This is such a great idea! I wish more restaurants would do this...

Hey Richard, I lived on the Upper West Side on and off...

in the early 70's, moved to SF for awhile, then returned to the Upper West Side in the late 70's and lived there up until the mid 90's. The building I lived in on 69th is a prewar building, then called the Spencer Arms, now called the Lincoln Plaza. It was originally a residential hotel, then became a co-op. It's right on the corner of 69th and Broadway between B'way and Col.

I remember the Cafe Luxembourg, but never went in there - I thought it was a Belgian or Continental restaurant. When was it a Greek nightclub???

 
hi, I lived in a few different places.....

first apt was E. 80th between 2nd & 3rd. that would be the late sixties. 3 years there and then it was a lovely pre-bldg on east 35th St. (my room mate still has that apt)

my Italian boyfriend had to live in Bklyn so I moved to Park Slope. (sure wish I had bought a brownstone there when they were dirt cheap!) boyfriend left and I stayed about 10 years and then had a little over a year in fla. back to NYC and the Village.

my last apt was on Grove St. between Bleeker and Bedford. I just loved living in the Village! when I visit NY in my heart, it's the village I go to.

I believe Fairway expanded a few years back, loved that store. Balducci's moved from the Village to W. 66th St a few years ago too. don't know about you two but I used to love getting a latte and something for breakfast and going to CP to sit by the lake on weekend mornings.

Richard, did you ever go the old German beer halls on E 86th St. ? they were fab!

 
hey Meryl, I moved to Oregon coast in 1993. I loved to shop in your neck of the woods. we probably

passed each other at some time.

 
Randi, the Oregon Coast sounds beautiful. I've always wanted to visit Oregon. Maybe someday....

 
Randi,

I missed the beer halls, if you can believe that!, I was an Upper West Side Boy, had some friends on Third Ave, but beyond that, I didn't venture to the East Side often.

And CP was very dear to me. I was just a couple blocks away. Being a farm boy, I just loved going hiking in the Ramble, felt like you were in the middle of the wilderness in the middle of Manhattan. I was in the park every day. CP is still very near and dear to my heart.

 
Lol! Marg, ........

The world is getting smaller by the day. It is strange how many folk have passed through here and we find that these total stranges live next door, are related to or are good friends with folk we know etc
AND not all of them are involved with the sailing world (which would narrow things down a bit for us)......
it's scary actually!

 
Yes, it's about "keeping your nose clean I guess". I was once in

a shop in Paris, the upstairs of which, was all wedding gowns. I was absolutely not interested in them and could not understand what was compelling me to go up there. But I did. And there stood an acquaintance from university in her chosen gown for her wedding back in Canada in a month. I didn't even know she was going to Paris. Nor that she was marrying a guy I had met 8 years earlier at a NYEve party in tiny town Alberta, where neither of us lived but where we had gone to visit relatives.

Totally bizarre.

 
LOL. I've had these experiences too.

I once met a friend, totally unplanned, at Beethoven's grave in Vienna. I walked up and said, "He's deaf you know." We laughed and laughed. Met a former professor coming into a shop I was going out of in Florence. I've run into all sorts of friends and acquaintenances while travelling like that.

 
Can't say I've had it happen in such wonderous places (wish I could) - my coincidences are more like

the time that my husband and I were at a basketball game at the Boston Garden (now the Fleet Center). We were sitting in balcony seats that overhang floor seats. My husband, of course, spills his beer, which pours over the balcony on to the head of the poor slob sitting below us. We look over the balcony and the poor slob looks up to see who the nitwit was, and out of the thousands of people, the guy turned out to be hubby's cousin.

 
When I lived in Pensacola Fla many moons ago, there was a boarding house that served wonderful

family style meals at communal tables. I think the name was Ma Hopkins, and it was authentic southern food at its best. Haven't thought about that place in years. I wonder if it's still there.

 
hi Meryl, it is beautiful and you should. I've put a link to my husband's photo's which are all...

local. we were going to open a gallery to sell his work but we just don't have the time right now. maybe in a couple of years smileys/smile.gif

annnnd, one of my friends is a chocolateir and makes european style chocolates, like those little, peanut butter mice. all her base chocolate is imported from Belgium. your tag line makes me laugh everytime I see it.

http://www.newportnet.com/gallery/home.cfm?dir_cat=22239

 
just wanted to say thanks for all the shared memories. but there is a down side to this thread...

I want to go to New York and eat and shop and dream!

I hope all of you find a wonderful resturant that serves family style smileys/smile.gif

 
Randi, I love the photos of Nye Beach, especially the 2nd and 3rd ones. How

great to have a friend who's a chocolatier!

 
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