HEY FRAN

[Barry]

It looks just the way Fran left it.

Ha Ha

[Fran Gyomory]

Holy crap..ooops.....when we lived there one end was a dead end and the other end was, I'm thinking a main street something like Tremont but don't think it was Tremont. it might hae started with a "b". Believe the Garden bakery was on the block. I don't remember any stores just apartment houses and mostly middle to upper class Jewish families lived there. I can't believe this is Wythe Place?? One block off the concourse and one block up from Walton Avenue. What a disaster of a change. We left when I was 16 so it was 1959. Jeepers!!!!!

[LARRY]

HEY FRAN...YOU HAD THE GARDEN BAKERY, WOOLWORTHS, DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK ACROSS THE STREET, BUNIS SHOE STORE, MELS HARDWARE, CHINESE RESTURANT, HAMBURGER EXPRESS,
THATS ALL I CAN REMEMBER

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I think that is 170th Street....did Wythe Place dead-end at 170th??.....Did it run from 170th..to Burnside Ave?

[Fran Gyomory]

Burnside at one end and dead end at 170th street.

[Deleted]

Thanks!

[Fran Gyomory]

When we lived there I recall Garden bakery; John's Bargain Store; Chinese restaurant; a Jewish Deli; and a bank. I don't remember Hamburger Express but remember we moved in the Summer of 1959. It might have come later. I do know there were a LOT of stores on Burnside and it was a main thoroughfare back in the day.

[Deleted]

I may be wrong, but I am going to say that the photo was taken on the 170th St end (see the underpass that goes under the GC)

[Barry]

As far as I remember Wythe Place it was 1 block west of the Concourse and only ran 2 blocks from 170th-172nd streets. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[LARRY]

BARRY..I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT. BUT IT HAS BEEN MANY YEARS FOR ME. I LEFT THAT PART OF THE BRONX WHEN I GOT MARRIED IN 1965

[Deleted]

I pulled up Wythe Place on google earth map and.....Barry, I think you are correct.....Burnside was north of the CBX.

[Deleted]

LARRY WASNT IT BUNIS BOOTERY?
I BOUGHT MY KIDS SHOES IN THERE.

[LARRY]

JIMMY..YOU ARE RIGHT. THEY SOLD "BUSTER BROWN" SHOES

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I grew up with Thom McCann....too bad they are just a nice memory now!

[Fran Gyomory]

Yes, only two blocks long!!!

[isabelle]

THAT IS JUST THE AREA WHERE I LIVED. THAT CHINESE RESTAURANT WAS THE BEST I EVER CAN REMEMBER. I ALSO REMEMBER HAMBURGER EXPRESS, THE FIVE AND TEN CENT STORE. ALBRECHTS CLOTHES. BUNIS SHOES, AND A COUPLE OF LUNCHEONETTES. DOWN ON JEROME AVENUE THERE WAS OLINSKY'S SUPERMARKET.

[LARRY]

HEY MIKE.........A FEW MONTHS AGO I HAD TO GO TO K-MART. I WAS WALKING AROUND THE STORE. WHEN I SAW A DISPLAY OF TOM McCANN SHOES. I THOUGHT THEY WENT OUT OF BUISNESS

[Deleted]

Larry, the brand is still available in retailers like WALMART and K-Mart. All the stores as we remember them are gone. They also appear to have gotten away from the dress shoe line and offer casual type footwear only

[Bronxbum]

Feb 4, 2008 21:56:16 GMT -5 isabelle said:

THAT IS JUST THE AREA WHERE I LIVED. THAT CHINESE RESTAURANT WAS THE BEST I EVER CAN REMEMBER. I ALSO REMEMBER HAMBURGER EXPRESS, THE FIVE AND TEN CENT STORE. ALBRECHTS CLOTHES. BUNIS SHOES, AND A COUPLE OF LUNCHEONETTES. DOWN ON JEROME AVENUE THERE WAS OLINSKY'S SUPERMARKET.

I went to school with Andrea Bunis who's family owned Bunis Bootery. There was a fish market next door to Bunis. There was a record shop called Flip Side Records across the street next to Woolworths.
There were luncheonettes/candy stores on the NW corner of Walton/170 and one on the SE corner of Jerome/170. There was one on Walton just slightly south of Thom McCann shoes. We would get egg creams after leaving PS64 to walk down to Clarke Place. We went to Olinsky's too and there was a pickle shop next door to Olinsky's just to the north next to that candy shop. I think there were two Chinese restaurants on 170th street opposite of each other. I remember John's Bargain Stores as well. Fun memories

[BronxBum]

I remember Woolworth's and Flip-Side record shop next door. On the SE corner of Jerome and 170th, there was a pickle store next to the candy store. Bunis Bootery, Florsheim, and Thom McCann were near Walton & 170th. Dollar Savings Bank was on the NE corner of Walton & 170th. There was a Chinese restaurant slightly east of Walton & 170st on the south side of 170th. I also remember John's Bargain Store. I also remember a fish store next door to Bunis Bootery.

[BronxBum]

This was back in the '40s before my day, but Albreckts was on the SE corner of Walton and 170th, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/61j98j
On the SW corner was a store called Jack Fine and one storefront to the west was Thom McCann shoes, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/i87wif
One storefront to the east of Woolworth was Hanscom Bake Shop, Woolworths is where the Walgreens is now, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/b65tn7
Just to the west of Woolworth was Webster Cut-Rate Drug Store, to the west of Webster was Pure Loft Candy, next was Levine Wonder Dept Stores, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/efwxos

[BronxBum]

Here is the NE corner of 170th and Walton, this photo is before the Dollar Savings Bank was built when I was a baby, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/7d826y
This is the NW corner of 170st and Wythe Place, I remember it as John's Bargain Store, this photo is way before that, notice there is a billiard parlor upstairs, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/35m0as
This was the candy store on the SE corner of 170th and Jerome Ave, my dad would buy the Daily News and treat me to an egg-cream. Just to the south (on Jerome) of the candy store was a Pickle shop with lots of barrels of pickled treats. I can't tell it that can be seen in this photo, nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/kkq96h
When I was a kid my mom would buy produce at the fruit/veggie place next door to the candy shop.
The thing that stands out is how formal the men and women were back in the '40s, they all dressed nice and respectable. Those days are FAR GONE (unfortunately).

[To: BronxBum]

The name of the store on Jerome just south of 170th was "Benny's Pickles"

[Boy From the Bronx]

Hi all - do not know how old this forum is - I googled "Bunis Bootery" and found this forum.
I lived - grew-up - on 171st and Townsend, just 1/2 block from PS 64 (where I went from kindergarten through 6th grade).
Thanks to all for the wonderful remembrances (and links) - Garden Bakery! That was a very special place I only got to visit once or twice a month has a boy.
I was in the same grade as Steven Bumis - was he the son or nephew of Bunis Bootery owner? I never knew of an Andrea Bunis.
Steven was my grade school bully. Not just mine I think. Very disturbed kid with lots of conceit because of the family name being displayed on 170th.
He (his family) lived across the street from the building I lived in. His was an sn older building, on the south side of Townsend. Ours was a newer white brick building. I think I remember there being some status thing about which building you lived in? I'm I making that up? Maybethat contribute to Steven's miserable mental state. He was a sick kid! Although, his parents always has brand new top-end Ford cars - I remember a black Galaxy 500. Had not thought of that for 100 years. My parents never shopped at Bunis. We were Tom McCann customers.
I had my first savings account from Dollar Savings Bank.