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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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 Posted - February 08 2006 : 7:39:33 PM
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More Ray Davies dates added!
Saturday & Sunday, April 1st & 2nd at the Vic Theatre in Chicago.
Tickets on sale this Saturday.
And at tickets.com:
Monday, March 20th at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Tickets
(and parking tickets) are on sale now.
http://www.tickets.com/browseother.cgi?minpid=5706797
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" You're a misfit
Afraid of yourself so you run away and hide
You've been a misfit all your life
But why don't you join the crowd and come inside
You wander round this town
Like you've lost your way
You had your chance in your day
Yet you threw it all away
Now you're lost in the crowd
Yet, still go your own way "
--Ray Davies
" They'll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow,
Photographs and souvenirs are all I've got,
They're gonna try and make me change my way of living,
But they'll never make me something that I'm not.
They're putting us in little boxes,
No character just uniformity,
They're trying to build a computerised community,
But they'll never make a zombie out of me. "
--Ray Davies
" The days go by and you wish you were a different guy,
Different friends and a new set of clothes.
You make alterations and affect a new pose,
A new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.
But it's superficial and it's only skin deep,
Because the voices in your head keep shouting in your sleep.
Get back, get back. "
--Ray Davies
" I've just had a dream that I never will forget.
And I wish I could erase.
I was standing on the street with a whole crowd of people
And no one knew my name.
And I was just another face
No one looked at me or touched me
Spoke to or acknowledged me.
I had no identity or individuality
No thoughts of my own, no mind or personality.
I was just a no one, a total nonentity "
-- Ray Davies
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doc
Into the 60's
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Posted - April 08 2006 : 4:48:03 PM
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Doc: You mention the Alden School of Music, where I would not be qualified to teach 'cordeen, but where I took guitar lessons from the great Joe Gennelli. .... I wonder if they are still in business.
Rich,
I stopped by Alden corner for gas last week and looked for Alden Music. It seems they are no longer in business. Check cashing, Ribs, Liquor stores and Carribean restaurants remain.
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richm
Into the 60's
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Posted - April 09 2006 : 8:50:47 PM
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There used to be a big toy store one block north of that corner. I think it was called Big Top. When I went to the Alden School of Music it was located about a block west, on Linden Blvd., next to the Carvel stand. There was a store front diner across the street on Linden in the sixties called the Broadway or Broadway Sherwood's. A small place with great diner food.
The last time I was in that neighborhood, probably 1992, the Alden School of Music was located a few yards north of the corner on Elmont Rd., on the east side of the street. I wonder how many kids went for lessons there. It was a small place, but it made a big impact on at least one child's life. |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 10 2006 : 01:15:28 AM
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Wasn't that Adams diner?
and Big Top was over across the street from Bradley's lunchonette in the strip mall with the small elmont library before you got to where the seafood store was and elmont park. |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 10 2006 : 01:16:59 AM
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some things haven't changed..!
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 10 2006 : 01:19:01 AM
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Oh demon alcohol sad memories I can't recall...
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the bean doing his Ray Davies impersonation before the Real Ray came on at Irvng Plaza! |
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doc
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Posted - April 10 2006 : 09:04:08 AM
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Originally posted by Bean
Wasn't that Adams diner? and Big Top was over across the street from Bradley's lunchonette in the strip mall with the small elmont library before you got to where the seafood store was and elmont park.
Bean, you are correct. Adam's diner in the 70's, open 24 hrs. I would often stop there after gigs in NYC. There was also an Ice Cream Parlor/diner a few doors down, across the street from Alden Music on Linden Blvd. Next to the bicycle shop (which is still there). I recall meeting girls at "roller skating night" at St. John's church and going to the Ice Cream parlor afterwards. Was this Broadways? It had a blue/green store front. Around 1966-67. |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 11 2006 : 01:21:29 AM
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Doc...I remember the ice cream parlor but forgot the name. I went their with my parents and maybe Foch and Vince's parents after graduation. I use to go to Adams diner quite a bit too...
Up further on Linden Blvd I remember during the slot car craze in the 60's there was a place called Vics where you could rent track time, and also my favorite harware and toy store A to Z hardware, that was up around 221st st in Cambria Heights or was that called St Albans? My Aunt, Cousin and Grand parents lived on 223rd St. about 5 houses off Linden Blvd.
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elena
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Posted - April 14 2006 : 04:14:10 AM
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It's around 9:00 am here in London and I am reading your messages about food memories, so now I am remembering the times Joan Monica and I would skip going to Sunday mass and go to Mitchell's on Rockaway Ave. and we would share a plate of their delicious french fries and each have a coke (wow, that would kill me if I had that for breakfast now at age 51!)
Also Itgen's for their chocolate chip ice cream that had BIG chunks of chocolate in it!! |
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elena
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Posted - April 14 2006 : 04:15:52 AM
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elena
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Posted - April 14 2006 : 04:28:28 AM
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I now have internet access from my place, but for the last couple of weeks after coming to London, I was going to an Internet Cafe. Well, I go to Out By The Corner Mailbox, and the mute button wasn't on, and out blasts Auld Lang Syne, and I'm shouting out where's the mute button how do I turn this off!!
Richie, I'm begging you, change the tune. Let Frank be the DJ and the music can change daily! |
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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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Posted - April 21 2006 : 02:15:32 AM
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Elena..
I think we're going to be in London this Fall for some of the Ray shows...We have 3rd row seats for at least one of the Royal Albert Hall shows in October. October 23rd and 24th and they may add 2 more on the 25th and 26th. We may also go to Liverpool and or some others too. Nothing definite yet.
And speaking of food...I remember Itchins and Mitchells well. Both are still there and open the last time I looked or was there and that was about 4 or 5 years ago...and let us now forget the Valbrook diner on Merrick Rd...Richie and me had some fun times there late at night, and the Concord on the corner of Sunrise and Rockaway although not as much there. Adams diner on Linden blvd though as a younger kid was the place I have memories of.
KinkoBeano
aka El Kabong as pictured below
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