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Post by bobbbiez on Jul 12, 2011 14:39:14 GMT -5
Bobbbiez I forgot to tell you Johnnie Phoenix told me he will try to get to the reunion this year,he has a wedding to do but might make it later.I lived right down the street from Carl when he died his whole apartment caught on fire.He lived in the brick building on Oneida and Hobart next to the old strippers bar.Carl and Johnnie both sang with us guys years ago.I sure hope Johnnie can make it we will see.Just thought you might want to know.  Thanks Jay, that's good news. Being honest I was upset with him that he didn't show up last year. I'll forgive him if he does join y'all this year.  Johnny and Carl were my very good friends throughout grade school at Kernan. I called them my body guards cause they always watched my back when I got in any battles. Yes, there were a few of them and they always made sure it remained one on one. I always felt they were the brothers I never had.  |
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Post by bobbbiez on Jul 12, 2011 14:42:55 GMT -5
I'm pissing in my pants here just got home from a gig and you all make me smile till it hurts.ok do you know what the definition of a rubber is?( A SEAT COVER FOR A HOT ROD) I knew that. ;D Ya didn't think I was gonna let you off that easy.  |
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Post by jplatt on Jul 12, 2011 17:58:58 GMT -5
I tryed but you beat me to the bunch I also went to Kernan,Conkling,Miller,UFA and Proctor for a short while I did not have enough Italy in me to stay there but I sure like the girls...LOL
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Post by jplatt on Jul 14, 2011 0:23:26 GMT -5
This is for Dave here is the list of names of the guys that played last year and will be there this year I hope-Charles Curry,Ellard(Moose)Boles,Dave Laury,Ronnie Colangelo,Rich Southern,Sammy Saponaro,Denny Bernard,Tony Joseph,also coming this year will be Sunshine,Dave Fletcher.Sunshine played organ for us and Dave was our Trombone player plus Steve Foster our old bass player.Still can not get Willie to show up it's a shame he does not know what he is missing. these are all the guys from the first group to the last group.first The New Yorkers second Willie and the New Yorkers last New york Express.Strange I came up with all the band names hey it wasn't that hard to change a few words LOL see you there again I also will bring some copies of last years reunion it's on a CD we did video and sound not bad for a small camera we used.I need to get Clipper's address and send him a copy.
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Post by jplatt on Jul 16, 2011 0:20:49 GMT -5
Bobbbiez we will go to VOSS for sure,I'm a hot dog junkie. last time I was there a reporter took my picture eating a hot dog and put it in the OD.It took up half a page and everyone who knew me sent me a copy to my home.I had so many copies I was going to wallpaper my bathroom with them.Then it hit me it would not look good me eating a hot dog while someone is on the throne. LMAO........I hope you got the picture.....LOL see you soon love Jay
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Post by bobbbiez on Jul 16, 2011 15:03:24 GMT -5
Sounds good to me or we can buy a pint of Voss's chili, get hot dogs from Happy's and put them the grill here. Either way, I'm game. Looking forward to seeing ya again. Much love back to you and yours.
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Post by Clipper on Jul 16, 2011 17:52:41 GMT -5
Hapanowicz has good hotdogs, but Hoffman's are the greatest. Isn't that what Voss's use? I remember back in our day BZ when they all advertised Durr's Franks from Barne's Ave. They made great hot dogs, but if you ever were in the plant you would never have eaten another hot dog as long as you live, haha. I used to deliver welding gas to their maintenance department back in the early 70's. They had rats in the cellar as big as little Phyllis, haha. Do you get Hap's regular hot dogs or those big ones they call "belly busters?"
