I second that on John Honerkamp...that guy is the man and also a stellar 800m/mile guy hailing from St. Johns back in their prime
I second that on John Honerkamp...that guy is the man and also a stellar 800m/mile guy hailing from St. Johns back in their prime
They moved from 240 E 86 to Second Ave 84St. I mail ordered from them last Spring. Went to school with kids from the founding family got to make/dip chocs and learned good marzipan from bad at the candymakers knee. Dating myself :0)... My first Elk was easily pre IKE!!! Yep the phone is Disconnected. BTW I used confection to indicate they made more than hard and soft candy,chocolate and marzipan, they had dipped fruits, spiced jujugum, liquorice and marshmallows made from the root if the Althaea Officialis plant not sugar syrup. Although the smallest official amount they sold was a 1/4 lb any little kid with a penny got something ..the owners called it slivers and bits,all the broken ends and small pieces, wound up where they belonged in or more often on a Yorkville kids face!!!
ambassador orange ( ERIC is that you??)wrote:
You're dating youself calling them confections :) True though, good stuff at Elk - I didn't know it was still there.
Went there about once a year running errands for my mom for Christmas - she liked the little wrapped packages of milk chocolate - 3 or 4 stacked on top of each other that they have at Christmas. Since it's still there I'll give it a try again next December and see about those marshmallows as well. Elk really was a kid in a candy store kind of place.
Do you remember the East Rivers Savings Bank (it changed names a bunch of times) with the piano player in it, where you could sit all day if you wanted or at least to get out of the heat/cold?
Sorry, not Eric.
yes Joels mom Mrs Maltache(somesuch spelling) played onthe 86St& 3rd window but that wasn't until the 70's, reread-- Elk is gone-- Just called and number is DISCON.
My restaurantinvestmentgroup took a serious run at buying the manny-hanny bank building on NE Corner 85th and 3rd for a restaurant w/ caterer/party space upstairs, but the gentrification boom had hit and it became an $$$ unrealistic venture.
Eric Orange is here>>
http://www.localwineevents.com/
If you like wine it's a great site.
Just received a gift of 1970 Fonseca vintage port from a friend who works at Acker. Definitely looking forward to it!
Thanks for the link.
How about Agora restaurant? I used to go there fairly often - they sold clothes in the restaurant. That's long gone too.
I do not know it I was pretty much out of the neighbor hood by '84 or so and I do not remember a Turkish rest next to Ogee's ons little Village Pizza on 84&frist.
Profiles, Turtles, Herlihys, Wicked Wolf, Willies, Pedros Wilfreds or Erics ring a restaurant bell?
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