Of course I remember that candy store. I lived around the corner on N. 7th. street directly across from Garfield school....where I went. If I remember correctly you could also get what we called a "charlotte rouse" which was some sort of whipped cream thingy in a paper wrapper. Was that right? Also, there was penny candy; oh, and there was a freezer where you could get fudgesicles.
Yes I remember those delicious treats. I lived on N6th street and I graduated from Garfield school 1962. Do you remember Nick's candy store? I heard he was killed in the store and I've been trying to find out what happened
I remember the candy store. Got my Mexican Hats and Red Hot Dollars there. I lived at 296 5th. Street, which was about six houses in from Park Avenue. The Park & Fifth Tavern was on the corner. Clooney's was about a block away. I think this was one of the Irish Underground Houses. Every week that I went in there there was a new Irish colleen serving the candy. The Clooney's kitchen was in the next room and sometimes Mrs. Clooney would invite you in for a spot of tea.
:::: Nick's was on the sw corner of N7th. and Park Ave. That place was very odd. Lots of strange people always hanging around especially in the back by the pinball machine. My brother recalls that our parents forbid us to go in there. Hearing that Nick was shot is not very surprising.
Cassie Coonie sold the store on Park Avnue, near the Firehouse, about twenty years ago. She moved to the town of Kerrykeel in County Donegal Ireland, a short time later. My wife and I visited with her up to about four years ago when she became ill and passed away. The first year she lived there (along the Mullroy Bay)she wasn't very happy. She said that she missed all the firemen and local people who lived in Newark. She would have been very happy to know that she was remembered.
Bob Thanks for the information about Miss Coonie it is sad to hear that she has passed. Her store and her are a lasting memory of my adolescent and teenage years.
I remember Cooney's. I used to go in there with empty soda bottles to get the deposit. 2¢ for the small bottles and 5¢ for the large ones. Then I would take the money over to the penny candy counter and drive the girl nuts. I tried to do the same at Nick's but I always got thrown out. Nick's candy wasn't any good anyway. We would go to Nick's to play his pinball machines. While Nick was in the front of the store selling cigaretts and Ice cream sodas, we were in the back putting the front legs of the machines on bricks so that the ball wouldn't go down too fast. You had to be real careful not to "tilt" it. I remember one time a ball lasted at least 25 Minutes, and we got a bunch of Free games for high score. Most of the time Nick found out what we were doing and we got thrown out.
Wow Smitty you did the very same things with the pinball at Nick's that my friend's and I use to do. I use to hang at Nick's with Kenny Vonende and Louie Toland Did you know either of them?
I remember Cloonie's and Nick's, used to goto Cloonie's after school (Garfield school) your right the little lady was sweet! How about on the corner, that (what do you call it) butcher shop, some of the best coldcuts I ever had!! does anyone remember the name? also, that was probably me and my friends your mother warned you about at Nick's, Bill.....lol. I'm sorry to hear Nick was killed, I thought he died of natural causes. Talking about Nick's, crazy Mike Harvey used to break into there at times and just sit at the counter eating ice cream. But later on he turned for the worse and I'll never forget the day I was a senior at Bloomfield Tech. I was living at MacAvoy Court I was on Rooseville Ave. warming up my car and across the street about 7 in the morn. I hear someone call me, it was Mike. He runs over and I hear change clanging in his pockets, he gets in and begs me to take him to a friend's house, I ask him about the money and he tells me he broke into Nick's pinball machines. So he leads me down Newark, the bad part of Newark, I wait in the car. I must of heard the whole Black Sabbath "Master of Reality" 8 Track and he still hadn't come out, so I can't leave him in that neighborhood so I seen what building he went in but no clue what apt. so I went on a mission and got lucky, and this girl tells me he is ok, he is here, she leads me into her bathroom and there is Mike laid out in the bath tub in a stupor with ice all over him!! he O.D'd.!! She assured me she would look after him so I left, and yes, I seen him later on. Crazy Newark, never a boring moment!
