $10. The service was friendly and the food was good. The place was full almost the entire time we were there.
From The Toronto Star: "Besides being a contender for the title of Toronto's cheapest luncheonette, Gale's Snack Bar is also one of the oldest and tiniest. The eatery has been slinging diner staples at Eastern and Carlaw Aves. in Toronto for 80 years. It has been decades since there have been renovations at Gale's, and years since the menu prices were raised. "My father has always wanted our prices to be low so that people can afford the food," explains Eda Chan, daughter of owner David Chan. Eda and David have operated Gale's Snack Bar for 35 years, but never bothered to change the restaurant's name."
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We love ❤️ this diner's wrap-around #neon signage as well as its vertical #neonsign and the architecture of the building it is located in. Does anyone else remember this #luncheonette as it closed a number of years ago and we found this #analog photo in our 35mm archives.
Soda Candy Luncheonette. New York City. December 29, 2017. © Copyright 2017 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
Street scene in winter light on the Upper East Side, Manhattan
Today's photo takes us back to the urban world again, and away from the world of winter migratory birds that I have shared more recently. The photograph is from our weeklong visit to New York City between Christmas and (almost) New Year's Day. It was a cold week! As we usually do, we went out and wandered Manhattan quite a bit — hard to do street photography without going into the street! Daytime highs made it (barely, and not always) into the low 20 degree range, but we fought back by layering up and by stopping frequently for refreshments in warm places. Not that the latter is a bad thing!
I made this photograph on one of those cold days. We had queued up to get into the Guggenheim, but the line wasn't moving at all. Standing there in the bitter cold and strong wind, the thought of finding a place with warm soup suddenly occurred to us, and we left the line and found food. Feeling warmer now, we headed back out onto Lexington and walked south. When I first spotted this place, somewhat interesting in its own right though not quite unique as a structure, the words on the sign caught my attention: "Soda Candy Luncheonette." Then I noticed the nice light coming up Lexington and the interesting arrangements of pedestrians as they walked past.
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by Steven Swain: Roanoke-Salem Plaza opened in 1962 at the intersection of Melrose Avenue (US 11/460) and Peters Creek Road (Route 117) in the northwest section of the city near its border with the city of Salem. RSP was the third large shopping center to open in two years in the Roanoke Valley, after the enclosed Crossroads Mall, three miles east and two-level Towers Shopping Center, five miles south. Its developer was B.F. Saul. Original anchors were Leggett and Miller & Rhoads department stores, G.C. Murphy and Woolworth’s variety stores, Winn-Dixie supermarket and Peoples Drug. Other stores from the early days include Hofheimer’s Shoes, Radio Shack, First National Exchange Bank, Sidney’s (women’s apparel), Thom McAn, and Lerner Shops.
RSP’s deign was innovative for its time. The Y-shaped center faced Melrose Avenue and featured a long landscaped pedestrian promenade along its main axis. At the bottom end of the Y was Leggett, the mall’s largest store. The east end of the Y featured Miller & Rhoads and G.C. Murphy, which had both street and mall entrances. The west end had Peoples Drug and Winn-Dixie. Peoples had a prime corner position at the intersection of the Y. Winn-Dixie was next door and faced two parking lots on opposite sides of the store which gave them maximum exposure and led to a unique design featuring two banks of cash registers. Woolworth’s was in a prime position midway through the mall, with its large luncheonette visible to shoppers through the plate glass windows.
Despite being an open-air shopping center in a largely residential neighborhood, Roanoke-Salem Plaza was designed in the manner of an enclosed mall. It did not lend itself to a convenient shopping experience. Except for Winn-Dixie and Leggett, the stores at RSP had precious little storefront parking. Shoppers, in theory, would park in the front, rear or west side of the mall and leisurely walk down the promenade past the various shops, leading to uncontrolled impulse buying along the way. The design ideas made sense for a regional shopping center like Crossroads Mall, where shoppers came from as far away as southern West Virginia, but never quite worked for RSP, which had a more “local” tenant mix and customer base. The novelty factor of the mall worked for only about five years, and then the problems started.
