Ok how many of you remember the Lasko Soda Bottling Company on Fairview Avenue? I remember it like it was yesterday. I use to cut through the back of the place walking up to BBHS during the mid 60's.
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I guess we need a few more Old Timers to join up on this forum to remember this one. I am very surprised that Joesdad hasn't replied to this since he lived only about a block away. Could be the 7 year difference in our age. I will wait for him to respond here. Any others who happen on this thread that remember the place please let us know.
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I lived on Linden Ave and remember Lasko's very well. In the summer they would open one of the garage doors and if we didn't have alot to do, we'd would go over at night and watch the 2nd shift bottle the soda. Every once and awhile, they give us a bottle to share. I also would cut through the"field" to get to Layfette school and Frank's candy store on Second st Does anyone remember Eddie the Butcher on Linden Ave
I lived on Linden Ave and remember Lasko's very well. In the summer they would open one of the garage doors and if we didn't have alot to do, we'd would go over at night and watch the 2nd shift bottle the soda. Every once and awhile, they give us a bottle to share. I also would cut through the"field" to get to Layfette school and Frank's candy store on Second st Does anyone remember Eddie the Butcher on Linden Ave
Zach welcome to the forum. I remember Lasko's front door facing Fairview opened a lot but never went inside. My cousin Joe who lived next door use to work there. As I mentioned I also cut through the field going to BBHS and yes I remember Eddie the Butcher on Linden Ave. You will see there is a thread for Franks candy store also know as Bills before Frank took over.
Zach what you need to do here on the forum is start a brand new thread titled (Eddies Butcher Shop On Linden Ave) since you thought this one up. I am sure many out there will remember it since Eddie was well known all around. Make sure you place the thread in the Yesterdays Bound Brook section.
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I am curious if anyone has a picture of the old Lasko's Soda Bottling Company as it faced Fairview Ave.? If so I would like to show it here in this thread. I was just thinking about it the other day. Funny I can see it in my mind like it was yesterday.
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I am here!!! Lasko's was a neat place, I used to ride my bicycle and look in the front bay door to watch the bottles going round and round as they were capped. The place was innocent from the front but, if you went around the side from Fairview Ave. entrance at nite when they were closed, it was a very very scary place where they had the loading docks for the trucks. It was eerie and overgrown with poison ivey, the weird sounds coming from the compressors to run the refrigerators at Fairview Beef made eery scary sounds as well. It was almost like being in the jungle. As kids we would be back there at dusk and scare the hell out of each other.
My cousin Eddie Helfin[some where down the line] delivered soda for them for years until he retired from there .He use to carry a case of soda by the necks of the bottle two at a time . they also had Beer .What kind I can't rember it may have been Schafer Beer And of course there Root Beer.
Sorry, NO SCHAEFER !   Beers were R & H, Schmidts, Piels, Utica Club, some imported which I don't recall, that I can remember! We had many flavors of carbonated soda beverage... Root beer was great, as was the true fruit Raspberry!
I remember! Very Well. The trouble here is this forum did not get the popularity of current day (September 2011) FACEBOOK. There is a great Bound Brook Group site, and teh Lasko's have a page as well. Check it out!
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I remeber! Very Well. The trouble here is this forum did not get the popularity of current day (September 2011) FACEBOOK. There is a great Bound Brook Group site, and teh Lasko's have a page as well. Check it out!
STS Forum member "Paddler", First of all welcome to the STS BBNJ Forum launched in April of 2008. Just so you know most of us here are aware of Facebook and the Bound Brook Groups now there.
For your information STS BBNJ Forum member (Donna Natalizio Hanna) a member here since 2009 is the founder of "I grew up in Bound Brook" very popular on Facebook. I believe what she did was run with our idea here and took it to Facebook a year ago or so. You see this forum was started in 2008 with its main emphasis on talking about (Yesterdays Bound Brook As You Remember It) and while that was going on we added more sections to the main forum including BBHS (Remember When, Todays Bound Brook and many others.
In the first 2 years this forum was really doing well as plenty came here to post about what they remembered about the Bound Brook of Yesterday and their experiences while growing up in BB. 5 pages of written documented info is listed in the Yesterdays BB As You Remember Section of this forum a history of BB so to say.
