You’re Not From NYC If You Don’t Know About…(PRE INTERNET shyt ONLYYY)

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Pre gentrified nyc was something else. It was like when crime was getting better but it was still grimey at the same time.

One of my fondest memories would be to go shopping on 34th st with my family and we were too poor to buy anything so we’ll just browse for hours but we would go to the Pizza Hut and get a pizza supreme. It was like the best tasting shyt ever.

Me and my family would mostly stick to Jamaica ave (Queens all day!) But when we did hit Manhattan we used to window shop in the big Toys R Us...

 

[old pig]

oh hold up…I thought y’all was just talking about subway ads in here…damn this has turned into a real trip down memory lane tho

 

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nikkas posted killmore

If you know, you know

 

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sunnydale wow…I forgot the name of the little supermarket we used to go to in ENY where we’d use crates instead of grocery bags to pack everything up…think it might’ve been called sunnydale too

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ya sunnydale farm or some shyt

 

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Was it Jimmy Jazz?

I used to get my 54-11's at the Coliseum on Jamaica Ave every school year.

I remember the coliseum... Gertz mall was dusty af. Me and my sisters never wanted to go there as kids

 

[old pig]

naaaaah the butter crunch joints (same brand) was crack in high school…let them shyts soak in the little milk carton for a while too

 

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This forum might as well be a retirement community

most forums are…and some of the same nikkas giggling and laughing be old af too

 

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Idk if they had them in other boroughs but we used to shop at BIG R supermarket in Queens

Also going to the fair at Roy wilkins park

 

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Getting off the 2 / 3/ 4/ or 5 train at Nevins, got a Kansas Fried Chicken across the street, walking up to Kentucky Fried Chicken that was right on the corner of Flatbush & Fulton, turn the corner onto Fulton, walk down a couple of blocks and then this pops up

Anybody remember the Roy Rogers that was located across the street from the present day Applebees by Dekalb Ave?

Catching a movie on Saturday with the family at the Duffield movie theatre.

Don't let all my Midwest fishing and nature stories fool you. This is just Part III of my life. The original and sequel was about life growing up in Brooklyn from B-Boy to Gentrification.

oh wow…not that I know anything about you but I still didn’t think you were a BK representer…from the good times too

 

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Yall remember the original Mart 125.

vaguely…we used to be in harlem a lot during the mid-late 80s so I’m sure I seen it…I remember we came out from the apollo one night…and there was a group of boys just standing around my pop’s car (white benz)…this is harlem in the 80s…pops told us to wait behind for a sec and he went and spoke to the young men…dunno what the fukk he said but when he came and walked us back over to the car, them young dudes was polite af and told us “good night” like 10x lol…I was maybe about 12/13 and was nervous as shyt ngl lol

 

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Get on the train and random asian ladies coming through each car

"Baaaaaaaaaatttteeeeerrrryyyyyyy 1 Dolllllahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

yooooo lol

I’m skimming thru this thread but I will have to take my time and read all these posts…some funny/real ass memories in here…shyt that I COMPLETELY forgot about lol smh

 

[old pig]

Blizzard of 96

I remember that…almost threw away my life about to do something stupid with a “friend”

 

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IYKYK

fukking bus passes lmaoooooo

man I remember that feeling of “dread” when the teacher either misplaced yours or simply didn’t get it when handing them out to the other kids

 

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I remember my dad taking us to the Sunnydale "factory(?)" in brooklyn to pick up that juice sugar water, eggs and other stuff. We didnt even live near there.

same…prices musta been great for us to have to go out there…another supermarket we sorta went out of our way to go to was BIG R back in the day

a lot of brooklyn dudes up in here…that’s wassup!

 

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If you grew up in Brooklyn during the 90s

crazy how rundown this shyt looks as an adult…as a kid tho it meant a lot when we drove past there even if we didn’t get to go…I think I ate at that burger king only once when my friend pops took us there…dude (friend) died earlier this year smh