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Margaret Suran said...

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> Andy wrote:
>> Margaret Suran said...
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>>>>When we were kids, on vacation in NYC in the early '60s, we went to a
>>>>fish restaurant called "Sweets." My parents ordered for me, the baked
>>>>halibut. ICK! I only ate bread and butter. It came served on a silver
>>>>platter drowning in butter. It was DELICIOUS!!!
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>>>>Thanks for bringing back a long lost, fond memory!
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>>>>Andy
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>>>You also had to walk up a flight of stairs to get to Sweets, if I
>>>remember correctly. It was a great place for fish and with very
>>>reasonable prices and wasn't it right next to the Fulton Fish Market?

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>> Margaret,
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>> I don't know. I vaguely remember it was in the shadows of an overhead
>> roadway?
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>> Andy

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> Probably a stretch of the subway running as an elevated train. I
> remember that we left our car there while my husband and I ate at
> Sweets and that we came back to find that someone had taken the air
> out of all four tires. We had to call the AAA and wait until two guys
> came and got air into the tires again. We were lucky that the tires
> were not slashed.



Kids in those days! <G>

Andy