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michaelaw1	STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS MEMORIES OF SYRACUSE NY	Lead	[-]
Posts: 3 (12/31/08 05:12:04) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Where do I begin ? the Yoko Ono exhibition at the Everson Museum ? The crowds so crushing, I got "felt up" from behind, while waiting for the first day opening, and I got close to John Lennon as a group of people were beating on drums together ! Shopping with my Mother, as a toddler, at FLAH's, DEY BROS....whend downtown was a flourishing shopping center...well, the ONLY shopping center location for these stores, at that time. The last stop was at the KARMEL KORN store...black and white tiled, spic and span clean...the smell of freshly made popcorn permeating my nostrils...my reward for being a "good boy" while shopping with Mom ! Our next stop was taking the SUNNYCREST bus home, to our Grant Village apartment ! When I was a teenager, I LOVED going to the record store next to Lowes Theater, downtown ! I wonder what happened to the sales people and fellow record collectors ? I attended Nicols School for kindergarten to 2nd Grade, and lived at the apartment complex that was nestled a quarter mile from SHOP CITY ! I went to MARCELLUS CENTRAL SCHOOL for a few grades, then came back to Nicols for my 6th Grade stay ! We lived at GRANT VILLAGE APARTMENTS, and at lunchtime went home, to eat, and watch the JIMMY DEAN SHOW on Tv ! MORE LATER..... Last Edited By: michaelaw1 12/31/08 05:43:45. Edited 3 times.
michaelaw1		#1	[-]
Posts: 4 (12/31/08 05:50:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	SHOP CITY ! The fish fry store at the end of the "strip"...the smell of cooking, fried fish, of ALL kinds, permeating the air, 365 DAYS OF THE YEAR, it seems ! Going to the nearby LYNCOURT BAKERY for sicilian slices and gooey pastries ! The smell of the bread baking, in the area of NORTH SALINA ST., from the COLUMBUS BAKERY ovens, early Sunday morning's, even up to ST. JOHNS THE EVANGELIST CHURCH !
MadMax327		#2	[-]
Posts: 4 (01/02/09 05:34:36) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My god, so much of Syracuse has come back to me in the last year or so. My family moved to Florida in '88 when my dad was helping to close Allied Chemical in Solvay. I returned with my own family in 2007. After coming back for my grandmothers' funerals (2 and 3 years earlier), Something was tugging at me to come home, and so I did. And once I was back so much came rushing back from my past: Twin Trees (all three of them) Heid's hot dogs Sweetheart Market William's Penn Can, Northern Lights, and Shoppingtown Malls Switz's Gordon's Electronics (where Dad bought his RCA Videodisc Player) I could keep going, but if I do I'll never stop! But love all those old memories. A lot of the places are gone, but the spirit of them lives on.
michaelaw1		#3	[-]
Posts: 5 (01/08/09 04:31:32) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	WOW, Gordon Electronics !!! It happens like that...something, a little thing, gets us started, and you come back
michaelaw1		#4	[-]
Posts: 6 (01/08/09 05:30:30) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	MADMAX327, In my senior year at Henniger High, I used to take off, regularly to hang out with mutual friends at the park, near the lake...I wonder if it's still as beautiful as it is in my mind's eye !
michaelaw1		#5	[-]
Posts: 7 (01/08/09 07:18:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	MadMax327 wrote: My god, so much of Syracuse has come back to me in the last year or so. My family moved to Florida in '88 when my dad was helping to close Allied Chemical in Solvay. I returned with my own family in 2007. After coming back for my grandmothers' funerals (2 and 3 years earlier), Something was tugging at me to come home, and so I did. And once I was back so much came rushing back from my past: Twin Trees (all three of them) Heid's hot dogs Sweetheart Market William's Penn Can, Northern Lights, and Shoppingtown Malls Switz's Gordon's Electronics (where Dad bought his RCA Videodisc Player) I could keep going, but if I do I'll never stop! But love all those old memories. A lot of the places are gone, but the spirit of them lives on. I STILL can't get the "Lipsey Brothers" radio commercial out of my head AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS... "Lipsey prices are so low, That you wonder how we, doodle-doodle, do it !" EEEeeeee GOD !

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