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you always had a parking spot right where you wanted to go. remember you didnt need bait, just throw your line in and wait couple seconds and yang it out and you would usually hook a fish. i worked in the record dept. But we have our memories. Lived on Eleanor near Orange Ave and then Orange Ave and 65th. Mrs. Trigg appealed, claiming title to the one-foot strip by adverse possession, estoppel, and agreed boundary. Always crowded, full of people. Spent many days at Houghton Park and during the summer, it was swimming at Jordan. Look below the item for additional data you may want to include. Good memories! Identifier: 3455_1: Title: . Daisy Ave has a lot of similar homes that were built in a track. i was always fascinated by the conveyer belt that stock came down from above on. . I remember it well. LOL! Dooley's Hardware Store, 5000 Long Beach Blvd. What a great story! Also I remember Shady Acres miniature golf which no place could compare with in my book. I live in San Luis Obispo now and have not been down that way in over 25 years + . Forgot to mention: I worked for the fine folks at Dooleys for 11 years. Trick or Treating in Bixby Knolls cus thats where the rich people lived. Please, no worries whatsoever. Date Created and/or Issued. Used to go to Dels Liqour store and get my hair cut in the same plaza. North long beach was so fun in the late 60s and thru the 70s Red Fox lanes, Shady Acres, Town and Crest theatres , play in the jungle at Scherer park , houghton park , bixby knolls center ,lbt no 7 bus the streaker, went downtown on the 7 fwy before it was 710 , get to the pike and beach fast ,jump on long beach blvd inbetween del amo and market where the bus turned r to Dairy st turned l went to south st turned r to the cerritos mall then turn around back downtown.i lived at 146 e 55th st what great fun and memories, We would eat dime hotdogs and look at all the stamps on the walls then go play in the store get chased out one in another run upstairs dive in the bean bag pile and hide, my grandmother would cash her retirement check, buy grocerys.buy me a toy we walk a block to her single apartment there was a pensoil gas pump in her parking lot the next store was an antique store with a life size wood indian statue in front next door was douglas burgers, yes i work there 1979 i know all the news everyone talking about good old days. during Christmas was great. Blvd. One of my neighbors was killed while she was babysitting her granddaughter and a bullet came through the window during a drive-by and killed her as she sat in her rocking chair. You are a good writer, Jules. I dont remember the guys name but I remember him telling me that he was the reason that they tore down Badlands and filled it in with dirt. I went to sutter K- 5th grade, then we moved to San Diego. it was on long beach blvd and market on the south/west corner, across the street from the old band of america, I do remember Kirks Corner! That place was an interesting conceptual store. All the way from the bridge to the corner of Del Amo and Long Beach Boulevard was special. The parking lot was so long that it was never full. http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/LBFiremen/id/857, Fires; Retail Stores; Fire Fighters; Smoke, Dooley's Hardware store fire, 5075 Long Beach Blvd. . Hi Kathy, hope youre still out there. (LogOut/ I lived there around the same time. Had a friend named Gary Lahna who died in Vietnam, fabulous memories, how about those Good Humor trucks that played their music as they rolled through the neighborhoods. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. but dad hoisted them in. My first job was at Wells bed and sofa on L.B. How could you know. I think I got my first bike there too! I lived a block away from Scherer Park, and would go all the time. I think I might have filled out an application for Dooleys, but ended up flippinf burgers at Carls Jr on Atlantic and 37th Street instead. I grew up off of L.B. Long Beach Pike Angel Images Chicago Art Film Images Bridge Building Unique Hotels Weird Creatures Aerial Photo Municipal Auditorium and Rainbow Pier Long Beach, CA D David Zach Historic Long Beach, CA . I had the best childhood. Sooo, unladylike. i lived on Market st next door to Lindbergh Jr Hi. I bowled my first time at Red Fox Lanes; used to cash in pop bottles at the liquor store on LB Blvd. Hardware Mart Dooleys Resides in Long Beach, CA Includes Address (1) See Results Hardware Mart Dooleys Resides in Long Beach, CA Includes Address (1) See Results Statistics for all 7 Hardware Dooleys results: 100% OTHER Our ethnicity data indicates the majority is Other. I am glad you brought up the Sizzler, it need to be mentioned. All Addresses (1) Family. Wow. See Hardware Mart Dooleys's age, phone number, house address, email address, social media accounts, public records, and check for criminal records on Spokeo. I think he was more successful in retail sales than he was in politics. I was a lazy, do-nothing clod, far beneath her level. if someone