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

[UncleTomFord15]

Eating a circular rectangular school pizza for lunch

 

[Neuromancer]

Beat Street

Bargain Bazaar

I used to love Bargin Bazar.

 

[Neuromancer]

After school special pizza.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

we would go to the Pizza Hut and get a pizza supreme. It was like the best tasting shyt ever.

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.

 

[Neuromancer]

Kings Plaza

Fairy Land


Chinatown fair.

 

[Remote]

Damn what happened to Dr. Zizmor?

He died at the end of RoboCop 2

 

[UncleTomFord15]

im 38 breh and I was an adult when they went out of business and was selling everything including the shelves

Unless my memory is just that bad where in NYC were these? Born in 96 and lived in NYC nearly all my life and I don't recall this this store at all.

 

[Silky Johnson]

-Only going to the Zoo on Wednesdays
-Walking past the Spanish dudes yelling tempo tempo tempo on Fordham in front of Alexander's

 

[chineebai]

Kings Plaza

Fairy Land


Chinatown fair.

Chinatown fair was the best. They had a live chicken in one of those games.

 

[Neuromancer]

Ya'll remember Woolworth and Reds?

 

[Neuromancer]

-Only going to the Zoo on Wednesdays
-Walking past the Spanish dudes yelling tempo tempo tempo on Fordham in front of Alexander's

Those Aventura posters.

 

[Remote]

This may be obvious but...

Crackheads at red lights trying to wash your windshield.

 

[Neuromancer]

You're at least 49 years old. I mean that's way too fukkin specific.



I haven't seen a Nobody Beats the Wiz in like 20 years.

That was the store though.

 

[Neuromancer]

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.

Yeah idk why he choose Pizza hut to champion when every Italian pizzeria was selling that heat out the oven.

 

[Phantum]

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.

I remember browsing FAO Schwarz all the time with my mom. We wouldn't ever get shyt but you could literally almost play with anything there. Every section had toys/video games.


Times Square was like a JBO deviants fantasy land back then. Every school trip to like the museum all the boys would be like Times Square coming up on the bus



I'd love to hear what any real OGs were doing in places like that.