{"id":18539,"date":"2018-05-13T19:35:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=17241"},"modified":"2018-05-13T19:35:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T23:35:43","slug":"nice-photo-at-samaria-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/05\/13\/nice-photo-at-samaria-pizza.html","title":{"rendered":"Nice Photo at Samaria Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s a photo of the strip mall that today includes Samaria Pizza, long before it was called Samaria. I spotted this tonight at Samaria, where the person behind the counter said he bought this print off eBay a couple of months ago. I mean how couldn&#8217;t he, right? What are the chances of finding a photo like this of the very place where you work? I never knew until now that the place far left, which is today a Verizon store, n\u00e9e Radio Shack, n\u00e9e White Castle, used to be a KFC, and with the classic minaret style roof; or that there ever was a Fish &amp; Chips place. Today I think that&#8217;s a Subway Sandwich place. The pizza place in the picture is today Samaria, but I can&#8217;t tell what it was called back then. The Carvel sign looks like it is crying. I should have told the guy at the pizza place to look for <a href=\"http:\/\/80s.nyc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80s.NYC<\/a>, if he hasn&#8217;t seen it already. The Bel Aire Diner would be to the left, outside the frame. What is today a Rite-Aid would have been to the right, but in the early 1970s I don&#8217;t know if the post office was there or if it was at the corner of Crescent and Broadway, in the place that is now a senior center. On that building you can still see palimpsest-like extrusions where the post office signage used to be. Wait, can palimpsest be used in reference to extrusions? Hey, why not.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17242\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17242\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2018\/05\/2018-05-13-18.31.09-1024x768.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1970s, Broadway Near 21st Street, Astoria\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1970s, Broadway Near 21st Street, Astoria<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I looked for this spot on 80s.NYC and found this too-grainy-to-be-useful photo, which does nothing to clarify if Samaria&#8217;s was called Samaria&#8217;s in the 1980s. It did reveal a giant yellow canopy of some sort of which I have a foggy memory. Was it a photomat? And the store on the far left does not look like the KFC seen in the other photo, nor does it look like the White Castle it was when I moved here. Like the above photo this one shows PS 126 in the back, and also the Catherine Sheridan Houses in the back toward the right. 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I spotted this tonight at Samaria, where the person behind the counter said he bought this print off eBay a couple of months ago. I mean how couldn&#8217;t he, right? 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