put a dime in it and didnt shake the machine popcorn was left in it and we would come up and shake it and get about 1/5 of a bag for free. then golf till about the 16th hole and then hide the clubs and balls till next day. I was class of 78, we just missed each other! I remember buying a Christmas tree and a trinket box at Dooleys. Search this record. Really good memories. (LogOut/ Show more Show more 11 years ago. (ah minigolf a skate park? My Dad hated to go there because he had to stand in line for a long time. But he went there anyway . Dooleys really did make my life better. if the company chooses to hide the private information on their profile from the general public. Again Im responding years later, Im not exactly sure what made me think about Dooleys but I just Googled and came across this article, talk about a blast from the past. to go to at the time. Loved our time there. We knew that place is the Riverbed. It was the only house that was surrounded by the Dooleys parking lot. I lived just north that area by Starr King Elementary School on Coolidge by Coolidge Park. Jordan class of 83. There is now a facebook page Born and Raised in Long Beach where people talk about things like this, what movie theaters you went to, which library, with much reminiscing. Dooleys Hardware consisted of three buildings that were spread over three blocks you could get anything there, from ten-cent hot dogs to eighty-nine cent 45rpm records to a new living room set. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google. I really miss Dooleys great memories of the place, and really nothing like it today, at least not around here. I dont have a lot of memories of Dooleys, but I am sure enjoying all of yours! That was in Nov. 1987. Every item on Calisphere has been contributed to the site by a California institution. I used to go to Shady Acres later became a skate park. The subs were the best. Hi Richard! His real name was Forrest. OMGI still dream about Dooleys hot dogs! Im not mad about that, he was in the right. Douglas Burger on L.B. I loved Jordan High and I had friends that went to Star King. Does anyone remember The Prince of Wales restaurant ? on use to camp there on weekends when i was a boy scout. Anyway, lots of love to you all. the Lindbergh Jr. Market ran by Cecil (meat counter) & Bessie (front candy counter) Farrington ran it. CA; DO; DO-2083; DOOLEY'S HARDWARE MART; DOOLEY'S HARDWARE MART. I saw Raging Bull and Looking for Mr. Goodbar there, and it may even have been on the same night! what memories. I dont remember the museum, but Im sure I must have gone through it thanks! Wednesday, April 10, 1957 Wad April 10 1957 DOOLEY'S HARDWARE MART 5075 LONG BEACH BLVD NORTH LONG BEACH OUTDOOR LIVING and GARDENING DOOLEY'S BIG ONCE-A-YEAR EVENT! contributor's website. They sold old Levis. While I know it was a large facility, it seemed so ginormous to me as a small child. Look for pictures of Badlands skatepark. 63-65. and Roland Meckel also from down the street was the lucky one of us. I went roller skating there all the time thanks, Colleen, for all of the good memories. contributor's website. on Cherry off Market. like an Egyptian Princess . Love the chilli dogs, picking the Christmas trees out of the railroad car. Googled it and got all of these beautiful memories. I grew up in Lakewood, in a little 3 bedroom house. Dooley's of Long Beach newspaper ad This place was a huge hardware department store in Long Beach. That was the summer and fall of 1967. I may have mentioned this I also remember sitting next to the lake and watching boys ride down the hill and right into it, What a treat to discover this post and all the wonderful comments. Seemed like things had more of a personal human and nostalgic touch then, as opposed to now being all corporate, prefabricated and part of some impersonal national marketing scheme. Great place! I used to love Douglas Burger French Dips, Pastrami sandwiches, Burgers, all that. that place had it all we lived in lakewood on candlewood by the tracks 1956, Dooleys was cool work there in the late 1970s love there hot dogs and ice cream first job out of high school. (562) 437-2716. Date . G S A True Value Hardware in Long Beach, CA is your locally owned hardware store. My parents bought all the furniture from Howards , I got my first motorcycle from Long Beach Honda . the street was just south of the railroad tracks that were on long beach blvd. They had a neat little museum. Search. Phone Number: See available information. Dooleys Family Hardware Store, theres more, theres more at Dooleys. Do you guys remember the little brook that started at the top of the hill and fed into the river? Your right.my friend and i would sit on our skateboards (steel wheels) hook our legs to each other and go down the hill they called it (suicide hill) hit the grass at the bottom just before the pond..and yes the rec area had a bumper pool table inside we would play.and that pond had more fish in it big blue gills drop a line and it was hit then.we would walk over to Thriftys for a 5 cent scoop