Bohack’s Grocery Stores
Lot’s of Bohack’s stuff. The chain first opened in 1887, and lasted until 1977. It’s not hard to find signs of Bohack stores still around, they had a lot of locations and were a mainstay for a long time. It has been over 30 years since anyone last purchased any food at a Bohack, but many of the stores and buildings still exist in a lot of different forms today.
The Founder 1939 Bohack’s ad showing Henry C Bohack. Even though it began way back in 1887, that was somewhat later than A & P which opened in 1859. A & P already had 100 stores open by the late 19th century. Bohack would open a lot of its own.
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Elmhurst NJ? – Early Bohack’s photo.
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Bayside, 1927, Bell Blvd, just south of the Bayside train station. No longer a Bohack’s of course, but the store has survived despite the fact that there have been numerous fires both just a few stores up and down from this store. It has been a little bit … lucky.
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Freport Bohack, undated.
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Mastic Beach Bohack, early 1940’s
Queens, Bohack Restaurant and store at the corner of Flushing and Metropolitan Ave’s, Queens, today it is a deli.
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Gas Stations This 1920 shows locations in Brooklyn, Woodside, and Flushing. There were Bohack gas stations in the 1920’s and 30’s. (Whitestone newspaper ads). Did other grocery stores also have gas stations … will have to check on that.
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Store Locator, 1921 listing of Bohack’s locations. This is kind of a rarity, most Bohack and A& P ads didn’t list their locations.
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Kew Gardens from the kewgardenshistory.com website comes this great Bohack photo which was posted to our facebook group some time ago by Michalel Quartararo. Fcebook photo here
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Hempstead, Bohack’s on Fulton Ave and Washington Streets, Hempstead, building is still standing today (on right). On the corner where Bohack’s once was is a Golden Krust Pizzeria.
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East Williston 1951. Bohack at the corner, on right, Chase Bank today in same building.
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Freeport, Bohack Truck, 1951
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Hempstead 1950 announcement of new Bohack shopping center on left, and the shopping center today at Jerusalem Ave and Henry St.
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Manhattan, The Odd Couple, 1968, Felix Unger walking into a Bohack and using his expert ripe melon detecting techniques.
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Manhattan I did some searching for what the Odd Coupple Bohack might be today. This is a Met Supermarket on Amsterdam Ave near 86th St. Could it be the Odd Couple Bohack? I am not sure. Let me know if you know it is or if you know where it was.
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Shopping Carts, I would guess the 70’s?
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Advertising Some Bohack’s newspaper ads from the early 1950’s
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Encyclopedias, there was a time most of us got our information from encyclopedias and during that time most of us got our encyclopedias from the supermarkets. (1961 ad)
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Bayside, 39th Ave and Bell Blvd. 1952, brand new 10,000 square foot Bohack’s opening on left. I am assuming this replaced the Bohack in the 1927 photo. Note the big stripes across the top and bottom of the store name on both photos. In the 1980’s this was a Consumers Distributing Location.
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Great Neck 1977, Middle Neck Road, a CVS is now in this location but it is a new building.
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Unkown location, 1950s’?, if you know where this one let us know.
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RW
/ December 10, 2010Todd,
Regarding the Bohack’s from the 1968 Odd Couple Movie. I’ve wondered about this for years myself. I got a strong suspicion its the supermarket on 2nd Ave. between 86th and 87th St. Its now a Food Emporium but the entrance was originally closer to 87th St. I’m still trying to confirm this. Email me if you want me to send you a pict.
Tom O'Malley
/ October 31, 2014I worked in the Bohack’s on 87th and 2nd avenue. That was the store featured in The Odd Couple. Got to meet Jack Lemmon when they filming, the woman handling the cantaloupes was one of the customers in the store that day
Tom O'Malley
/ October 31, 2014That store number was 2249, I was a Dairy Manager there and also worked on a Setup crew that went store to store configuring store shelves. Higher priced items at eye level, items children liked a little lower etc. Worked in every store in Manhattan
anne raso
/ July 3, 2016That is interesting because another Jack Lemmon movie The Prisoner Of Second Avenue used the apartment building and liquor store directly across the street from the Bohack’s that you worked in. Both are still there.
Robert Eisenberg
/ April 23, 2020The photo of an unknown location 1950’s is on Glen Cove Rd.,(Guinea Woods Rd.), in East Hills, L I. N.Y. It is now home to Kitchen Cabaret. I worked there in the early 70’s
Donna Filler Wilensky
/ November 29, 2020I thought that was the location as well. Fond memories.It was in the same shopping strip as the corner candy store, Clyde Debs and Clyde Juniors, the laundry owned by the Mok family.
dave robertson
/ July 3, 2022I thought the same thing I grew up there Looks right with Delany’s next door
Todd Berkun
/ December 11, 2010RW, would love to see photos of the Food Emporium. I spent some time looking for any resemblance of the store today.
RW
/ December 19, 2010I put togather some pictures of what I think is the Bohacks where they filmed that scene from the Odd Couple. I just need your email address to send the pics to.
Todd Berkun
/ December 20, 2010RW, how about tberkun#etoner.com , would love to see them.
Billy
/ January 1, 2011The store that features the odd couple I believe was on2ave and87st….Idrove atruck for Bohack from 1970 until 1976 when I got laid off…….It was a great company to work for.
Richard DiGeorge
/ March 4, 2011My father was also a truck driver for Bohack from 1966 til 1976 when the company went out o business. His name Duke.
Pat Gorman
/ April 4, 2012Richard,
My father also drove for Bohack from the 1950s to the middle 60s. In fact, I have two Bohack trunks that they used to ship groceries.
Pat
Chris
/ May 13, 2012There were 2 wooden ‘boxes’ with handles labeled Bohack on Ebay a few weeks back. We have one too; they were used to deliver bread. Are those the ‘trunks’ you have? My father-in-law drove for Bohack till the end. He worked there a long time. Before Bohack he delivered hay and feed in Brooklyn.
Carl John Pizzo
/ November 24, 2014Hey Pat give those wooden boxes back! haha My Mom is a Bohack and H.C. was her great uncle (since he & Emma had no children. When H.C. died she married Frank Schindl who died in 1965 (after Emma died~ slipped off roof in Woodhaven mmmm?). So the kicker -ALL the Bohack fortune (close to a $billion in 2014 dollars) went to total strangers – two daughters of Schindl ~ Mrs. Marie Schmidt of Yonkers and Mrs. Elsie Dominique of Brooklyn and a son Karl of Chicago. I was always promised a nice chunk but wound up with $0. I’m not bitter -I’m poor and living by Sec 8 HUD ~ HOWEVER I do wonder how the fortune was spent? Any investigators out there? Any book writers because what a story it was and before the last of the Bohacks go (all almost 90 now) they still have their mental faculties and can tell stories (i.e just last week Nov. 2014) my Mom gave me a photo of my Grandfather traveling to Panama (1931+/-) to purchase cattle). (Paul Gustav Adolf Bohack – nephew of H.C. Bohack)
harry schmidt
/ October 25, 2020.
Notes: 1/ The fact that Papa married Emma, a very wealthy widow, was never a topic in our house. While we understood that Emma was a step-mother to mom, what step-children might be awarded or given in a will was never discussed. Thus we had no idea what the step-daughter might receive in Emma’s will. We later learned that mom received nothing (“zero”) from the Emma estate. The Emma will had left a small financial package for Papa, but, apparently (I didn’t see it) later in the will stipulated that any remaining funds at Papa’s death would be given to charity. (But Emma had alzheimers in later years and therefore that stipulation would probably have been injected by her family members, not herself).
2/ The short story described below was told to me by my mom 20 years later as she was leaving the east and going to San Francisco to live with Fran during her last couple years. I wish I had been told the story many years before, right after the events described below took place, when perhaps something could have been done through the courts.
The Bohack company was doing very well in the early ‘60s when Emma died. The very next day four guys, ominously all dressed in black, rang the bell to my mother’s apartment in Yonkers and literally forced their way in. Three of the guys were big (“goons,” mom called them), and they forced her into a corner of the kitchen. The fourth announced he was a lawyer saying he had a piece of paper he demanded mom sign, a paper he said that renounced any claim to the Bohack estate by mom. My mother told him she first wanted to call her husband at work in NY, and her lawyer, but was refused access to a phone by the goons – they wouldn’t let her out of the corner. The standoff lasted a long time – at least several hours. She couldn’t move, couldn’t get to her phone, and with her heart beating wildly was afraid she was going to have a heart attack right there, hemmed-in by the goons in the corner. The lawyer repeated several times, “we are not leaving until you sign this document.” Eventually she concluded there was no alternative, other than having a heart attack or dying in the corner and signed the paper. The lawyer and goons quickly left. She never was given the lawyer’s name nor a copy of the paper she signed. Embarrassed over the event, she never mentioned the event to her husband nor anyone else, and only told me 20+ years later as she was moving to CA, still emotionally disturbed over how she was physically forced to handle that difficult confrontation with a lawyer and his goons. But, in retrospect, I wonder what options did she have as an elderly lady when faced with three big goons and essentially imprisoned in a corner? Not many! The lawyer held all the high cards, and the three big bodies to enforce his demands. Our family knew nothing about Emma’s will (that I knew about at the time, but many years later did obtain her will .. discussed below), and received nothing from the estate, even though some on the Bohack side of the family believed that we (the Schmidt/Schindl side) had somehow gotten control of the large estate, as described later in an email released to the Bohack website in about 2014.
So, questions still remain over where the money went, and how large was the estate? Note: The Bohack Company had been very profitable and therefore worth a lot of money before Bludhorn “stole it, but worth essentially zero after the bankruptcy. But Emma’s death was before the bankruptcy, so her estate could well have included a large portion from the Company. Additionally, several of my own questions remain … 1/ who was that lawyer who visited mom after Emma’s death? (was he really a lawyer?), and, who was he representing? 2/ what was in the document she signed? Was it really a legal document? 3/ do lawyers regularly use multiple goons to assist obtaining a signature from a frail elderly lady against her will? That practice sounds both immoral and illegal to me … but maybe lawyers don’t always abide by codes of ethics or have penalties governing their professional lives?
Other recipients in the will were numerous close friends who received a couple thousand each, several charities who perhaps received $100,000 in total, and most of the rest went to various family members primarily within her (the Steffens) expanded family. Although I have no knowledge of the total value of the estate, the amount left to her husband of 30 years seems to me grossly insufficient considering that her estate was, at that time, certainly worth tens of millions. While papa had been a senior hotel executive in NYC and presumably making a substantial salary for many years, and owned a very nice private home in Brooklyn and with a savings account reflecting his status, and since he died with very little money in his name (approximately only $1,000), we all wondered where his money went?? Could he have been forced to pay part of his living and travel expenses when he was Emma’s husband? Moreover, I am pretty sure he didn’t receive the earmarked funds from the Bohack estate (a total of $45,000 , as shown above), since his living expenses with his daughter and sister were nil during his last several years, and he died with only $1000 in the bank. I therefore conclude the executor probably didn’t distribute the funds as prescribed in the will. (Note: My father had prepared Papa’s income taxes for the several years he lived in Yonkers and therefore knew his financial affairs, and he too was very surprised at Papa’s minimal finances (a total of about $1000) and couldn’t understand how he had arrived in that unfortunate financial situation without adverse manipulation by Bohack interests). Years later when the full extent of Papa’s financial condition became more fully understood, I wondered why my father had not filed a lawsuit against the Bohack estate administrator who, in my mind, had apparently extracted all the funds Papa either had or should have received under the will… or, were there other provisions in a separate document that I knew nothing about??
Notes: 1/ The fact that Papa married Emma, a very wealthy widow, was never a topic in our house. While we understood that Emma was a step-mother to mom, what step-children might be awarded or given in a will was never discussed. Thus we had no idea what the step-daughter might receive in Emma’s will. We later learned that mom received nothing (“zero”) from the Emma estate.
Mitch Kaften
/ March 23, 2011Todd, re the “unknown” location. I know there was a Bohack on Union Turnpike, just east of 188th Street. It almost looks like that one. There was also a store at the northeast corner of Horace Harding Blvd. and Main Street. I think it’s a diner now…not sure, haven’t looked in quite a while. Great web sites you’ve got here!
Todd Berkun
/ March 26, 2011Thanks Mitch, something about that shot sure screams of Union Turnpike, so thanks for the help on the location.
GJ
/ June 10, 2012Westhamton Beach location.
AJ_32
/ January 6, 2014The “unknown location” is without doubt the purpose-built location which was on Northern Blvd , just east of Parsons Blvd. in Flushing. Google street view the location 144-6 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354
KENNETH KANTOR
/ April 22, 2020Might have been Bohack in Elmont corner Linden Blvd and Elmont Rd.
DaveThe Wave
/ March 28, 2011The Bohack in The Odd Couple was at the corner of 87th and Second Avenue on the Upper East Side. I grew up in this neighborhood and this Bohack was one of the supermarkets my family shopped in. The corner entrance in the movie was there for many years until it was closed up sometime in the 1990s I think. Bohack may have been replaced by a Sloan’s at some point. This same white-brick apartment building that housed the Bohack on Second Avenue featrued a Bankers Trust branch for many years, on the 86th Street side. All long gone. When my mom took me to Bohack I sometimes waited for her at the front of the store and around 1969 I stood there looking out the window and watched the demolition of old red-brick apartment houses across Second Avenue. The luxury tower that stands there today replaced them.
Ed Storck
/ March 31, 2011The “unknown” store looks like the one in Middle Village, N.Y. on Metropolitan Ave., around 78th Street.
karen
/ July 31, 2017YES ! I was going to write that…indeed, it is !
George Geiger
/ May 7, 2011Re the “unknown” store. It looks like the one on Hillside Avenue in Queens. My dad, (same name) was the meat manager at that store. He opened the Bohack in Mineola in 1954-55. It was the first Bohack that had a self serve meat counter as well as the individual service by a butcher. The store in East Williston was actually in Williston Park across the street from St Aidens Catholic Church.
Nikademis von Hisson
/ January 21, 2014lol, i was thinking the same thing George,That bohack was in the corner of hillside & little neck parkway. The building had me thinking it was the keyfood down the block between ernis delicatessen and the bank. I dont remember a bohack on metropolitan, my grandmother lived over that way
David Smith
/ August 25, 2018Definitely not the Hillside Ave and LNP location. Lived diagonally across the street from 1964 until Feb 2017. Except for the now bricked up windows the building is the same now as then with the entrance at the corner of the store.
andrew fernandez
/ May 14, 2011i remember bohacks. i knew bob bohack from from fairchild republic where he was a human resorse director after the family gave up the grocery business in 1977. last heard he is a fire commisioner in nyc.
J Oldsum
/ June 2, 2011Nice to know that folks still remember Bohacks. I met the Bohacks when I was 7 yrs old. My great Aunt worked at the HQ on Flushing and Metro Ave, My two older sisters worked their during the summer, Thats where my sister met Bob and married a year later. Bob has finally retired from NYC DOH as VP HR a few yrs ago, His son is the FDNY Battalion Chief
L Mondo
/ July 4, 2011I’ve been going thru some family history on ancestry.com. My great grand uncle was Ernest Haberle who eventually succeeded Bohack as president and many of my relatives (Fred, William…) worked at Bohacks in Queens. I would love to be able to connect with any current descendants and share what I know from the earlier days – way back when. Turns out a neighbor of my mom’s in Merrick (Pat K..g) was connected to a Bohack, but I don’t quite have that story straight either. Can anyone help sort things out?
Carl John Pizzo
/ November 24, 2014Andrew -no after Fairchild Republic (personnel dept.) Bob went to work for Mayor Mike and just recently retired (he is such a funny guy -he should have been a comedian. Bob’s son (my cousin Bob) a fire Chief. Senior Bob is my Godfather.
andrew fernandez
/ May 14, 2011how bout the villager, its state of the art stores.
andrew fernandez
/ June 22, 2011bohack had about 10 villager stores mostly in suffolk county l.i. and i understand down in florida.
mike
/ June 28, 2011The grocery business sure was tough. I lived in Great Neck and wet to the store pictured on this web site on Middle Neck Road. When bohacks went out of business in 1977, “a state of the art”, fancy Gristedes opened. They figured they could be a success, even though they were primarily a NYC grocery chain (with comparable NYC high prices). This worked for a while (considering that Great Neck was/is an affluent community). However, by the early 1980’s, a Daitch/Food Emporium opened right across the street from this store, and blew them right out of the water!
-Mike
steve wallace
/ January 16, 2017Yep, I lived in Great Neck and remember this, too! Gristedes was new and fancy, yet Food Emprium was even bigger and fancier (with carpeted floors, and lighted shelves!).
