Hi CPHers

All 3 towns had these "home away from homes". We had ours in CP in different parts of town.

What was yours?

Tell us about your second home?

Regina

Scirocco's, I think it was called, on the corner of Palisades and Edgewater Road.  It was always packed in there after school.

Volk's on the car line and Grant Avenue.

Joan,

Yes! That one comes to mind. But, did I ever know the name? I just knew that the owner gave us little brown bags and we told him what penny candy we wanted. It was a penny then! I fell in love with Red Hot Silver Dollars.

Volks was also the place where we went to ditch mass @ Epiphany, Release Time (which was our day CCD) and to meet before CYO Dances.

The one buy Epiphany church when I was in grammar school. It was a Mom and Pop store. I also remember the little brown bag they gave us.If you had a nickle you had 5 pieces of candy and if you had a dollar you had lots of friends. Up the street was Sal's pizza and we were set. Buy your 45's at the record store on Anderson ave . Buy your rubber balls at County discount. The smell of Wolfs bakery. And the best was Home Made Ice Cream and Bergen Blvd. Italian ice for 10 cents. Kotches meats where we would eat raw hot dogs and never get sick hmmmmmmm. Party line phones(hey you've been on for an hour i need to make a phone call)

The candy store with the brown bags was Davis's.  They were two very old jewish people that ran it.  It was in the middle of the line of stores in the apartment building on the car line side.  Volk's bought it from them and later moved to the corner which used to be the tailor shop.  I know all of this because I lived in that building.

Hey Joan!  I remember hanging out at Volks, but do you remember the place on Palisade Ave between Lawton and Columbia, a couple of doors down from the Grantwood Pharmacy?  A lot of kids were there too...

The best candy store in the area, though not technically in CP- right on the border of Ft Lee, was Warnecke's on Anderson at the corner of Aurora - there was a little park right next door.  I would go there with my cousins during family gatherings at Grandma's (my uncles would give us each a dime to spend at Warnecke's - I think to get us all out of the house for a while).  Mrs. W had the best selection of penny candies!

Yes I do remember, that was where we used to stop to buy cigarettes on the way to school.  You had me thinking there for awhile.  And I remember the other store you are talking about also, though I don't remember going there as a kid.

Miller's is where Pepe started his career in the food industry....let him tell his story!

Regina

I lived on the same street as Home Make Ice Cream.

Remember the name of the biggest ice cream that they sold... a banana split!

Remember Jann's had their version called The Kitchen Sink

Your description brought me right back home! Thanks Gene

Loretta Shamsey Corbett

Teri,

I remember the candystore and every detail...the one between Lawton and Columbia. It was called Herlwick's...red vinyl counter stools, fountain sodas and ice cream,penny candy.frosted rootbeer, comics, last minute birthday gifts and an all wood phoneboth with a seat and light and a hinge door where you could really talk in private. From the time I could walk I probably went in just about everyday.  Loved the place.

Loretta

Yes, Herlwick's candy store. The description takes me back to old Cliffside Park.

Wasn't the Homemade Ice Cream  place was next to an gas station on Bergen Blvd?

Wayne

Yes,  Home Made was on Bergen Blvd  and Columbia Avenue. I grew up on Columbia Avenue. But, Home Made was technically in Ridgefield.

The marquee dish was the Pig's Dinner. A huge bowl of all sorts of flavors, sauces, whipped cream and cherries.

I stand corrected, Pepe started his food experience in Wolf's.

I remember Gerkins's soda and ice cream store on Anderson Ave. It had round red stools and we would always swing on them. Volk's candy store was down the block from me. I would go all the time with my sisters and get brown licorce. We knew the Volk's so they always gave us an extra candy.

So what part of Columbia Ave did you live on? On top of the hill by Grove Aveor down the hill.

Well anyway do you remember the soapbox derbies  on Lawton and later Columbia Aves?

Wayne

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Fairview,,,you're still sleeping,,,Avon's on Walker St....Kenny's down Nunguesser's,,,somebody,,plz wake up my homies,,,,love somebody,,elp

Hey FAIRVIEW,,,PETE'S on the corner of Walker and Anderson,,,omg,,,come on fairview,,,love somebody,,,elp