By the late 1960s, “white flight” had led to most of the target shopping audience moving away to avoid the blacks that were settling in to the neighborhood. It should be noted that the blacks were displaced from other areas of Roanoke by urban renewal, and Northwest Roanoke was the easiest and least hostile place to relocate. A silent, largely racist, boycott of the center by white middle-class citizens helped cause store closures starting in the early ‘70s. The pace accelerated when the enclosed “state-of-the-art” Tanglewood Mall opened in 1973 and Leggett, G.C. Murphy, and Miller & Rhoads all opened stores there, making RSP less of a regional retail destination.
The writing was on the wall, Roanoke-Salem Plaza was in trouble. As the ‘70s progressed, every aspect of the mall began to suffer. Stores continued to leave, the landscaping and maintenance went to pot, and crime went up. People were afraid to walk down the promenade, especially at night, for fear of being mugged. Extreme heat in the summer and bitter cold in the winter led many to choose the enclosed Crossroads and Tanglewood malls rather than “rough it” at RSP. Were it not for the initial determination of Leggett and Miller & Rhoads to stay at the center (they still did decent business), the mall would surely have been dead by the late ‘70s.
In 1978, developer Henry Faison proposed Valley View Mall, a substantial new shopping center that would be built on a large tract of land at the intersection of I-581 and Hershberger within three miles of RSP. Miller & Rhoads was one of the first stores to sign to Valley View and announced plans to close their Roanoke-Salem Plaza and downtown Roanoke stores when the new mall opened. Valley View was located in the “clear zone” for the local airport and was hotly contested for many years but by 1982, Faison had won approval for his plans and prepared for a 1985 opening.
By the early ‘80s, it was clear that RSP would not be a viable retail location for much longer. G.C. Murphy pulled out in 1981, leaving a 55,000 square foot vacancy that sat empty for half a decade. Not long after, Leggett announced it was moving to Valley View. Many tenants complained that the mall’s owner B.F. Saul was intentionally letting the center go to pot. Saul countered that the mall would be renovated when Peters Creek Road was extended along the west side of the property. Previously, Peters Creek Road terminated at the west end of the mall near Winn-Dixie. The road project, proposed in the early ‘60s, was not completed until the late ‘90s, and Saul never renovated the center, even as substantially all of the anchor and chain tenants pulled out in 1985.
In 1986, Roanoke-Salem Plaza was sold to Walt Robbins, a developer who specialized in distressed shopping center properties. Robbins had renovated a similar center elsewhere in Virginia and turned it into a popular destination. He had a challenge on his hands with RSP, to be sure. Winn-Dixie, Peoples Drug and Woolworth’s were still there, but little else. Robbins renovated the center, adding a clock tower at its main entrance and new signage throughout, bringing in closeout chain U.S. Factory Outlets to replace G.C. Murphy. The name was inverted as well, to “The Plaza of Roanoke-Salem.” He based his renovations on what he thought was the impending Peters Creek Road extension, promising to bring in more new stores and even more enhancements when the road was completed. But the road project continued to stall, Robbins eventually sold the center and the factory outlet store closed almost as soon as it opened. The three remaining anchors were gone by 1991, leaving little more than a shell of a building.
A funny thing happened on the way to obscurity. Roanoke-Salem Plaza became a de facto “power center,” due in no small part to the Peters Creek Road extension which finally happened circa 1998. Now called Roanoke-Salem Business Plaza, it was brought back to relative life by a series of outlet and parts stores which all grouped along the highways for maximum visibility. Around 1995, Office Outlet, a used office furniture store, moved into the former Winn-Dixie. Business was good enough to justify an expansion into the former Peoples Drug a short time later. The former Miller & Rhoads became a fireplace accessory shop and then an appliance parts store. Woolworth’s became a carpet outlet, while Leggett briefly became a business college and then an auto parts warehouse. A series of smaller spaces were combined to create a space for Harbor Freight Tools in 2002, and smaller spaces are occupied by a computer store and a free-distribution paper
Roanoke-Salem Plaza missed out on being Roanoke, Virginia’s first large mall but it certainly became the area’s first dead mall. Even though is partially occupied, all is not well. The area still has crime problems and the promenade is still deserted. The whole east side of the center is empty and looks much like it did in 1981. Even though the Peters Creek extension has turned the site into a high traffic intersection, the neighborhood is too poor and too close to Valley View Mall to justify the development of chain stores. Unless something changes, Roanoke-Salem Plaza’s fate will be to limp along as a shadow of its former self.
