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     monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 835 Registered: 7-2002  |
hey buzzsaw, I remember that picture of the shadow on the street, it was your desktop image the last time I was over, oh so long ago. What's your image now, I'm using this,  | ||
| Sparkleb Citizen Username: Sparkleb Post Number: 9 Registered: 3-2004 |
Didn't take the picture of Leo -- it's from the website www.leosgrandevous.com. Great story to go along with it -- I never met Leo, but I'd probably love him. Buy back or no. BTW, I believe the name of the bar in the basement of the WTC was Kommuter Kafe. I never went in, but I have to say, I miss seeing it. I'd like to pretend that "Kabooz" in Penn Station is the same thing, but it is soooo not. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2119 Registered: 5-2001  |
 monster: I've had this one up there for a bit. I like it. found it on the net - I don't know who the photographer is. sparkleb: kabooze. eeeek. that name should be somewhere on a strip mall in hell. I was told that Leo and his wife had split a bar pie every night. No wonder the guy lived so long. They have great Sinatra pictures there. | ||
| monster Supporter Username: Monster Post Number: 840 Registered: 7-2002 |
whoa, that looks  email it to me, will ya? Please? | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2122 Registered: 5-2001 |
you got it mon! | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 1809 Registered: 6-2001  |
Was that Opsail 2000? We went to Hoboken on 4th July and saw the tall ships. Beautiful sight. Cool military helicopters, too. | ||
| TomD Citizen Username: Tomd Post Number: 22 Registered: 5-2005  |
Thanks for reminding me about Leo's. I haven't been there since I left Hoboken--my old apartment (my first apartment) was scarsely more than a few yards away on Adams across the street from that odd cement park (before they revamped it). I also liked that Italian deli that was (is?) next door to Leo's; the sandwiches don't measure up to Vito's (roastbeef and mutz, lettuce, tomato and peppers...mmmm) but considering the proximity, they were pretty good. Speaking of colorful Hoboken business proprietors, who remembers Cosmo (9th and Washington)? When my mom would visit, she would stop in at Cosmos for pastries and they'd start jabbering in Italian. Strangely, my mom get better service than I did. Giorgio is more old school, but Cosmo has some incredibly good eclairs and chocolate cakes. I still find it funny that the condo my wife and I purchased (for what seemed like a lot of $$) in Hoboken (and sold for more $$) was, quite literally, a tenament. Not like, what kind of rat-trap, dump tenament is this place? It was a nice apartment, but it was a converted tenament. I remember walking through the tenament museum downtown in the city and thinking, this is my apartment... | ||
| musicme Citizen Username: Musicme Post Number: 1285 Registered: 5-2001  |
The row house that I bought in '91 for 175K has recently sold for over 900. What bubble? It's still 15 feet wide and had drunks peeing on the stoop.  | ||
| doulamomma Citizen Username: Doulamomma Post Number: 435 Registered: 3-2002 |
My oldest is named Leo...maybe we will make a trip to Leo's for a bar pie sometime & then every other old place named "Leo's" that we can find... | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2130 Registered: 5-2001 |
Bets: That was from OPsail 2000. When does that shindig start at bennies next week? TomD: I loved that bakery. When I lived in Hob I worked 11-7, so I would go to cosmo's about 9am everyday for coffee and roll. Musicme: When we left Hob the guy sold our one bedroom for $330K - this was 6 years ago. I moved into a house here for under 200K. My property taxes are now just a little under that. doulamomma: You would love leo's. I can't think of one other place I have ever been to with the name Leo. Now I am on a mission.... I would like to thank the two party people that moved under my apartment in Hoboken that made me so crazy I had to move out. I remember the day they moved in, I was walking up Garden street thinking..."aaaahhhh, Garden street is such the perfect name for this beautiful tree lined street". I walked into my apartment and heard my radio playing "holiday" by madonna. I thought to myself, "self...you don't own any Madonna". Then I looked around. No radio on. OH MY GOD IT'S COMING FROM DOWNSTAIRS. From that moment on it was Madonna, John Cougar and z100 NON STOP. I was unable to escape it. I said to my wife, "Maw, it's time to head to the country". Within a month I was living in Maplewood. I miss Lisa's deli on Park. I also miss Louise and Jerry's. I miss walking down washington street and seeing someone I knew. I miss that great record store - pier platter or something like that. I miss the hoboken reporter - if only for the police blotter. | ||
