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Used to eat at Martino's occasionally. It was good. They did not have the buffet at the time. It was whatever daily special they had. Foschini's was a great bakery. I believe they supplied all the Italian bread to the Hackensack school system cafeterias. Another good little place for lunch was Paul's Market on South Main St, around by Pink St.

In my 20's I used to go to the Capital on Saturday mornings and have breakfast at the counter while reading the Daily News. It was always slow there on Saturday. Decent food, cheap prices. The place on the corner of So. State and Lodi used to be a pizza place when I hung out in that neighborhood in the mid seventies. King Pizza? Pizza King?.... I never went there. There seemed like there was never any activity there, so I figured it probably wasn't good.

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My first concert was seeing Leslie West. Around 1975 at the Capitol in Passaic. I'm pretty sure it was Mountain and not the Leslie West Band. I recall Queen opening for them. Queen blew everybody away. A lot of brain cells lost over the years, probably most of them that night.

I used to take the 80 bus to middle school, 40 years ago, when State street was a 2 way street. We would pass Armour and they would be unloading sides of beef from the train cars out back. I remember the bus barn/garage and a little diner that was caddy corner across the street from Armour. It may have been the J&M Diner??? Also I remember the Guaranty Market down the road. Close to the school was Espositos Market and further down the block was a Sinclair gas station. I seem to remember a dinosaur statue, but it may have just been a sign.

EXTRA! EXTRA! Energy crisis solved.... Leafe Industries to unveil Perpetual Motion Machine.....Price of oil plunges!

This was 10 years after I graduated from HMS, but was a blast from the past to see some of my former teachers. Mr. Alston was my 6th grade science teacher and got me interested in fossils and the human body from a medical standpoint. At the time I considered becoming a doctor. My goals became less loftier as I matured. I recall a field trip we took on a Saturday morning behind the Esso station (before Exxon) on Polifly road to search for fossils. This is where my friends brother had discovered the mammoth.  We found some sandstone there and when we broke it open there were fossils of shells. Pretty cool. It was great to see "Doc" Saichus, my old band teacher. I recall Mr. Riccadelli and Mr. Delare the principal. They even mentioned my old english teacher's name, Mrs. Allar.... boy that was a name I could do without hearing.... English was never a good subject of mine and she really exposed me and was influential in my never liking the subject and doing well at it. I do not blame her.... it's all on me.... I could have chosen to respond differently and put some effort into improving. I don't ever recall having a ceremony like this when I was at HMS, maybe they did, but I didn't qualify and as such had no interest in it. As they say in It's A Wonderful Life.... "youth is wasted on the young".