Miracles of miracles! For some reason I woke up at 4:00 a.m. this morning (I don’t know how I got back on Army Time!) and decided to go out on the Jersey Shore for breakfast at 5:00. I seldom, if ever eat breakfast other than a piece of fruit or some yoghurt.
The quickest place was this little luncheonette near where I live that I’ve probably passed by a hundred times in the 15 years I’ve been stationed/lived on the Jersey Shore but have never visited. When I went in, I was amazed! It reminded me of some of the places I used to go when I was stationed in Georgia or Alabama. Except, of course, I could understand the English spoken by the people in New Jersey unlike many of the people I met in the Old South.
They had sausage gravy and biscuits on the menu which caught my eye. You almost never see that in Jersey! The had almost 20 different types of omelets including a “Nutella Omelet” which had Nutella, banana & blueberries tucked inside. Also interesting were the chicken fried steak omelet, omelet stuffed inside a pancake, fish omelet, sausage gravy omelet, broccoli garlic omelet, and grilled chicken omelet. There omelets were light and fluffy, unlike the flat, scorched ones which seemed to be the standard for Georgia!
Add to that selection 8 different types of Benedict, 7 different types of pancakes including pancakes stuffed with mascarpone cheese and fresh fruit topped with whipped cream and chopped hazelnuts and Nutella sauce or a “Smored” pancake with chocolate, marshmallows and graham cracker crumbs.
Best of all, they had GRITS!!!!
I went with the Waffle Sampler which is a Belgium waffle topped with corn beef hash, scrambled eggs, and sausage gravy (which was excellent) by the way and a side of grits on the side.
My low calorie/low cholesterol breakfast was truly an embarrassment of riches!
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B&H Kosher Dairy Restaurant on 2nd Avenue near St Mark’s Place was founded in 1938 by Abie Bergson and Jack Heller, when Second Avenue from 14th Street to Houston Street was considered “The Jewish Rialto” due to the large numbers of Yiddish theaters along the Avenue. We have visited & photographed this lovely luncheonette many times (swipe left for 2nd photo in the 2000s). The current owners of B&H are husband-and-wife team Aleksandra (Ola) and Fawzy Abdelwahed. Fawzy purchased the restaurant in 2003, and Ola joined him two years later. Both of them are immigrants (Ola a Catholic from Poland and Fawzy a Muslim from Egypt), who not only embrace the neighborhood’s diversity but still offer the same classic Jewish kosher comfort food including latkes, knishes, borscht, blintzes, pierogi, tuna sandwiches and homemade challah bread 🍞.
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Yesterday we had a chance to visit @bandhdairy and speak with Ola about how their business has declined since the pandemic (please go and support them as they have been struggling) and we got an amazing store t-shirt & she even gave our dog Hudson some fresh-baked challah bread!
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To watch our visit to B&H Dairy on our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story.
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I remember taking this photo of Diana. It was in front of a place called Dave's Luncheonette on Broadway and Canal. It had the feeling of the old New York that somehow captured what Diana was wearing. Dave's was open 24 hours. I used to work at the Mudd Club a few blocks away. We would go there after working all night and get there at 4 or 5 in the morning. I have a lot of strange stories about Dave's Luncheonette. One night, someone finding a cigarette butt at the bottom of their milkshake. Another night, cockroaches in the sandwiches and we walked in one late night to find the big short-order cook beating up the skinny waitress while everyone watched. It was the only place open at that time. What can I say? If I am not mistaken Dave's was finally closed by the health authorities.
This was not a good introduction to Diana, was it? Diana participated in all or most of the events at Club 57. She was also in Pulsallama and the Ladies Auxiliary of the Lower East Side. She had a funny night there called “Low-budget luminary,” which she named after the Soho New’s gossip columnist description of the type of people who hung out at Club 57. It was a lamp collection. All Club 57 members created a lamp or brought a lamp that they liked. As usual with these events, it lasted one night. She was the presenter for a downtown fashion designer show. She wrote the intros for all the models, which she mashed up from sentences from early 60’s vogue magazines. Diana is now a telecommunications specialist at Sound Transit. She works in IT and provides all kinds of phones and phone services for the employees and public services.
