which ones did u frequent during ur schoolkid days?
i remember how i used to often (like day in and day out) just show up to homeroom in the morning to be counted for attendance.. then help out a bit on the farm (yea, i went to john bowne), then just dash out the front door past the sec guards and walk for miles and miles all over main street, queens blvd, northern blvd, woodhaven blvd & roosevelt ave checking out the lfs and most often coming home with at least one bag of fish hidden from my folks in my bookbag..
it started out with like bag of feeders for a dollar, to guppies mollies and swords from WOOLWORTH, to damsels from ace pet shop on northern at main and the other smaller korean(?) owned pet shop on main the one u had to go downstairs to get to, then i started working during high school and there i'd buy arowanas, snakeheads, oh and by the time i was attending nyu i was frequenting the manhattan petshops but i dont remember any of them well as they didnt seem oldschool or have much character compared to the queens ones, but were more like 'petland discounts' type but on 4th street or 2nd ave heh.
oh but i did like coral aquarium on roosevelt in queens, i'd almost every get off the e/f/r and walk home from 74th (when i ran outta $ to spend on crappy campus housing). the lady at the register (connie? or something like that) was always so helpful and so were her big boys at coral aq. looking glass on kisseena wasn't bad for fw and some sw coral/inverts, and they had a decent rept selection too.
the worst petshop i ever been to in the area was 'everglades' on northern around 80th st.. i was assigned by my hs counselor my first work 'interview' there and the old man/owner was a total pervert to say the least; by the time my guidance counselor started an inquiry they were under new management/ownership though and the new owner was decent but they never got into saltwater and, it was such a run down pet shop always so good thing cuz the livestock would have just kept perishing; i mean the old owner and the conditions there wreaked of of all sorts of 'abuse'!
oh and whatever happened to Larry from Ace?
and the other Larry(?) from the big petshop on woodhaven? my memory's a bit cloudy but i kinda remember bein told that both went to work for saltwater wholesalers.
anyways, are the lfs i mentioned like coral aquarium on roosevelt or lookin glass on kissena still around?
and what about fish town usa? they used to have such good deals there but it took me a while to realize most of the livestock i'd get there for cheap would die no matter how much TLC i gave acclimating.. and the middle age lady (by now) that works there seem to be totally nice some days and really mean others, which i'd never experienced from lfs employees til her,, wonder if she's still there.
i'm rather shy so i dont talk much with the staff nor the fellow customers but there had been times there were fellow reefers trying to strike up a conversation while checking out the livestock but i was so bashful.. and back then there wasn't manhattan reefs there was just that simple irchat for reefs from where i bought my 1st tank with a builtin overflow.. the guys name was john g. i think; i wonder if he's still reefer?
oh and what about lfs yall visited back then when u was a schoolkid? are those still around? i'm in my 30s already but can imagine its a healthy mixed diverse crowd here on mr & reefs.com!
i remember how i used to often (like day in and day out) just show up to homeroom in the morning to be counted for attendance.. then help out a bit on the farm (yea, i went to john bowne), then just dash out the front door past the sec guards and walk for miles and miles all over main street, queens blvd, northern blvd, woodhaven blvd & roosevelt ave checking out the lfs and most often coming home with at least one bag of fish hidden from my folks in my bookbag..
it started out with like bag of feeders for a dollar, to guppies mollies and swords from WOOLWORTH, to damsels from ace pet shop on northern at main and the other smaller korean(?) owned pet shop on main the one u had to go downstairs to get to, then i started working during high school and there i'd buy arowanas, snakeheads, oh and by the time i was attending nyu i was frequenting the manhattan petshops but i dont remember any of them well as they didnt seem oldschool or have much character compared to the queens ones, but were more like 'petland discounts' type but on 4th street or 2nd ave heh.
oh but i did like coral aquarium on roosevelt in queens, i'd almost every get off the e/f/r and walk home from 74th (when i ran outta $ to spend on crappy campus housing). the lady at the register (connie? or something like that) was always so helpful and so were her big boys at coral aq. looking glass on kisseena wasn't bad for fw and some sw coral/inverts, and they had a decent rept selection too.
the worst petshop i ever been to in the area was 'everglades' on northern around 80th st.. i was assigned by my hs counselor my first work 'interview' there and the old man/owner was a total pervert to say the least; by the time my guidance counselor started an inquiry they were under new management/ownership though and the new owner was decent but they never got into saltwater and, it was such a run down pet shop always so good thing cuz the livestock would have just kept perishing; i mean the old owner and the conditions there wreaked of of all sorts of 'abuse'!
oh and whatever happened to Larry from Ace?
and the other Larry(?) from the big petshop on woodhaven? my memory's a bit cloudy but i kinda remember bein told that both went to work for saltwater wholesalers.
anyways, are the lfs i mentioned like coral aquarium on roosevelt or lookin glass on kissena still around?
and what about fish town usa? they used to have such good deals there but it took me a while to realize most of the livestock i'd get there for cheap would die no matter how much TLC i gave acclimating.. and the middle age lady (by now) that works there seem to be totally nice some days and really mean others, which i'd never experienced from lfs employees til her,, wonder if she's still there.
i'm rather shy so i dont talk much with the staff nor the fellow customers but there had been times there were fellow reefers trying to strike up a conversation while checking out the livestock but i was so bashful.. and back then there wasn't manhattan reefs there was just that simple irchat for reefs from where i bought my 1st tank with a builtin overflow.. the guys name was john g. i think; i wonder if he's still reefer?
oh and what about lfs yall visited back then when u was a schoolkid? are those still around? i'm in my 30s already but can imagine its a healthy mixed diverse crowd here on mr & reefs.com!
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