Hindsight, looking back, nothing in NYC I need to go back and get but I do have a lot of fond memories.
Back then you could still order 'for two cents plain', seltzer, soda water unflavored. I don't remember if it was still two cents but I do remember a bar on the lower east side that still sold a nickle beer. It was a Polish bar and any right thinking person of course ordered a shot of whiskey with it but yes, the beer was only a nickle.
Speaking of LES bars, Vazak' s, around the corner from my apartment, was one of the only two bars on the island that had Guinness Stout on tap to the best of my knowledge. The other, of course was McSorley's.
Vazak's was just a neighborhood bar back then, free lunch counter, mostly locals, families that lived there for generations..
If you order a regular coffee in Manhattan is it still coffee with cream and sugar? Is curl still pronounced coil and is coil still pronounced curl by older Brooklyn folks?
There are still people from the curl/coil generation around (I remember my grandmother used to pronounce oil "earl"), but while other parts of the Brooklyn accent have stayed around ("cawfee," etc.), you don't hear too much of that particular quirk anymore.
As far as the cream and sugar goes, probably in some places, although it was mostly replaced by Starbucks and fancy coffee shops.
Funny—I talk all the time about how I need to leave New York, but talking about stuff like this always reminds me why I have no choice but to love it here.
Everything we see and seem, everything we do and dream, is fleeting.
Great question Melissa. The good Family and Friends! Not the others.
Hindsight, looking back, nothing in NYC I need to go back and get but I do have a lot of fond memories.
Back then you could still order 'for two cents plain', seltzer, soda water unflavored. I don't remember if it was still two cents but I do remember a bar on the lower east side that still sold a nickle beer. It was a Polish bar and any right thinking person of course ordered a shot of whiskey with it but yes, the beer was only a nickle.
Speaking of LES bars, Vazak' s, around the corner from my apartment, was one of the only two bars on the island that had Guinness Stout on tap to the best of my knowledge. The other, of course was McSorley's.
Vazak's was just a neighborhood bar back then, free lunch counter, mostly locals, families that lived there for generations..
If you order a regular coffee in Manhattan is it still coffee with cream and sugar? Is curl still pronounced coil and is coil still pronounced curl by older Brooklyn folks?
There are still people from the curl/coil generation around (I remember my grandmother used to pronounce oil "earl"), but while other parts of the Brooklyn accent have stayed around ("cawfee," etc.), you don't hear too much of that particular quirk anymore.
As far as the cream and sugar goes, probably in some places, although it was mostly replaced by Starbucks and fancy coffee shops.
Funny—I talk all the time about how I need to leave New York, but talking about stuff like this always reminds me why I have no choice but to love it here.