| Author | Message | ||
     crossroads Citizen Username: Crossroads Post Number: 9 Registered: 12-2001  |
Does anyone remember Ray Coryell who had a bicycle shop or Stanley the butcher or Danks' store on Springfield Avenue by the Hilton Branch Library? | ||
| sparrow Citizen Username: Sparrow Post Number: 16 Registered: 6-2001 |
Yes, I remember Ray Coryell and his son Willard. I think the bicycle shop was on or near the corner of Burnett Ave. and Tuscan Rd. | ||
| ajc Citizen Username: Ajc Post Number: 935 Registered: 9-2001 |
Does anyone remember the "Little House" on the corner of Springfield and Boyden? It was Maplewood's version of a White Castle, and a great place for a quick lunch… | ||
| sparrow Citizen Username: Sparrow Post Number: 17 Registered: 6-2001 |
There was a White Castle on the corner of Rutgers St. and Springfield Ave. | ||
| crossroads Citizen Username: Crossroads Post Number: 87 Registered: 12-2001 |
What was the name of the toy store by the triangle and there was a photo development across the avenue. You'd have to wait a week for your pictures to come in! Further down by PSE+G was Blackstone’s. We'd go there for magazines. Towards Prospect on the Avenue was Baumarts(I think)restaurant and great candy. | ||
| bill671 Citizen Username: Bill671 Post Number: 143 Registered: 6-2002 |
Toyland Another one of those stores where you didn't dare go into unless you were with a parent, or had cash in plain view. Still can't conceive why people who hate kids open toy stores - or is it owning a toy store that makes them that way? | ||
| extuscan Citizen Username: Extuscan Post Number: 526 Registered: 6-2001 |
Haha surely run by Eva's sister. -John | ||
| Psychomom Citizen Username: Psychomom Post Number: 91 Registered: 5-2005 |
Baumerts was a great ice cream parlor, it was our reward to go there for a good report card...hmm could that be why I grew up oversweight???LOL The Burnet Bar be Que restaurant is the most recent of many establishments on that site. Toyland gave way to Harrison Research and now to some mysterious all inclusive business something like 2Khealth I think. Is the little house where a gas station later stood, then a hotdog stand??? | ||
| george H Citizen Username: Georgieboy Post Number: 65 Registered: 8-2005 |
Psycho,If your referring to the sweet shop on Burnet Ave. in Union,the name was Pauline&Johnnys.I remember the frozen mugs for fountain style root beer.That is the location of the first Burnet Bar-BQ.It might just be coincidence though.Johnny was kinda mean sometimes but also would let you read comic books at the counter and put them back on the rack providing you did'nt crease them or get them dirty.In later years he tended bar at the Cabin on Morris ave.and seemed to mellow as the years went on. | ||
| r2boy Supporter Username: R2boy Post Number: 248 Registered: 5-2001 |
psychomom,The Little House is still there on the south side of Springfield and Boyden.In fact, it has just been painted and opened as a realty office...The gas stations were across the street where the hot dog place sits empty and another one was located where the Quick Check is today. | ||
| gibbsgirl Citizen Username: Gibbsgirl Post Number: 60 Registered: 11-2001 |
The hot dog place used to be Jack Miller's Esso station and the Quick Check sits on the land that used to be a Texaco station. Office Murphy used to be the crossing guard there years ago. Does anyone remember when the Hilton Branch of the library was on the second floor of the old fire house that used to be across the street closer to Public Service? | ||
| r2boy Supporter Username: R2boy Post Number: 249 Registered: 5-2001 |
Yes, I remember the library upstairs.It was on an island in the middle of Boyden Ave and the firehouse faced Springfield Ave.I grew up on Midland Blvd near Highland and we rode our bikes down the hill to the library and that was 50 plus years ago....seems like yesterday.... | ||
| exmaplewood Citizen Username: Exmaplewood Post Number: 24 Registered: 7-2005 |
I loved Stanley the butcher! I wanted my grandma to marry him! | ||
| Donald Maxton Citizen Username: Don_maxton Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2005 |
Does anyone remember the Beckers, a prominent Maplewood family until the late 1960s? Norman Becker was on the school board and owned a florist business on Burnett Ave. He even had a large greenhouse (demolished in the 1970s). His father, Louis, farmed the land that is now DeHart Recreational Center. The family gave this property to the town. Norman's cousin Carl Becker was well known for growing the famous "Hilton Strawberry." I would like to get in touch with any surviving members of the family. |