Maybe Gristedes tried to open a Great Neck store (even though they were primarily a NYC grocer) because the owner of Red Apple/ Gristedes, is John Catsimedes, a Great Neck resident, and figured great Neck could use a high end store!
William Bruu
/ July 2, 2011My father, Torolf K. Bruu, was a Bohack store manager in East Northport, New York during the 1930’s. I am trying to confirm his date of employment and when he quit. I suspect he left Bohack to join Grumman at the onset of WWII, December 7, 1941.
Sue
/ August 17, 2011Do you have a picture of Bohack in East Northport!
Renate
/ February 23, 2012My Mother-in-Law grew up in that town (born in 1926) and remembers the Bohack!
Lesa
/ April 2, 2015William, The Bohack in East Northport was where I worked in 1971for about a year and a half. The manager’s name was Artie and the Assistant Manager was Mike. I loved that job and that store. Was it in Hewitt Square when your dad worked there? I was usually the Express checkout girl, but sometimes they’d have me fill in in the produce department. I loved weighing bunches of bananas for people and writing the price with a black marker right on the peel! A few friends worked there too. Those are good memories. We were 18 and 19 and I think we probably vexed poor Artie to no end. :) he was actually a great guy, so was Mike.
Jim
/ June 10, 2018Do you remember a man by the name of Tom Buckridge by chance?
Ed. Coffey
/ July 19, 2011Great website! Does anyone have a pix of the Bohack store at Baldwin Road & Homan Blvd.in Hempstead,NY ? We shopped there before King Kullen 0pened at “downtown” Hempstead.Send me any pix or comments via email
Ciao………….Ed. Coffey
Judy
/ April 11, 2023Hi! I moved to Homan Blvd and Baldwin Rd in 1954 I don’t remember a Bohack there. Judy
Daniel DiPierro
/ August 13, 2011My father Daniel DiPierro worked for H.C. Bohack Co. for almost 30 years, starting after WWII in Eastern Long Island first as a Produce Manager (Rocky Point), eventually Store Manager (Port Jefferson Station) and then in the mid-60’s he became a District Manager (Bethpage/Port Washington as well as many other locations)…he remained with Bohack until the very end, and even worked at one of the last remaining locations after they went under…my brother, sister and I also worked part-time in Bohack stores during summer vacations during high-school (in Shirley, Setauket, Ronkonkoma)…Daniel DiPierro Jr.
Tom Laiacona
/ April 1, 2012Dan- I worked with your father for many years. I was a dairy supervisor for the district he ran. I have an old Bohack news that has your father in a picture when Port Jefferson Bohack had its grand opening. I was a child then but my dad who worked for Bohacks kept all the issues that had his picture in it and gave them all to me before he passed on. I live in Farmingville where you grew up but haven’t seen your dad in years. He used to shop at Shop Rite in Farmingville where I worked for 6 years until it became a Grand Union and is now a Stop and Shop. I will try to upload that pic to this site so you can see it.
Daniel DiPierro
/ August 6, 2012Hey Tom, I don’t check this site very often…but thanks for the reply!
My Dad passed away in 1997, he continued to shop at that grocery store (it had several different names) on Portion Rd. in the shopping center at the end of Waverly…Ironically, he had his fatal heart attack and died in an aisle of that store while he was ginding some coffee…I’ve always thought it was an appropriate place for a guy who had spent his life in the grocery business…I worked summers through college at Bohack, and helped open the Village in downtown Framingville…I don’t often get to Farmingville (I live on the west coast)…but I’m amazed at the changes!
If you can make a copy of that photo, I’d love to get one…I’ll give you my address sometime if you respond to this posting…Daniel DiPierro, Jr.
Tom Laiacona
/ August 8, 2012Dan- drop me an e mail at oswegodad6@aol.com with all the details and I will get you a copy of that picture from Bohack News. Tom Laiacona
William Torrey
/ July 26, 2012I worked in both of the Huntington stores part time from 1958 -1965. The process you’re talking about was Tender Ray Beef. It was the best!! BillT Also remember Dan Di Pierro who was our DM.
Daniel DiPierro
/ July 22, 2014I don’t check this site often, thanks for the info William!
Carl John Pizzo
/ November 24, 2014William ~ I also worked in the Huntington store (there were two). I worked in the Village and my brother the Station. If you were in the Village – I think the dairy manager was Mario? – Well maybe? But the Asst. manager was Karl Jessen and manger Warren?
(I was 17 in 1967 – so I collected the shopping carts and stocked the aisles)
Leo Cunningham
/ February 9, 2014To Dan DiPierro, I worked for your dad in 1971 to 1972 when I got out of the Navy. I was an assistant manager in the Woodmere store, which was in his district. My father, Barney Cunningham, had worked with him as well as a manager in several Bohack stores. I started in 1966 in Massapequa. My dad also worked for a time at the Village store in Farningville when it opened.
Daniel DiPierro
/ July 22, 2014Thanks, Leo…I don’t check this site often…
I also worked (set it up for grand opening) at the Farmingville Village store when I was on summer break from college, my family home was right there in Farmingville…
Ed Benizzi
/ May 18, 2015Dan: Hopefully you will see this someday. You Dad and my Dad were good friends. They started around the same time, both in produce and were the first produce DM’s. Both stayed to the very end (albeit sad). We lived in Floral Park, Queens. My Dad’s last store before the DM promotion was in West Hempstead with Charlie Kazarowski (sp) (store manager). Charlie became an Operations DM around the same time. Holler anytime. I have some great pictures of the start of the Eastern Produce Council, too. Best regards, Ed Benizzi
Tom Laiacona
/ May 27, 2015Ed- I remember your dad Nick when I was dairy supervisor for Tom Langhorns division in the 70s. I just saw Al Abatemarco one of his produce supervisors recently. Do you remember him?, Tom Laiacona
Ed Benizzi
/ May 28, 2015Tom: Great to hear from you. I remember the names but not the faces. In fact, we were trying to identify a few gentlemen in a photo with my Dad at a store opening. I’d like to send it to your email address, if okay. Do you remember Bob Start, a Dairy Manager in the last Floral Park store (Between Tulip and Tyson)? I believe that he lived in Bethpage. I lost contact and wonder where he is these days. I’ll send the photo. Thanks Ed
Daniel DiPierro
/ June 22, 2015Ed, I did see this (June 20, 2015)
thanks, it’s always good to hear stories from the past,
I’ve been on the west coast for 40 years…Danny Jr.
catherine N.
/ August 16, 2011I’m trying to do props for a play, and the grocery store mentioned is a Bohacks. Does anyone know if the logo would have been on the bag or if it would have been plain brown paper? Its 1960s, if that helps.
Bonnie Rosen Skibins
/ August 16, 2011If you do a Google search for Bohacks Shopping Bag (and click on images) you will see one. I will also post one on the Long Island and NYC Places No More fan page. I Hope it helps.
Tom Higgins
/ August 30, 2012In the mid 60’s the logo would be in red on the 1/6 and 1/8 bbl. bags. Late 60’s would have a Bohack/ Packer’s logo.
andy yodice
/ September 30, 2013i worked at 2174 and 2175 from may 1960 ti june 1972 in brooklyn until we moved out west. i was a meat mgr. andy yodice
Bill
/ August 16, 2011Interesting blog Todd! Re. the unknown location- It looks like the Bohacks in New Hyde Park on Hillside Ave. (2 blocks east of Marcus Ave.) around 1960 when I was growing up.
Todd Berkun
/ August 16, 2011The problem with that unknown location is that it could probably be a couple of places …. New Hyde Park or Union Turnpike could both be right – its almost like we have to find a photo of one or the other to be sure.
Bonnie Rosen Skibins
/ August 17, 2011I found this interesting post on another site. It provides a lot of information about the store (including which location was used in The Odd Couple).
http://www.city-data.com/forum/long-island/834142-does-anyone-remember-bohack-village-supermarkets-6.html#ixzz1VFvICU9f
Martha Hidalgo
/ January 13, 2020Top picture I think was Elmhurst, Queens, New York
Laura Cortes
/ August 20, 2011Vintage Bohack located on hillside avenue and 201 st queens new york
Ingrid
/ August 28, 2011The identified store looks like the Mineola location. The one where the main entrance (looked like that!) and faced the rear parking lot as opposed to facing Mineola Blvd.
Harry Schmidt
/ September 29, 2011I’m Harry Schmidt, grandfson of Frank Schindl. Frank was a former hotel manager of up-scale hotels in NYC, whose wife passes away at the same time that Henry Bohack passed away. The widow, Emma Bohack, and Frank Schindl married in about 1933, and continued to live in the Bohack residence on Beverly Road in Kew Gardens. Together they traveled extensively in early years. Our family spent most holidays together since Henry and Emma had no children. I spent 4 years in the USAF as a fighter pilot in Korea and then as Pratt & Whitney’s engineering test pilot at Edwards AFB testing the first supersonic fighters. We later moved to Manhasset where I continued in the aviation profession finding it more challenging than supermarkets, but visited Frank and Emma frequently with our children. We left Manhasset in 2000 and now live in Cromwell CT. I was featured in the Hartford newspaper last year when I flew the old P&W B-17 bomber from Hartford to Bridgeport.
Robert Bickard
/ June 29, 2015my name is Robert Bickard my grandfather Charles Kirk was the driver for Emma and Frank
Jeannette A. Henry
/ July 8, 2015Whenever I get these updates and want to read all of the posting, I go to your site and it is not there. Very disappointing.
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Todd Berkun
/ July 8, 2015I am not sure why the last few posts aren’t showing. It is confusing. – Now I see it – in the replies.
Todd Berkun
/ July 8, 2015the posts are in threads – so if someone is answering someone else it will show up in the thread and not at the bottom of the page.
Michael
/ October 3, 2011I worked at Bohacks on Francis Lewis Blvd, Bayside from 1970 to 1975. It was store #2138. Barny Vitrano was the manager. Sal D’Amato was the assistant manager. I was a clerk doing cashier and stocking part time in high school and college. My starting pay was 1.85/hr and finished at 3.30/ hr. We were members of Retail Food Clerks Union. The store building is still in original form and is a pharmacy. My experiences there were very positive. Barney Vitrano was a really good person and became like a second father to me.
Stew
/ March 21, 2012I remember that store vividly.I worked for the Boerner company & called on this store twice monthly.I remember Barney & Sal. Barney was thin & balding & Sal was very friendly & a pleasure to deal with. This brings back many fond memories.
Charles H Bours
/ June 10, 2018Stew is this the Stew Leitner I worked for At Boerneer ?
Stewart Goldstein
/ June 11, 2018Wonderful memories,It was Barney and Frank
Nela Hunt
/ June 11, 2018The unknown location could be New Hyde Park.
George
/ June 11, 2018Hi Charles, That was one of the stores I worked in. In fact, my brother Pat also worked there. I was In the deli. The deli manager when I was there was a fellow named Phil Lublin. Phil was a holocaust survivor and Lublin, Poland was his hometown. He took the name Lublin when he came to the US. Phil was a gruff old guy (why not considering what he had endured), and a chain smoker, which is what finally caught up with him. Great memories working at Bohack.
George
/ August 14, 2013I worked there too. Remember Howard Wipperman in the dairy, Phil Lublin in the deli, and the Lorraine also in the deli who when a call would come in for the Meat Department would yell, “Pick up the phone Meat Head” over the PA? We also had an Italian-Buddhist vegetable man (forgot his name) who would sing Christmas songs in the back room in July. Ran into him later at the store in East Hampton. Lots of funny memories in that store. I like Barney and Sal too. If you worked with them Mike, then you know what a “hoint” is. I worked in about thirty Bohack delis from Sunnyside to Southhampton.
Edward Cline
/ August 13, 2015Ed Cline
My twin brother Al worked at the store on Francis Lewis Blvd. He and Sal used to put on rubber bald heads and make fun of Barney when he wasn’t around.
akitachow
/ October 16, 2011There was a Bohacks on Northern Boulevard near Parsons when I was a little kid. Building is still there. It was a La-Z-Boy for the longest time…not sure what it is now.
Monty Miller
/ November 12, 2011Hey if anyone has a photo of the Bohack store in Manhasset I would love to see that.
Bruce Whitesell
/ November 21, 2011I worked at a Bohacks in Fort Greene Brooklyn, corner of Myrtle Ave and Waverly while a student at Pratt Institute from 1967-70. It’s now a BofA; found it on GoogleMap. The manager was Howard Tarr, and the assistant manager was “Smitty” “Mr. Marramarco” was our Union Rep who came in to collect our Retail Clerks dues. I worked with a 2 Italian brothers, Patty and Jerry, a young Puerto Rican named Tommy, and various others who only had 1st names (Joe, Maryann, etc), I guess. The Myrtle Ave El still ran in those days. I didn’t see the store listed on the 1921 ad, so I guess it was newer than that, but not by much. Tough neighborhood in those days. Started at $1.65/hr, and never got to the $2.00 I was making with the A&P in High School back in PA, and never worked more than 25 hrs/wk. My roommate and best friend was from Massapequa, had worked at a Bohacks there in high school and got us both jobs, since jobs were hard to come by.
Anybody remember that store, or anyone who worked there?
I transferred to a store in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill in 1970 after I got held up at shotgun point, and later beaten up outside the store. Local kids didn’t like Pratt students very much.
My friend might have some old pictures from then.
Bruce
Plastic Boy
/ December 27, 2011Bruce, you mentioned ‘Smitty’. In 1980 I worked for a summer at a Gristides in Westhampton LI NY which used to be a Bohacks. The Assistant Manager there was also named, ‘Smitty’. Probably woulda been in his 50s at the time, maybe older.
Bruce Whitesell
/ December 28, 2011Could be. He seemed like he was 100 when i worked with him in 1968-69. but since I was 20 he COULD have been 45-50. Short (5-4 or so) , walked fast and a little stooped (which may have made him look shorter), gravelly voice, gray or graying hair and noticeable nose hair which makes me thing he was 55-65 at the time, having reached that point in my life as well. Probably a good man but humorless to a 20 year old. Never knew him as anything other than “Smitty”.
Rowan
/ March 17, 2013Bruce, you are a life-saver! My dad (who lives in Willoughby Walk) just told me that the Associated Supermarket on Myrtle Ave is closing at the end of this month (March). I’m 47, and remember that A&P was the previous incarnation of that supermarket. So many memories & landmarks gone now. So I did some loose math, and figured that the A&P had to have been at that spot at least since the mid or mid-late 50s – since my parents moved into Clinton Hill in 1961. When trying to find some historical data on A&P, I came across this website and …..BAM! This string of blogs made me remember that exact Bohack store you worked at! That memory had been shuttered for 47 years! Do you remember Twin Shop department store on Myrtle next to Fort Greene Park?
What were the other names of the Italian restaurants in the neighborhood? – There was the Venice on Myrtle, Cino’s on DeKalb, and another one on Waverly close to DeKalb.
(sorry about your student experiences ay Pratt)
Bruce Whitesell
/ March 18, 2013Rowan, Let me think a little tomorrow, but yes, I remember much of what you describe. I actually worked at that A&P for about 2 weeks during the spring of ’68 before I took the job at Bohacks instead. I had worked for the A&P in Quakertown PA while in high school, so I thought it would be a simple move to work at the one on Myrtle Ave; keep my seniority and my wage at $2.25/hr. I figured that my union membership would take care of that. Boy was I wrong! The Venice was the favorite Pizza take-out place for students at Pratt. Two blocks down on the other side of the street was Vinnie’s Deli, a storefront in the same building as the First National Bank of NY. I have yet to have a corned beef or pastrami sandwich that could match Vinnies! There was an Italian mens store next to the A&P. There were always immaculately dressed men hanging around it, but nobody ever seemed to buy anything. There was a door at the back of the store that I thought led to a restroom, but when I asked to use it, I was told that they had no restroom. But these guys kept coming and going through that door. I was a green kid from the farmland of Bucks County in PA. What did I know? I bought my first bottle of wine at a liquor store at the corner of Myrtle and Hall. Almost got expelled for that one, and it was only 2 weeks into my freshman year at Pratt. Then there was Blind Mikes, a 2nd hand furniture store about 3 doors from the liquor store. We furnished our 1st apartment, a 4th floor walk-up on Washington Ave between Lafayette and Greene, next to a seedy hotel that is still there. 3 students shared a 2 room, bath and small kitchen apartment for $140/mo. I LOVED the people! Other than students, the neighborhood was mostly people of color, with a few Italian and Jewish holdouts from the WWII area scattered about. Our landlord was Benjamin Solomon, who lived somewhere else but showed up to collect the rent once a month. A lot of old ladies shopped at the store. There was a smattering of Puerto Ricans who were moving in, so the neighborhood was in transition. New York was in transition at the time! 2nd year of school I got married and we moved to the 1st floor of a brownstone on Cheever Place in Cobble Hill. Two years later I moved to NJ, and eventually back to Bucks County. But I wouldn’t trade my years and experiences in Ft Greene and Brooklyn as a whole for anything. It formed me and moulded me. You’re 16 years younger than me, so who knows? You might have been one of those toddlers who came in the Bohacks with their mom to buy pasta fazole or Knickerbocker beer. I’ve been back a few times, but not for about 15 years. Google satellite maps tells me much has changed. Let me think a little more.
