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by Kevin Walsh

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Greg G January 27, 2020 - 4:01 pm

Went to Pratt Institute in 69 70. Rode the Myrtle many times to go into downtown Brooklyn for supplies, tools and clothes. Three places I remember we’re Suziez Bar, there was always a free lunch carve your own ham beef or pork and roast chicken for sandwiches on deli rye with mustard and pickles made at the bar. Allways a treat with a couple of cold Carlsberg Elephant beer.
There was a Chinese restaurant across Myrtle from the A and P and a little bodega at the corner of Myrtle and Emerson place. We called it Nocanadds. We’re went there for ground coffee bagles oane a newspaper Sunday mornings, even when you got the same things several times in a row, the total you owed was always different hence the guy behind the counter terminal was no can add. Dood thing was he usually undercharges…

Back up Myrtle there was the Venice restaurant, the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn where we did our banking and across the street was Banco Popular. In that block was also a deli where we got sandwiches aftercashing our paychecks. You had to order precisely or you got passed over, meat cheese,bread and condiment, pickle. We If you didn’t get it right you went back to the end of the line. Corned beef, Swiss, Russian dark rye. Kosher dill. Think they were $1.50.

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