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Started by splinky, Jun 10 2012 02:06 PM
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 02:06 PM
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 09:06 PM
EJ Korvette (and its peer, Two Guys From Harrison) certainly dominated the retail landscape in NJ for a generation. They bought and banked land for future development, often paying pennies on the eventual dollar for which the land sold.
Around here, they preceded the big box stores like Costco, Walmart, BJ's, etc. The Wayne location eventually became the Fortunoff store, until that chain collapsed into leveraged buyout failure and liquidation.
Around here, they preceded the big box stores like Costco, Walmart, BJ's, etc. The Wayne location eventually became the Fortunoff store, until that chain collapsed into leveraged buyout failure and liquidation.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 09:32 PM
I'm still learning to deal with the closing of Fountains of Wayne.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 11:06 PM
Korvette's showed up in St. Louis at exactly the right time for all us poor college kids to go buy our stereo equipment there. It was revolutonary to us then.
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Posted 10 June 2012 - 11:23 PM
In the Bronx too. My friends and I bought our stereos from Korvettes.Korvette's showed up in St. Louis at exactly the right time for all us poor college kids to go buy our stereo equipment there. It was revolutonary to us then.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 05:09 PM
Is that obituary saying that "E.J. Korvette's" really DIDN'T mean "Eight Jewish Korean War Veterans"?
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:05 PM
Yes, it is. Another urban legend bites the dust.
Many a Saturday afternoon of my youth was spent at the E.J. Korvette in Carle Place, Long Island. In fact, I may still have stuff that came from there.
Cheap stuff back then was lots better made than cheap stuff nowadays.
Many a Saturday afternoon of my youth was spent at the E.J. Korvette in Carle Place, Long Island. In fact, I may still have stuff that came from there.
Cheap stuff back then was lots better made than cheap stuff nowadays.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 08:43 PM
Another one of those "Everything You Know Is Wrong" moments.
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Posted 11 June 2012 - 11:53 PM
Yes, it is. Another urban legend bites the dust.
Many a Saturday afternoon of my youth was spent at the E.J. Korvette in Carle Place, Long Island. In fact, I may still have stuff that came from there.
Yes.
I have most of the sockets from a socket wrench set that I purchased in the Wayne store circa 1979. The wrench and the sockets still work just fine.
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 12:48 PM
Even a lot of expensive stuff nowadays isn't as well made as cheap stuff back then.Yes, it is. Another urban legend bites the dust.
Many a Saturday afternoon of my youth was spent at the E.J. Korvette in Carle Place, Long Island. In fact, I may still have stuff that came from there.
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 01:36 PM
Sigh, we must be getting older, to all agree to that.
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 03:35 PM
When I was young I lived in a shoe box.
But it was a well-made shoe box.
But it was a well-made shoe box.
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 04:59 PM
When I was young I lived in a shoe box.
But it was a well-made shoe box.
And you walked ten miles to school on well-made bare feet, even in the snow? I did!
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 12 June 2012 - 05:58 PM
And it was high-quality snow!
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 01:35 AM
You bet! Never yellow.
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
