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From: "Carol" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-BUFFALO-EASTSIDE] Van's Bakery
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 23:35:44 -0400
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Hi Margaret.
I am very happy to hear your memories!
My family was on Johnson Street-- that's the next one to Sherman, isn't
it? I used to ride "around the block" on my little two-wheeler and I think
it was Sherman...but I could be wrong. That was in the early 1950s. Of
course I remember the trolley on Sycamore, too. Did you go to P.S. #39, or
did you move away before you were old enough to go to school there?
Carol


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From: "Margaret Torres" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [NY-BUFFALO-EASTSIDE] Van's Bakery


> First, we sure are scattered all over the place. And I think I said we
> have
> subscribed to the Bflo. paper with t view to maybe moving home. It
> probaby
> won't happen but who knows.
>
> Weren't we lucky growing up in that city in those days? I don't get a lot
> of the references becuse except for a tavern on Broadway owned by my
> Grandfather and gone before I came along and a house on Sherman ST where
> family lived for some of my growing up years and where we visited often
> all
> I know of the east side is what I heard and dimly remember. But I know
> every inch of north park. and I didn't remember what the street car
> thingees
> were called but I sure remember the rides we hitched on the back end. When
> the car turned either off Hertel Ave onto Virgil or off Virgil onto Hertel
> there was a big curve and the speed was perfect for grabbing on and
> riding.
> We never went very far and no one ever got hurt that I remember but it is
> a
> fun memory. And we ran all over Delaware Park..we climbed the face of the
> Rock Garden.it was not supposed to be used that way. We had to take our
> shoes off and hang them around our necks because we would have gotten
> killed
> if we cut up the shoes..they were the only ones we had most of the time.
> I
> don't think sneakers had happened yet. We ran all over the golf cource
> and
> climbed on the old canon ( remember) and went through the zoo from one end
> to the other again and again. Does anyone remember Eddie the chimp? As
> he
> got older he stopped being cute and got pretty mean and he didn't like
> people anymore. They had to put up a glass front to his cage because he
> would pee on anyone silly enough to stand close enough. That led to the
> glass on the front of all the cages I believe. And in winter we skated on
> Delaware Lake. And had vile hot chocolate bought in the big stone
> building
> which I think we called the casino.may have been the castle..we had to put
> wooden runners on our skates so we could walk in and out with the
> chocolate.
> And of course Crystal Beach. I have had a wonderful life if you look at
> having Crystal Beach as a kid and having Disney World now. wow!
>
> Oh does anyone remember Karas meat market on Sycamore? On the corner of
> Sobieski or Koscusco (sp) if I remember correctly. When you walked in one
> of the men would say hello pani. Wonderful meats and nice people.
>
> Well, I have a bleeder in my left eye and I suspect there are a lot of
> words
> spelled strangely so to make it easier for all of us I will stop here.
> Thanks all for raising fond memories.
>
> Margaret
>
>
>
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> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 7:43 PM
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> Subject: [NY-BUFFALO-EASTSIDE] Van's Bakery
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>
>
> Does anyone remember Van's Bakery? At one point there were five stores,
> but
>
> the one that was in business the longest was on Seneca. My husband Ken's
>
> grandfather, Martin Van Mechelen, owned them and his father Julius was an
>
> employee. Ken said that, as the grandson of the owner, he got two
> squirts
> of
>
> jelly in his jelly doughnuts and was fascinated by the machine which
> sliced
> the
>
> loaves of bread.
>
>
>
> Ken, who is a train nut, said the pole on the streetcars is called a
> trolley
>
> pole.
>
> Robin in Maryland
>
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