Bruce
BruceatCDoST@aol.com 610-360-6933
JT CHIARELLA
/ January 11, 2016Waverly, close to DEKALB was Joe’s Place…His brother owned VENICE.
JT Chiarella
/ September 28, 2015Myrtle & Waverly was not shown at that location in the earlier listing because that Bohack was at Myrtle & Clinton, on the northwest corner (Today it’s Putnam’s Pub & Cooker). My father’s drycleaner was in between those two locations, at 437 Myrtle…Tony The Tailor. The el came down in 1969. Abut two minutes after you left, it became Adami Hardware, and it remained a hardware store until the 2000’s, when it was gutted to make the Bank of America that is there today.J
mike
/ December 25, 2011i remember as a kid there was a bohack supermarket in maspeth queens ny on 69th st and garfield ave. long gone and replaced by some small apt buildings now.
Bruce Whitesell
/ December 28, 2011Re:Fort Greene Myrtle Ave Bohacks (Update)
We were paid in cash, with pay envelopes delivered each week, i THOUGHT by our union rep, since things like Union Dues were automatically taken out. Could be wrong about the last part. Biggest gripe was about pay raises that never materialized.
Was hired by a manager named “Otto”, who spoke with a German accent, but he was replaced by the fore-mentioned Howard Tarr in late ’68.
We had a high turnover rate.
The store was at the edge of Bed-Sty, and it was the late ’60s’. The neighborhood was Old Italian/Jewish (10%), Pratt students (10%), Hispanic (10%), and the balance Black. Curiously enough, the store employed ONLY Whites (except the security guard, Joe) which I didn’t think odd at the time, have grown up in a 99.9% White Pennsylvania suburb. But I started to draw the correlation between local jobs and things like food stamps, etc. People could spend their money there, but they couldn’t WORK there. I later found that the store had a reputation for being a “Disciplinary Unit”; a store where problem employees were transferred. “Problem Employees” COULD be those approaching retirement age, and by moving them to this store, and another in the middle of Bed-Sty, they “encouraged” them to take “early retirement”. That meant losing a part or all of the Company Retirement, I was told.
When I transferred to the Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Heights store in 1969, I found prices lower and produce fresher. “Better Area” had better quality and LOWER prices. Thought it was odd.
I was young.
Stewart Goldstein
/ January 7, 2016Just to reminise a bit,my dads store was 186 DeKalb Ave.One of the first BoHacks,in the 20’s.Later named Perrys witch I sold in the late 80,s
anthony newsome
/ December 28, 2011my father use to work at bohack supermarket on linden blvd and i use to love going to work with him
anthony newsome
/ December 28, 2011his name was rayvone mcduffie
Roger
/ December 30, 2011What a great site!
Over the Xmas holiday I was talking with the family about my first jobs as a teenager.
My very first job other than a Newsday paper boy was a sacker in the Port Washington (L.I.), N.Y.
BOHACKS; I worked there for about a year from ’63-64. I even remember the names of some
of the “adult” employees….Tim, Mgr., Ralph, Asst Mgr, Sal, Produce Mgr., & Walter, “Head Stocker”?
All the best,
Roger Mercier
The Woodlands, Texas
Sharon Livey Simone
/ February 5, 2012I grew up in Farmingdale Long Island. My parents moved us when i was 13 to upstate NY.
I was trying to remember the name of your store. It was driving me crazy,neither my sister
nor brother could remember. It was located on Main Street. The man who worked in the deli
would always call my brother red because of his red hair. I made him so mad he would ans.
my name is not red it”s Brian Peter Livey.
I remember seeing Captain Kangaroo and Mr. GreenJeans behind the store.I was so happy to see your
site.
Thanks Sharon Livey Simone
Jim Groelke
/ February 17, 2012I grew up in Little Neck NY on 249th street. Our house was a block from Northern blvd. As one of five
kids one of us was always getting sent up to Bohacks on the corner of Northern Blvd and 249th street
for four quarts of milk and a loaf of bread. They built a new Safeway across the street and all of a sudden Bohacks became a county library! There was an A&P about a quarter mile down Northern Blvd that I remember
being a rundown store, Wood floors worn out and always creeking.
Renate
/ February 23, 2012The one near me was really old fashioned. It was on Northern near Parson’s. I remember going there when I was very, very small in the early to mid-1960s. What you have done, though, is cofirm for all my friends that I’m not crazy when I tell them there was a Safeway up Nothern! I remember that big red and white sign with the block letters! I live in Cali now, and seeing the Safeways here spurred that memory. I think we used to eat at a place called The Copper Penny way up Northern, maybe near to where you lived, and that’s when I’d see the Safeway. I lived on 147th off Northern. Cheers!
Henry5400
/ May 1, 2012I grew up in Little Neck as well. Bohack’s never became a library — the library was and still is across the street from where Bohack’s was. Eventually the building became a Grand Union, and more recently a Stop and Shop. There never was a Safeway in Little Neck. Perhaps you’re thinking of Daitch Shopwell that opened in the mid-1960s at Little Neck Parkway and Horace Harding Expressway. But that’s a good 1-1/2 miles from where Bohack’s was. Or maybe you’re remembering the Grand Union that opened just over the border in Great Neck near where Sears was (now it’s a Korean supermarket).
Jim Groelke
/ May 2, 2012Beg to differ henry but the Bohacks at the corner of Northern Blvd and 249th street did become a Queens County public library.
Bob Johnson
/ September 12, 2012My mom grew up on 249th street. I remember going there with my grandmother in the late 60’s when we went to visit her. The thing i liked best about going there was the trip back. We always stopped at the Carvel across the street. I miss those days.
Todd Berkun
/ September 12, 2012The Carvel sounds like a great way to end the trip Bob!
Jim Groelke
/ September 12, 2012Hello Bob – we lived just one house from 43rd avenue. The address was 4303 249th street.
Where did your grandmother live on 249th street.? We often went to Carvel for soft serve or sometimes to Howard Johnson one block east.
Bob Johnson
/ September 12, 2012Hi Jim, I don’t remember the address but it was between Depew Ave and 41st Ave on the west side of the street. I remember that there was alot of vacant land behind her house (for a 10 year old) that we used to call the Back Woods and a creek at the north end of the street by the RR tracks. She sold the house in 1973 and that was the last time i was in Little Neck. What years did you live there?
Jim Groelke
/ September 14, 2012Bob – I lived their from the late forties until sixty seven when I joined the Air Force. The railroad tracks were the Long Island railroad. We used to jump on the back of the trains and hitch a free ride to Flushing.
Bob Johnson
/ September 13, 2012My mistake, It was 247th Street. It was a long time ago for me.
harry schmidt
/ September 13, 2012I have always been intrigued by the Bohack collapse … why did it occur? It had been making money before Charlie Bluhdorn acquired control. Bluhdorn, a Wall Street raider, I think got control with two opportunities in mind … 1/ real estate, and 2/ restructuring competition. In pursuit of #2, he tried to also control A&P and started buying that stock after getting control of Bohack. But the SEC concluded his real intent was to manipulate supermarket competition on LI, so put a halt to his buying A&P. He was therefore left with only Bohack, and that was not a sexy high-profit business. So he started selling all Bohack stores in a sale/leaseback deal. He offered the stores at excessive prices, but in return promised unusually high lease payments. I was offered the Huntington store under those exact conditions. So he extracted the cash from the stores, but burdened by the much higher lease payments he could not afford, the company started losing money and he sent Bohack into bankruptcy. He made a bundle, and a lot of people lost their jobs. Wall Street profited in a scheme devised by a master manipulator.
Jerry LaPre
/ March 20, 2012I grew up in Glen Cove. There was no Bohack’s there, but there was one in the nearby village of Sea Cliff. Do you have a picture of that one?
Jerry LaPre
jecinola@aol.com
Don Morris
/ July 2, 2012Hello Jerry, My is Don. I grew up in Glen Cove during the 1960s. There was a Bohacks Supermarket on Forest Ave. for many years. I worked there part time while I was in High School. The building is still there. It is part of another supermarket. Currently I live in Scottsville N Y but Glen Cove will always be my home town. Please feel free to ask me ” where the heck is Scottsville N Y”.
Bill
/ September 9, 2014There was a Bohacks on School Street in the Glen Cove village for years before they opened the large, modern supermarket on Forest Avenue. I clearly remember that the old store had a continuous shelf that ran along each side and rear of the store – with shelves above and below. On entering, you took a small basket and placed it on the shelf, and pushed it along placing your goods in it. On coming around the other side and heading toward the front of the store, you lifted the basket and placed it on the cashier’s counter in the middle of the store in front of the door. It seemed the epitome of modernism for a small child at that time. The exterior facade was very similar to several of the old photos on this website. Little did we realize what was to come in the next ten to twenty years.
Neal
/ March 31, 2012Bohack’s was one of my first Piss pot jobs as a teen in ’74 !!
Barbara
/ April 1, 2012My dad Bob, worked for Bohack, till the 70’s also. He was a meat cutter. i remember Andy Devine appearing at the Huntington store. Me, my sister and brother, also remember going to Brooklyn and seeing the TENDER BLUE RAY system. We took a tour and had Hotess/Drake’s products at the end.
Ken Atkinson
/ April 1, 2012Give Me a Bo!
Give me a Hack!
Give me a Beer!
What’ve you got ?
Bohack Beer!
John Knobel
/ September 11, 2014I had the last can of bohack beer it was brewed by piels….. My dad was ceo of bohack at the end
Richard F. Makse
/ April 3, 2012Does anyone remember the small Bohack’s at the corner of 52nd Avenue and 69th Street in Maspeth? It closed when the big supermarket opened at 69 Street and Maurice Avenue Winfield (two blocks away) around 1953. Here’s a view of that corner today. Going down 69th Street (we still often called it Fisk Avenue) towards Queens Blvd, Jerry’s Deli (I think it was Jerry’s but anyhow, it’s still there) was on the next block. The next deli was a block after Fisk Garage (remember ‘what’s his name”, the proprietor, with the cigar?)–that deli was on the same block as Landolfi’s barber shop.
Iva
/ April 17, 2012Are you referring to 69 street and 52nd Drive in Maspeth? Was it a corner store?
Lorraine
/ February 7, 2014My father and I always went to that Bohack’s on 52nd Ave. until they made the one on Maurice Ave. Jerry’s, OMG, we used to get heros there in the early 60’s when we’d go to the beach as teens. A ham and cheese hero was 40cents!! Landolfi was the barber that my dad and grandfather went to. Graduated St. Mary’s in ’61.
steven j chaikin
/ April 7, 2012Hi. I was a child in Deepdale in queens during the 1950s. My mother (and I) shopped at one of two markets on horace blvd, just before and during the LIE construction. One was Waldbaum’s, located next to (west of) chartoffs toys and a door or two east of richer’s bake shop (still there but bigger then when my kindergarten class went there on a (trip). Those stores and others (a chinese reestaurant, a candy store named alley’s, a kosher deli ran east of marathon pkwy. Cross to the west side and that block Started with a gas station (shell), a few other stores, a beauty parlor (my mom, every week) and Bohack’s. This Bohacks, i’m afraid, had a terrible rep in the hood. You could smell the meat market blocks away. I was told that the hood ground house coffee was goods. That’s why mom used walbaum’s and why, after a few years, a&p bought out Or just replaced Bohacks. Bohacks opened a store on northern and 249th, but was replaced by Grand union. I have had terrib le memories of the dirty Bohack’s. Sorry. Any share,these memories, or want to fill in gaps. By the way, the blvd was so much nicer then Roobert
Larry Schulz
/ April 19, 2012East end Long Island on the north fork. Town of Mattituck there was a huge supermarket built around 1972-73 called “The Village” which I am almost certain was a spin-off from the Bohack empire and carried all the Bohack product line. It was meant to be an all inclusive type store offering products and services beyond the regular supermarket. Sadly, It lasted like 4-5 years. It is now A Capital One Bank Office which
is also in threat of being shut down (moved out of state).
Charlie
/ May 4, 2012Can anybody help with a photograph of Bohack’s on Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick?
Steven L
/ May 18, 2012There used to be a Bohack’s on Front Street in Uniondale, Long Island.
Deborah Grahame
/ August 29, 2012Hi Steve: Yes, this was the one my Mom and Nana dragged me to almost every day. I can still see the signs around the store and hear the cash registers cranking up the sales. We also went to the one on Jerusalem Ave. in Hempstead but this was the one that most often interrupted my long-ago summer playtime. Thanks for providing the details. D.
Regina Kasper
/ June 9, 2012My dad, brother-in-law, future husband (not known to me then) and I all worked for the company and eventually The Village stores too. We kept it all in the family.
George
/ August 14, 2013Was your father Joe Kasper? If so, I remember him. Nice guy. I enjoyed working with him.
rpdwoman@aol.com
/ June 17, 2012I remember the Bohack’s on Hicksville Road in Massapequa. I was a child. Soon other ‘larger more modern’ stores were built not too far. But my neighbor Barbara Lawlor shopped there when everyone else moved on. She would take me with her sometimes, and I remember the saw dust on the old wooden floors. I will always remember that.
Lorraine Jeziorski
/ June 18, 2012The Bohack that is shown above with unknown caption, could be the one that was on Wantagh ave. in Levittown. It was on the west side of Wantagh ave and faced east. Across the way was Red Maple drive.
Vicky Jones
/ June 23, 2012I remember as a child, being put in a shopping cart at the Port Jefferson (downtown) Bohack. My mom would shop at the old and sadly kept store. The floors were wood and were warped and slanted. I remember my mom turning to pick something up off the shelf and the cart started rolling away from her and she had to go into a full trot to catch the cart. I remember sawdust??Was it saw dust?? Interesting memories. LOL!
Esta
/ July 3, 2012We just googled Bohack because we just found a jar of Bohack brand Medicated Chest Rub in our father’s Fort Lauderdale apartment. We accessed the web site because we wanted to know how long it has been sitting in his medicine cabinet. In the same cabinet we also found suntan lotion purchased at Rockbottom. Anyone remember that store? This web site would be great fodder for a Seinfeld episode. LOL
Alison
/ August 11, 2012Yes, Rockbottoms. We had one at the corner of Larkfield Rd and Jericho Turnpike in Commack. It is now Trader Joe’s, Miss the great prices they had at that store.
Scott
/ January 31, 2014Vicky – I remember that Bohacks the exact same way – right down to the sawdust ! I also remember there was an A&P at the other end of the shopping center (It later became a Meat Farms). Mom went there for years – then once Hills came along on Nesconset Highway ….. bye bye A&P and Bohacks.
Holly Rosen
/ August 3, 2016Hi Esta and Alison/anyone else who might know,
Was there a Bohacks in Commack and where exactly was it located? Any pics?
Thanks
Vinnie
/ July 24, 2012I remember the Bohacks on Metropolitan Ave. & 60th Ave. (Near Eliot Ave.) no mention of that store in their ad
Jim
/ July 29, 2012As a kid in the 1950s my parents shopped at the Valley Stream Bohack’s. It was on Rockaway Avenue with the elevated LIRR Far Rockaway tracks right behind it. That’s where the parking lot was, right under the trestle. I remember wood floors and a rear entrance which led to the parking lot. There was also an entrance on Rockaway Avenue. Directly across the street was Dan Coakley’s Colonial Inn. Saw the old Bohack builing about 3 years ago. It’s still there with all of the larger windows bricked up. Looks like it might be office space now.
Ed
/ August 7, 2012I think the last photo may have been on Hillside Avenue, near Bellerose.
Kim
/ September 14, 2012I agree, I thought the same thing.
educatingmudder
/ September 16, 2012Not the Bellerose location at all. That was on the northeast corner of Little Neck Parkway and Hillside Ave. The building was used as an office building for eons after the store closed. I just looked on google and it’s now a CVS store. It’s listed as Glen Oaks, but it’s not. It might be considered Floral Park if it’s not considered Bellerose.
