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by 52-6F-62 2765 days ago
Oh that place was the thing of a bygone era, undoubtedly.

Some of those signs are probably from back then, but they retained the style right up until they closed in 2016.

The place was a godsend when I was younger—you could get hygiene products and some food items for dirt cheap.

And the sight from the street was even more wild than those hand-painted signs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_Ed%27s

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Wow! The Mohel and Rabbi who performed Honest Ed's bris was Al Jolson's father: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Mirvish