What was the name of the drive in hot dog place that was where Holland Farms is now? They had great chili dogs in their day. (Durrs)
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Post by jplatt on Jul 17, 2011 0:02:48 GMT -5
Clipper strange you talked about Durrs for awhile I worked at picking up the cow hides at that place. I would come home in the winter for working picking up hides and change my pants in the hall of my home because they were soaked in blood. Next morning they would be frozen stiff standing up on there own.I never eat any more Durr's after going in there plant small world.Hey Bobbbiez what ever you want to do is fine with me but we have to get those buns I love those bun they have for there dogs,we do not have the top open buns here. ok I'm a little weird but I like what I like....lol love Utica food
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Post by bobbbiez on Jul 17, 2011 0:31:55 GMT -5
My family likes Happy's hot dogs and Hofmann's. Either are just as good as the other. For tomorrow's get-together here I bought Hofman's snappy grillers. Those are very good for a nice change but I will put Voss's chili out for everyone. Me, I can't eat any without chili from Voss's or the Patio. Love both equally. My family was a big fan of Durr's products, especially since my dad delivered for them. He had his loyalty to the company so that's what we ate most of the time. He also delivered for Honest John's so we always had the best of all foods. Funny story about Honest John's and our family doctor, Francini, who use to make home visit if you were too sick to go to his office and when I asked him how much I owed him, he said, "two of your Honest John's kielbasas." ;D
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Post by jplatt on Jul 17, 2011 2:04:34 GMT -5
I just did not like the smell of the hides so every time I saw there meats I got that smell in my nose.I was a kid then and what the hell do we know...
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Post by Clipper on Jul 17, 2011 11:56:17 GMT -5
I won't even attempt to spell Honest John's last name, but I went to school with his nephew Bob that lived in Middleville NY. John's daughter was a beautiful little thing and on several occasions, she and her girlfriends came to Balch's tavern in Middleville to party and dance. I danced with her many times. She was very pretty, and I remember she always drove mom's big caddy.
Jay, those buns you speak of are called New England style, and I always loved them. Freihoffer's used to make them when I lived there. Patio used them too.
You talk about the smell of hides. I had many friends that worked in the tannery in Middleville years ago. There used to be a horrible smelling pile of rotting scrapings behind the tannery. I guess they simply scraped the remaining meat from the hides, and dumped it on a pile out there until it gathered up in sufficient quantity to be hauled away. That crap would smell up the whole village in summer.
BZ, is Honest John's still a family owned business and is it still in Little Falls? When I knew the daughter, it was in building on a side street in the West end of Little Falls.
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Post by jplatt on Jul 17, 2011 21:45:19 GMT -5
you got the smell my friend and once you smell it,it will always stay with you even talking about it brings back the ugly hides and heads and bodies of cows falling thru the floor in to the holding bins down in the basement.That's where we picked up the parts,also had the sick cows locked up not to be used, the baby cows also there to be parted in another bin.We sent most of the hides we got to Middleville twice a week.got to be the same place what do you think?Yes those are the buns you can not get them here you ask and they look at you like your a dummy Southern living grits and hog balls LMAO rain last three days DVD to post office Monday promise
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Post by jplatt on Jul 17, 2011 21:51:11 GMT -5
Well getting close to the reunion any more players who want to join it's open to all jammers from the past days.Love to see you so come on down and get down with your old pals.Plus just think how much your helping those children with brain cancer. It's for the best cause of all your future and there's......Please come up and say hi to me, love to thank you in person...
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Post by bobbbiez on Jul 18, 2011 0:30:04 GMT -5
BZ, is Honest John's still a family owned business and is it still in Little Falls? When I knew the daughter, it was in building on a side street in the West end of Little Falls. Clipper, not sure. Don't know if they even exist anymore. When I talk to my uncle I'll ask him. He was friends with the family. |
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Post by Clipper on Jul 18, 2011 9:32:26 GMT -5
I know what you mean Jay. In all my travels over the years as a truck driver or when I traveled frequently in my civil service job, I never saw those hot dog rolls anywhere but New England. I have bought store baked rolls in Krogers and I split them on the top rather than slice them like to presliced rolls. I simply like the hot dog or sausage to sit nested in the top of the roll, not have the roll fall in two pieces when I try to eat it. When we have keilbasa or Italian sausage sandwiches we buy 6 inch hoagie rolls and split them on the top like that so they hold the onions or peppers better and don't fall apart.
Gee BZ, I hope Honest Johns is still in business for the families sake. It was a great little business and an outstanding product. They were always my first choice for keilbasa. Kathy likes Hap's keilbasa and I like Pulaski Meat Mkt's keilbasa, so we always have to buy a little of each when we pack the cooler to come home from up there. First we stop at sunset carbonic for dry ice, then Hap's and Pulaski, and finally at Chantry's for their store made Italian sausage and a 5lbs of Hoffmans franks with the natural casings. Geez. I am getting hungry and can't wait to be up there. PORK STEAKS ON BZ'S GRILL RULE by the way, lol!!!
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Thanks Jay, that's good news. Being honest I was upset with him that he didn't show up last year. I'll forgive him if he does join y'all this year. 