Alison
/ August 11, 2012I am wondering if the Bohack’s listed in that 1920 ad under Jamaica at 140 New York Ave was the one in my old neighborhood of Springfield Gardens. New York Avenue became New York Boulevard and now Guy brewer Boulevard. The store was near the intersection with Farmers Boullevard which was Farnmers Avenue way back. The Bohack’s (which was a small storefront store) closed down in the mid 50s after Associated opened a real supermarket across the street.
tony the pitiful copywriter
/ August 14, 2012We had a Bohack’s in Central Islip on Suffolk Avenue, near the old Post Office and Variety Hardware. I used to go in there to drink a Coke from a bottle for 10 cents on hot days in 1966. I was ten. You had to drink the soda in the store, otherwise pay deposit. I wasn’t into that.
Kevin
/ October 24, 2012My dads Name is Gus Costanzo,he worked for Bohack for 30 years
He was in Lynbrok,Malverne,Woodmere where he put the key in the door for the last time.
Does anyone have pictures of any of these stores or reconize his name?
Henry
/ December 10, 2012Bohak in the 1950s – could this be Old Westbury on Glen Cove Road? Looks like it… I recall shopping there with my mom as a kid/ it’s now home to a gourmet shop: kitchen cabaret …. It’s right off exit 39 on the LIE….
Edward M
/ December 30, 2012I remember the Bohack in Hempstead LI. on Henry Steet between Greenwich St. and Jerusalem Ave. In between was the old Elvin Drug Store on the left and the old Hempstead Bank on the right.
john
/ June 24, 2013I also remember the Bohack in Hempstead wasn’t this also near Kennedy Park? I also seem
to recall a bakery in this shopping plaza circa 1951thru1956
Ed Benizzi
/ March 10, 2016John: The bakery in the shopping center was Irvings Bakery. It was next to a soda fountain on the end run by Zelda (might even have been Zeldas). Spent a lot of time therein the 60’s. Great memories.
Ed Benizzi
Joan
/ January 10, 2013My Dad, Henry Gates, lived in Garden City Park and worked for Bohack for 40 years, right up to the end. He worked in Great Neck, East Hills, Stewart Manor and a few other stores. He went to union meetings at Metropolitan Ave. I still have that union book and his name badge. He loved his job and was a dedicated employee. He worked in the produce and frozen food departments. I’d love to hear from anyone who remembers him. Thanks so much for this awesome site and all the wonderful memories.
Sharon Odle-Lestage
/ January 23, 2013I’m from Queens Village and I beleive the unknown photo is the Bohak on Hillside Ave off of Francis Lewis Blvd. in Hollis Queens. Queens Village was the neighboring town. I remeber my mother buying coloring books for my sister and I. This was the Francis Lewis Shopping Center Next to Ginos Pizza which is still there but now a few buildings down. This was late 1960 tomid 1970’s or so.
don
/ April 22, 2017i’m from queens village too, and i think the unknown photo is the bohack on hillside ave between 219th street and springfield blvd… it closed and was empty for years then it turned into a teachers supply store….do you remember the candy store named “bens” on hillside ave between 218th st and 219th st…..across hillside ave was dunkin donuts with the window you could look thru and see the baker making the donuts, with the milk machine in the parking lot..or across springfield blvd was a texaco gas station, and next to that was the white tower hamburger and ice cream place where waitress would rollerskate up to your car and take your order….i can go on and on about queens village…………..
Pete G.
/ January 27, 2013I`m from Port Jeff. Sta. and on main street there was a Bohack alongside a Hill`s market
Ross C
/ February 5, 2016Pete G I am Ross C originally from Port Jeff myself. My parents and I used to go to that Bohack’s all the time. Just to mention the Hill’s was on Nesconset hwy. But there was an A&P at the opposite corner of that shopping center. In about the middle of the Center you had Woolworth’s and also a Butcher Boy and a German deli I used to love. For a long time there was a Post Office there as well as a Newmark & Lewis appliance store too. Ahh the good old days. Both my parents are long gone too but it is real good to reminisce about the old simpler days. A kid could ride his bike to the stores without fear. Wonderful times they were indeed.
jim groelke
/ February 15, 2016Hello Ross — I lived in Queens New York A block off of Northern Blvd(Little Neck) for years. Simpler times indeed. My mother would send one of the five kids(most often me) to the Bohacks on the corner of Northern Blvd and 249th street almost every day for four quarts of milk and a loaf of bread.. She would give us a dollar and we could keep the change! There was a german deli on that block also, love their potato salad, Most often we would walk their, like you said simpler times.
The Bohacks eventually became a NYC public library. I believe it was after another larger grocery store(Grand Union?) built a big store right across the street. Good old days !
Alfred Havel
/ February 7, 2013Bohack’s in Hampton Bays
Tom Laiacona
/ February 10, 2013I do believe it is the Bohack in East Hills off the LIE at exit 39 on Glen Cove Rd. I was dairy supervisor of this and 32 other Bohack stores in Nassau and Suffolk from 1974-76
Pete
/ February 11, 2013As a child I fondly remember walking to Bohacks on main street in Port Jefferson Station,L.I. actually it was next door to another old supermarket chain.
Kathleen Motley
/ February 23, 2013My first job: Massapequa Park Bohack – 1963. Cashier. Learned how important it was to have all my bills facing in the same direction!
Leo Cunningham
/ February 9, 2014I worked there in 1967 before I went in the Navy. Met my wife there in 1970, she was a cashier. My father became the manager there after I left. He hired her. Friends I worked with there introduced us.
cantinflas5
/ March 6, 2013My grandmother was called in a car accident behind the Bohack in Corona in January of 1974.
Glory
/ September 21, 2019So sorry to hear that. I lived in elmhurst and worked in that store around 1970 as a cashier as a teen. Mario was my manager. I only worked there about a year. Does anyone have any photos of the elmhurst store on broadway and corona ave. Does anyone remember Mario?
Lysa Grant
/ March 6, 2013I remember walking to Bohacks with my Grandmother in Mineola. Her house is now condos near the post office and I am not even sure where the Bohacks was. I just remember her giving me pennies for the candy machines before we left her house. So exciting!!
George Geiger
/ March 6, 2013Lysa, my dad (George Geiger) was the meat manager at the Mineola Bohack in the 1950’s before he moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Mineola store was on the street that goes to the Long Island Rail Road station across the from the Mineola movie theater. The store is still there, but has been sub-devided.
Lysa Grant
/ March 6, 2013I can picture that area now. On and off. I remember the old theater. It is a parking structure now, I think and the store would be the area where the Japanese restaurant is? I am talking about the early 70s.
george matz
/ April 19, 2020i worked with your father…in mineola
Jim Freyler
/ March 6, 2013The Bohack I remember was the one on Rockaway Ave. in Valley Stream. The rear of the store was practically under the elevated LIRR Far Rockaway Line tracks as they merged into the main line at Valley Stream Station. My memories are from the mid to late 1950s when my parents would shop there. My father always parked in the back in the parking lot under the railroad and entry was always through the back door by us. I remember a wooden floor. Across the street was Dan Coakley’s Colonial Inn. The building is still there with most of the windows now bricked over. There are business tenants the last time I visited which was about 3 years ago.
5w30
/ March 6, 2013Looking through a historical book of Glen Cove, NY photos: http://books.google.com/books?id=_bi8OLNwAMgC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=bohack+glen+cove&source=bl&ots=5Qd2FMj2BA&sig=wkdM5B6L5teGR5TKzMBZ0iVdkgE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=p-83UYDID6GA0AGszoDQCw&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=bohack%20glen%20cove&f=false there was a Bohack’s on School Street in the 1920s-30s. Then the store moved to a “modern” strip mall on Forest Avenue, oddly bookended by a Hills supermarket. The Bohack store is now a King Kullen. The Hills is now a Walgreens outlet.
Sharon Stanton
/ March 7, 2013My grandmother’s maiden name was Marie Agnes Bohack (married name: Giancola). She was a deli clerk. Looking through some old papers I found an application that shows she worked at a store on Stuart Avenue in Bethpage and also at Main Street in Farmingdale in the late 60’s. Unfortunately, her Bohack family dis-owned her when she married my grandfather in 1938 (I think because he was Italian), so we know very little about the Bohack history of the family. I love reading all the comments, though, because my grandmother was a beautiful person and it seems that working at Bohack’s gave many people good memories, so I hope she had a good experience there, as well! Also, I was born in LI but moved away my whole life and just moved back to NYC, and am piecing together my family’s addresses, workplaces, birth places, marriage places…. I hope some of these places still exist when I go out on my search to find them! Thanks for the comments and the great website!
Neal Hunt
/ March 8, 2013The unknown store could be New Hyde Park.
Vinnie Marchione
/ March 9, 2013I used to go to Bohack’s for my mother in the late 40’s early 50’s. It was located on Metropolitan Ave. near 60th Street in Ridgewood. I cannot find that store in any advertisements. Can anyone help?
Neal Hunt
/ March 15, 2013You might want to check http://www.placesnomore.wordpress.com. They show a list of the stores.
kimmi lee
/ March 12, 2013hillside avenue floral park!!! need a larger pic~~~
MaryLou Bohenek
/ March 14, 2013Does anyone remember the Bohack’s in Floral Park? It was on South Tyson Avenue & Tulip Avenue by the elevated Long Island Railroad. It was built in the are where John Lewis Childs had his seed & bulb buildings. I don’t recall it being in business very long. I lived on South Tyson across from JLC School from 1958 until 1979. Anyone have info or pictures?
Kevin
/ December 29, 2014I recall the store. Used to go there with my mother when I was young and before the A&P opened on Jericho tpke. I lived in FP from 1960- 1982and went to JLC
Ed Benizzi
/ May 17, 2015You are correct Kevin. The A&P opened on Jericho Tpk several years after the Bohack was opened. It was diagonally across Jericho from Stella’s restaurant.
Ed Benizzi
/ May 17, 2015I worked at the store in Floral Park………..S Tyson and Tulip. The store was around the corner from Victor Koenig’s Restaurant and next to an apartment complex and the Floral Park LIRR station. It opened in the mid-60’s. I worked there part-time from 1967 -1969. Clean, modern store for the times.
jane matalone
/ December 10, 2017jane matalone. My dad Eddie was the first manager of that store in floral park
Ed Benizzi
/ January 27, 2018Jane: I think that your Uncle Charlie was the DM for the Floral Park store. It was either him or All Reed. I worked for your Dad for two years while I was in high school. He was a good man! Ed
bobby Mak
/ April 27, 2013the Bohack supermarket featured in the 1968 movie “The Odd Couple” was located on Second avenue between 86 and 87 streets on the east side of the avenue. That space is still a supermarket although it is currently owned by Food Emporium.
Carsten
/ May 4, 2013And Mr. Boahack was not only business minded but civic as well. A founder of the Plattduetsche Home Society in Franklin Square…
http://www.plattduetschehome.com/history.htm
Neal Hunt
/ May 6, 2013Thanks. That’s interesting. Don’t remember the home grwoing up but quite the facility.
jim
/ May 5, 2013the unknown bohack looks like Green port NY.
Ann Marie Joy
/ June 5, 2013Little Neck BOHACKS & Joys 1950s, as kids. Bottle return at Bohack for 2 and 5 cents, then treat ourselves to briny sour dill pickle in big wooden barrel. Lived 249th/Marathon 41st Ave. P.S. 94/dogtags/air raid drills. Miss Carroll princp. Scobee Grill. Westmoreland Park, wooded green open lots play. Alley Pond . Good Humor truck let us ride/ring bells thrills. snow sled down 42st ave.Ride bike Douglaston.Jake’s RR store/swamps behind for punks. 5 & 10 and Candy/Soda Shp, Bankers Trust near” Hack-a-Bo”. Worked at Carvel as youth!
JOY of childhood in Little Neck in 1950s…:) Billy & Sheila Wilson anybody know? playmates.
Jim Groelke
/ June 16, 2013Hello Ann Marie – My whole family should remember everything you mentioned. Five kids all J’s – Johnnie, Jimmy, Judy, Judd, Joey. Not a sole left in Little Neck from my family. Lived on 249th street
4303 249th st. We all went to PS 94 then JHS 67 then Bayside High. You are right – it was a great place to grow up! Some of my fondest memories were Halloween, boy did we rack up the candy!! I am going to send your email to my sister – she is now living in Nashville, Tn.
kozel
/ June 19, 2013Interesting blog entry with info from a Bohack family member including info about the ‘Odd Couple’ location.
http://mingum.blogspot.com/2010/01/bohacks-official-story.html
http://mingum.blogspot.com/2010/01/bohacks.html
Here’s a pic of the Smithtown store in 1954.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/15492
louie
/ June 21, 2013does anyone have pictures of the bohack cafeteria?Perhaps someone work there , i would like to talk to them
Steve West
/ July 3, 2013when you spent 20 dollars (I think) you got a section of a cookbook.I have the whole cook book.
srh
/ August 7, 2013great neck became a key food before it became a cvs. Its the same building they added a second story to it. I worked in the key food and then on the construction of the cvs.
Mary
/ August 13, 2013The Sea Cliff Bohacks was at the northeast corner of Sea Cliff & Roslyn Avenue – the southeast corner was “Huds Pub” (now Patners) southwest corner was Levine’s Stationary and the northwest is a residence. When Bohacks closed the building subdivided and became a Wood-stove store and the rear became Cafe Harlequin. The front then became a dental office and the rear still remains a restaurant that has undergone several owners. I do believe that the building still displays the plaque “I like to see a man proud of the community in which he lives ” – Abraham Lincoln.
George
/ August 14, 2013I met my wife at Bohack #2208 in Little Neck in 1973. I was working in the deli and she was a cashier. Still going strong after all these years. Great memories of many people who worked there including Al Moshell, Irving Friedman, Phil Vagglio, John DeLuca, Peggy McKeon and many many more.
will
/ September 15, 2013Does anyone remember the Mega Supermarket Bohack opened at the base of a department store on Metropolitan Ave in Maspeth? The parking was on the roof of the building.
It didn’t last long and I remember it changed names a few years later. But it was one of the first mega markets I could recall from my childhood.
Last time I was there in the 90s, it had been changed to a home improvement store.
Marjorie Mandia
/ September 5, 2015That store was called Bohack village, it shared space with Robert Hall Village, a clothing chain, I remember because my husband was a produce manager in that store for a number of years, After Robert Hall closed a Times Square Store (TSS Seedmans took over the spot) I worked for the TSS home office and used to go there to visit my husband!
alexandria tassos
/ October 23, 2013I have an interesting story told to me about Bohack’s. He was a member of my church way before I was born. I lived with my grandmother’s sister…and she was born in 1894. We went to church every Sunday in Brooklyn. She told me the magnificent church organ was donated by Mr. Bohack. She also told me that when he was coming across to America on the boat he and another passenger had discussed their dreams. They both intended to open grocery stores in New York. On the ship they made a pact: Mr. Bohack would open his stores in Brooklyn and the other passenger would open his stores in Manhattan. They agreed that neither would cross the river and open a store in the other city while both of them were still alive. As far as I know they kept that pact. The other passenger’s name was Gristede. I love that story. I cant swear to it, but my Great Aunt would never lie and I know the Bohack’s belonged to my church and that his family did donate the organ.
Carl John Pizzo (Mom/ Eleanor Henrietta Bohack)
/ November 24, 2014Yes Gristede is a true story! H.C. is my great, great uncle and we hear all the stories. The one I like is when he worked for others (he didn’t know English) customers would point at the product and pronounce the name and that’s how he learned. It was amazing that he saved money to open his own store and he and his wife Emma would let the employees sleep over. Also how he picked a new location was if he saw baby carriages.
edwarddanieldunn
/ October 25, 2013Bellmore had two Bohacks !
paul bitzer
/ October 29, 2013I worked in S-191, Merrick Rd. and 218 St., from 1961 till 1963 while I attended Andrew Jackson HS. I earned and saved enough to buy my 1957 Chevy and meet my wife of 46 years. I have nothing but fond memories, too bad you can never go back.
Bruce Whitesell
/ November 6, 2013Fond memories of the car, the wife, or both? Does that mean you no longer have either? :>)
Or do you mean Bohack’s?
paul bitzer
/ November 6, 2013still have my wife, but unfortunately not the Chevy.
