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Old Jan 14, 2012 | 06:44 PM
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Default Flash back route 22 N.J. 1970's video

Starts out with Ray's gun shop(if I remember the name right), what a trip back!!

http://wn.com/US_Route_22

R&S gone?
Rickle's gone
Oscar's bar (sniff) gone
Joe Dee's Italian hot dogs and roast beef? please no!!!! gone?
Pizza town please no!!!! Gone?
Farcher's grove (spelling?) Sniff gone
Swingel's diner gone?
Star ledger still going!!!
 

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Old Jan 14, 2012 | 07:43 PM
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I got my first gun at rays! Boy things have changed
 
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Old Jan 14, 2012 | 08:15 PM
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I got my first gun at rays! Boy things have changed
Did my share of shooting there.

I heard Bowcraft was closed also......sucks
 
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Old Jan 15, 2012 | 06:36 PM
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Used to go to Rondo music for strings & crap when I was living in Roselle Park & playing around the area; also went to Bowcraft with the GF at the time,and that diner--I forget the name, but it was in the middle island between the E & W bound lanes, in Union.
 

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Farcher's grove gone???? dang good (cheap) food and beer.

First "fast food" place I ever went to... GINO'S in Hillside..... ahhhh "Evergreen Lodge"....and all the places of my wild youth... "Tico Taco"... Flagship...... gone.... makes me wonder if I was there??? or was it a dream?

who can forget "Dennison clothes".... cruisin to "cousin Brucie".... "Murray the K", Don Imus in the morning (when he was young, and funny)

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Oh well... RUTT'S HUT, is still serving dogs, and even Jimmy Buffs, is still in business.... albeit in the suburbs....
 
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Old Jan 17, 2012 | 09:33 PM
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Sad times missed
 
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Forgot about Farcher's Grove. I used to play there about 20 years ago.

I remember the Dennison clothier commercial back in the day, on 77WABC. Weren't they the ones that started the expression "Money talks;nobody walks"? (or something similar)

I know it's a little bit off 22, but anyone remember Galloping Hill Inn & the footlongs they sold there? Mimi's Italian Ices? Angie & Mims?
 

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My brother just told me Mr. Bees in Somerville is gone now too. I can remember going there for Bee-Burgers as a kid. Damn shame what it's all turning into. My small hometown of Manville has been turned over too. No reason to go back anymore.
 
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