 Being that Facebook was coming to life many were also joining there and just about everything that could be written about Yesterdays Bound Brook As You Remember It here on this forum seemed to be said with the current members at the time making many of the then members get a little bored on this forum looking for more threads and posts that weren't coming in fast enough. At that point many left us here and only come back here to visit once an awhile to read new posts and old posts once again although people new to the forum including yourself are still just finding out about this forum today. Â
As far as Facebook goes. Yes it is the most popular thing going on the net today as of the moment. Have to admit I thought of bringing a piece of this forum there from the Yesterdays Section and linking the 2 together but decided not to do so. You see the problem with Facebook and you can see it for yourself by going to Facebook and viewing STS Forum member Donna Natalizio Hanna's "I grew up in Bound Brook" and you will see everything is unorganized. Give it a couple of weeks and what is written there today is pretty much lost forever. Here on the STS BBNJ Forum everything is documented and organized to what was said and the threads stay up in the Yesterday Section of the forum from day one kind of like showing a history going back to the Bound Brook that most of us all remember. Even your children may read it someday.  That you can not take away from this forum. Come back here in 6 months to the Lasko Soda Bottling Company thread and it will be here or any other thread having to do with Yesterdays Bound Brook. That you can not do over at Facebook being Facebook is not a forum. Facebook is everything to do about what is written about today and that is about it.  Think of all the lost info that was written on  Donna Natalizio Hanna's "I grew up in Bound Brook" on Facebook. If it was posted here on this forum in an organized manner one could go back to it or new readers can read about it years from now.
All in all based on what I have stated I feel this is the best place to talk about Yesterdays Bound Brook. Of course that is my opinion. Some may agree and some may not but it is good to have a choice about things today. You have to see for yourself what is the better choice for you.  Â
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Paddler, Do you have any other pictures of the Lasko Soda Bottling building on Fairview Ave.? I remember it to be much bigger then what I see in the pictures you posted. When coming down Linden Ave. and turning on to Fairview Ave. just past the two houses on the right one formerly owned by Joe Jannones family and the next house there on the right was a stone driveway leading to the back of Lasko's and then the building continued all the way down the street with a side yard all the way to 2nd Street. It almost took the whole block up except for the 2 homes as mentioned above.
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The photo I uploaded is the FIRST plant, circa 1935, taken from my grandmother's and Dad's album, which ended in 1937 with grandma's obits. The "big" plant you refer to was built in the late 40's early 50's on the empty lot to the right of the "old shop" in teh photo (as we called it) and the visible old ice-house, which we bought and turned into the beer storage warehouse and truck parking facility. From North (Second St) to south (Linden Avenue) we had the corner lot (Grandad's "garden"); the small parking area with the "railroad car" -- which was equipped with a compressor and used as the cold storage of keg-beer, until the "new shop" was built and the "ice-house" so used. Then, the "old shop"; the "new shop", the ice house; and the driveway. I have very few photos of the "new shop" exterior, and as I locate them will be glad to upload them.
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The photo I uploaded is the FIRST plant, circa 1935, taken from my grandmother's and Dad's album, which ended in 1937 with grandma's obits. The "big" plant you refer to was built in the late 40's early 50's on the empty lot to the right of the "old shop" in teh photo (as we called it) and the visible old ice-house, which we bought and turned into the beer storage warehouse and truck parking facility. From North (Second St) to south (Linden Avenue) we had the corner lot (Grandad's "garden"); the small parking area with the "railroad car" -- which was equipped with a compressor and used as the cold storage of keg-beer, until the "new shop" was built and the "ice-house" so used. Then, the "old shop"; the "new shop", the ice house; and the driveway. I have very few photos of the "new shop" exterior, and as I locate them will be glad to upload them.
I would definitely like to see those Photos when you find them of the Lasko's that I remember during the 50's and 60's.
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!   Beers were R & H, Schmidts, Piels, Utica Club, some imported which I don't recall, that I can remember! We had many flavors of carbonated soda beverage... Root beer was great, as was the true fruit Raspberry!
