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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Hackensack Main Street Festival 2010
« on: December 16, 2010, 07:29:08 AM »
Steve Moon sang for The Filet of Soul. Joey Pizza and Ronnie Maninno had their own group one of the names being "Muffin".

Bingo!  I stand/sit corrected.  Thanks for helping my crooked memory.

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Neat!  That reminds me of another ice cream place circa 1960's... Hodde's (sp?) on Main street and Sprimg Valley Ave...a real old style shop with Cokes from syrup and great hard pack ice cream...   the other place we would go to was a place on Cedar Lane in Teaneck... Bischoff's- good ice cream but was usually a mad house-  A buddy of mine worked there one summer and dropped a huge tub of ice cream on his toe... got a nice settlelment as I recall the story.

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Hackensack Main Street Festival 2010
« on: December 15, 2010, 07:11:01 PM »
I was friends with Joe's younger brother Frank in Boyscout Troop 15 (that met at the First Congregational Church in those days).
If your sister is Geri, I knew her, too!

There was a Frank Pizza who pitched for the Hackensack Red Wings in the 40s (see pic below). Could he be your friend's father?

All that info is here:

http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=abb9e0b2abe26dc912d37baeb971f52b&topic=1647.0


Geri IS my sister. You must be an old HTS'er.



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Yes class of 1967.  My brother was 3 years behind me.  Check out my wooden ruler-skinned knuckles. 

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Hackensack Main Street Festival 2010
« on: December 15, 2010, 07:05:40 PM »
Yes one and the same.   The Frank Pizza I knew would have been born circa 1953... Joe is a bit older.


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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Hackensack Main Street Festival 2010
« on: December 13, 2010, 05:55:18 AM »
Well deserved...

I suppose I should have framed the time/space continuum a little bit better- I was talking about the mid-sixties when I would see the FOS band at Arcola.   Of interest to other readers here who may have not made the connection, the Joe Pizza I speak of is the same ex-Summit Ave-dwelling, supporter of Mayor Zisa and fan of Borg woods.  That's a mouthful!  I was friends with Joe's younger brother Frank in Boyscout Troop 15 (that met at the First Congregational Church in those days).

If your sister is Geri, I knew her, too!

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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Hackensack Main Street Festival 2010
« on: December 12, 2010, 03:43:32 PM »
Thanks, BLeafe.  Neat pix... you are a gifted photog.

Didn't Joe Pizza and Steve Moon play in Fillet of Soul as well?  I may be confused, but wasn't Steve the lead singer and Joe the bassist?  I also remember seeing the band at Arcola Pool back in the day.  Good music.

Thanks again.


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Hackensack History / Re: Bradlees Hackensack Ave.
« on: December 11, 2010, 02:16:18 PM »
I remember going to Modell's with my dad and his best friend Joe.  I can't remember anything that they purchased at the store, but I do remember that my reward for helping them was a roll or two of caps for my cap gun!  For some reason their caps were more "powerful" than those purchased elsewhere and I remember Dad kidding me that they were illegal and to hide them once we left the store.

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Hackensack History / Re: The Record's mini-nod to Packard's
« on: November 17, 2010, 06:04:47 AM »
I remember the butcher shop as being called Costa's. Wasn't there a butcher there named Sam also?

Bingo!  Thanks very much for that... I remember as a 5 year old sneaking behind the counter for a slice of genoa salami from Angelo and wondering why they had sawdust on the floor... that is, until my mom explained why (to soak up meat blood of course)...   why that stayed with me all these years I have no clue.

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Hackensack History / Re: The Record's mini-nod to Packard's
« on: November 15, 2010, 08:59:01 PM »
I remember those hot dogs VERY well... the seeded bun, the juicy dog with mustard and relish wow- I can still taste it!   I would accompany my mom grocery shopping in those days back in the 60's just for one of those dogs... and we would finish up at the butcher on Main Street after a stop for B&W bakery rolls and coffee cake... I can't remember the name of it but the butcher was named Angelo... it was on the east side of the street across from Wolf's candystore - between Spring Valley and Catalpa.  I also worked at Packard's as a cart boy one summer as a young teen.  My mom and dad are in assisted living in Maryland and we live in CT and DE now so don't get back to Hackensack much.  Thanks for the post on Packard's,

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