Canal Street | Eldridge Street 30/04/2015 12h07
Chinatown before returning to the start point of the Open Tour. One the great things of being at the upperdeck of such a bus is the point of view on street corners like this.
Try to spot the Chrysler Building in this picture.
Chinatown, Manhattan
Chinatown, Manhattan is a neighborhood in Manhattan that is home to the largest enclave of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. It is in Lower Manhattan, New York City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west.
With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia. Historically it was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers. However, in the 1980s-90s, large numbers of Chinese Min Dong-speaking immigrants also arrived, which placed more importance on learning and speaking the official Chinese language, Mandarin, because many Mingdong speakers also often speak Mandarin, and many Cantonese speakers now also speak Mandarin to communicate.
[ Source & more Info: Wikipedia - Manhattan Chinatown ]
Looking south on Route 73 before Baker Boulevard in Marlton - 2016 photo with 1993 inset. The white building on the left in the 1993 photo was a former residence that was later a horse transportation office, kerosene heater dealer and Paperback Exchange. Chick-fil-A replaced it in 2008. Next to this was Mary's Luncheonette, replaced with Carrollo's Restaurant in the late 1990s. Carrollo's owned the former Paperback Exchange and used it as a worker's residence until it was demolished for Chick-fil-A. Farther down the highway Marlton Circle replaced with an overpass.
West side of Broadway between W.Marie St. and the RR overpass. The stores were Englert's Bakery, the Sweet Shop,Roger's Variety Store,Cut Rate Drugs,. Italian Grocery,Luncheonette,Delicatessen,Sausmer's Hardware. Beaty's Stationary,and the Bank. The Cut Rate Drug store and the Italian Grocery, are the old Hotel Kenmore...That was the end of the Freytag- Taliaferro properties. M3 Leica, 50mm Summicron lens.
by Steven Swain: Roanoke-Salem Plaza opened in 1962 at the intersection of Melrose Avenue (US 11/460) and Peters Creek Road (Route 117) in the northwest section of the city near its border with the city of Salem. RSP was the third large shopping center to open in two years in the Roanoke Valley, after the enclosed Crossroads Mall, three miles east and two-level Towers Shopping Center, five miles south. Its developer was B.F. Saul. Original anchors were Leggett and Miller & Rhoads department stores, G.C. Murphy and Woolworth’s variety stores, Winn-Dixie supermarket and Peoples Drug. Other stores from the early days include Hofheimer’s Shoes, Radio Shack, First National Exchange Bank, Sidney’s (women’s apparel), Thom McAn, and Lerner Shops.
RSP’s deign was innovative for its time. The Y-shaped center faced Melrose Avenue and featured a long landscaped pedestrian promenade along its main axis. At the bottom end of the Y was Leggett, the mall’s largest store. The east end of the Y featured Miller & Rhoads and G.C. Murphy, which had both street and mall entrances. The west end had Peoples Drug and Winn-Dixie. Peoples had a prime corner position at the intersection of the Y. Winn-Dixie was next door and faced two parking lots on opposite sides of the store which gave them maximum exposure and led to a unique design featuring two banks of cash registers. Woolworth’s was in a prime position midway through the mall, with its large luncheonette visible to shoppers through the plate glass windows.
Despite being an open-air shopping center in a largely residential neighborhood, Roanoke-Salem Plaza was designed in the manner of an enclosed mall. It did not lend itself to a convenient shopping experience. Except for Winn-Dixie and Leggett, the stores at RSP had precious little storefront parking. Shoppers, in theory, would park in the front, rear or west side of the mall and leisurely walk down the promenade past the various shops, leading to uncontrolled impulse buying along the way. The design ideas made sense for a regional shopping center like Crossroads Mall, where shoppers came from as far away as southern West Virginia, but never quite worked for RSP, which had a more “local” tenant mix and customer base. The novelty factor of the mall worked for only about five years, and then the problems started.
