Eisboch wrote:
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D.Duck wrote:

In the late 40s ~ early 50's I went to the Y on Keeler and Central.
Went there most every Saturday during the winter months.
When I was a young boy in grammar school in New Haven, I'd take the bus
with a couple of buddies on winter Saturdays to the "Y" downtown to mess
around in the pool, the gym, and on the b'ball courts. It was a great
place in those days, might still be.

That "Y" is where I took the basic Scuba course in the middle of one
winter and got my original certification. Still have the card. I was 16
yo, and the dive club giving the instructions was called "The Yankee
Paddlers".

Eisboch

Do you recall Hull's Hobbies a block down the street toward the Yale
Campus? And there was some sort of diner right across from the "Y" that I
remember. I think it became a Chinese restaurant.

I don't. I didn't spend a heck of a lot of time in downtown New Haven,
although we'd go for an occasional concert or to shop at the Yale Co-op.

Eisboch




The Co-Op used to sell button down Gant shirts for $7.95. Same shirts
are now about $100, and the funny thing is they cost less to make now
than they did when I was a schoolboy buying them.

The owner of Hull's sold it a few years ago, and the new owners moved it
closer to the Yale school of architecture and the gallery. It now sells
architectural supples, modeling supplies, et cetera, but no more balsa
airplanes. Bummer.

Did you visit Cutler's Record Shop next to the Co-op? I don't know if it
is still there, either. I had an afterschool job there for about six
months. At the time, it was a pretty big record store.