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From Days Gone By: Breakfast for $1.75
This photo of an iconic Crown Heights establishment, offering a full breakfast for $1.75, was taken in the late 1980s. Can you identify it?
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Anonymous
Ess and Bench
48 yr in the hood
when it open in 1974 it was called hymies
then it was sold and it was called ess n bentch
wow shloma cohen looks so young , he had a store on kingston and sold childrens furniture
Ess & Bentch
The one and only!
old timer
In 1974 was still a grocery store own by….
Crown Heightser
Forget breakfasts, the houses were then being sold for under $100,000 (within 1-2 blocks East or West of Kingston & between Montgomery and Union).
donuts
You can’t even get a doughnut these days for less then $1.75
Yum donut
Here in Tzfat, I can get 2 donuts or something equivalent for about $0.95! Totally mehadrin, pas yisroel, cholov yisroel…
shg
whos the guy behind the counter?
Uncle Mendel
The home of the greatest Tuna Fish Sandwich,with a pickle and an extra slice of Mazonos bread. The BEST !!! $ 1.95.
The man with the hat it.
Shlomo cohen
Borsalino
We miss Ess @ bentch
The pastrami sandwiches ! The eggs!!
Rivky
Ess and Brecht
Picaboo Shimon
We used to call it ess n brech
DC
Can you identify the person holding the tallis?
DC
Anyone able to identify the person holding the tallis?
me
Shlomo Cohen…?
Best
Ess & Bentch was the BEST store. No one can beat their wholesome sandwiches.
How about their spaghetti!!
To 15
I think that the name Shlomo Cohen on the Tallis bag might be a slight hint as to his identity.
Blast From the Past
Nothing like their egg rolls and hot dogs
Good Memories
This is Ess N Bentch
Tony
I think the Tallis bag gives it away.
Malach Hamaves
Ess n Greps.