What You Miss Most From Where You Live

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 10:49am

The object of this little exercise is to state where you live & what is no longer there that you miss. Just name one but jump in whenever you want & add another after someone else responds.

Being from NY , I have an infinite supply of things regretfully no longer with us.

To start the ball rolling, naturally The Roxy theater a/k/a The Cathedral Of the Motion Picture. It opened 1927 & was demolished in 1960.It had a very short life.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 2:55pm

Steeplechase Park - Coney Island - especially the Horse Race ride.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 2:59pm

Well, I am not from here, so I will say in Nashville, I miss Opryland.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:03pm

It has nothing to do with being from NY.

Wherever you are from, what do you miss that is no longer there.

Another thing I miss is the Automat especially the huge one diagonally acroos from Radio City.

[clever name]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:03pm

I live in NY but I'm from L.A.

I reallllly miss the weather.

...and Pollo Loco.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:07pm

I meant I no longer live in Nashville. You said, "What you miss most from where you live." I don't miss anything about anything that's been here.

I do miss Fay Da Bakery on Canal for bubble tea. That was my Chinatown tradition.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:10pm

The Loews Triboro

It was a local theater in Astoria Queens where my love of theater architecture started. I fought along with others but politics & the money paid to politicians did it in . It was $ 3100 seats & was flat out georgeous. The than Borough President of Queens overruled The Landmarks Preservation Commission vote & its doomed was sealed. One who voted with him (you scratch my back & I will scratch yours) was the recently sainted Percy Sutton.The Apollo could be saved (far inferior architecturally)but the Triboro was expendable

You really can't fight city hall is what I learned from this.

A footnote The Queens Borough President committed suicide years later as he was involved in a scandal involving money.Now there's a shock.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:25pm

I miss the cheap everything stores that Walmart put out of business here. No idea if anyone else knows or remembers Jamesway or Ames.

The street I work on is pretty scary too now. It is a lot of specialty shops and restaurants, with crackhouses above them. I'm not making that up.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:26pm

The Playland & Fascination parlors that dotted Times Square

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:26pm

I live in Buffalo, but I'm from Alexandria, VA.

I miss the old Fish Market in Old Town.

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:28pm

I live in the present, so I don't miss anything!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:32pm

OK

Zum Zum restaurants

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:37pm

I miss Canal Street they way it used to be before the Chinese knock off designer handbag and fake Rolex watch take-over.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 3:39pm

We all miss the Bagel, a restaurant on w. 4th st. It was a neighborhood fixture.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 10:34pm

Nathans franks in Times Square

[Q]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 10:47pm

Because I moved around a lot for many years, I tend to miss things simply because I left them behind.

Pike's Market and Cap Hill in Seattle.
The Country Club Plaza in Kansas City.
The Smithsonian (and MANY other things!) in DC.
Too many restaurants/clubs/museums/gardens/parks to remember.

BUT, because they are usually things that still exist, all I have to do is revisit those places to have the fond memories wash over me again.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 10:49pm

Footlight Records

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/6/10 at 11:43pm

Cottonwood Cafe (loved their blueberry/banana pancakes and chicken fried chicken) and 18th and 8th in NYC.

Oh, and Ragtime.

Updated On: 2/6/10 at 11:43 PM

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:00am

Dottie, I didn't even know there was a Cottonwood at that location! The one I miss was on Bleecker near Bank St. I almost forgot about that place until you just mentioned it.

And you named the two best things they had. YUM! I have two friends who worked there.

[singtopher]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:01am

I'm from Denver and I miss the landscape.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:07am

The NY Paramount.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:10am

My hometown used to have a restaurant with no customers. It just sat there, in seemingly good repair for over ten years when I was living there, and there was never more than one car in the lot. Speculation was that it was a mob front, or possibly the base of an alien invasion.

Anyway, a few years back the place got wrecked and replaced with a bank. I miss going by and snickering about it when I'm visiting home.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:19am

Studio 54, The Palladium, Area, the Mud Club, the Saint, the Limelight, the Flamingo, Danceteria, the Tunnel, the Peppermint Lounge and any other club I hung out at in the 70's and 80's.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:19am

There was a woman around the block from me who did elaborate Halloween decorations and dressed up as a witch for trick or treaters. It was so much fun, and the location was really creepy. She retired from doing it years ago. I was still going when she did that.

The metal playground equipment at my elementary school. The plastic stuff is just not as much fun by any means. I especially loved the worm at the top of the hill on the kindergarten playground.

[Q]

Posted: 2/7/10 at 12:22am

The library three blocks from the house I grew up in.

And especially the smell of the card catalogue. You either know what that is, or you don't. But if you do, I bet you miss it.