Growing up in Ridgewood, New York in the 1. Part 1. After readin all of these posts it was great to reminicse Ridgewood. Chuck L - -Did you know Diane Fitzgerald. Lynn- -- I remember Cherry Valley. You had the best rice pudding in the world,as you then became a big company on Long Island.

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I am sorry to say, that the last three years, your rice and tapioca pudding has a down fall. The rice and tapioca needs to be cooked more etc. I have stopped buying it. Kathy- I remember POP'S candy store. When I lived with my aunt for awhile on Putnam Ave, I took the bus there every morning to go to St.

Aloysius School. Joyce- - My aunt bought furniture from Deutch, and later on so did I. He had a bull dog that looked vicious, but it was a big loveable baby.

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Jim Mc. Kewen- - Was the name of the Price twins Mildred and Sally, and Did they go to St A. Susan- - I remember the carvel on metrpolitan Ave. We went there quit often, especially for birthday cakes. Bill Shaw- - Yes, some of the nuns were quite abusive, but some of them were angels.

In St. Aloysius, Sisters Mildred, Adrienne Marie,and Catherine were nasty, and Veronica was a devil out of hell. I believe that some of these nuns were mentally ill. Sisters Alberta, Luka, Rita Marie, Joan Eleizabeth and Miriam David were the angels.

Sister Rita was my friend for many years after I graduated. I also remember the knitting mill on Seneca and Stockholm St, but I do not remember any odors. This mill made clothes only.

There was another small knitting mill on Seneca and Himrod St. Our friend Camille lived in the house next to it, and my freind kathy in the same building. There was an empty lot nearby, which later on became a soda and beer distributor. I remember a small candy store on Himrod street between Seneca and Cypress Aves.

My friend Colletta's parents owned a small candy store on Harman and Cypress. She had a small pekinese dog, and would pick up stray cats. I remember the old St. Aloyisius School on Onderdonk Ave.

I was wondering if anyone had pictures of it. Then they built a new one on Seneca Ave. Raising funds for it was almost impossible.

I remember Koch Pharmacy on Onderdonk Ave. If you needed medicine and did not have the money, he gave it to you. Everybody always paid him back. I remember Dr. William Fuchs. He was always there when you needed him. Everybody was sad when he decided to semi- retire out to Long Island. I rmember the pigeons across the street.

The owner on the roof, would take a stick, and nudge them to fly to keep them healthy. I remember riding my bike alone at ten years old on Fourth of July around the block at 1. There was no crime rate. We never had a problem. Everyone was sitting out on their stoops, and was friendly.

New York Times Crossword Answers 4 Apr 1. Saturday. Today’s Wiki- est, Amazonian Googlies. Across. 10. First female U. S. solicitor general, 2. KAGANElena Kagan was the Solicitor General of the United States who replaced Justice John Paul Stevens on the US Supreme Court.

That made Justice Kagan the first female US Solicitor General and the fourth female US Supreme Court justice. I hear she is a fan of Jane Austen, and used to reread “Pride and Prejudice” once a year. Not a bad thing to do, I’d say …1. Start of a three- part claim : I CAMEThe oft- quoted statement “Veni, vidi, vici” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) is believed by many to have been written by Julius Caesar. The words date back to 4. BC and refer to the short war between Rome and Pharnaces II of Pontus. Means of looking above and beyond : PERISCOPEThe prefix “peri- ” is Greek in origin and means “around”.

An example of its use is “periscope”, a device on a submarine for looking “around”. Esposas: Abbr. : SRASIn Spain, wives (“esposas”) can be addressed as Senora (Sra.). Kind of tea used medicinally : SENNASennas are used as purgatives and laxatives. Penultimate letters : PSISThe Greek letter psi is the one that looks a bit like a trident or a pitchfork.

It is the 2. 3rd letter of the 2. Greek alphabet. 2.

Ritter’s co- star on TV’s “8 Simple Rules” : SAGALKatey Sagal played Peggy Bundy on “Married … with Children”. Later she took over as star of the show “8 Simple Rules” in the middle of its run, when John Ritter passed away unexpectedly in 2. More recently, Sagal has been appearing on the FX drama “Sons of Anarchy”. In 2. 00. 4, she married Kurt Sutter who created the “Sons of Anarchy” series. Some joeys : KOALAS“Joey” is the name given to all infant marsupials, not just kangaroos. No one really seems to know for sure what the etymology is of the term “joey”. The koala bear really does look like a little bear, but it’s not even closely related.

The koala is an arboreal marsupial and a herbivore, native to the east and south coasts of Australia. Koalas aren’t primates, and are one of the few mammals other than primates who have fingerprints. In fact, it can be very difficult to tell human fingerprints from koala fingerprints, even under an electron microscope. I’m a little jealous of the koala, as it sleeps up to 2. Go back and forth : PING- PONGPing- pong is called table tennis in the UK, where the sport originated in the 1.