Fred Fritts
/ November 14, 2013There was Bohacks at 920 Rockaway Ave in Valley Stream (not the one by the RR tracks). It was sold in the early 1950s to Herb Bahnsen and Bob Stapp and reopened as Community Market. I worked there as a stock boy in my teens. It was at the corner of Rockaway Ave and Jackson Rd. Zirkels Funeral home was across the street, and in the same row of shops was Morrows Drug store, a dry cleaners, beauty shop , butcher shop and deli. The building is still standing. last I saw, here was still a deli at the South end of the row.
Jim Freyler
/ November 17, 2013I remember the Bohack’s On Rockaway by the LIRR trestle well. My parents shopped there in the 50s when I was a little kid. However I don’t remember the one you mention. In fact I can’t even find a Jackson Rd. on Valley Stream maps from the 1950s.
sam nordmark
/ November 21, 2013what happened to upper east side of manhattan.store manager bob kiefer ?
Ed
/ December 7, 2013I am fairly certain that the unknown location from the 1950’s is the Bohack that was on Northern Blvd, just off of Parsons in Flushing. In later years it was an A&P and then a La-Z-Boy showroom.
Jeanette
/ January 5, 2014I worked in the Bohack’s on Cortelyou Rd and Marlborough Rd in Brooklyn in the mid 60’s
until mid 1970 while in school. I was a checker and was the only girl in the store except a woman who worked in the butcher dept. Nice memories….
Tom Higgins
/ January 5, 2014Jeanette, do you remember my dad, Tom Higgins? He also worked at “007” ,a/k/a Charielli’s Market at that time. He was killed in a holdup on church ave (2175) on Aug 24, 1971. I worked at 2232,Newkirk and later 2130 Ave D before going on the road in various supervisory positions.
Rick
/ January 23, 2014I remember back in the 60’s when I was a kid I would ride my bike to the Bohack on 46th Ave and Utopia Pkwy to pick up some milk or bread for my mom.
Joseph Citrano
/ January 26, 2014Joe. Citrano.
I started working for Bohack in 1949 as a clerk in S109 Farmingdale N.Y. I wen into the service from 1951 to 1953 and returned to S109. I then became a dairy managerfor afew years and then asst. mgr a few years.I then got promoted to store mgr at the seaford store,then to the no. bellmore store, and to east williston .After that I was demoted back to asst mgr for the remainder of time with Bohack. My last store was in Lindenhurst .When we closed I handed the keys to Dan DiPierroand that was it.The unknown looks like S173 hicksville Rd. Massapequa. I was asst mgr With Phil Nolan.
Kevin Costanzo
/ January 26, 2014did any one know Gus Costanzo,he was in many stores Lynbrook,Woodmere,Hemstead
i think Lindenhurst,My Brother Mike Costanzo was in Merrick
Leo Cunningham
/ February 9, 2014I worked in Woodmere in 1971 to 1972 but hardly remember anyone. I was the assistant manager then. Name sounds familiar though.
Tom Higgins
/ January 26, 2014Joe, would that be the same Phil Nolan who was later the division cash control/personnel supervisior for Tom Langhorn?
Carl John Pizzo
/ November 24, 2014Why were you demoted back to Asst Manager?
Joseph Citrano
/ January 26, 2014Joe. citrano
Yes he was. I forgot about that .Tom Langhorn ,Charlie kasarouski,,Mr. Hines. Dan DiPierro,Herman Muller, all passed away many years ago.There are more but cant remember all there names.I still live in the same house i bought back then. Also my wife of 58 years just passed away.Life is not the same without her.
Kevin Costanzo
/ January 26, 2014Hi Joe
dont know if you saw my reply earlier,did you know Gus Costanzo
Joseph Citrano
/ February 27, 2014Hi Kevin
Yes I knew Gus. Ithink we worked in Lindenhurst. I closed that store as asst mgr.I gave the keys to Dan DiPiero and that was it.
Tom Laiacona
/ January 26, 2014Hi Joe, don’t know if you remember me but I was the Dairy supervisor for DiPierro and Richie Ammiratis districts under Langhorne. I also used to releive store mgr vacations after they took me off the road before the bankruptcy. I am pretty sure we worked together at some point. Tom Laiacona
Daniel DiPierro
/ August 16, 2014I’m Daniel DiPierro Jr…this site is really nice!
Joe Citrano…I recognize and met pretty much all the names you listed.
I worked during high school and college summer in Shirley, my sister and brother in Ronkonkoma…Dad passed away in 1997 while shopping in a Farmingville grocery store!
Daniel DiPierro
/ August 16, 2014I look forward to hearing more stories
Steve
/ August 17, 2014Tom, did you ever manage the Westhampton Beach store? It continued on as a Gristedes after the bankruptcy.
Kathy D. Guistp
/ January 29, 2014Unknown location? New hyde park, hillside avenue?
Joseph Citrano
/ January 31, 2014Hi. Tom.
Yes we did work together . Dont remember what stores but i do remember you .Have a lot of fond memeries of the Bohack days. I was with them 28 years till the end.After Bohack i worked for Fairchild Republic building the a-10 Warthog fighter plane.I was a supervisor for 10 years. A big change from supermarkets but a great experience.Take care.
Kevin Costanzo
/ January 31, 2014Hi Joe
Just wondering if you knew Gus Costanzo he worked to the end as well,was with Bohack for 29 years
Tom Higgins
/ February 1, 2014Ha Ha all you REAL (pre bludorn/ aka food fair-marvin learner guys who know that it was S200 NOT 2200!) WHAT A GREAT BUNCH OF GUYS! (I remember when the store stamps changed, C-2 became 2007 etc…My dad got laid off from safeway around 1954 and went to Bohack while my other two uncles stayed and worked for finast later. So I grew up as a Bohack boy. Worked off rhe books for my dad at 2206 on 6ave fom ’62 to 67 then on the books at 2232 Newkirk under Tony Villani in ;68. My Dad went from asst mgr under Harry Harris at S126 Ave Z to mgr there and then opened 2232 Newkirk and :Big B:. before 2206. Later he was asst mgr for Joe Chirelli at 2007 on Cortelyou rd. and relieved mgrs on their vacations. He was reliving Kevin Bruen at 2175, Church Ave on Aug.24 1971, when he was killed in a holdup. he said that he had trouble opening the safe and I told him to tell Dick Dana (who I later worked with at Royal Farms) but he said he was only going to be there for another week.That was the same day that the first Village store opened in Farmingville,2242? I think Rocky Point was 2243,yes? Well , eventually I became dairy manager at 2130
Carl John Pizzo
/ November 24, 2014Did he die in a holdup at Bohack’s?
Tom Higgins
/ March 30, 2016yes, Aug 24, 1971. Store 2175, Church and Albany Ave
Tom Higgins
/ February 1, 2014Then I went into security after graduating from John Jay College. After that, I went into the store manager training program under Frank Falsetta and Gene Pillet.Did stints in 2177,East Northport, 2125 with Eli Jensen , Bethpage with George Stolba etc. BTW ,Tom L., I didn’t have to do dairy training because I had been a dairy mgr. but I do remember you and of course Dan Di Piero.My first store was 2103 Glen Head then a Packers on Hillside Ave. Then I went into a security/ operations project called inventory control at the villages in farmingville and garden city. After that I relieved Phil Nolan as Cash Control supervisor for Frank Morgello in the rooklyn Division and became Electronic Store Information Systems Co-ordinator fo our first computerized registers at the Bay Shore Village. When the paychecks bounced in ’75 I hooked up with headhunters and went to D’Agostino. Lots more to tell. Bohack was the best!
George byrnes
/ February 2, 2014I really enjoy seeing some of those names from the past. Phil Nolan was my first store manager when I worked in the deli at 2208 in Little Neck. I worked for Bohack from 1968 until almost the end. Since I worked in the deli, I filled in at most of the delis in Queens and Nassau as well as out in the Hamptons over the years. After leaving Bohack I worked for awhile for Ammirati and Al Mollica at a store they had in Freeport or Seaford. I also remember Reuben.Hodus as a pretty good deli supervisor. He was always fair to me. It’s funny how one can remember the store numbers after all these years. Lots of great people to remember.
Steve
/ August 17, 2014George, were you ever at the Westhampton Beach store in the Hamptons? The store continued on as a Gristedes. I remember a guy named, Tom as manager when I was there.
Martin Rainbow
/ February 1, 2014I remember the Bohack supermarket in Staten Island on Forest Avenue in the 1970s. It was large and had a parking lot. Does any one have a picture?
Tom Higgins
/ February 2, 2014I believe the forest ave. store was one of the 5 or 6 “Food Farm” stores aquired by Bohack in the early ’60’s. This also included a store in the St. George ferry terminal.
Martin Rainbow
/ February 3, 2014I don’t remember the one in the ferry terminal. I remember my grandmother continued to go to Bohack after Pathmark opened, even though PM had better selection/ lower prices, because to her, Pathmark was too big.
Frank Kelch
/ February 12, 2014My father Frank Kelch was the dairy manager at the Smithtown store in the 50s and early 60s, he also worked at the Deer Park store if I recall properly.
Charlie
/ February 18, 2014The Odd Couple movie brought me to this site. How cool of you to have it. Great piece of history. Love the Bohack truck but if you notice in the background is parked a 1955 Chevy so I think the date there might be a little off. Nothing to worry about, Great photos!!
Jennifer Pisani
/ February 18, 2014As a child we use to go to go back location at Hewitt Square in east northport NY, the unknown location looks like it.
Peggy
/ February 18, 2014Regarding the unknown Bohack’s. It looks like the one in Frankin Square on Long Island.
Joseph Spiegel
/ February 18, 2014I grew up in NYC mostly in Howard. Beach, Queens. I remember the Bohack above the Euclid Ave A train station in E. NY Brooklyn. I remember our mom getting the babka bread/cake that they made under their house label. My was that good! They opened a Village store in Howard Beach in the mid 70’s. It was located behind the Waldbaum’s store and is still there as a medical plaza, I think. Memories.
John
/ February 19, 2014I remember the Bohack on Myrtle Avenue between Waverly & Washington. After it closed, it spent about 30 years as Adami Hardware, until they retired and moved the remnants across the street, selling the business to their employees. The “left & right” front doors lasted until that time. After that, Bank of America gutted the building and gave it a new life. That Bohack was ORIGINALLY on the northwest corner of Myrtle & Clinton, in what today is Putnam’s Pub & Cooker. Venice Italian Restaurant was across the street on Myrtle between Waverly & Washington. His brother, Joe, owned “Joe’s Place” (Italian) around the corner on Waverly, which was a mainstay in the neighborhood, My dad was Tony The Tailor, at 437 Myrtle Avenue, between Waverly & Clinton, across from The First National City Bank.. Our local Bohack, in Queens Village,, was at 220-34 Jamaica Avenue, now Top Bingo Hall. Packers was down the street at 222-51 Jamaica Avenue, Queens Village, and is a CTown today. Once the Packers opened down the street, that Bohack closed down forever.
Bruce Whitesell
/ February 19, 2014John,
I don’t remember your dad’s shop on Myrtle Avenue, probably because as a student I was too poor to have anything altered or sewn up, but I worked at the “New” Bohack’s in the next block from 1968-70. See my previous postings about experiences there. Vinnie’s deli was across the street from your shop, in the Citibank bldg., and I had my 1st experience with REAL corned beef and pastrami there.
It all looks so different with the El gone.
I was there during the “John Lindsey Snowstorm of 1969”.
John
/ February 20, 2014Hi, Bruce… Vinny’s name was Vincent Furlong! The stores, starting at the Waverly Avenue corner were: Franhill Pharmacy (on the corner)..I bought my lunch there YESTERDAY… Clinton Hill Delicatessen (rotisserie chicken! by Vinny Furlong!) I remember that they had third base sticking through a kitchen chair (with its cushion removed) after the Mets won the series. We all had to go back into the kitchen and sit on the thing….About two days later the police showed up and arrested Vinny’s son for theft… It was in all the papers, but, In the end, they let him go. The next store over was an upholsterer. After that was the Sinclair Bakery, followed by a hairdresser, and, finally the First National City Bank! I was there yesterday! Here’s a photo…http://www.brooklynpix.com/photoframex1.php?photo=/photo1/C/clinhill37.jpg&key=CLINHILL 37 . That’s my Buick Skylark parked on the near corner in the foreground! J
John
/ February 19, 2014I used to work at the Associated on Fresh Meadow Lane in Queens that had been a Bohack in a previous incarnation. I have a photograph of it as a Bohack, but I don’t know how to post it here.
MICHAEL NEUWIRTH
/ February 20, 2014The “Odd Couple” Bohack was on the SE corner of Bleecker St & LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village. It’s now a Morton Williams Supermarket. It looks almost the same today. If you put today’s photo next to the Odd Couple photo, the only differences are the spacing of the doors, and the fact there are no longer any automatic mats to step on to open the doors.
Jim Freyler
/ February 20, 2014Does anyone have any recollections of the Bohack store on Rockaway Avenue in Valley Stream ? The parking lot in the back was partly located under the LIRR Far Rockaway line trestle. Just across the street was Dan Coakley’s Colonial Inn. My parents shopped at the Bohack;s when I was very young and I can remember always entering through the back entrance. The store had wooden floors. I think it survived well into the 1960s. The building itself is still there with some of the windows bricked over and the inside being used as office space.
Carolyn T. Stone (@NewsNYandLI)
/ February 26, 2014Anyone remember the Rockville Centre store?
John Knobel
/ September 11, 2014I remember them all my dad was the CEO of Bohack in the sixties until the end
Karen
/ March 26, 2014My parents had a TV store on Utica Ave at Empire Blvd and when my mother was ready to leave for home, she would call the Bohack on Ralph Avenue at Avenue N and tell them what she needed. She would stop on the way home and pick up her groceries. Everything was always perfect, from the meat to the tomatoes and it was always ready and waiting for her. It was more like a family business than a chain store. The service was friendly and helpful.
Mimi
/ March 31, 2014I still have a Bohack produce bag that was used to store part of a meat grinder. http://oi60.tinypic.com/2hre63p.jpg I also have a Pantry Pride bag that held recipes.
Deborah
/ April 23, 2014My mom used to drive to Bohack’s on Union Tpke. Maybe it was in Little Neck, or Glen Oaks. I remember it was two stories. We would park under the store. And for years they would put your bags in bins and roll your bags down to the parking lot on a sort of conveyor belt. When I was really little the man in charge would put me in a bin and roll me down to the parking lot too. I would have the bags ready and waiting for mom. I was always sad if that guy wasn’t there to let me roll down to the parking lot. Does anyone else remember that?
Richard Hochman
/ January 6, 2015I am certain that the store was on Union Turnpike at Utopia Parkway. Across from what is now St. John’s University. It was also a Pergament express and a bowling alley after that.
Richard Hochman
/ January 6, 2015I meant to add that the store was in Fresh Meadows/Flushing.
Gary Koenig
/ June 12, 2014It was told to me that Henry Bohack and my grandfather (Gustav Wilhelm Koenig) migrated to the US from Germany on or about 1875 and were good friends.My grandfather had a Bohacks on Avenue S in Brooklyn New York in the 20’s and 30’s.
I am trying to verify this information.
Can anyone help?
Gary Koenig
Daniel DiPierro
/ August 16, 2014Hello Gary…are you related to Phil Koenig who was my Manager at the Shirley Bohack in the late 1960’s?
robert steed
/ June 19, 2014I recall as a child my Mom and Dad would do the shopping in Bohack on Hillside Ave and Little Neck Pkwy in Floral Park, Queens. My Dad would always knock on the mirrored glass in the meat dept to have a word with The Butcher. The store closed about 1977 and became a office Bobby
thomas stoerger
/ July 1, 2014Grew up in Massapequa park in the 60’s and 70’s Bohack was on corner of Park Blvd & Front street. Now an insurance office which it has been since Bohack closed. Theren used to be just up the block Dan;s Supreme supermarket as well. Remember 10-12 can sof Bohack brand soda for a $1 !!!! Cream Soda was the best. Also someone mentioned Bellmor ebefore which is where I live now . One store was on Bedford in the village(I know shadow boxes in town have pictures, the other was on merrick & Newbridge which became a row of stores but up until a few years ago on the west wall you could see the Bohack painted logo throught the whitewash
Roger
/ July 7, 2014Unknown 1950s Bohack. Possibly the store in Port Washington on LI, although I don’t think the PW store was that big.
I worked there in the early 60s as stocker after school & on weekends & oiled wooden floors before closing on Sat night.
Manager’s name was Tim (Irish accent),
& assist mgr was Ralph, tall, quiet type.
Diana
/ July 23, 2014The “unknown” looks like it might be by Police Plaza in Lower Manhattan. Mom used to shop there; we lived across the street.
