E ddy’s was the neigh- borhood kitchen- ette and coffee shop in Richmond Hill, Queens in the 1970s where we lived. It was across the street from the Catholic school we attended, Our Lady of the Cenacle. Back when we went to school, there were
THANKS for the sip, JOEY.
no school buses for us, and the neighborhood kids all walked to and from school together. One of my friends who walked with us—let me call him Joey— would always go into Eddy’s after school and buy a Coke for the walk home. To- day a kid buy- ing a Coke is as ubiquitous as a kid on a com- puter, but in the
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early 1970s, most kids I knew didn’t have the disposable income to be buying soda. Certain- ly, I didn’t. Joey would usually let me have a sip if I asked but on this one particular, hot, June day, I guess he wasn’t feeling so charitable.
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