Old Lakewood memories...

amother

Vermilion

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 9:05 pm

I never knew Mrs Uhr but I remember Mrs Miller- is she still there??
And Miss Greenbaum from the downstairs office...
Also nobody mentioned the old Bais Yaakov building that was turned into a parking lot by BMG
And the cheder in the old house next to the water tower

amother

Khaki

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 9:07 pm

amother [ Smokey ] wrote:

How can you forget such a lunch schedule!! In 8th grade we started getting peanuts for snack in the wax bags and once in a while- walnuts...we used it as confetti

There were also little containers of gefilte fish - was that an accompaniment to the tuna? Or were we treated to a sea food delicacy twice a week? I don’t recall.

amother

Goldenrod

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 9:26 pm

amother [ Aquamarine ] wrote:

So ... I moved here in 2004 because I wanted to live the old Lakewood style life but it’s been changing drastically. I’m wondering if there is a place in the world that has old Lakewood style life because I would want to move there.

South Fallsburg maybe

amother

Aquamarine

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:28 pm

amother [ Goldenrod ] wrote:

South Fallsburg maybe

I think you’re right...

amother

Indigo

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:33 pm

amother [ Oak ] wrote:

And she was my first grade teacher!

Are you my sister lol

malki2

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:34 pm

Mommyg8 wrote:

Squankum is still a one lane road Confused

....

No, it was a 1-lane road. Now it is a 2-lane road.

amother

Oak

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:36 pm

amother [ Indigo ] wrote:

Are you my sister lol

probably not but maybe!

amother

Coral

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:42 pm

amother [ Vermilion ] wrote:

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Also nobody mentioned the old Bais Yaakov building that was turned into a parking lot by BMG

Bais yaakov was in the old legion building by bmg.
Cheder Primary and first grade Boys also learned in basements

amother

Indigo

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:44 pm

amother [ Oak ] wrote:

probably not but maybe!

She can’t be online now- she had no access. Maybe you were in her class.

But she remembers Mrs Uhr checking their fingernails each Monday to make sure they were cut!

amother

Oak

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 10:44 pm

amother [ Indigo ] wrote:

She can’t be online now- she had no access. Maybe you were in her class.

But she remembers Mrs Uhr checking their fingernails each Monday to make sure they were cut!

Yes!!!! I told my kids about it!

amother

Wheat

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:19 pm

amother [ Vermilion ] wrote:

Hey I lived there!!

So did I. Small world.

amother

Olive

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:23 pm

amother [ Smokey ] wrote:

How can you forget such a lunch schedule!! In 8th grade we started getting peanuts for snack in the wax bags and once in a while- walnuts...we used it as confetti

I always tell my kids about the lunch schedule. (And 1 slice pizza on rosh chodesh. Parents had to pay separately for)
It's my version of "walked 5 miles to and from school, both ways uphill"

amother

Black

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:27 pm

amother [ OP ] wrote:

They say Cleveland is now the new old Lakewood...

Something like 90% of the new people in Detroit are from Lakewood.

amother

Khaki

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:33 pm

amother [ Olive ] wrote:

I always tell my kids about the lunch schedule. (And 1 slice pizza on rosh chodesh. Parents had to pay separately for)
It's my version of "walked 5 miles to and from school, both ways uphill"

We did not get pizza on Rosh Chodesh! Talk about uphill both ways.

amother

Teal

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:40 pm

Newlywed parties for the newcomers (in the 80s)..
Coop in 9th street yeshiva apt basement, with Rabbi Binyomin Finkelstein stocking the shelves, open a couple of hours daily...

amother

Salmon

Tue, Oct 20 2020, 11:53 pm

I loved going to Gelbsteins through the spooky parking lot and not being able to sit. Only take out.
My grade had only one class of about 15 girls and only one hs.

amother

Olive

Wed, Oct 21 2020, 12:07 am

amother [ Khaki ] wrote:

We did not get pizza on Rosh Chodesh! Talk about uphill both ways.

I think Ahavas Torah was ahead of it's times. We also got donuts. (Donated by the Fisch family?)

amother

Linen

Wed, Oct 21 2020, 12:08 am

I was a newlywed in Lakewood in the 90s. I worked in the cheder kitchen making those lunches!

amother

Mistyrose

Wed, Oct 21 2020, 5:49 am

I'm not from Lakewood. I was in Camp Sternberg in the mid 80s. There was an aidel girl from Lakewood who told me she gets two new Shabbos dresses a year- one for Rosh Hashana and one for Pesach. I admired the simplicity.

amother

Orange

Wed, Oct 21 2020, 6:44 am

amother [ Vermilion ] wrote:

Mrs. Miller!! I loved the woman. She was full of positive energy!
Miss Greenbaum is now Mrs. Rockove, another early Lakewood family.