Jeannette A. Henry
/ July 29, 2014Hello Everyone,
Found this site by chance and so enjoyed all your remembrances. I grew up on 186th Street right off Union Turnpike in Flushing, now called Fresh Meadows, in the 1940’s-50’s. There was a Bohack market on Union Turnpike, just east of 188th Street. The “mystery picture” does look like that store. One funny memory – there was a cashier named Lillian who spent a lot of time chatting and catching up on all the neighborhood news. Unfortunately, while chatting, she usually packed the fruit, eggs and bread on the bottom of the bag and the heavy cans and bottles on top.
There was a candy store on that corner where we waited for our school bus to Immaculate Conception School in Jamaica Estates. Later, the city bus on the same corner to high school at Mary Louis Academy. So many memories. The bowling alley across the Turnpike, the pharmacy where my brother worked delivering RX’s on his bike, Ben Ric furs where he also worked, Rogers Luncheonette, the Utopia movie theatre with the matron in her white uniform patrolling the aisles with her flashlight at Saturday matinees, the first drive-in bank I ever saw, Cunningham Park, the classy Celeste ladies’ clothing store and the local mothers who wore “house dresses” to Bohacks. It was a wonderful time and place in which to grow up. Where have the years gone? I now live in Huntington Village on Long Island but my roots will always be there in Queens.
Jimbov
/ August 12, 2014Jeannette- I grew up in Little Neck , the last town in Queens, on the north shore of Long Island before you get into Nassau County. I could not agree more – It was a great place to grow up. We had a Bohacks on Northern Boulivard at the corner of 249th street. Mother , father and five kids – one of the kids were always going to Bohacks for a loaf of bread and four quarts of milk. We were given one dollar and we could keep the change or buy some candy, so she was never short of volunteers! After a few years they built a large grocery store across the street, Safeway or Grand Union. and the Bohacks all of a sudden became a NYC public library. We always walked to school, PS94 or JHS67 until High school, Bayside High School.
Tom Higgins
/ August 23, 2014Just to let everyone know, I started a group page on facebook called Bohack Supermarkets. Would love to have all of you join the group, spread the word and share memories and pictures. The old generation is dying out, let’s get as much info from them as we can before they are gone. Today’s question regarding store numbers. When the company became a corporation all store numbers were prefixed with a “2” . i.e. S-156 became #2156 . It is my understanding that the S meant self service, as there were also C and R stores. What did the C and R stand for? I remember C-2 became #2007, Cortelyou Rd. Looking fowad to hearing from all of you and seeing pictures in the facebook group. Double King Korn Stamps to all and an extra Bohack Derby ticket and Jokers Wild card.
John Knobel
/ September 11, 2014My father was chairman of the board of bohack in the sixties until the end
Margaret
/ August 23, 2014Where was the bohack store located in baldwin harbor. I think it was on Church St
Margaret
/ August 23, 2014I am trying to find out where in Baldwin Harbor the store was located
linda acosta
/ September 7, 2014My Uncle worked at Bohacks as did my grandfather!
kat
/ September 16, 2014Looks like bohacks in far rockaway on beach channel drive
Marianne
/ October 13, 2014Well in the movie oscar and Felix pass a movie theater first and then the Bohack, so I don’t think it was 86 & 2nd, unless there used to be a theater there back then. Does anyone know where the bowling alley was and the pinball arcade?
Laurie
/ October 23, 2014The unidentified location looks like Sayville NY
dee
/ November 3, 2014Does anyone remember bohacks in rosedale in the 70s. It was in town near Palermo bakery and bambis convenience store?
Tom Higgins
/ November 6, 2014There is a picture of the Rosedale store on the facebook group page , Bohack Supermarkets
Kevin Costanzo
/ November 7, 2014my dad was Gus Costanzo, he was a manager in Rosedale for Years
does the name ring a bell
George
/ November 6, 2014I used to work in the Bohack Delis in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. I remember working one week in Rosedale. The deli manager was a nice guy and a bit of a character in a good way. Anyway, the week I was there the store manager caught a woman stealing caviar. The story is funny because the woman had called the company and complained they were not carrying caviar. The manager asked the cashiers if they had been ringing up any caviar. None did, so he figured it had been being stolen and the woman was complaining since there was none left to steal. So. He ordered some and sure enough, the woman came in and he caught her stealing the caviar. Those were the good old days.
Kevin Costanzo
/ November 7, 2014Did any one know my Dad,he was Gus Costanzo.He was a manager in many stores for 29 years
Deb Corrigan
/ July 31, 2015I think I remember him. He was a very nice man
Eleanor
/ November 7, 2014In regards to the last photo of unknown location, I am thinking it is hillside ave in new hyde park
I do not see it listed on the list of locations but I know for sure bohack used to be there since I moved into my house in 1964
It was where hush a bye baby store used to be, which is now a medical for dialisysis
Neal
/ November 7, 2014I think that is New Hyde Park.
Carl John Pizzo (Mom/ Eleanor Henrietta Bohack)
/ November 24, 2014How do I leave photos ~ I have some good ones!
Todd Berkun
/ January 2, 2015Carl,
Feel free to email photos to me at tberkun@gmail.com – we can get them added to our facebook pages or here.
Pete
/ November 24, 2014I worked in Republic Aviation in Farmingdale in the early 60`s and Hill`s was also a big supermarket chain in the old Liberty Aircraft building also baseed in Farmingdale……….
harry schmidt
/ November 24, 2014Hi Carl …. I am Frank Schindl’s grandson and Marie Schmidt’s son. I can assue you that you are 100% wrong. My grandfather, Frank, had apparently signed a prenup and got nothing from the estate. And my mother was visited by a Bohack lawyer accompanied by three big goons shortly after Emma’s death. They demanded she sign a legal paper renouncing any claim to the Emma estate, and they physically prevented her from using her phone to call either her husband or her lawyer. After a lengthy standoff, and afraid of physical harm, she concluded that she could not use her phone and reluctantly signed the form. Thus the Schindl/Schmidt family received not one penny from Emma’s estate. And Frank was abruptly told to leave the home in Kew Gardens after Emma’s death and spent his few remaining years living in the Yonkers apartment during the summer and with his sister in Miami in winter. You can read about this in a book I am now writing. harry schmidt cromwell ct
Todd Berkun
/ December 31, 2014what was the estate and to whom did it wind up going then?
harry schmidt
/ December 31, 2014Todd: I have zero knowledge of the estate or details. My guess: 1/ that most went to the elder Henry and Paul Bohacks; 2/ and that a portion went to Emma’s relatives such as the Schusters; 3/ but who was the lawyer who demanded my mother sign a release from any claim, and what was in that release? In her panic mode she never got the lawyer’s name nor a copy of what she signed. Did her release sign all her rights to the lawyer, whoever that was? Lawyers usually don’t physically abuse third parties such as he did to my mother, so he possibly had a big and probably illegal personal interest.
harry
Todd Berkun
/ January 29, 2015Any date when the book will be finished?
harry schmidt
/ January 29, 2015Todd…. let’s talk on the phone first. Give me your number or call me – 860-635-7716 Cromwell CT
Edward M. Rosenfeld
/ December 12, 2014There is an Elmhurst Street in NY (in Elmwood) but that picture is most likely Elmhurst, Queens, N.Y.
Edward M. Rosenfeld
/ December 12, 2014ELmwood NJ
gloria bureau
/ December 30, 2014Was there A Bohack in Toledo OH ?
Tom Higgins
/ December 30, 2014Gloria, H.C. Bohack & Co. and The Bohack Corporation operated stores in the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, Westchester Co., NY. and Fairfield Co. Ct. only. If you remember one in Toledo it must be another person named Bohack.
Alice
/ January 2, 2015I remember going as a little girl about 4-5 yes old to a Bohack in Brooklyn, NY Sunset Park Section on 6th avenue between 50 n 51 streets!
Tom Higgins
/ January 2, 2015Alice,the store is still there! It’s an associated now and the inside has been completely revamped. My girlfriend still lives on 54th bet 5&6 so I shop there occasionally. My dad managed that store from ’62 to ’66 and he taught me the business there. I loved it! We called it the “Post Office” because that’s what it was originally. There is a picture of it as a post office and as an associated on the facebook group page “Bohack Supermarkets” check it out and you are welome to join that group. A picture if it as a Bohack would be cherished indeed. I would love to share reminicinces with you.
Frank Sansonetti
/ January 6, 2015Does anyone remember the Rockville Center Bohack on Merrick Road?
Linda Poletti
/ June 8, 2015My dad (Peter Poletti) claims to have lived ‘above Bohacks at Merrick Rd and Central Avenue, Valley Stream), in the early 30’s. He is 86 and has a very good memory. So, to the post above asking about the Bohacks on Merrick Road, it must be the same one. Unfortunately we don’t have any photos. I’m going to show this thread to my dad soon.
Jim Freyler
/ January 7, 2015Does anyone remember the Bohack store on Rockaway Avenue in Valley Stream ? The rear parking lot was underneath the elevated LIRR tracks where the Far Rockaway Line met up with the main line near Valley Stream station. Across the street was Dan Coakley’s Colonial Inn. Dan was the VS Fire Chief. I remember my parents taking me to this store as a young kid in the 1950s. We always entered through the rear entrance because my dad parked his 53 Chevy under the LIRR tracks. The building was still there a few years ago with many of the windows bricked over and being used for offices.
Jeff Rueckgauer
/ January 27, 2015There was a Bohack on 108th Street & 63rd Drive (where the Rite Aid is now). There was a huge fire there in the early 70s that burned it to the ground. When it was rebuilt, Associated was in there for a while, then became Courtesy Drug. Bohack also replaced Associated (or A&P) on Austin St around 1973. I think that’s what was turned into The Lemon Drop in 1976-ish, now Lucille Roberts.
Steven Cohen
/ September 27, 2017I lived in Rego Park from 1951 to 1977. I remember that Bohack on 108th st. Thanks for providing the info on why it suddenly disappeared.
Mavis Shein
/ October 28, 2018That’s what I thought..108th St. Used to go shopping there with my mother 1965. Key Food was across the street but Mom liked Bohack’s. After we were done shopping we’d have milkshakes in the coffee shop (the Hamburger Train?). There was the bagel place on the corner with the white wrought iron bench in front and the Kosher chicken place, and a bakery, Chicken Delight and Mario’s..across the street on the corner..also Buster Brown shoes and Manufacturer’s Hanover bank (that got robbed).
Alfred Santini
/ January 23, 2019I remember there used to be a Bohack on 102nd St and Corona Av in Corona Queens around 1972. There’s an Ideal Food Basket there now. Anyone remember that store?
On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, 14:09 LI & NY Places that are no more Mavis Shein commented: “That’s what I thought..108th St. Used to go > shopping there with my mother 1965. Key Food was across the street but Mom > liked Bohack’s. After we were done shopping we’d have milkshakes in the > coffee shop (the Hamburger Train?). There was the bagel place on” >
Daniel DiPierro
/ January 31, 2015love this site…thanks for posting it!
my Dad worked for H.C. Bohack Co. all the while I grew up on Long Island…
Todd Berkun
/ January 31, 2015Thanks Daniel for your post. It’s been very surprising to see so many people continue to comment here.
cybergal99
/ January 31, 2015We still have a bookshelf from King Korn stamps we redeemed on Livingston Street in Brooklyn in 1968 .. our Bohack’s was 7th Avenue between 6th and 7th Street in Brooklyn
barbara ritger
/ February 1, 2015I worked in the Main Office of Bohacks on Metropolitan Avenue
Robert Pellicci
/ February 2, 2015Robert Pellicci I worked for Bohack In Elmhurst… on Broadway and Corona Ave. for so many years. It was my first job…Started in 1969 till 1975…GREAT TIMES!!!..
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Suzanne orsogna
/ February 2, 2015No one here as ever mentioned the Bohack’s on 37th Avenue between 76 &’75streets in Jackson Heights,NY… I worked there in the 60’s…. If I recall, the mgr there was a Tom Brady. Ther was also a store in Astoria Queens, on Broadway 40 something street. But I think that pic might be the one from 76 Street, Jackson Heights… It was there till they all closed I believe and then bought over by some other food store chain…
Ed Zawadzki
/ February 12, 2015I ,managed the Produce Dept in Garden City Park Store #2266 . It was a Bohack Village biggest Volume Store in the Company . Two trucks a day 24hr service what a store . Still remember the Boss’s , Eli , Leo , Gil Marcello , Al Confessori , Tino Ragizzini .
Joan Guensch
/ February 12, 2015Ed, my name is Joan and my father, Henry Gates, worked in that store and I remember him speaking about the people you mentioned. We lived on Old Broadway, off Jericho Tpke., in Garden City Park. St. Vincent de Paul store used to be on the corner. Dad worked for Bohack for over 40 years, right up to the end. He was such a hard working man, loved his job, mostly in frozen food, and was a devoted employee. Sound familiar?
Ed Zawadzki
/ February 12, 2015I do not remember him . I had a group of Ol’Timers in Produce , John Tucceroni , Nick DeLassandro , and Chet Corrigan . I left NY in 1974 , moved to Fl . Worked For Pantry Pride and a great deal of the old boss’s . They all closed as well.
Joan Guensch
/ February 12, 2015My Dad worked in a great number of Bohack stores,,,Stuart Manor, Glen Cove, Dix Hills. Thanks for responding and for the memories! I moved to the west coast of Florida in 1991. What part of the state are you in?
Ed Zawadzki
/ February 12, 2015I live in Spring Hill Fl. Now.
Lived in Hudson for 26 years .
Joan Guensch
/ February 12, 2015OMG………this world is getting smaller! I live in Spring Hill too! Between Spring Hill Drive and County Line Road.
Ed Zawadzki
/ February 12, 2015Live off 50 on Lynnhaven Rd. Been here for 4yrs now .
Mark
/ February 13, 2015Love the walk back in time that is this blog! As a Bay Terrace kid, I didn’t spend much time on Bell Blvd, so I don’t remember the Bohack. But I do remember the consumers distributors shop – perhaps the beginning of the end of bricks-and-mortar retailers – and spent too many wayward hours of an unhappy Bayside childhood chasing CD’s catalog dreams.
Susan Vendikos Gill
/ March 1, 2015The Unknown Bohacks is , I believe, the one in the Calvert Shopping Center on Hicksville Road in Bethpage NY.
MIKE FISHER
/ March 3, 2015my dad worked at bohacks in 50’s & 60’s in sag harbor-I later worked at 40’th and 2’nd-86th&2nd(that is the odd couple store)and finally 5 points Chinatown(rough store)left for ca in 70-would love to see a pic of sag harbor store-my connection to working in manhattan as a dairy mgr was the friendship between my dad and a vp of local 1500-mr.guido massamei-it was a great time for a bumpkin in nyc-same old story-it’s who you know-I am 68 now and I still talk to my family about BOHACKS–BLESS YOU ALL-MIKE
Gary H.
/ March 5, 2015The picture from “1951” with the truck is probably a few years later (mid-50’s) based on the look of the car in the lower left, which appears to be a 56 Chevy. Still a great shot…
karen
/ March 5, 2015my dad was the president of bohack !
Edward J. Zawadzki
/ March 5, 2015What is or was your dads name ? When did he work there?
Bohack went out of business in 197. Was he there till the end.
Rob
/ March 26, 2015The Bohack unknown location photo with the snow in the parking lot was New Hyde Park on the south side of Hillside Ave, just west of New Hyde Park Rd. After it closed, a baby and youth furniture store named Phillips Hush-a-bye moved in and eventually expanded to take over Tarrens five and dime and then Delaney’s Hardware store. The furniture store suffered a major fire in the early to mid 1980’s, wiping out almost the entire length of shopping center. Today, the occupancy is a dialysis center.
anotherthinline
/ March 27, 2015The Bohack’s from the Odd Couple movie was located on the SE corner of 87th Street and Second Avenue in Yorkville. I lived in that neighborhood for the first 45 years of my life, trust me. Besides I’d recognize those white bricks anywhere! Ironically, another Jack Lemmon movie, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, was filmed in a building diagonally across from this Bohacks on the NW Corner of 87th & Second.
Chris
/ April 8, 2015My mom and I shopped at the Bohack on Manhattan Ave and Calyer St. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They carried incredible fruit slice cookies during the Jewish holidays that came in 5 lb. boxes and were sold by the lb. Does anyone know where such cookies could be purchased today? They had macaroons from the same source.
Bruce Whitesell, Bohack's Fort Greene 1968-1970
/ May 18, 2015I’ve been following this thread for about 3 years; I worked for Bohacks for about 2 years in the late ’60s while in college. It’s clear to me that Bohacks was more than a company, and even more than an institution; the people who worked there made it a family.
