Comic Books Store
"How Sweet It Is", proclaims the sign that welcomes visitors to the Brooklyn days. Any adult who has spent his last year in fifty recognized these words shouted by Ralph Kramden, the bus driver who drove intrigues of Gotham in the middle of the decade on a popular television series known as The Moon honey. Also memorable for the children of the past decade because of its softness and its popularity is the corner candy store. Today Sharon Johnson (retired professor of Philadelphia) and described as "child at heart," he recalls fondly growing up in Muskegon, Michigan and paper candy stores in its infancy. Alice Lee-Lee as a worker candy shop Brinks, affectionately nicknamed Sharon described as a blue collar city of Muskegon with a number of small candy stores that competed for pennies and coins five cents of the school. Brinks stop at the corner of Scott and Apple in the front of the State primary school. Penny and Alice sold the nickel candy, and Christmas who disguise themselves as Santa Claus. Brink has also served food.
The children socialized in the park or playground. When asked the name of her sweet bookmark, Sharon was silent for a moment and said: "I guess every one of them. But sometimes I need wheels and liquorice root beer barrels." According to psychologists frequent trips nostalgic memory lane are not only losing the indulgences of an older person, but to contribute positively to mental health. Author Marina Krakovsky said: "This memory can be healthier than you think. Despite nostalgia's bittersweet rap and the often heard advice to live the moment studies suggest that the occasional detour into the past can give a great moral uplift. (Psychology Today Magazine, May / June 2006) According to the researchers Loyola University is only 20 minutes a day in the good times may have the advantage of giving a vision of joy. Growth with a father who was a driver bus and a double Kramden, I became a regular candy stores.
A relief tent in my memory than others. Nino was located at the corner of East 58th Street and Avenue N in a section of Brooklyn called Mill Basin. It was halfway between my house and Mary Queen of Heaven parish elementary school I attended. Store attracted neighborhood children of blue collar families on the way to school. During the lunch break, Nino was full of school uniforms Catholics who wish to spend their Biggio, Candy Store 2 compensation or benefit check cashing in deposit bottles to satisfy their addiction for sweets. Funny, I do not remember having seen adults in the candy store. Adults spend lunch foods adults consume serious Sam's sandwich shop or deli Juan. Nino, the shop owner and namesake, serving customers that sell a variety of items. There were school supplies such as notebooks, the rights of the carpet made of marble (Egad! Textbooks in today's jargon day) and cover.
There were special favors mothers last minutes he had forgotten the party supplies Timmy or Sally. A lot of cheap metal toys (Collection now expensive) Made in Japan stamp can be found at the back of the store. A grill in the center of the store full of comics. Superman, Casper and Wendy, Archie, Jughead ran like children searching for their favorite. Classmates most learned mind goes super-hero of a series known as the Classic Illustrated. Illustrators became classics like Ivanhoe, Three Musketeers, Robinson Caruso in the form of cartoons. Most children went to Nino is not useful for school, toys or comic books. They went to satisfy your cravings for sweets and socialize with friends.
Peas, fingers, said penny candy and nickel in a glass box. Button candy of all colors and flavors often points the paper webs and candy were inseparable. Jawbreaker and Bazooka bubble gum must be known before returning to school. Any criminal gum stuck in the class received a stern look or punishment for the worst by the Dominican Sisters. Candy could not be sweet, but fun. Remember the lips big red wax and gum cigar-shaped, even with a genuine search ring. Like children, chew sweets or chocolates in boxes or cases of cigarettes that resemble the real thing our parents burned. "Go to school after Nino" Young called one another as they left the children hanging out at the source. The source was a magnificent work of art in polished wood and marble surrounds. In the fountain, created Nino ice, splits and floats. All the ice went down with his hand.
No canned drinks in the store. Nino mixing syrups with soda. Children drinking cherry coke, lemon and egg creams Rickie over the years spent in these stools. Historically, the candy store was part of the cityscape. The mom and pop candy store captured in a Norman Rockwell painting exists in our memory. This is a piece Americana replaced by supermarkets and gourmet specialty stores. If you feel the urge for sweets to treat the old candy store online or if you do not mind retro treat the restaurant chain Cracker Barrel. The next time you feel a little blue to make a licorice wheel turning on Nickelodeon, enjoy an episode of The Honeymooners and ruminating with the bus driver in Brooklyn on "How Sweet It Is."
Literature Cited:
Krakovsky, Marina. "Nostalgia: sweet memory. (Psychology Today, May / June 2006. Last updated October 11, 2007, Item Number 4077).
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How a Brooklyn egg cream
Ingredients: Whole milk, chocolate syrup, bottled water
Procedure:
Pour into a glass of chocolate syrup
Fill the bottom of the glass cold milk
Fill the remaining glass with mineral water
Moving a top-down spoon, mix ingredients
ENJOY!
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The Comic book store (part 1)