Thanks Dave for providing that info. I always wondered about that
place, it did remind me of the look of the Fourth Ave. warehouse. The
few occasions I saw anyone around it were times that I couldn't stop
and find out anything.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> speaking of old warehouses. there's another identical one to the
> fastlane warehouse at 202 or 8 seventh ave.... it was and barely
> still the warehouse of a toy distributor who is retiring.
>
> I was in there a few weeks ago. Great old couple. He's been there
> since around 1970.
>
> When I first walked into the back - I thought wow, what a great
> theatre. We got to talking.
>
> It was an old theatre years and years ago.
>
> It was also an old steinbach warehouse, years and years ago.
>
> It also holds history as a warehouse for a toy distributor/importer
> with 2 real people still there. Old scales, boxes and stuff. Better
> yet, REAL toys. - the old party buzzers you hold in your hand and
all
> those great joke stuff.
>
> As he told me - he sold to cvs before it was cvs - just health and
> beauty and all the 5 & 10 stores from here to the midwest.
>
> The economies changed and did his biz - in a building that you can
> still see and smell the history.
>
> It's ALSO in the redevelopment zone. They're just not ready to buy
it
> and knock it down.
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