Greg St. Jean

[quote="simplyred" post=340343][quote="shamsman2" post=340275][quote="Beast of the East" post=340264][quote="L J S A" post=340262][quote="Beast of the East" post=340067][quote="bamafan" post=340062][quote="mkras99" post=340055]This thread is insane. This board is insane.[/quote]
Well than maybe we should hire Crazy Eddie! His prices are INSANE![/quote]

I just wonder what the average age of this site is when most of our fans would get that.[/quote]

My brother is 40 and absolutely knows who Crazy Eddie is, so there's a good chance someone in their late 30s would know. That doesn't sound like too old of an average fan base to me.B)[/quote]

For a guy 40 that is just pop culture. They declared bankruptcy in 1989 and was liquidated. By then they were on fumes. They went the way of E.J. Korvettes, Two Guys, and Wetson Burgers (who should have dominated the McDonalds and Burger King market)[/quote]

Wetson's was like going to the "Palm", when I was young, couldn't get enough of their burgers![/quote]

If I remember correctly, Wetson’s put mustard on their burgers. That’s just sinful. They deserved to go down.[/quote]

no way, wouldn't have touched one if that was the case. like putting heinz ketchup on a hot dog! sacrilegious!
 
You want to know what Crazy Eddie was, go to 114th St. and Park Ave. You don’t have to remember some bankrupt A-V store. ;)
 
[quote="bamafan" post=340356][quote="Beast of the East" post=340353][quote="Sherman, Sheridan & Grant" post=340295][quote="Beast of the East" post=340264][quote="L J S A" post=340262][quote="Beast of the East" post=340067][quote="bamafan" post=340062][quote="mkras99" post=340055]This thread is insane. This board is insane.[/quote]
Well than maybe we should hire Crazy Eddie! His prices are INSANE![/quote]

I just wonder what the average age of this site is when most of our fans would get that.[/quote]

My brother is 40 and absolutely knows who Crazy Eddie is, so there's a good chance someone in their late 30s would know. That doesn't sound like too old of an average fan base to me.B)[/quote]

For a guy 40 that is just pop culture. They declared bankruptcy in 1989 and was liquidated. By then they were on fumes. They went the way of E.J. Korvettes, Two Guys, and Wetson Burgers (who should have dominated the McDonalds and Burger King market)[/quote]

Beast LJSA Bama mkras
So many businesses and cultural establishments have gone and/or been forgotten - just as with coaches :)

John’s Bargain Store
Bohack Supermarkets
The Daily Mirror and the Herald Tribune (from whose sports pages and boxscores I learned to read as a boy in the 1950s)
Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy
The Brooklyn Dodgers and the trolleys that folks would try to dodge
Marbles and yo yos
Keds sneakers
WMCA Good Guys
Trans World and Pan Am Airlines
Roller Derby
Helmet less hockey players
Pink slabs of gum in baseball card packs
Rheingold Beer brewery
Haberdasher (hat) stores
Ball players leaving their gloves on the playing field in between innings
And so forth

And oh yes, hopefully gone and forgotten are mediocre seasons at Alumni Hall

It’s another time that’s trying our
Redmen souls - young and old

All the best

Oh I believe E.J. Korvettes department stores were founded by Korean War veterans[/quote]

That's awesome about Korvettes. You may be my favorite poster.[/quote]
Be honest now Beast, you're your favorite poster. ;) :)[/quote]

I meant to say 2nd favorite poster.
 
According to Korvette's founder, Eugene Ferkauf, who died on June 5, 2012, the name "E. J. Korvette" was coined as a combination of the initials of its founders (Eugene and Joe) and a re-spelling of the naval term corvette, a nimble sailing warship and later World War II sub-destroyer. The company's founding in 1948 (two years before the Korean War) disproves the urban legend that the name was an acronym for "Eight (or Eleven) Jewish Korean War Veterans".[8]
 
[quote="simplyred" post=340343][quote="shamsman2" post=340275][quote="Beast of the East" post=340264][quote="L J S A" post=340262][quote="Beast of the East" post=340067][quote="bamafan" post=340062][quote="mkras99" post=340055]This thread is insane. This board is insane.[/quote]
Well than maybe we should hire Crazy Eddie! His prices are INSANE![/quote]

I just wonder what the average age of this site is when most of our fans would get that.[/quote]

My brother is 40 and absolutely knows who Crazy Eddie is, so there's a good chance someone in their late 30s would know. That doesn't sound like too old of an average fan base to me.B)[/quote]

For a guy 40 that is just pop culture. They declared bankruptcy in 1989 and was liquidated. By then they were on fumes. They went the way of E.J. Korvettes, Two Guys, and Wetson Burgers (who should have dominated the McDonalds and Burger King market)[/quote]

Wetson's was like going to the "Palm", when I was young, couldn't get enough of their burgers![/quote]

If I remember correctly, Wetson’s put mustard on their burgers. That’s just sinful. They deserved to go down.[/quote]

Outside of tristate area McDonalds puts mustard on their burgers. Use to travel a bunch with various SJU teams and that would always piss me off!
 