| TomD Citizen Username: Tomd Post Number: 25 Registered: 5-2005 |
Pier Platter! That was a great record store. I recall Rolling Stone calling them one of the best record stores in the New York area (or something to that effect). The two saddest store closings for me in Hoboken were Pier Platter and Blackwater books (followed by every other non-B&N bookstore in town). The best store closing (or perhaps, remodeling) was the arrival of Anthony Davids on the corner of 10th and Bloomfield. We lived just up the block and used to stop in there frequently. The owner and his wife had a baby just slightly younger than ours and we would talk while he whipped up some really wonderful food. Before Anthony Davids opened, that place was (for years) a shoe store. In the years that I lived around that place, I think I only saw it open once--an old man sitting on a stool inside, surrounded by dusty old shoes and high stacks of shoe boxes--and that was years earlier. The store was so odd. The shoes and advertising photos in the windows were all faded by the sun and covered with a thick layer of dust. Everything in the place looked to be at least fifty years old. And then for several years it just sat--sealed up--gathering dust. Then one day a movie crew swooped in and spent a few weeks shooting some pointless movie there. And then, gloriously, Anthony Davids opened! And then they expanded to offer a few tables for sit down dining!! There are lots of great places to eat in Hoboken (almost as many as there are for a bunch of loud, recovering frat boys and sorority girls who haven't yet accepted that they are no longer in college to get hammered) but Anthony Davids is a hidden treasure. I have to make it a point to go back there. | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 1822 Registered: 6-2001 |
Buzz - I'll be there by 6 - earlier if I can sneak out of work before 5. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2136 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| musicme Citizen Username: Musicme Post Number: 1290 Registered: 5-2001 |
http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2004/coolsongs/audio/lobster2.mp3 | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2140 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2150 Registered: 5-2001 |
 I was in LA for a couple days on a job. I thought I hated LA. I now love it. I could never live there. I like seasons, taylor ham and bagels. But - I could visit again. In 48 hours I spent 12 of them on an airplane. I do not like to fly. Not one bit. Nope. Don't like it. I sat next to a guy who kept leaning on me. After a while I had to sneeze on him a few times. He got the hint. I had beer and tater tots for breakfast at the airport. I wasn't the only one. | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 1865 Registered: 6-2001 |
I'm not a fan of flying either. I will usually ask my doctor for flying pills and he'll prescribe 10 or so (valium). That started after the Richard Reid (sp?) shoe incident. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2160 Registered: 5-2001 |
Valium! I remember going to the Dr. after 9/11 and telling him I was having panic attacks...that I work downtown...I had just lost my best freind from college....I was going to have my first baby in a month....I was a wreck. The Dr. said to me, "what you need to do is work out and get your self in shape". I sat there. Said OK - fully knowing I was never going to "work out" or "go to a gym". I was hoping for something...stronger...in pill form. Somedays I am thankful for the more spiritual path this DR put me on and somedays I blame him for my continued but infrequent panic attacks. I think in the long run, putting myself back together (though I am missing a few pieces) was better than the numbing I was looking for at the time. That said...I'll be self medicating my self on Thursday at Bunnies. Bets, I should be there anywhere from 6-630. Dave, you know what to do. | ||
| buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 2173 Registered: 5-2001 |
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| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 1877 Registered: 6-2001 |
Understood and I totally relate. I said he'd prescribe maybe 10 pills. That's over 365 days (ok, maybe abother 10 more when I have to travel for work - rare). It just makes that one BIG FEAR a little easier to deal with. That said, I am walking more, I'm getting pulled into lots of stuff (stuck with?) at work, and am generally doing great. I will be there. With bells on. Literally. T - 19 hours. |
