Bill's Candy Store or at least that is what us kids called this place during the 50's growing up in Bound Brook. It was located on 2nd Street in town right across the street from Lafayette School. This was my penny candy store where I have plenty of memories of all the penny candy layed out in the display cases. My favorites where the flat Coconut Rainbows, Black Licorice Records with the Red Hot Candy in between. Of course red and black licorice strings. Baseball cards with the flat stick of Bubble Gum. Halloween wax candies that you would chew like gum. Lips, Mustaches etc. One of the most favorite things that I would go to this store for especially on a hot summer day when really thirsty was for a bottle of Lotta Cola 16oz. Probably one of the first soda's in that size and quantity back then during the 50's. Man to a kid that was a lotta soda no pund intended.
-- Edited by RollingStone at 15:59, 2008-04-20
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Stone I don't remember the candy store you mention.but I do remember Penny Candy and all those Goodies you spoke of. We used to ride our bikes from Bound Brook Heights to DeRosa Pizza and have a "Tomatoe Pie" and 2 16 OZ. Pepsi's for a BUCK !!! Can't even buy a slice for that now. Bon Appetite Dixie
I meant to post on this one. I remember Bill's and possibly later named Frank's. This was very convenient for me to get to when I was a kid. I lived on the next street. There was a magic doorway at the end of Mr. Capolupo's garden! I would walk a few houses down from my own, through the alleyway, through Mr. Cap's grapevine arbor with the benches, to the end of the garden. It was an actual old door on the fence he had constructed. Most of the time we could go through into the driveway of the house right next door to Bill's. I believe the Claypotch family lived in the house on 2nd street at that time. In later years, there was a padlock on the door and neighborhood kid traffic became restricted!! It is a good memory. Wish I could go and sit under that grapevine again then on to Bill's for penny candy!
I meant to post on this one. I remember Bill's and possibly later named Frank's. This was very convenient for me to get to when I was a kid. I lived on the next street. There was a magic doorway at the end of Mr. Capolupo's garden! I would walk a few houses down from my own, through the alleyway, through Mr. Cap's grapevine arbor with the benches, to the end of the garden. It was an actual old door on the fence he had constructed. Most of the time we could go through into the driveway of the house right next door to Bill's. I believe the Claypotch family lived in the house on 2nd street at that time. In later years, there was a padlock on the door and neighborhood kid traffic became restricted!! It is a good memory. Wish I could go and sit under that grapevine again then on to Bill's for penny candy!
-- Edited by joesdad at 23:56, 2008-04-26
You are right about the place being called Franks years later. Actually Frank Jablonski took over the place as I remember when I was going to High School in the later 60's. He turned the place into a hang out bringing in a Pool Table and a couple of Pinball machines. For those who don't know who Frank Jablonski is you would know if you were living in Bound Brook back in the day as later on Frank got out of his little store on 2nd Street and opened a Go Go joint at the Polish Home in Manville. From their he opened the once famous Frank's Chicken House. Boy I bet that will ring a bell in everyone's mind who just so happens upon this thread. At least those in the know who lived in BB or in the surrounding area back in the day.
-- Edited by RollingStone at 07:05, 2008-05-08
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Yes, I remember Bill's but I can go back a little further when it was owned by Dom and Camile. I believe that they sold it to Bill and when he became too ill to keep the store going, sold it to Frank. I have special memories of each of the owners but most of the good times were when Frank owned it. After hot summer days of playing ball at the Lafayette school yard, we'd always go down to Frank's for a soda. He had this big cooler, it actually looked like a freezer and you'd pull up the top and there were sodas, bottled sodas, in there covered with ice. Maybe it was the fact that back then the sodas were in bottles and the ice on the bottle made them the coldest sodas you could ever get. He would let us drink the sodas in the store and hang out and shoot the breeze with him all day and sometime all night until he close around 9. He was a good guy and he treated all of us real good. I also remember that magic door that joesdad was talking about. We'd always cut through there or "the field" if we could, as a short cut to 2nd street and beyond. The Capolupo's and my Grandparents were like best friends and whenever the Capolupo's saw me cut through, they'd tell my Grandparents and I'd catch heck that night.
Wow! Dom and Camile. You go back even further then I do as the first person I ever saw when walking in to that store as a kid was Bill. Later on some by the time I made it to High School Frank Jablonski took over. Its funny as I think back over the years. Bill always reminded me of the comedian actor Joe E. Brown and Frank reminded me of Ernest Borgnine from McHale's Navy. What do you think Zach?
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Who remembers the small paper store/baseball card store across the street from the playground at Lafayette School? The guys name was "Cigar head" who I think was Frank Jablonski who opened the Manville chicken house. I remember going there one day to find the door unlocked and no one there. Me and my buddy were gonna rob every baseball card he had. But we decided to leave and lock the door instead. When we told him what we did he gave us each $5.00.
Brooker, I am going to merge this thread with the original one in the Yesterdays Bound Brook section of the forum. By the way I never remember anyone calling Frank Jablonski (Cigar Head). My crowd back in the day gave him the name (Baccala).
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who just so happens upon this thread. At least those in the know who lived in BB or in the surrounding area back in the day.
