Before we even get to the last weekend in September, we had a midweek trip to New York City to see The B-52's, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Berlin. We took the day off from work (and the next day since in was an evening concert) and when into the city early to spend the day and take in the sights. We have lived within forty miles of Manhattan so we are no strangers to The Big Apple but we only go into the city a few times a year now. It never gets boring.
The Empire State Building
St. Patrick's Cathedral. Back in 1888, it was the tallest building in New York City.
Some pictures of the inside of St. Patrick's Cathedral. It is an architectural masterpiece.
For lunch, we went to the Lexington Candy Shop Luncheonette.
They are well known for their butter burgers and, of course, that is what we each had!
Lexington Candy Shop Luncheonette has been around since 1925 and has been in the same family ever since its start. It is highly recommended!
The Alice In Wonderland statue in Central Park
The Hans Christian Andersen statue in Central Park. The Ugly Duckling keeps him company.
Two more pictures in Central Park. We spent a couple of hours here before making our way to the south end of the park where the concert stage sits.
It had been a great day so far and we were ready for three fun bands to hit the stage.
Berlin was first.
They were great and Terri Nunn even made her way into the audience during the show!
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark sounded great and they were so energetic!
The B-52's were the headliners and they never disappoint!
After the concert, we had to walk to Penn Station to catch a train home. We encountered the Back To The Future-style Delorean which you can sometimes see near Times Square.
The owner of this car, retrofitted to look like the Delorean used in the 1985 Back To The Future movie, goes by the name of "Doc". This is a fact.
When the weekend arrived, we had big plans for Saturday. The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center in New Jersey was having a free admission day and Rob has always wanted to go there. The Lun Wah Restaurant & Tiki Bar is only fifteen minutes away from the museum and we have both had our eyes on this place. Road trip! But first, we had an estate sale to attend.
Our sale for the day was described as "90 Years of Collecting" and had vintage clothes, vintage toys and some Christmas things in the pictures.
Before even going inside, there was a side yard to view and things had been dragged from the garage.
This was a very cool vintage child's tricycle which w are sure that someone must have bought.
This bench, in front of the house, was very interesting. We imagine that this was sold, too!
Once inside, we saw that the sale was a digger and the basement was the place to be. We dug through boxes for nearly an hour.
Yes, the basement was packed!
There were a few good items upstairs, too. The floor in the upstairs hallway was pretty cool. We found lots of great things at this sale but we'll get back to that later. Once we left the sale, it was time to drive the 55 miles to New Jersey.
The trip covered two bridges on the way there (the Throgs Neck Bridge, pictured above, and the George Washington Bridge) and, since we took a different route back, two additional bridges (the Goethals Bridge and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge). This is significant because Monica hates traveling over bridges but it's okay as long as Rob does his best to driver in the middle lane!
Rob moved into the middle lane after this picture.
After entering New Jersey, we saw this great sign for Pizza Town. We had to stop and take a look.
It has been around since 1958 and we will have to stop and get a slice of pizza here one day. We couldn't on this day as we already had dinner plans.
After a two hour drive because of intense traffic, we arrived at the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center which resides on the campus of Montclair State University.
The baseball stadium on the campus is named in honor of Yogi Berra.
The entrance to the museum
Rob confused Yogi as much as much as he confused Rob.
There were so many great baseball artifacts here including these catcher's gloves from over the years. The museum housed many Yogi Berra items but also those of other baseball stars.
Game used bats and baseballs
Authentic vintage stadium seats from the original Yankee Stadium
There was also a feature on the Negro Leagues which is there for a limited time and we were glad to be there at this time.
Vintage Negro League pennants
This room is used for special lectures.
Those lectures have the perfect seats.
Lots of memorabilia and lots of displays
Now, it was time to eat and, after a fifteen minute drive, we arrived at Lun Wah!
It has been around since 1974 and it is the real deal!
As soon as you walk in, you know you are in the land of tiki!
The dining room
Our booth!
An exotic drink for each of us
Monica looks happy!
A giant tiki smiles upon us
It is a great place with great food, great drinks and great atmosphere! We will come back some day!
After the long trip home, we relaxed and prepared for a Sunday where we could catch up with our errands and our chores and to look at the things we brought home from Saturday's sale. When we did, this is what we saw:
A pink sweater for Monica
A vintage children's Mets jacket
The back of the Mets jacket
A baseball game from 1962
Vintage St. Patrick's Day paper plates and an old bookmark with cool graphics
Vintage 1950's devil candle sitters, a vintage can of snakes and a ceramic rooster marked Japan
Unopened vintage novelty toys
Vintage ceramic anthropomorphic salt and pepper shakers
Easter things! A tin train led by a bunny, a plastic egg laying chicken, a plastic duck on a stick, three tin Easter eggs and a bunny on a tin police motorcycle
Four vintage blow mold jack o'lanterns
Vintage Christmas tags and Santa heads
Vintage Christmas stockings
Vintage Christmas card holders (all marked Japan)
Santa's money bag (marked Japan)
A small vintage aluminum Christmas tree
Lots of vintage ceramic Christmas (all marked Japan)
Two creepy Santas, a Santa Claus wig and beard set (complete and in its original box) and two sets of mica houses (one set still in its "made in Japan" package)
It was a very busy week and that is exactly how we like it! We did find some time to rest of Sunday and we were able to get our first tomato of the year! Of course, that's pretty late considering this was the end of September. This was the only one we got for the year. Although about fifty more grew, they never matured. We planted them about a month too late because we had a late spring. Oh well! There's always next year!
So much fun stuff! Thanks for posting all of this!
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Thanks for reading about our adventures, Mary! (Rob)
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