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Date Posted: 05:22:20 01/21/02 Mon
Author: richard sabatino
Author Host/IP: a82.goes.com / 63.76.36.82
Subject: Re: Pop Klee's Soda Box
In reply to: Karol (Klee) Olson 's message, "Pop Klee's Soda Box" on 12:13:12 01/05/02 Sat

>My grandfather was "Pop" Klee. He was never much on
>renovation, at least from my point of view. He was
>the "Pop Klee" of the 1920,30,40 and 50's. He died in
>1958. In order to keep the soda an Yoo Hoos cold (and
>they were all in glass bottles then, with those metal
>bottle caps) you had to dunk your hand and arm deep
>into a container filled with cold water that was kept
>cold with a block of ice delivered with tongs by the
>ice man. You had to dunk your arm in many times to
>find the one bottle you wanted. Many times I wanted
>to give up, but the reward of that Yoo Hoo or cream
>soda somewhere in that cold water was too tempting for
>me to call it quits. So I perservered. The Pop
>Klee of the 60s,70s,80s, and 90's was Bill Klee, his
>son. My father Edward was his brother. So Uncle
>Bill, became "Pop Klee" because he never changed the
>sign that his father had on the window. "Pop Klee "
>#2 kept the store running along with the fishing
>tackle until the day he died in August, 1995. He
>continued to plant the roses in the back of the store,
>just as his father had done. The original "Pop" lived
>upstairs, above the store, but "Pop" #2 lived several
>blocks away. "Pop" #2 loved Canarsie and loved to
>talk about it. He got great enjoyment out of the
>young men who frequented the pool room and I think it
>was his way of providing a safe place for the teenaged
>guys and older guys to go. He always knew what was
>going on everywhere in Canarsie because he had the
>best informants around. The guys told him almost
>everything. And even when it looked as if he were
>reading his ever present newspaper or magazine, he was
>listening. He was a smart guy. Canarsie was his home
>for his whole life. His grandparents, my great
>grandparents lived in Canarsie too!
hey me and my father used to get tackle from pop every week on friday i loved those stick pretsels they were always fresh.

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Re: Pop Klee's Soda Box -- Ellen, 21:51:12 03/15/02 Fri (24-164-130-152.si.rr.com/24.164.130.152)

Being female, I used to attempted to get in that place on many occasions. Women weren't "welcome" at the time. Some times I was allowed, other times not, purely because I had boobs. I love it. The only reason I wanted to even show up there was because Danny Schuler and Richie Schuler live two doors down and I had hoped they would see me in there and think I was "cool". Ahhh... young lust. I was thrown out everytime. The boob thing, I guess. So funny. Couldn't get away with that now. This all took place in 86 or 87.

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