582313 Tue Dec 23 07:15:54 -0800 2008 26 20 Tristate Region 0 4268494 We lived in Yonkers when I was growing up and frequently went to Jerome Avenue, around Gun Hill Road to eat. There was Epstein's Kosher Deli, Schweller's Kosher Deli, Jade Gardens Chinese restaurant and a great bagel/bialy store with one door marked "Bagels" and one marked "Bialys" but they led to the same store, with the bagels made right there in front of you. Those were great bagels/bialys. Can't find those anymore. Schweller's was more of a restaurant than Epsteins and they had old waiters that shook when they brought you the food. There was one waiter named Jerry who would put aside a piece of their chocolate layer cake for me as soon as my parents and I walked in. Does anyone else have any memories of this area? Tue Dec 23 07:15:54 -0800 2008 228219 wincountrygirl 1 4272543 My mother mentions Jerome Ave sometimes, she grew up in Parkchester. I'll have to ask her when I talk to her today. We moved away in the early 60s though. Thu Dec 25 05:04:38 -0800 2008 4268494 11097 coll 1 4272591 How about Sheffs? (not sureof the spelling) but I think that it was next to Schwellers and its chocolate cheese cake was the best with little chips. A little further from Jerome on Bailey Avenue was S & S Cheesecake which I remember as being in the back of a candy store Thu Dec 25 06:18:55 -0800 2008 4268494 18298 Metsgo 2 4272704 Sheff's ! That's what I was trying to remember in the Epsteins and Schweller's post from the other day. Magnificent black and whites. And true Jewish corn bread -- a dense, rye-like loaf, not southern corn bread. On the other side of the street was Tony's meat market, and nearby a fish market and a dairy store. Thu Dec 25 08:41:38 -0800 2008 4272591 15624 VFresser 1 4272632 Remember them vaguely - do you remember Alexander's dept. store and if you walked towards Fordham University, there was an ice cream place called Jan's and they had something called the "kitchen sink" with what seemed like a zillion scoops of ice cream and whole bananas sticking out of mounds of whipped cream....yikes. Thu Dec 25 07:07:21 -0800 2008 4268494 185181 Nonny 2 4272638 There must be a great coffee table book. Does anyone know a great one? Thu Dec 25 07:10:16 -0800 2008 4272632 209504 wineconsul 3 4272747 I know there was a series of magazines called "Back in the Bronx" that mentioned all of these great places. (My Dad remembers attempting to finish the "kitchen sink" at Jahn's with 4 fellow members of his Clinton HS football team!) Not sure if they're still in print, but they may have made a collection into a book. Try doing a Google and see. Thu Dec 25 09:19:18 -0800 2008 4272638 59004 Sra. Swanky 4 4276985 Sra. Swanky thank you I will check. Seems like a great thing to search out Sat Dec 27 21:05:36 -0800 2008 4272747 209504 wineconsul 5 4277560 My pleasure! Here are 2 links to get you started. My Dad had a few issues of the magazine a few years back, but there are full-fledged books now. The Amazon link has reviews on the books as well. Happy New Year! :o) http://www.backinthebronx.com/ http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Back+in+the+Bronx Sun Dec 28 09:28:08 -0800 2008 4276985 59004 Sra. Swanky 2 4272661 It was Jahn's and if you finished the "kitchen sink" alone, with no help there was no charge! Thu Dec 25 07:40:25 -0800 2008 4272632 15128 RichK 3 4272744 Also at Jahn's - free ice cream on your birthday. There was also a great pastry shop near Alexanders but I can't remember the name of it. Thu Dec 25 09:17:53 -0800 2008 4272661 228219 wincountrygirl 4 4278441 I think you might be thinking of Sutter's. It was on the Grand Concourse diagonally opposite from Alexander's. South of Sutter's was another confectionary landmark: Krum's. Opposite that ---- the landmark PARADISE THEATER with goldfish swimming in its fountain and clouds floating by on its star-lit ceiling. (I wish my short-term memory was this sharp!) Sun Dec 28 16:57:35 -0800 2008 4272744 246256 dot99 5 4279165 Yes, dot, Sutter's!! That's it. I do also remember the Paradise Theater with the stars and the goldfish. LOL about the short term memory!! Mon Dec 29 03:45:09 -0800 2008 4278441 228219 wincountrygirl 1 4272757 Yes, I too remember Jahn's and Alexanders, my grandmother would take me shopping down there. I also remember the Jahn's in Eastchester. Thu Dec 25 09:24:50 -0800 2008 4268494 91796 chowdom 1 4273370 I remember Schwellers from the 50's. My grandparents lived in the Algamated apartments and we walked up to Jerome avenue from 100 Van Cortland Park South. Several years ago, I went back to see if Schwellers was still there - obviously not. The neighborhood has significantly changed. As for Jahn's, I remember them from New Jersey, from the 60's, and with the kitchen sink. I have their menu from that time period. I think the kitchen sink cost about $3 - $4 a lot of money it the day. Thu Dec 25 19:26:59 -0800 2008 4268494 219483 rdr1 2 4273378 I'm from Chicago, but my mother