Table tennis started as an after- dinner activity among the elite, and was called “wiff- waff”. To play the game, books were stacked in the center of a table as a “net”, two more books served as “”rackets” and the ball used was actually a golf ball. The game evolved over time with the rackets being upgraded to the lids of cigar boxes and the ball becoming a champagne cork (how snooty is that?). Eventually the game was produced commercially, and the sound of the ball hitting the racket was deemed to be a “ping” and a “pong”, giving the sport its alternative name. Fabolous : INTO YOU“Into You” is a cover version by Fabolous (never heard of him) of an original song by Tamia (never heard of her). Gem City of the Plains : LARAMIEA French (or French- Canadian) trapper named Jacques La.

Ramie came to the area surrounding modern- day Laramie in the late 1. Europeans to visit.

One day he disappeared without trace in the backcountry, but his name survives as it’s used for the Laramie Mountains, Laramie River, and ultimately the city of Laramie, Wyoming. Bad case of the blues : DEEP FUNK“Funk” is ill- humor, a word that dates back to the mid- 1. Watch Ok-Hui-Ui Yeonghwa Dailymotion.

Scottish and northern English. Title flora in a Whitman poem : LILACSWalt Whitman wrote his famous poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” as an elegy following the violent death of President Lincoln. Walt Whitman is considered to be one of the greatest American poets, born in 1. Long Island, and living through the American Civil War. Whitman was a controversial character, even during his own lifetime. One view held by him was that the works attributed to William Shakespeare were not actually written by Shakespeare, but rather by someone else, or perhaps a group of people. Gallimaufries : OLIOSOlio is a term meaning a hodgepodge or a mixture, coming from the mixed stew of the same name.

The stew in turn takes its name from the Spanish “olla”, the clay pot used for cooking. A “gallimaufry” is a hodge- podge, a confused medley. The term came into English from the French “galimafrée”, which is a stew or hash made from odds and ends available in the kitchen.

Something to live by : TENETA tenet is an article of faith, something that is held to be true. Tenet” is Latin for “he holds”. Ring fingerers? : NARCOS“Narc” or “narco” is a slang term for a law enforcement officer who tracks down criminals associated illegal drugs. Patent : OVERTSomething described as “patent” is clearly evident, obvious. The term ultimately derives from the Latin “patentum” meaning “open, lying open”. One guarded in soccer : SHINSoccer players usually wear shin guards. Awards for romances : RITASThe RITA Awards are presented by Romance Writers of America (RWA) to authors exhibiting excellence in the genre of romantic fiction.

The RITA is named for the RWA’s first president, Rita Clay Estrada. Spasibo : Russian : : ___ : French : MERCI“Thank you” is “spasibo” in Russian and “merci” in French.

Top form? : SCHEDULE ASchedule A is an attachment that can be filed with IRS Form 1. Many taxpayers use Schedule A to itemize deductions, an alternative to taking the standard deduction. Down. 3. Star of “Scott Pilgrim vs. World,” 2. 01. 0 : CERAMichael Cera is a Canadian actor, a very talented young man who is riding high right now. He played great characters on the TV show “Arrested Development”, and the 2. Juno”. More recently he played the title role in “Scott Pilgrim vs. World”. 4. Kardashians’ mom : KRISKris Kardashian is the matriarch of the Kardashian clan.

She was married to the lawyer Robert Kardashian who was one of O. J. Simpson’s lawyers in his 1. The couple divorced in 1. Kris then married the celebrated decathlete from the 1.

Olympic Games, Bruce Jenner. That marriage ended in divorce as well, in 2. SDSStudents for a Democratic Society (SDS) was an activist group in the sixties. The SDS organized the largest student strike in the history of the United States on 2.

April 1. 96. 8, with about a million students staying away from class that day. The “Students for a Democratic Society” name was revived in 2. US- based student organization with left wing beliefs. Today’s SDS was founded by a pair of high school students from Greenwich Village, New York. Punishment, metaphorically : LICKSTo take a licking, or to takes one’s licks, is to take a beating, to take one’s punishment. Dreamboat : ADONISIn Greek mythology, Adonis is a beautiful young god loved by Aphrodite. Adonis dies in a hunting accident (gored by a boar), but not before he gives Aphrodite a child.

Adonis was originally a Phoenician god “absorbed” into Greek lore (Phoenicia is modern day Lebanon). The child born of Adonis to Aphrodite was called Beroe, after which is named Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. We also use the term “adonis” to mean “beautiful male”. Old sitcom retort : KISS MY GRITS!“Kiss my grits!” is a phrase commonly used by Flo on the sitcom “Alice”. Florence Jean “Flo” Castleberry is a waitress in the sitcom “Alice” that originally aired on CBS in the 7.

Flo got her own sitcom (called “Flo”) which had a brief run in the early 8. I saw a few episodes of “Alice”, but that’s about it. Oh, and Flo was played by Polly Holliday. Adorned, to a chef : GARNI“Garni” is a French word for “garnished”. It has a range of ranges : AMANAThe Amana Corporation takes its name from the location of its original headquarters, in Middle Amana, Iowa. It’s west of Sikkim : NEPALNepal lies to the northeast of India.

Today, the state is known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. In 2. 00. 8, the Communist Party of Nepal won the country’s general election.