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

[old pig]

I never knew what this place was…used to see it all the time…there was a barbershop pops used to take me to around there

 

[old pig]

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

they had one in brooklyn too…I wanna say somewhere on ralph ave. not 100% sure tho

 

[Ripp]

Brehs who didn't have cable... remember watching music videos on Bobby Simmons Flava Videos on public access TV





I asked my mom to call him one time and requested he play Micheal Jackson's Beat It

Used to watch this all the time. And I remember when the basketball player Bobby Simmons came into the NBA. Me and my sisters thought it was the same for a minute until we saw what he looked like lol

 

[Silky Johnson]

Getting one of these for pocket change from the bodega on a hot summer day (wish I could find a better pic though)

They were 50 cents back then. In my hood you could only get them on 222nd, across from where somebody put a basketball hoop up on a light pole that was like 12ft high. shyt was like Rucker park on the sidewalk

 

[Sir Brehsington]

Dr. Zizzmore...dont even got to scroll

 

[360dagod]

Yall remember the original Mart 125.

Yeah I remember that shyt...

I remember when Freddy's on 125th got firebombed

People were worried about Harlem when they built the McDonald's by the 2 train stop..

 

[RhodyRum]

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

 

[RhodyRum]

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

One more stop on this trip right here



This one's for you, home slice

 

[CapitalOne]

Empire roller skating rink
Firestone building

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Tokens on the mta
Paper food stamps and changing it for real money

Paper food stamp hustle was nationwide. I was doing that shyt down here.

$50 for 100 in stamps whenever I could find someone tryna flip them.

 

[Art Barr]

pizza hutthose where the peak days of NYC pizza where even in the hoods it was a fire spot ran by Italians serving the best pizza.

More exposure about the overrated nyc pizza.

Still after decades.
Not one mention of one name of this great nyc pizzeria.

Nobody who grew up frfr in Chicago is ever mentioning. NO cot damn domestic chain like sbarro or pizza hut ever.



Art Barr

I'm from Euclid.

Home of the greatest pizzeria ever.
Italian fiesta

 

[In The Zone '98]

Blizzard of 96

Ambulance was turned over on Ave D.

I'll never forget it.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

More exposure about the overrated nyc pizza.

we’ve had this conversation before and my conclusion is you haven’t had top tier NYC pizza.

if you ever wind up this way i know the spots that will change your mind and you would not be able to tell me with a straight face it’s not 10/10.

And the last time we had this convo I dropped like 5 spots on you so tell the truth about “no one naming the pizzeria”

 

[In The Zone '98]

Who making bad pizza, lol?

 

[wizworld]

I watched Max Kellerman get it out the mud on public access television so I have a completely different perception of him.