[quote="stjohnnie75" post=340552]
Outside of tristate area McDonalds puts mustard on their burgers. Use to travel a bunch with various SJU teams and that would always piss me off![/quote]

Freaked me out the first time I drove down to Florida with friends for winter break. Stopped in Maryland at McDonald's and immediately regretted it.
 
[quote="L J S A" post=340554][quote="stjohnnie75" post=340552]
Outside of tristate area McDonalds puts mustard on their burgers. Use to travel a bunch with various SJU teams and that would always piss me off![/quote]

Freaked me out the first time I drove down to Florida with friends for winter break. Stopped in Maryland at McDonald's and immediately regretted it.[/quote]

Mustard on burgers? Catsup on hotdogs? Sacrilege
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=340560][quote="L J S A" post=340554][quote="stjohnnie75" post=340552]
Outside of tristate area McDonalds puts mustard on their burgers. Use to travel a bunch with various SJU teams and that would always piss me off![/quote]

Freaked me out the first time I drove down to Florida with friends for winter break. Stopped in Maryland at McDonald's and immediately regretted it.[/quote]

Mustard on burgers? Catsup on hotdogs? Sacrilege[/quote]

I had the same experience when I was a kid in Washington DC. Mustard on my cheeseburger, Yuk!!!
 
I will say this, back on topic.

If GSJ wants an interview, out of courtesy alone, he should be given one. It would be classy, and also acknowledge that he is a loyal, hardworking guy who worked above his pay grade.
 
[quote="Sherman, Sheridan & Grant" post=340295][quote="Beast of the East" post=340264][quote="L J S A" post=340262][quote="Beast of the East" post=340067][quote="bamafan" post=340062][quote="mkras99" post=340055]This thread is insane. This board is insane.[/quote]
Well than maybe we should hire Crazy Eddie! His prices are INSANE![/quote]

I just wonder what the average age of this site is when most of our fans would get that.[/quote]

My brother is 40 and absolutely knows who Crazy Eddie is, so there's a good chance someone in their late 30s would know. That doesn't sound like too old of an average fan base to me.B)[/quote]

For a guy 40 that is just pop culture. They declared bankruptcy in 1989 and was liquidated. By then they were on fumes. They went the way of E.J. Korvettes, Two Guys, and Wetson Burgers (who should have dominated the McDonalds and Burger King market)[/quote]

Beast LJSA Bama mkras
So many businesses and cultural establishments have gone and/or been forgotten - just as with coaches :)

John’s Bargain Store
Bohack Supermarkets
The Daily Mirror and the Herald Tribune (from whose sports pages and boxscores I learned to read as a boy in the 1950s)
Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy
The Brooklyn Dodgers and the trolleys that folks would try to dodge
Marbles and yo yos
Keds sneakers
WMCA Good Guys
Trans World and Pan Am Airlines
Roller Derby
Helmet less hockey players
Pink slabs of gum in baseball card packs
Rheingold Beer brewery
Haberdasher (hat) stores
Ball players leaving their gloves on the playing field in between innings
And so forth

And oh yes, hopefully gone and forgotten are mediocre seasons at Alumni Hall

It’s another time that’s trying our
Redmen souls - young and old

All the best

Oh I believe E.J. Korvettes department stores were founded by Korean War veterans[/quote]

PF Flyers
Stride Rite Shoe Stores (you can still buy the shoes but not in their name brand stores)
Eastern Airlines
Roseland
Gimbals
R & S Straus
A & S Department Stores
Alexander’s
Beefsteak Charlie’s
Tower Records
Palisades Amusement Park
 
Two metaphors on how life is much more complicated since some of us were young boys - I grew up in Borough Park Jewish and Italian
There were plain and salted bagels. Period.
Plain and anchovies pizza pies. Period.
Do we really need 90 different brands of cereal on our supermarket shelves?
Do we need new car parts every year?
Do we need twenty nine or more varieties of sneakers?

Onto more important matters
Let’s hire a damn coach and start recruiting!
And end this uncertainty and delay!
And then get LJ, Heron etc to stay on!
Blessings to all -
Grant
 
[quote="SJU85" post=340563][quote="Sherman, Sheridan & Grant" post=340295][quote="Beast of the East" post=340264][quote="L J S A" post=340262][quote="Beast of the East" post=340067][quote="bamafan" post=340062][quote="mkras99" post=340055]This thread is insane. This board is insane.[/quote]
Well than maybe we should hire Crazy Eddie! His prices are INSANE![/quote]

I just wonder what the average age of this site is when most of our fans would get that.[/quote]

My brother is 40 and absolutely knows who Crazy Eddie is, so there's a good chance someone in their late 30s would know. That doesn't sound like too old of an average fan base to me.B)[/quote]

For a guy 40 that is just pop culture. They declared bankruptcy in 1989 and was liquidated. By then they were on fumes. They went the way of E.J. Korvettes, Two Guys, and Wetson Burgers (who should have dominated the McDonalds and Burger King market)[/quote]

Beast LJSA Bama mkras
So many businesses and cultural establishments have gone and/or been forgotten - just as with coaches :)