grew up, and my great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins all lived in the Amalgamated for decades, maybe eons, since they were built. We visited there from the early 1950's through the '80's, and you bet we went to Jerome Avenue, also to the Grand Concourse; past the reservoir and DeWitt Clinton High School. We shopped at the Co-Op grocery store up at the top of Orloff Avenue. And the small variety store around the corner was a place of magic. Of course, Jahn's was a magic place, as was Alexanders. Did you ever tour the Van Courtlandt Mansion in VC Park -- the oldest house in the Bronx? It contained the guns used in the historic Alexander Hamilton-Aaron Burr duel. And Poe Cottage (Quoth the Raven, home of Edgar Allen Poe) was smack, dab in the middle of Grand Concourse or near it (Kingssbridge? Fordham Road?) as I recall. I can smell the pushcarts with roasted chestnuts in the fall. (Had to get back to the food.) Thu Dec 25 19:39:36 -0800 2008 4273370 194038 Ravenjon 3 4273676 Poe Park was on the Grand Concourse and Fordham. There was also another one of those great Bagel/Bialy places on Bainbridge under the El. There was that great movie theater also, the Loew's Paradise on the concourse. It looked like you were sitting outside with all the stars on the ceiling. Fri Dec 26 04:42:30 -0800 2008 4273378 228219 wincountrygirl 4 4525196 Actually Poe Park is between E Kingsbridge Rd, the Grand Concourse and E 192st. In the direction of Fordham along the concourse there was a Robert Hall Clothing and then Ths Dollar Savings Bank. My elementary school class would go there as a class trip to open our own savings account. On Jerome avenue there was a small kosher style mom and pop place where you could only pickup food for take out. I forgot the name but I remember it was between Jade Garden and Shwellers. Their stuffed cabbage and matzo ball soup set the standard for a long time. Sat Mar 21 10:01:41 -0700 2009 4273676 59520 JimIs 5 4525206 Oh, ok. Do you remember the Bagel/Bialy place under the el at Burnside? The 167th Street Cafeteria? Woo hoo! Loved those bagels! Sat Mar 21 10:07:18 -0700 2009 4525196 228219 wincountrygirl 3 4524987 Actually RJ--this from your twin brother--the Coop was on Sedgewick Avenue, not Orloff. Orloff began a block away. Close, but no cigar. Last I saw it, it was a C-Town supermarket, but that was a few years ago, so who knows. But Jahn's.....oh yeah!!! Sat Mar 21 08:16:36 -0700 2009 4273378 273278 yooj 4 4526821 Even better than the ice cream at Jahn's was the chinese roast pork sandwich on a bun. Directly across Kingsbridge from Jahn's was the Lido Riviera. When you ordered soup, the waiter brought out a bowl with a stainless pitcher of soup in the bowl, and oured it out in front of you. Sun Mar 22 05:31:25 -0700 2009 4524987 274541 bagelman01 5 4526930 why is everyone forgetting krum's- i grew up on grant avenue. (170th st.)- Sun Mar 22 06:44:46 -0700 2009 4526821 25014 jpr54_1 6 4527267 You are so right! Sun Mar 22 09:32:09 -0700 2009 4526930 228219 wincountrygirl 4 4527796 Thanks, Yooj, you're right about the street map. While you're at the corner of Sedgewick, pick up some Apricot Shoe Leather: http://www.joraycandy.com/?p=620&c=27&cn=Joray+Fruit+Rolls&pn=Apricot+Fruit+Rolls and, generally: http://www.joraycandy.com/?view=About Sun Mar 22 13:19:57 -0700 2009 4524987 194038 Ravenjon 1 4527976 Almost lived at Epstein's (never cared for Schweller's) for years and was friends with old man Epstein, the father, and Jack the bald waiter. Twelve bucks fed my 5 member family. The bagel store was still there when I went to Clinton in the 70's. As for Epstein's, if you go to the one on Central Avenue in Yonkers they still have a painting up of the old storefront on Jerome, which was down the block from the David Marcus movie theater. But does ANYONE remember an Italian restaurant under the El, further down in the 180's, called Paradise? Still crave some of their stuff. Sun Mar 22 14:35:52 -0700 2009 4268494 80872 addictedtolunch 2 4529050 I so remember the David Marcus theater. Saw Dr. No there, among many others. I usually go to Epsteins in Hartsdale now,but I'll have to check out Yonkers to see the picture. I too preferred Epsteins for the hot dogs, etc, but liked Schwellers because a waiter there always saved me a piece of chocolate layer cake. Most of the waiters there were so old, they shook when they brought the food, which was kind of scary with the soup. I remember one spilled the mazoh ball soup on my aunt. I don't remember the Italian place,though. I do remember Foot Adductor shoe store next to the theater. Mon Mar 23 03:42:26 -0700 2009 4527976 228219 wincountrygirl 1 4529566 Jade Gardens in the early 70s had the most marvelous appetizer...a Lobster Roll. Like an egg roll, only twice as large and of course, with lobster meat in addition to the usual cabbage/pork mixture. Have never seen that item anywhere else, then or now. Mon Mar 23 08:25:37 -0700 2009 4268494 95137 mcsheridan