of ice cream remember that? I too was born and raised in North Long Beach, I graduated from Jordan in 74. My brother and I loved the Jell-O cubes in the parfait glasses with the dollop of whip cream; under the lights of the buffet line the cubes looked like shimmering jewels. Thanks for the write up. also my favorite games were the baseball with ball bearing balls and flappers. I went to Sutter School and Lindbergh Junior High and I went to Jordan. Description Hose crew (Babcock, left, and Luther) spray charred interior of Dooley's Hardware Store Garden Shop following nighttime fire. And once in a while wed put on our Sunday-go-to-meetin clothes and our best manners to go to Cliftons. blvd. Asteroids at Red Fox, yeah! Filing Jurisdiction, Entity Type, Registered Agent, File Number, Filing Status, and Business Category. before K-Mart went in. I remember Welchs! And rollercoasters that took you right over the beachI also remember some kind of ski lift ride that took you across the park to the other end. I came here out of interest in Dooleys after reading a published California Court of Appeals opinion and ruling in Dooleys Hardware Mart v. Trigg, 03/03/1969, 270 Cal. Item Description. If the distributor for Oster Appliances hadnt brought up the Dooleys Name, Id have had no reason to check it out. Sorry, went off track There was also a buffet restaurant, Cliftons I believe. Why were they so good? App. i grew up in north long beach..my mom was the telephone operator at dooleys in the 70syeah those 10cent hot dogs are what i blame for making me fatheheh, long beach jordan 1971 I lived in Long Beach from 66 to 76. I used to wade into it, starting at the top of the hill where the little brook would flow down into it; cut my foot once from toe to heel when I came out of it, and I didnt even feel it. Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. That was a lot of fun. Blvd. June 29, 1956. The short guy in the garden shop. Remember Miss Buehl? That place was interesting, it was there since the turn of the century and it was a like a museum to the old style amusement park like Coney Island. See our terms of use for more tips. I bought my first few skateboards from that place. Get this Press-Telegram page for free from Saturday, December 29, 1973 Long Beach Calif Sat Dec It 1171 - --L ' : INDEPENDENT ESS-TELEGRAM B-3 buying sought ' Bra(fley'of Los Angeles . does Anyone remember kirks corner? That skatepark was called Badlands. if we stayed in the area. The first step (screening) would be done by way of a simple telephone conversation. Store located in the 5000 block of Long Beach Boulevard. They did have those great dolls I remember them, too! . . Do you recall a store at Atlantic and Olive (now Alondra) called The Try-it Store? Coach Bob (Mesa), playing caroms, learned how to braid key chains with the plastic colored braid material. Im going to see if I can find a photo I took ballet and tap from Dorothy Castle on Market, and we used to get burgers from the Hi-Lo on Market, across from Lindbergh Junior HIgh. Dooley "WHOLESALE DISCOUNTS . I had my own daughter in 1982 and thought of so many of my fellow employees as family. I could ride it the street good enough but didnt have the talent for that old park. I never played Golf there, but I would always play the video games they had in the arcade. I played as a child in the back rooms and attic of the orginal hardware store. Eating at The Prince of Wales on L.B. How sad it is not there anymore Thank goodness Douglas burger still is!! remember at the 18th hole, windmill the ball would return to the office after you hit it through the windmill. Nothing else compares to it today, does it? They also gave away stuff when you filled up your tank and Marris Pizza on LB Boulevard was the place to go if you wanted to write on the walls, or on the tables. I have the best memories of dooleys and that house as we spent all of the 80s there and part of the 90s. her collection of dolls & tea cups were exquisite. I am having a blast reading all the memories of Dooleys; it really was a treasure. Share Park? Utilize our advanced search form to filter the search results by Company Name, City, State, Postal Code, Mrs. Trigg appealed, claiming title to the one-foot strip by adverse possession, estoppel, and agreed boundary. Didnt remember about the mac and cheese, I probably would have been chowing on that if I worked there, too. I found the site because I was looking for a picture of old man Dooley. Colleen, I do remember a painted wall on the side of the deli, that had a big sandwich. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Light and dark, self and other, la-dee-da and all. https://www.facebook.com/groups/5916137753/. She alllowed me to have a chocolate fudge sundae instead of dinner. We have many fond memories of Dooleys and I remember the lumberjack too! Your entire office will be able to use your search subscription. I remember getting a Disney Songtape of Goin' Quackers here in 1986 and eating at the snack bar. 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