I think we can all mourn the loss of those kind of jobs these days.
Anthony dennis
/ May 27, 2015In the late sixties , early seventies there was also a bohack,s in Brooklyn on Montgomery street in crown heights!
J Shea
/ May 29, 2015Hello,
The unknown Bohack might have been the Long Beach LI store
Andy
/ July 25, 2015There was a Bohack’s at the corner of Hempstead turnpike and Mayfair Ave in West Hempstead. The street I lived on as a kid joined Bohack’s rear parking lot
Ed Benizzi
/ July 27, 2015Andy: I believe that the original West Hempstead Bohack was at the corner of Hempstead Tpk and Mayfair. Was that in the 50’s? Did you live at 35 Mayfair?
The West Hempstead Bohack that my Dad worked at in the 60’s was at Greenwich and Henry. It was in a shopping center that offered much more parking, in front and back. The store was between a Whelan’s drugstore and a Pergament Light store.
george matz
/ October 9, 2020i was meat manager in that store …
Tom Laiacona
/ October 9, 2020George,
Your name is familiar. What was your timeline at bohack and what stores. I was dairy supervisor for dan di pierro and richie emirati in the 70s
Deb Corrigan
/ July 31, 2015i think the unidentifiable store was in rosedale queens. I grew up there and was recently at a antique store in Albany my and found a wooded crate with the stamp property of bohack
James B. Olcott
/ August 4, 2015There was a Bohack in Southampton, LI at the NW corner of Main Street and Nugent Street.
Paul Howard
/ August 11, 2015The picture of the Bohack truck in Freeport says 1951. There is a car in the picture that is a 1055 Chevy.
Ann
/ August 14, 2015there was a Bohacks on Francis Lewis Blvd in Bayside my mom used to be store manager.
anonymous
/ August 30, 2015I worked with Bob Miller, Dairy manager at the Bohack on Myrtle ave in Glendale Queens in the day , and bussed tables at the Victorian House at night,in 1969. Fond memories of a simpler time.
Pete G.
/ October 11, 2015There once was a Bohack on Broadway in Rocky Point,L.I.,N.Y. back in the 60s……….
Art Lindstrom
/ October 24, 2015the last picture looks like Central Islip on Suffolk Ave and Carlton Ave
Donna Dean Rozon
/ January 2, 2016I thought the same, Art, when I saw the photo. I grew up in CI from 1945 to 1968 and remember shopping there with my Mother.
Donna Dean Rozon
/ January 2, 2016I just posted a reply, but I have a question for anyone who might be able to help. I grew up with a Bohack in Central Islip. Later, while living in East Hampton, we found an old Bohack packing box (wooden with straps and a latched lid) in my husband’s grandmother’s attic. It is quite large (about 30″x22″x20″) We were cleaning the house that he had inherited and brought the box home to upstate NY. I have it as a piece of interest in the house. There is a number(2094) on the side and the name”Bohack” printed as well. The box is slatted and in very nice shape, except for the top. The top desperately needs refinishing, but my husband thinks I would lower the value of the crate if I touched it. Could there be any real money value to this piece?. I realize that the stores are no longer in business, but there seems to be so much interest in them. I, too, love remembering the old days on Long Island and discussing the places I remember. But, believe me, this crate top needs help!! Can anyone help me decide whether to take the chance and repair it, or leave it as is? Would appreciate any advice I can get. Thanks.
koz
/ January 3, 2016We have one 30″x12″x20″ that was used for bread and numbered B65. I’ve seen similar boxes once on eBay . I don’t think there’s much value. Personally I’d leave it as is.
Bobby-o
/ January 3, 2016Be careful. I think those boxes became the property of Gristides at the time of the takeover in 1977. They’re like milk crates, only the store is allowed to have them. You better take that box back to the store before the store detectives catch up with it.
Don Morris
/ January 3, 2016Without actually seeing the condition of the box its a tough call. I grew up on Long Island in the 50s and 60s. Worked at Bohack in Glen Cove 69 and 70. Always happy to recall those days with others.
Charlie Wroblewski
/ December 27, 2015I worked at the Bohack store on Merrick Rd, Seaford, while in high school 1957-58. In college, Bellmore, Massapequa Park and Westbury. I won a scholarship for children of employees on 1959. I think it was $125.
My father was the vegetable manager at the Post Avenue store Westbury until his death in 1970.
Charlie Wroblewski
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Edward Benizzi
/ January 28, 2016Charlie: Your last name looks familiar. My Dad, Nick Benizzi, was a produce manager for Bohack in West Hempstead before becoming a Produce DM in 1966. Since we lived in Floral Park, his territory ranged from Astoria in Queens, to Woodbury on Nassau County, at the beginning.
I worked part-time in Floral Park (Nassau) while going to high school. I used to fill-in for managers when they went on vacation in the summer or were ill, after I graduated high school in 1969 and before college in 1973. I understood the ordering system and merchandising scheme…so I didn’t screw anything up for the short period I helped in a specific location.
I spent time in Williston Park, Franklin Square, Douglaston, Bayside, etc. I know that I spent time in the Westbury/Old Westbury location one year, for longer than a week. Charlie Kazarowski (Grocery DM) and my dad (Produce DM) called on your Dad’s store.
Great company, great people and a shame what the executives of the company let happen. We all grew up in the company and seemed to all be family.
Best regards,
Ed Benizzi
marjorie mandia
/ June 10, 2018My husband remembers your father well, his name is Jimmy Mandia and he worked as a produce manager in the Elmhurst store, He said he taught him a lot and really knew his business. My husband doesn’t use a computer so I told him I’d write to you. After Bohack closed he went to work for Key Food till he retired, I believe they told him he had the most time in local 1500 then anyone else, ( over 50 years)
Ed Benizzi
/ June 10, 2018Marjorie: Thanks for the reply and Jimmy’s kind words about my Dad. We grew up at a time when, where you worked was more than a job. Bohack employees felt as though they were part of a large family. Full timers took part timers under their wings and took the time to get to know them. It’s so rewarding to see that some 40+ years after Bohack closed it’s doors, people still remember what made this grocery chain such a unique organization. After Bohack closed, my dad went to work with King Sol Tomato and help them get into the produce business. He retired in 1982, moving from Floral Park to Phoenix, AZ. He passed away in 1989. A great guy and a great Dad. Thanks again. My best to you and Jimmy.
george matz
/ October 9, 2020I work there..in the meat department…..nick was manager…in westbury long island…
ray johnson
/ February 18, 2016Who remembers the Bohack store in Cedarhurst Long Island ? It was located on Central Avenue. The A&P was on Central ave. down at the intersection of Maple ave.
Nathan Friedman
/ October 13, 2020I remember that one. It was right next to the Peninsula National Bank. Kinda near Cedarhurst Avenue. There was a parking lot in the back on Willow Ave. They turned it into an indoor tennis center in the 70s with a Chinese restaurant in the basement, and then it became a bunch of storefronts. I lived across the street from the A&P, in the apartment building at Maple. The A&P was next to St. Joachim church and the building later became a laundry until the building
burned down in the 70s.
Bill
/ March 10, 2016The Bohack store at the unknown location pictured on your site might have been in New Hyde Park, N.Y. on Hillside Ave just East of New Hyde Park Road. It appears to have the same pitched slate roof which was the case for that strip of stores in the 1950’s and 60’s. Check the following address on google maps, 1620 Hillside Ave. NHP 11040 (sometimes listed as Glen Oaks) and look at the street view for similarities. The Alan theater was also located there.
Ed Benizzi
/ March 10, 2016Bill: You may be right. I believe that there was a Food Fair across Hillside Ave. The store also has the same look as the Covert Ave. store. It was about 4 blocks up from Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park (Nassau County).
antonio
/ March 12, 2016I think that bohack pic is from farmingdale merits road. Building is still there . Same triangle front brick .
JD
/ April 12, 2016Nope, that used to be an old A&P
Gene
/ May 4, 2016Any body from the packers stores
dave
/ May 20, 2016weekends were laundry/shopping days for us. there was a bohack on bedford avenue we used to go to. where did i see “edward n. bohack” retail grocer, in brooklyn in 1940. I thought he started the chain. my word, how did the place stay open in depressed neighborhoods, where shop lifting was rampant?? i was caught once. they called my mother (but sister answered pretending to be mom.
Barry Kane
/ May 30, 2016Anyone remember the Bohack’s store on Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway just across the street from the old A & P?
Nancy Sick
/ June 22, 2016My mom always shopped at Bohack’s. Was there one in Bay Shore? Smithtown?
Donald Venezia
/ August 9, 2016Todd,
My name is Donald Venezia. My dad, William “Bill” Venezia worked for Bohack starting at the age of 15 at one of the gas stations and retired I believe in 1976. As I remember it, dad retired about the same time that Bohack closed, so if it was 1977, then he retired then. I believe he left in August and the chain closed in September.
My earliest memories of dad and Bohack was that he worked at the Babylon store from the time we moved to Bayshore in 1954. I don’t know how long he worked there (on Main Street Babylon right next to a Chinese Restaurant) but by the time I turned 16 early in 1969 he was working at the Bethpage store on Stewart Avenue, where the manager was a wonderful man named George Stolba and was my first manager. And of course I knew Danny DiPierro, my first supervisor. Dad was soon moved to Williston Park and I remained in Bethpage as I worked Saturdays only and George would take me home after work. Dad might have dropped me off, I don’t remember, before going to Williston Park, but don’t remember George picking me up.
Summer of 1970 Mr. DePierro allowed me to transfer to the Williston Park store where dad had become Assistant Manager, and I worked full time that summer until school started in the fall. Once school started, Mr. DiPerro allowed me to transfer to the Brentwood store (where my high school was in walking distance) and worked my 29 hours a week.
Dad was relieved of his Assistant Manager duties at some point and was transferred to the East Hills store just off the Expressway, exit 39 I believe. At some point they didn’t have enough help at the store so Mr. DiPerro allowed me to work with my dad again for two weeks in East Hills, where I guess things became more stabilized as I went back to the Brentwood store, until August 1971, when I left for college in Western New York.
The shopping cart “Bohack/Packers” came when Bohack’s went on strike sometime around 1970. I remember that the strike lasted two, maybe three weeks, with the outcome either a merger between Bohack and Blue Bird markets (which I was trying to remember for the longest time) and Packers. So yes, you’re right on with the early 1970’s, which I believe was in 1970.
Thanks for these memories!
Donald
Tom DiBlasi
/ August 18, 2016The unknown location could be LIE at Springfield Blvd in Bayside We use to shop at that one in the 50’s.
ed
/ August 19, 2016last picture looks like the store on 37th ave. in Jackson Heights
MaryLou
/ September 8, 2016Love you all for this site!
***LOVED Bohacks on Franny Lew!!! Bayside, Queens. Had a crush on the produce guy – maybe 1975/76? He had straight blondish hair, drove an orange VW bug. I never had the nerve to say hi. He ended up with a girlfriend and broke my heart! :( Can somebody back home post a pic? (him AND the store??) Am in New Mexico 25 years. MaryLou (formerly Dellafiora) Ciao.
Rob Murphy
/ September 23, 2016Thanks for the trivia never been to New York but like to plan a trip someday just watching original Odd Couple movie
Rob Murphy
/ September 23, 2016Thanks for the trivia just watching the old original Odd Couple movie never been to New York but like to plan a trip someday
harry schmidt
/ October 26, 2016Memo to: John Pizzo: Re: Where did the Bohck money go?
My grandfather, Frank Schindl, married Emma Bohack in 1934. He had been a well- known hotel manager in NYC who had just accepted a splendid new job as manager of the lush new Bermudiana resort. He wanted to go, but Emma insisted on staying on LI living in the Bohack home in Kew Gardens. For perhaps 10 years they traveled, but Emma became weak and her memory began failing in the mid ‘40s while Frank was in excellent health. Due to her feebleness they both remained house-bound until her death in ’61.
One day after her death a lawyer with 3 goons visited my mother. The goons pinned my mother in a kitchen corner and wouldn’t allow her to move. The lawyer demanded she sign a piece of paper relinquishing any claim on the Emma Bohack estate. Initially she refused, asking to phone her husband and lawyer, but was physically restrained in the corner. After several hours the standoff ended when, seeing no options other than having a heart attack in the corner, she signed the paper. She never mentioned this event until the 1990s. She didn’t receive a copy of the paper she signed, nor a copy of Emma’s will, nor the name of the lawyer.
Two days after her death, the cook and housekeeper at the Bohack home left, and Frank was alone in the big house at the age of 91. Frank called me asking me to drive him to Yonkers where he would live with his daughter, my mother. He lived in Yonkers during the summers and in Miami with his sister during the winters. He died in ’65, financially and emotionally broke. He had no money, no home, only two suitcases with his clothes. He obviously had spent all his savings on his personal expenses during his 25 year marriage to Emma, and had received zero from her estate. In later years he regretted his decision not to accept the Bermuda offer.
Neal Hunt
/ October 26, 2016Sad but touching story!
harry schmidt
/ June 17, 2017Hi Carl John Pizzo
A couple years ago I wrote a blog concerning my grandfather, Frank Schindl, Emma’s husband of 30 years. At that time I was writing a book about the family. I have now just about concluded that book – including many revisions to earlier comments. I also obtained a copy of Emma’s will. If you are still interested where the money went, give me a buzz in CT. Tel 860-635-7716
harry schmidt
Donna Pedroncelli
/ December 30, 2016That last Bohack last on list looks familiar; I grew up in Port Washington it’s possible it was located there.
Richard carlson
/ January 17, 2017unknown bohack location could be in new hyde park. if a delaney’s hardware store is to the right of it, it’s nhp.
ROSS CULVER
/ January 28, 2017I lived in two towns on long Island with my parents. Bellmore aND Port Jefferson station. Both of them had a Bohacks there. In Port Jefferson station we had a Bohacks on one end of the shopping center and an A&PhD at the other end. My mom shopped at both. But she still preferred Bohacks. When we lived in Bellmore they had Santa Claus one Christmas. My dad took me there and I got to sit on his lap. Those were the good old days. Also much simpler times.
Pete
/ January 30, 2017I lived in Port Jefferson Station all my life and only remember Bohacks on main street between North Country Rd and the railroad tracks and alongside of them was Hill`s supermarket, this was in the 40`s -50`s………..
ROSS CULVER
/ January 30, 2017It was in the 60s I lived there. Bohacks was near the port jeff bowling alley in the Woolworths Plaza. Bohacks was near bowling alley and A&P at opposite end and Woolworths was in the middle. Also had a butcher boy in that Plaza as well as a deli. It was on 112.
Pete
/ February 11, 2017The unknown Bohack supermarket looks like the Woodide/Sunnyside New York store. But a lot of them looked like this.
Robert Atkinson
/ April 25, 2017I was born in Wantagh in 1933 and left for warm Florida in 1959. Yes I remember Bohack in Wantagh. Manager was Paul Vanderlosky in both the original store on Wantagh Ave and also on Sunrise Highway. My e mail, is ratkinson26@cflo.rr.com
Ratkinson@cfl.rr.com
/ February 15, 2017AI remember the small Bohack in Wantagh,Long Island on Wantagh Abe near the railroad. Manager was Paul Vandlosky. When the new store was built on Sunrise highway Paul went a manager. That store I believe still has the Bohack colors and is a carpet store. I now live in Florida for the last 24 years.
Frank Razzagone
/ April 29, 2017There was a Bohack on the corner of Park Blvd and Front Street in Massapequa Park. The building is still there covered with solar panels and houses Law offices
Dennis Johnson
/ April 30, 2017@ Cinella the bohackwas on Waverly and Myrtle me and my brother used to pack bags there and we lived on Waverly ave. When the store closed we turned it into a club house(illegal). Then it became Adams hardware now it’s a garden and a bank
Rose
/ May 9, 2017Back in 1959, I took trips to the bohack supermarket on Jamaica ave and 222street bellrose, queens…it is now a bingo hall…my dad would drive in the parking lot in the back…..
Al.R.
/ May 23, 2017The Bohack in the last picture was Northern Blvd @ 142 st and Parsons Blvd.. my mom shopped there since it was safer than crossing Northern Blvd to shop at A&P
Sam
/ May 28, 2017Last pic is 169 and Hillside. It’s a c-town
LC
/ June 26, 2017Think the unknown location is Queens NY 201 street Hillside avenue Queens I grew up there it was next to the Queens library by Rudy Giuliani old house in Queens NY
Linda
/ August 23, 2017was Bohack ever in Merrick NY
Virginia L. White
/ September 6, 2017There used to be a Bohack on Church St. in Baldwin, NY when I was a kid around 1945 to 1955. Then some time later it moved to the corner of Church St. and Milburn Ave in Baldwin, NY.