By the late 1960s, “white flight” had led to most of the target shopping audience moving away to avoid the blacks that were settling in to the neighborhood. It should be noted that the blacks were displaced from other areas of Roanoke by urban renewal, and Northwest Roanoke was the easiest and least hostile place to relocate. A silent, largely racist, boycott of the center by white middle-class citizens helped cause store closures starting in the early ‘70s. The pace accelerated when the enclosed “state-of-the-art” Tanglewood Mall opened in 1973 and Leggett, G.C. Murphy, and Miller & Rhoads all opened stores there, making RSP less of a regional retail destination.
The writing was on the wall, Roanoke-Salem Plaza was in trouble. As the ‘70s progressed, every aspect of the mall began to suffer. Stores continued to leave, the landscaping and maintenance went to pot, and crime went up. People were afraid to walk down the promenade, especially at night, for fear of being mugged. Extreme heat in the summer and bitter cold in the winter led many to choose the enclosed Crossroads and Tanglewood malls rather than “rough it” at RSP. Were it not for the initial determination of Leggett and Miller & Rhoads to stay at the center (they still did decent business), the mall would surely have been dead by the late ‘70s.
In 1978, developer Henry Faison proposed Valley View Mall, a substantial new shopping center that would be built on a large tract of land at the intersection of I-581 and Hershberger within three miles of RSP. Miller & Rhoads was one of the first stores to sign to Valley View and announced plans to close their Roanoke-Salem Plaza and downtown Roanoke stores when the new mall opened. Valley View was located in the “clear zone” for the local airport and was hotly contested for many years but by 1982, Faison had won approval for his plans and prepared for a 1985 opening.
By the early ‘80s, it was clear that RSP would not be a viable retail location for much longer. G.C. Murphy pulled out in 1981, leaving a 55,000 square foot vacancy that sat empty for half a decade. Not long after, Leggett announced it was moving to Valley View. Many tenants complained that the mall’s owner B.F. Saul was intentionally letting the center go to pot. Saul countered that the mall would be renovated when Peters Creek Road was extended along the west side of the property. Previously, Peters Creek Road terminated at the west end of the mall near Winn-Dixie. The road project, proposed in the early ‘60s, was not completed until the late ‘90s, and Saul never renovated the center, even as substantially all of the anchor and chain tenants pulled out in 1985.
In 1986, Roanoke-Salem Plaza was sold to Walt Robbins, a developer who specialized in distressed shopping center properties. Robbins had renovated a similar center elsewhere in Virginia and turned it into a popular destination. He had a challenge on his hands with RSP, to be sure. Winn-Dixie, Peoples Drug and Woolworth’s were still there, but little else. Robbins renovated the center, adding a clock tower at its main entrance and new signage throughout, bringing in closeout chain U.S. Factory Outlets to replace G.C. Murphy. The name was inverted as well, to “The Plaza of Roanoke-Salem.” He based his renovations on what he thought was the impending Peters Creek Road extension, promising to bring in more new stores and even more enhancements when the road was completed. But the road project continued to stall, Robbins eventually sold the center and the factory outlet store closed almost as soon as it opened. The three remaining anchors were gone by 1991, leaving little more than a shell of a building.
A funny thing happened on the way to obscurity. Roanoke-Salem Plaza became a de facto “power center,” due in no small part to the Peters Creek Road extension which finally happened circa 1998. Now called Roanoke-Salem Business Plaza, it was brought back to relative life by a series of outlet and parts stores which all grouped along the highways for maximum visibility. Around 1995, Office Outlet, a used office furniture store, moved into the former Winn-Dixie. Business was good enough to justify an expansion into the former Peoples Drug a short time later. The former Miller & Rhoads became a fireplace accessory shop and then an appliance parts store. Woolworth’s became a carpet outlet, while Leggett briefly became a business college and then an auto parts warehouse. A series of smaller spaces were combined to create a space for Harbor Freight Tools in 2002, and smaller spaces are occupied by a computer store and a free-distribution paper
Roanoke-Salem Plaza missed out on being Roanoke, Virginia’s first large mall but it certainly became the area’s first dead mall. Even though is partially occupied, all is not well. The area still has crime problems and the promenade is still deserted. The whole east side of the center is empty and looks much like it did in 1981. Even though the Peters Creek extension has turned the site into a high traffic intersection, the neighborhood is too poor and too close to Valley View Mall to justify the development of chain stores. Unless something changes, Roanoke-Salem Plaza’s fate will be to limp along as a shadow of its former self.