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My great-grandfather opened Finkeldey's Bakery in 1908 (?) and I'm trying to find a picture of the store font. No luck yet. I moved to Park Slope after college. When my grandmother passed away, we came across her birth certificate which indicated an address two blocks down from my apartment where it turns out her father opened the first Finkeldey's Bakery. It's a pharmacy now and I spoke to the owner who had just removed two old bread ovens from the basement. My grandmother always spoke fondly of her Park Slope memories—riding horses in Prospect Park and playing on 7th Ave. And although Starbucks has started their inevitable takeover and the rents are skyrocketing, the architecture and the history will always make it my ideal neighborhood.
Please let me know if you have any information or pictures of Finkeldey's Bakery. Thanks!
1010 President... Oh I know it well:
Playing outside the house when our parents didn't have to keep an eye on us all the time. Playing in the back of the house, where the yard reached the whole block. The court yard, where we got yelled at for playing in.
Irving and Harry's, Fred's, Ben and Sol's, the fruit man (nickel a pickle), Frank and Robert's, Nino's Pizza, Steve's Pizza (see I'm into the food).
Would love to hear from people in the area WAY BACK THEN.
Remember the H.E.S. on Hopkinson Ave. corner of Sutter Ave.? Played basketball there with the Ruxton team. In the summer in the school yard of P.S. 156 after softball, basketball, and handball games we would get lemon ices from an old Italian man with a white wagon filled with homemade lemon ice. We would sit up against the school yard wall and suck the juice from the ice cup. Some days when we had the money, we would go to Hymie's deli, corner of Sutter and Saratoga. Fond memories of Pitkin, Sutter, Stadium, Palace and the People's Cinema on Saratoga and Livonia. Graduated Arthur Sommers J.H.S. 252 in 1948.
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