V L White
Holly Bohack
/ September 27, 2017My name is Holly Bohack and I am the great great great niece of Henry Christian Bohack. My grandfather is his nephew. I am so happy I came upon this and I appreciate this post of pictures of old Bohack’s so much.
Bill Favichia
/ October 15, 2017The photo of the Bohack supermarket is located on Hempstead Avenue in Lynbrook opposite the Dairy Barn. It is now a weight training gym.
george morton,jr
/ November 15, 2017I JUST WENT THROUGH ALL THE COMMENTS ABOUT BOHACKS. MY DAD USE TO
SHOP AT BOHACKS IN GREENPORT, LI. WHEN I WAS A KID. BOHACKS LEFT AFTER
I JOINED THE NAVY IN 1954. WHEN I CAME HOME THERE WAS THE A&P AND THEN
THAT WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE IGA. GEORGE MORTON.
Zippy Flytrap
/ November 17, 2017Rosedale Queens had a Bohacks…I believe Bohacks is mentioned in a Soprano’s episode where Tony is trying to dig up Junior’s loot ‘From the Bohacks Job’
Tom Laiacona
/ January 27, 2018For those former employees that worked for Bohack in the late 60s until their demise in 1977, you may remember Al Abatemarco the produce superrvosor. Sadly, Al passed away last week at the age of 78. I knew Al long after our Bohack years and will always remember his never ending smile. He was
truly one of Bohack’s bests.
Ramon
/ January 30, 2018I haven’t seen a post for the Bohacks on 11th ave and 10th street in Dyker Heights Brooklyn which is now a Scaturro’s. But I do vaguely remember in the 60’s my mother saying we are going to Packers which I believe eventually became Bohacks. Does anyone else remember this store? Its was across the street from the greatest pizzeria, (I can’t remember the name) I could almost taste the pizza now 50 years later.
Pat DiDomenico
/ February 24, 2019I believe my dad worked there. Is the Pizzeria that your thinking of Called REX? My dad worked there when it was Packers Supermarket.
Ramon
/ November 20, 2019No, The Rex Manor (they had good pizza also) was on 11th ave and i believe 59th street. This pizzeria was right across the street from from Packers/Bohacks on 11th ave between 63rd and 64th st
Brad
/ February 2, 2018The picture of the unknown location is Manhasset NY Plandome road
Michael Destefano
/ May 6, 2018That picture unknown location is Manhasset on Plandome road,I worked their. I use to go store to store. I started at 16 years old. My father worked their from the 1940 as a produce manager until they closed.
John
/ May 17, 2018Unknown picture of bohacks was floral Park New York on Tulip Avenue
Bob M
/ July 2, 2018There was a Bohacks on Post Avenue in Westbury….it shared the grocery needs of the area with an A&P.
Al Santi
/ September 13, 2018I moved to Corona in Queens in 1972 and I remember a Bohack Supermarket about 2 blocks from my house but for the life of me I can’t remember the names of the streets! I do remember the store was located on a boulevard. Any pics or ideas?
marjorie mandia
/ September 27, 2018here is a link with the address of all the bohack stores, my husband worked in one of the Elmhurst stores for many years.. https://placesnomore.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/bohack/
Fr San
/ September 27, 2018Very helpful, thanks Marjorie.
Mavis Shein
/ October 28, 2018I really think that last pic of Bohack was on 108th St..in Forest Hills, Queens..maybe around 64th or 65th Drive..It’s a Rite Aid now. I used to go shopping with my mother there in 1965. I used to like to shuffle around in the sawdust on the floor. There was a Key Food across the street..but my Mom loved Bohack’s as we called it.
michael motschwiller
/ November 26, 2018The last picture of Bohack is on Sunrise Hwy in Wantagh. Currently occupied by Mattress Firm. Building still looks the same!
Susan Sturgess
/ January 20, 2019The unknown location in the 1950s reminds me of the current C-Town Village Market on Tulip Avenue in Floral Park. I know there was a Bohac in Floral Park, but I’m not sure where. I have seen a picture of Jayne Mansfield shopping there in 1960.
Kevin W
/ January 23, 2019The Floral Park location was on the corner of Tulip, and south Tyson across from library. I recall going there with my mother in the mid to late 60s. Shortly after that, an A&P opened on Jericho turnpike and Whitney Ave. This served the North Part of town and hurt Bohack’s business somewhat.
Ed Benizzi
/ January 24, 2019My Mom shopped at that location for years. I believe that it was opened in 1964, replacing a store on the corner of Jericho Tpk. and So. Tyson. I worked part-time at the Tulip Ave. location from 1968 to 1970. Ed Kaczorowski was the store manager and Bob Starr was the dairy manager. I don’t remember Jayne Mansfield shopping there but do have fond memories of the people I worked with and some of the customers.
Tom Corrigan
/ January 31, 2019Charlie, your last name rang a bell. A little off topic, my grandfather, Charlie Dentinger, built a house in 1898 on the corner off 44th Street and Vandeventer Avenue in Astoria. Three doors down was a candy store owned by a Wrobleski family. I lived in that house from 1933-1937, and I believe some older cousins were friends with a Jean [Jeanne] Wrobleski, maybe their daughter. Could you be related to them? Tom Corrigan.
Kevin Herlihy
/ February 7, 2019There was a Bohack in the village of Whitestone, Queens off 14 Street in the 1960’s. Across from the Animal Hospital/old library building.
Jonathan
/ March 24, 2019There was a Bohack just north of the LIRR Station on Stewart Avenue in Bethpage, L.I. I seem to remember that it closed in 1974 or 75. It was some other store that sold groceries for a little while, and re-opened as a King Kullen in the early 80s, which is still here today in 2019.
Ed Benizzi
/ April 7, 2019I believe Bethpage was one of the last stores to close. Amazing that King Kullen (America’s “First Supermarket”) survived all these years. A credit to their management team. Appears that Stop and Shop is in a diligence phase to acquire King Kullen…….assuming Stop and Shjop can settle their union contract dispute. A bit sad that a second LI family owned supermarket chain will be sold in the last 6-9 months. Thanks Jonathan.
Richard
/ May 12, 2019My older brother and I am fairly sure the picture of Bohack with unknown location was from New Hyde Park, corner of Hillside Avenue and New Hyde Park Road. The small set of is still there those most of it is now medical office space.
John ianiro
/ June 15, 2019Great site, I live right around the corner from the new Hyde park location and moved into the neighborhood in 1990 it was a hush a bye ( baby furniture store ) back then, the fire happened around 92/93, I do have fond memories as I grew up in Whitestone queens my mom always shopped at that Bohack’s on 14th Avenue, and if I was a good boy she would buy me story books that came with a record ( 45 ) so I could listen and follow along with the books, one I remember was called Thomas the tug boat.
Joyce Price
/ June 29, 2019The Bohacks that is listed as unknown I believe is in Massapequa!
James
/ September 25, 2019The unknown location looks like Sayville Long Island.
Larry Weinert
/ October 23, 2019My father Howie Weinert was manager in Merrick Bohack in early to mid 1960s. Lives in NH now. Anyone remember him ?
Jay Golden
/ January 25, 2020My dad Charlie Golden, only worked for Bohacks. At age 17 he started as a clerk in Port Washington in 1935. He was terminitate in 1969, one year before he was supposed to retire. Some of the stores he worked at were; Mineola, Manhasset, Oysterbay, Syosset, Glen Cove, Port Washington and Huntington Village on main st. Maybe some of you worked with him or for him. I worked in Manhasset several summers when i was about 13 or about 1964.
Bob Diamond
/ January 26, 2020Anyone remember what my Mom used to call “Bohack Art”… They gave art prints away depending upon the total of your purchase.
Fred Spielmann
/ March 16, 2020I just found out my Grandfather was an executive for Bohack and was killed by a hit and run in the 30’s.
Frank
/ April 3, 2020When I first saw the picture of the unknown Bohack store, I immediately thought of Manhasset. My mom and I used to go there back in the ’50’s and early “60’s. Also went to the A & P just up Plandome Rd.
george matz
/ April 19, 2020i was meat manager in many of the stores..than key food.retired in 1997 worked for 48 years
my father and grand father too…….george matz
Anthony Font
/ April 27, 2020I have pleasant 1960s, ‘70s memories of my “stay at home” Mom, and little I, shopping at the Farmers Blvd. Bohack in Saint Albans, Queens County, Long Island. It was A & P’s only local competitor, which was located north of Bohack, just across from Central Hollis Square, a.k.a., “The Triangle”, a.k.a.,“The Rock”, and presently named Liberty Triangle. My lovely Mom preferred the quality of the meats at Bohack, and if memory serves me correctly, the store was never brightly lit inside, and there used to be saw dust on the floor, like in a butcher shop. In the late ‘70s, Bohack was replaced with a Little Giant supermarket. Around the early 2000s, I think, this successor closed and the building became vacant. Not very long thereafter, the building was entirely remodeled; a Walgreens came about. Unfortunately, last year, in the wake of the Walgreens / Rite Aid merger, Walgreens closed the location. So, now, Historic Saint Albans awaits the opening of a desirable and prestigious replacement, on its section of “Fertile Farmers Boulevard !”
Frankie from Rego Park
/ May 30, 2020Back in the 50’s and 60’s I remember a Bohacks on the North side of Liberty Ave. I think between 103rd and 104th streets in Richmond Hill, Queens. In high school I worked at teh A&P’s on Jamaca Ave around 102nd st, and on Myrtle Ave near Jamaica Ave.
WDS
/ June 27, 2020Every Saturday like clockwork me and the old man would go to Bohack in or near Port Jefferson but always stopped for a burger across the street at Chris’ Diner. Good times.
6500rs1
/ July 12, 2020I was wondering if I could know if I can have permission to publish a couple of these pictures in a book I’m writing about my mom. When she took maternity leave from one job she worked at Bohack until I was born and these are the best pictures. We lived in Queens, on Linden Avenue (I think). Thank you.
Todd Berkun
/ July 12, 2020I dont know if I have the rights to these photo. I would have no issue myself but they are not originally in my posession.
Rosemary Martin
/ July 15, 2020Hmm. I wonder how I could get them. I’ll try to do a reverse Google Search and see what comes up. They are awesome! My family used to work in South Ozone Park and my mom’s name is Maria Soares.
Anthony Font
/ July 13, 2020Hi Todd,
What town; what community did you reside in on Queens’ segment of Linden Blvd.? E.g. Cambria Heights, Saint Albans, South Jamaica, South Ozone Park
Todd Berkun
/ July 13, 2020Anthony,
I grew up in Bayside BUT my grandmother who we visited often lived in Elmont, so places like Great Eastern and Gouz became second nature to me. In the years I have been doing these memory pages those times in Elmont have become almost as significant as my time in Bayside. I lived on other places in my 20’s as well.
Maria Ortiz
/ August 23, 2020I lived on 133street in Richmond hill, we went to the Bohack’s on Liberty Ave. I cannot find a picture of that store and amd wondering if you could help me.
Frank Jellison
/ September 17, 2020On the corner of Metropolitan Avenue and 60th Street stood a Bohack store. The photo was taken in 1940. Down 60th street I can see the house that I grew up in. i was born in 1946 but have no memory of the store although an old school friend who is the same age as me says that he remembers it
James
/ November 21, 2020The unknown bohak is in East Northport New York on larkfield road
Glen Rasmussen
/ January 21, 2021My father ,George Rasmussen worked for Bohack his entire life until it closed. He managed a store on Fresh Pond Road, became a District Manager and for the remainder of his career worked in the main office as the Purchasing Agent until the company closed.
I too worked for bohack in the Myrtle Avenue store at 68-02 Myrtle Avenue Glendale when I was a teenager. I was later able to buy and open the Associated Supermarket, (with my father who had already retired) at the same location.
I have many memories of the familiar names being mentioned by my father at the dinner table. Bohack employees were truly a family…I had my father’s complete collection of Bohack News magazines and gave then to his friend Harry who had later worked as a buyer for Associated Supermarkets. I have since lost touch with him.
Has anyone heard from Harry Fuimaro?
Glen Rasmussen
/ January 22, 2021I found this site by accident and see many familiar names… My father, George Rasmussen began working in a service store in approximately 1938 and spent his entire career working for Bohack. He was a store manager, District Manager and a buyer in the main office located in Bohack Square. I recognize many names here as my father often mentioned these names at the dinner table. Igrew up listening to how employees were promoted and how new stores were constantly being opened.
I too. worked for the chain while I was in high school and until the end when the stores closed.I worked in the Glendle store located at 68-02 Myrtle Avenue,I would later be able to buy this store and reopen it as an Associated. This company should have never closed however, everyone has a pleasant memories of the stores and the personnel who worked in them. So many people knew each other as they moved among stores and when they were promoted- it was like a very large family business.
There was a publication that the company published monthly -“The Bohack News”. My father collected all of them and later transferred his collection to a friend ,Harry Fuimaro who also worked for the company and in later years became a buyer for Associated Food Stores. Those magazines contained the history of the chain and the persons who made them successful.
If anyone knows how to contact Harry, please let me know. I will be notified of any new entries here as they come in.
This company allowed our family to be successful and to have a comfortable life, I was sorry to see it close and change the lives of so many…
Grace Farmer
/ April 28, 2021I worked in a Suffolk County Long Island Bohacks as a cashier one summer but I believe it was in 1978 or 1979. Could the chain or some of the stores have been around beyond 1977?
Tom Laiacona
/ June 8, 2021Bohack closed its operations in August, 1977
Bill Brown
/ May 31, 2021The “unknown location “ photo from the 1950s, looks like the East Islip store where my father, Charles Brown was the manager
William Brown
/ May 31, 2021How can I post a picture of a poster Bohacks distributed introducing some of their managers
john l schreiner
/ June 7, 2021does anyone remenber the store at merrick road and taft ave in lynbrook had to in the 40s and 50s
DC
/ August 7, 2021Anyone remember Bohack in Woodhaven, Queens?
Jerry Friedman
/ August 11, 2021There was a Bohack in Whitestone at 149-28 14 Ave. Now a Walgreens.
George
/ August 16, 2021Yes, I worked in the deli there in 1971 and 1972. The deli manager was Aaron and the other deli worker was Lenny. I was there right before Christmas when the stored was robbed in the middle of the day. I want to say the store manager was Joe Macchio. We were so busy that day and I remember looking over toward the manager’s office, and three guys were around Joe, and he was kneeling down opening the safe. The lead clerk was nearby just holding her head, totally scared. As I recall we had a police buzzer in the deli we pushed, but they were fast and got away before the police arrived.
Patti
/ September 26, 2021I think that looks like Broadway bethpage Long Island newyork
matthewsimonmelnick
/ October 13, 2021I think that Bohacks was in Astoria, Broadway between Crescent and 29th St. my Mom talked about and said it was there prior to Key Food.
matthewsimonmelnick
/ October 13, 2021Or maybe not lol
Erik Denkers
/ January 10, 2022That Bohack in the “Unknown location” looks like one that was on Tulip Ave in Floral Park NY from where I grew up in the 60’s. That building still stands today and is a CTown Supermarket also called The Village Market.
Marty
/ March 11, 2022Eliot Avenue in Middle Village?
Lee Nilsen
/ April 9, 2022No one mentioned bohack on 86 st between gattling and Dahlgren in bay ridge. AS AN 8 YEAR OLD I watched it being built in 1955 .It was short lived, as it was torn down in the early sixties for the verrazano bridge
Doug Larsen
/ August 5, 2022My great grandfather, Henry Schmidt was president of Bohack Company in the late 40’s / 50s
George Horn III
/ December 19, 2022My Nana lived in Rosedale? Jamaica Queens NY. I remember going up the block crossing a Main Street turning right to go down to the Bohacks. Remember the squeaky wooden floors and sawdust? I was very young. I’m 68 now would love to find a picture of that store!
Jim Vorbeck
/ February 12, 2023I lived on Fresh Pond Road in Maspeth between 60th Ave and 60th road and Bohacks was located near there. After it closed it became a library.
Judy
/ April 12, 2023Hi! I lived near the Bohack store in Hempstead,on Greenwich and Henry streets. Those were the DAYS! Judy
Todd Berkun
/ May 25, 2023Just wanted to let everyone know of a new group on Facebook about Bohack that is run by a great bunch of admins who I have known for years on there – please feel free to join and be a part of the activity over there … this link should take you to the group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bohack