John’s Bargain Store
Bohack Supermarkets
The Daily Mirror and the Herald Tribune (from whose sports pages and boxscores I learned to read as a boy in the 1950s)
Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy
The Brooklyn Dodgers and the trolleys that folks would try to dodge
Marbles and yo yos
Keds sneakers
WMCA Good Guys
Trans World and Pan Am Airlines
Roller Derby
Helmet less hockey players
Pink slabs of gum in baseball card packs
Rheingold Beer brewery
Haberdasher (hat) stores
Ball players leaving their gloves on the playing field in between innings
And so forth

And oh yes, hopefully gone and forgotten are mediocre seasons at Alumni Hall

It’s another time that’s trying our
Redmen souls - young and old

All the best

Oh I believe E.J. Korvettes department stores were founded by Korean War veterans[/quote]

PF Flyers
Stride Rite Shoe Stores (you can still buy the shoes but not in their name brand stores)
Eastern Airlines
Roseland
Gimbals
R & S Straus
A & S Department Stores
Alexander’s
Beefsteak Charlie’s
Tower Records
Palisades Amusement Park[/quote]

Time Square Stores (TSS)
Caldors
Genoese Drug Stores
Pergaments
 
[quote="Knight" post=340663][quote="SJU85" post=340563][quote="Sherman, Sheridan & Grant" post=340295][quote="Beast of the East" post=340264][quote="L J S A" post=340262][quote="Beast of the East" post=340067][quote="bamafan" post=340062][quote="mkras99" post=340055]This thread is insane. This board is insane.[/quote]
Well than maybe we should hire Crazy Eddie! His prices are INSANE![/quote]

I just wonder what the average age of this site is when most of our fans would get that.[/quote]

My brother is 40 and absolutely knows who Crazy Eddie is, so there's a good chance someone in their late 30s would know. That doesn't sound like too old of an average fan base to me.B)[/quote]

For a guy 40 that is just pop culture. They declared bankruptcy in 1989 and was liquidated. By then they were on fumes. They went the way of E.J. Korvettes, Two Guys, and Wetson Burgers (who should have dominated the McDonalds and Burger King market)[/quote]

Beast LJSA Bama mkras
So many businesses and cultural establishments have gone and/or been forgotten - just as with coaches :)

John’s Bargain Store
Bohack Supermarkets
The Daily Mirror and the Herald Tribune (from whose sports pages and boxscores I learned to read as a boy in the 1950s)
Bonomo’s Turkish Taffy
The Brooklyn Dodgers and the trolleys that folks would try to dodge
Marbles and yo yos
Keds sneakers
WMCA Good Guys
Trans World and Pan Am Airlines
Roller Derby
Helmet less hockey players
Pink slabs of gum in baseball card packs
Rheingold Beer brewery
Haberdasher (hat) stores
Ball players leaving their gloves on the playing field in between innings
And so forth

And oh yes, hopefully gone and forgotten are mediocre seasons at Alumni Hall

It’s another time that’s trying our
Redmen souls - young and old

All the best

Oh I believe E.J. Korvettes department stores were founded by Korean War veterans[/quote]

PF Flyers
Stride Rite Shoe Stores (you can still buy the shoes but not in their name brand stores)
Eastern Airlines
Roseland
Gimbals
R & S Straus
A & S Department Stores
Alexander’s
Beefsteak Charlie’s
Tower Records
Palisades Amusement Park[/quote]

Time Square Stores (TSS)
Caldors
Genoese Drug Stores
Pergaments[/quote]

Rockbottom drug stores
Friendly Frost

Question: What was the big commercial bakery near the Queens Bklyn border on Atlantic avenue that delivered back in the 50s?
 
Doesn't say much for St. Jean's chances, when his thread has devolved into reminiscing about defunct chain stores.
 
I remember my mom taking me to a place in Manhattan she called an Automat (I think) back in the late 80s. I thought it was such a cool place. She's told me when she was younger there were a lot more of them. That's all I can recollect about it cuz I was still fairly young. Just for some reason that place has always just remained in my head as if she took me yesterday.
 
[quote="kranmars" post=340685]Doesn't say much for St. Jean's chances, when his thread has devolved into reminiscing about defunct chain stores.[/quote]

I was thinking about Duggans bakery.

I think GSJ would have to throw a hail mary and blow a number of people away. Long odds against it, but he does deserve that shot.
 
[quote="rawdognyc" post=340689]I remember my mom taking me to a place in Manhattan she called an Automat (I think) back in the late 80s. I thought it was such a cool place. She's told me when she was younger there were a lot more of them. That's all I can recollect about it cuz I was still fairly young. Just for some reason that place has always just remained in my head as if she took me yesterday.[/quote]

Horn and Hardart. They were near 42nd st. It was really cool. Like a giant vending machine, where you could get fresh hot food immediately without ordering. I loved that place too.
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=340693][quote="kranmars" post=340685]Doesn't say much for St. Jean's chances, when his thread has devolved into reminiscing about defunct chain stores.[/quote]

I was thinking about Duggans bakery.

I think GSJ would have to throw a hail mary and blow a number of people away. Long odds against it, but he does deserve that shot.[/quote]

I agree beast. He would have to blow a number of people to get the job.
 
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