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Mitch Karas
/ July 7, 2009There was Secondos, DeliMasters and the Island Diner on Horace harding blvd around 183rd st. Also Entenmann’s Bakery
Jane Idell
/ January 29, 2010We used to eat at DeliMaster and at House of Wong right down the block from it. Best Chinese food ever. I thought that DeliMasters would be there forever.
Madeline Yanov
/ September 24, 2012Jane, I am trying to find out what happened to the family that owned the House of Wong. Do you know anything about that restaurant? I think the family’s name was Wong and they had a son named Tommy.
harrymil
/ December 23, 2009Perry Winkle’s on 188th and Hillside Avenue. Great seafood.
Fishken
/ December 30, 2009Big Bow Wow and Pizza City in Howard beach
Jane Idell
/ January 29, 2010OMG I remember the Big Bow Wow! I think we passed it on the way to visit my grandmother in Rockaway. That’s an amazing memory!
joyce zahn
/ January 16, 2010How about Mario’s Italian Resturant on Horace Harding and 158th st?
John
/ January 12, 2019There used to be many similar italian restaurants in Queens that I truly miss. I’d like to add Fra Diavalo in Little Neck and Jimmy Rutha’s in Flushing. When I was alittle tike there was the Half Moon in Astoria
joyce zahn
/ January 16, 2010How about the dinner on Utopia pkwy and Horace harding?It was called the oaises dinner.
joyce zahn
/ January 16, 2010The Surray Steak House on Union Turnpike.
placesnomore
/ February 19, 2010Found an ad for the Surrey
Don Sharbin
/ December 5, 2022do you still have a picture of the Surrey House on Union Turnpike?
Thanks in advance for your help, Don zibbell@gmail.com
Susan Brandt
/ April 16, 2010My husband’s family owned the LaSalle diner in Queens. It was moved to Long Island City. Does anyone have a photo of it?
Elisse
/ April 26, 2012Trying to find a photo of the O-MA-HA diner, a RR car diner in Rego Park, Queens. I was born in 1959 and remember going there with my mom a lot as a kid…
BTW this is a link for the Hamburger Train- my Totally fave childhood restaurant in Queens: http://hamburgertrain.com/modules.php?name=coppermine&file=displayimage&album=1&pos=1
Madeline
/ May 29, 2012What about the A&W in lindenhurst??
Dovid Fraiman
/ January 17, 2014what about this http://lindenhurst.patch.com/groups/lindenhurst-high-school-70s-alumni-nostalgia-blog/p/aw-burgers
George Geiger
/ July 24, 2012What about the San Sue San Restaurant on Jerico Turnpike in Mineola?
Steve
/ September 22, 2014My Father had a trio there in the early thru mid 60’s. He played piano and had a bass player and drummer. They worked with great talents like Buddy Greco, Vic Damone, Jerry Vale, Jimmy Roselli etc. I could go on and on, they were great days. He went by the name ” The John Lind Trio”. It was managed by a man named John Avanzino. Does anyone remember this? My father and the rest of the trio are no longer with us and if anyone has any memory of them, I would really appreciate a response.
John Manbeck
/ June 12, 2013I’m looking for a post card or photo of Patricia Murphy’s Candlelight Restaurant on Hicks Street in Brooklyn NY with the name legible.
Susanh Lynch
/ December 2, 2013Does anyone remember a restaurant in Hicksville, NY that was Australian? I believe it was situated in a large older house…Off the main road??
Heidi Sanchez
/ May 17, 2014Yes! It was the Jolly Swagman. Amazingly, they also had German food. I had my husband’s 50th birthday party there.
Steve Lynch
/ October 12, 2016I celebrated my own 50th birthday there. I was the piano entertainer there for the last six years of its existence, January 1997 until February 2003. In the last few years there was a large group of middle-aged patrons, many of them talented singers. I accompanied them all, it was a glorious time.
Iris
/ October 11, 2014Does anyone remember a chinese restaurant in the 1950s on union turnpike and 176th street in Flushing? Not King Yum.
Jason
/ May 3, 2015We used to go to a place called The Seven Seas when I was younger. Could that be it?
ART ALLARD
/ December 31, 2014Just after WW2 the White Castle on Q/blvd and 52nd street was picked up and moved to the corner of Q/blvd and 43rd Street. It’s modern version is still there. I was 12 and I had never seen anything like it. To this day I still remember that fantastic event. Does anybody else remember it ? Were you in the crowd with me ?
What about The Sunnyside Pool on Q/blvd and 54th street a few years later.
Does anybody have photos of either of the above ?
Steve LoGuercio
/ January 12, 2015I remember the San Su San. My father played there with his trio on and off from 1961-1966. The John Lind Trio was the name of the group. I went there twice as a 12-13 yr. old. It was unreal, the talent, the whole showbiz thing. You had a singer, a dance act, a comedian, an intermission group, and the main attraction. Not to mention an announcer! So professional and everyone in tuxes! My father loved that job, always said the owners were good to everyone. It was “the place to be” in those days. These type of places are pretty much gone and people today don’t know what they’re missing. It was a nice evening out, people getting dressed up, dancing, great food, great show. It makes me wish I was born about 10 yrs. earlier to really experience it all. If anyone remembers this or John Lind, please respond.
ruth
/ January 18, 2015thnk i remember the place
ruth
/ January 13, 2015does anyone know if the owner of pizza city in howard beach opened any other pizza restaurant any place else. anyone know why pizza closed or why owner sold.
ruth
/ January 18, 2015think i remember the place
ruth
/ February 13, 2015was the name of the restaraunt in the malls that sold franks boiled in beer, was the name lens restaraunt
E. Lynn Lawson
/ October 5, 2018There was a Len’s Hamburger place in Green Acres Mall. I don’t remember hot dogs there. Best burgers in the state at the time. The only hot dog place I recall is Nathan’s. They may have used beer, but I doubt it.
Vincent N. Campisi
/ May 21, 2019The name was Lum’s and they were a chain.
Jason
/ May 3, 2015At the location of the closed Fame Diner on Union Tpke, there used to be a Wendy’s. Before that (late 70’s?) there was what I think was a bbq place. Does anyone remember it or what it was called?
Iris
/ May 4, 2015Doesn’t sound familiar but thank you.
Eleonora Ayvasian
/ December 17, 2015There was a restaurant my Step Dad owened in Manhassett, Trouville, please post a picture and who was the owner John Yervant, and if you could who the head chief was, he wrote a cook book. This was in the 1950’s and all the famous people in the world and hollywood scene were his patrons. (including the Rat” pack and Marilyn Monroe, Stewart Granger.,etc.
Thank you,
Eleonora Ayvasian
Gladys
/ January 29, 2016We can’t remember the name of a luncheonette we used to go to in Queens. It delivered your food by train to your seat at the counter. It was a fun place.
Elisse
/ January 31, 2016It was the Hamburger Train on Queens Blvd, and 63rd Drive! I LOVED it! (I was there with my mom in 1963 the day that Kennedy was murdered. We heard the news that he had been shot on the radio while we were sitting at the counter eating- and walked out onto a totally silent Queens Blvd.; people came up to each other and hugged each other and cried… I was 4…) If you “Google” “Hamburger Train Queens” a lot of links will come up, including these http://regomediagroup.com/hamburgertrain/ and http://foresthillstimes.com/view/full_story/25710325/article-A-trip-down-memory-lane-on-the-Hamburger-Train
Diane
/ March 3, 2017Does anyone know the name of the restaurant that is now Matteo’s in Howard Beach?
Audrey and Nicholas Stanislawek
/ April 4, 2017Is there any information out there about the Round Hill. Restaurant that used to be on Jericho turnpike in Hunt Sta. In the vicinity of the old Hunt. Town House??? I think it was at least 60 years ago and many movie stars used to frequent this fabulous restaurant.
guitar1jd
/ December 19, 2017You left out Four and Twenty Pie Shop in Hollis Queens. I’d love to hear what happened to that place.
kathy
/ February 17, 2018HELP PLEASE!!! trying to remember the name of a restaurant in Massapequa near the sunrise mall from 1990’s – was next to white castle – a hexagon or space ship shaped building
Jason
/ March 3, 2018I don’t remember the name but was it a pancake or waffle restaurant?
Heidi Bieber Sanchez
/ March 3, 2018I don’t know if this was the original name, but there was a place called American Waffle House right there. We went there with our kids, and that would have been in the 90s.
Kathy
/ March 3, 2018Yes that’s it. Breakfast place
Jason
/ March 4, 2018I never stopped, but was always fascinated by the architecture while driving past. I can’t be sure, but may have it been named the pancake cottage?
Kathy
/ March 4, 2018No unfortunately that was not the name š
Jason
/ March 4, 2018http://www.lifamilies.com/chat/topic-641335-1.html
Try this link. Had a few names of what it was…the one I was thinking was The American Waffle House.
E. Lynn Lawson
/ October 5, 2018Lum Lee Chinese Restaurant in Valley Stream closed when one brother shot and killed the other. Does ANYONE else remember this place and when it closed?
karlikfriend
/ February 2, 2019Okay–Anyone remember a country-style restaurant in Nassau County, brown building, not fancy, that served biscuits and strawberry jam and pickles before your food arrived? Name? Location? It’s driving me nuts… My mom (rest her soul) loved to take us there…
Gladys
/ February 24, 2019I donāt know if this is what youāre thinking of: Patricia or Lorraine Murphyās. They served delicious popovers.
donna
/ May 23, 2019maybe raynoors chicken ?
Bobby Eisenberg
/ January 26, 2020In an effort to help your list’s completion:
The “Beau Sejour” restaurant in Bethpage, was very elegant in the 50’s and early 60’s. I believe Eisenhower and Kennedy dined there, after landing at Grumman.
Arlene Leibowitz
/ August 4, 2020I am trying to remember the name of a restaurant on Union Turnpike that was not a franchise or ethnic restaurant. It was not a fancy restaurant, but was very nice. I think it was in Kew Gardens or near there.
Gladys
/ September 7, 2020Itās not what you are thinking of Iām sure, but for a short time, my uncle had a luncheonette, Uncle Sidās, on Union Turnpike. I think it was near Ben-Ric Furs.
Robert
/ September 14, 2020Porky & Glen restaurant on Bay Street in Bay Shore didn’t make the list.
Robert
/ September 14, 2020Porky & Glen restaurant on Bay Street in Bay Shore didn’t make the list.
Anonymous
/ November 2, 2020I’m trying to find the diner my grandfather used to work for. I don’t remember the name or location. All I know is that it was somewhere in Long Island and it was replaced with a bank.
Todd Berkun
/ November 2, 2020I don’t think that’s going to be enough information. If you have anything at all, like neighborhood, or even general idea about where it was , that would go a long way in helping identify it.
Louis DiLeo
/ March 21, 2021Does anyone remember where the Wantagh Corners Restaurant was back in the 1960’s
John smith
/ August 8, 2022I believe it was on the corner of willoughby Ave and merrick road in wantagh
jae
/ January 2, 2022I am trying to find information on my mother’s old bar/resturant in New York, I believe it was Long Island, and it was named captains. It could have more to the name but that all I can remember of it. she had a full bar and then she started serving food, it was fine dining type
Deadwoodhistory
/ February 11, 2022Does anyone remember the Cameo Inn