Showing posts with label street vendor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street vendor. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2025
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
Ice cream time, Los Angeles, Mines Field, 1943. ... dang it, it's universal, happens everywhere that an ice cream truck driver can get to! Thank you John S!
Notice one has a three-bladed propeller, the other a 4 blade
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
dang it, you can't deny the Italians have such a great flair for design... look at these street vendor carts!
the site that hosted these isn't working, so I had to save them from the google search
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Bugsy Siegel, as a teenager, was running the protection racket on street car peddlers (and I post about street peddlers because nearly all of them have a cart rolling on wheels, and some were very cool. Who knew the organized crime element was taking a cut?)
before becoming a bootlegger in Prohibition, joining the "Syndicate" (mob), spinning off an independent group with Murder Inc, then heading out to LA and becoming the biggest narcotics importer on the west coast
His girlfriend was known as the Flamingo, and that's why he named his casino in Vegas the Flamingo when it opened in 1947, for his girlfriend.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/
As a boy of 14, Siegel left school and joined a gang on Lafayette Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He committed mainly thefts until he met Moe Sedway, and they developed a protection racket in which he threatened to incinerate pushcart owners' merchandise unless they paid him a dollar
https://barrioboychik.wordpress.com/tag/bugsy-siegel/
https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/benjamin-bugsy-siegel/
https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/benjamin-bugsy-siegel/
The unsuspecting and penniless cart owners would almost always initially turn down Siegel's offer. Flying into a rage, Siegel would douse the carts in kerosene, light them on fire, and demand payment. The peddlers, having little choice, would pay Siegel, falling under his "protection."
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
the street vendors right to have a location, is now the pivotal issue that the Queens borough president, Democrat Donovan Richards, will not bend on, if the New York City Adams administration wants his vote for the 780 million dollar soccer stadium
“What I said to the administration is: I will not sign off on any fútbol stadium until my vendors are returned to Corona Plaza,” Richards told the gathering, to thunderous applause. “And you can tweet that.”
He added, “Those [street] maps will collect dust for the rest of the year because we will not turn our backs on the working people of our borough.”
The ultimatum adds a new wrinkle to a long-running dispute over Corona Plaza, where the city earlier this year shutdown a popular street vendor market amid complaints about cleanliness, crime and crowding, including from owners of brick-and-mortar stores. Many of the street vendors are migrants doing business without licenses.
The 25,000-seat stadium is the future home of the New York City Football Club, set to debut in 2027.
City officials have said they are still ironing out long-term plans for a market at Corona Plaza, after sanitation police cleared out dozens of vendors in July over ongoing complaints of blocked sidewalks, unsanitary conditions and “illegal vending” too close to storefronts.
Richards said he’s still negotiating with the Adams administration about the number of vendors that will be allowed back at the plaza, which was once home to over 80 stalls. Richards said his “magic number” is 28 vendors, but said he’s still fending off proposals to permanently exclude vendors from the plaza.
“I'm going to use every tool in my toolbox to ensure that they're not left out of the conversation,” Richards said.
He added, “Hell, no. I'm not gonna put this stadium in drive while the vendors are in neutral.”
Richards pointed to what he called “hypocritical” doublespeak by the Adams administration, at once advocating for the Biden administration to expand work authorization for newly arrived migrants, while denying new licenses to long-time vendors in the city.
The number of licenses and permits to legally vend in the city have remained limited for decades. Effort to expand the supply has been mired in years-long delays.
https://gothamist.com/news/nycs-first-soccer-stadium-hits-a-snag-the-queens-borough-president
“It’s been dead,” Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said of the plaza since the vendors’ departure. “It’s taken the life out of the community.”
New York City sanitation police shut down the bustling street vendor market in Corona Plaza in late July, citing ongoing complaints about blocked sidewalks, “dirty conditions,” and “illegal vending” that took place too close to storefronts.
More than 80 vendors — who are mostly women and immigrants without any legal immigration status, according to advocacy groups — lost their livelihoods and income following the crackdown, after helping to revive the neighborhood, which was among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The market used to lure weekend tourists from across the boroughs and even outside the state. TikTokers advertised the “cheap eats” — dollar tacos! — and home-style cooking from across Latin America. This spring, New York Times food critic Pete Wells pegged the venue as No. 48 on his list of The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City.
“This was one of the most interesting places you could go to explore and see what people in that part of Queens were cooking,” Wells said in an interview, later adding: “It was unlike anything else in New York.”
Councilmember Francisco Moya, who represents the area, has said that his office receives up to 20 complaints a week about vendors, including that they steal customers from brick-and-mortar businesses, block the sidewalk, and improperly dispose of trash. Moya, who supported the sweep, has blamed the market for unsanitary conditions, rising crime and unruly behavior. “What is happening in Corona Plaza and all along Roosevelt Avenue is just out of control, it’s chaos,” Moya told the Jackson Heights Post.
https://gothamist.com/news/after-street-vendor-crackdown-corona-plaza-market-is-a-changed-place
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Thursday, July 20, 2023
how accessible a street vendor permit is, by how much it costs the person running the business, indicates how little a city wants them doing business.... it varies drastically by city
It's $541 in Los Angeles
It was reduced to $291 during covid. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/city-of-la-looks-to-reduce-street-vendor-permit-fees/
Most street vendors make about 11k a year, and are recent immigrants, and are pushed out of prime locations by big businesses that give kickbacks (or bribes) to the permit people at City Hall for favorable terms, like, best locations, revoking single cart owner operators, etc
Chicago charges 58 dollars, and San Diego only 38 dollars, according to https://www.theeastsiderla.com/news/government_and_politics/l-a-to-look-at-reducing-street-vendor-fees/article_0903285c-1637-11ee-82c0-0fa2771566d9.html
This was brought before LA City Council, who voted 12-0 to look into lowering their permit fee for street vendors
Saturday, September 10, 2022
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Friday, August 12, 2022
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Friday, April 08, 2022
When driving as a chauffer, one ought to not criticize any passenger, when they out number you and will twist your nose... plus, this history of Cracker Jack
Frederick, the patriarch, wasn’t involved, but his 2nd wife, Mrs. Ola J. Roberts, and two of his step children—Alta and Harry were caught in the fray, along with family friend Robert Kimball. Their adversary, it seems, was the Rueckheims’ chauffeur, Fred Nelson, who’d opted to criticize Kimball for leaving the car’s lights running, draining the car battery
Frederick Rueckheim was born in Japenzin, Germany, in 1846, but his loyalties, more specifically, rested with Prussia, as he fought for that side in the Prussian-Austrian War of 1866. Three years later, he immigrated to the U.S., joining many of the veterans from another recent war, all seeking a better life in the great American West, and back then, Chicago was way out West.... keeping in mind that the actual site of the Charles Ingalls house on Indian land was located in what is now the southeast corner of Section 36, Rutland Township, Montgomery County, Kansas. That was 1869.
Fred Rueckheim, carrying $200, met William Brinkmeyer out on the city salvage circuit. Before the fire, Brinkmeyer had been the fairly successful owner of a Chicago popcorn stand. Now Rueckheim put up his stash of cash to re-establish Brinkmeyer’s business. They operated out of a backroom, utilizing one molasses kettle and a single popper.
There were a couple key technical innovations that really separated Cracker Jack from the legions of similar candies out on the market at the turn of the century.
First, Louis Rueckheim figured out how to prevent the individual morsels from sticking together into a coagulated gooey mess—some sort of barrel rotation trick. This made the stuff exceedingly more edible.
Tin Pan Alley singer who, in 1908, penned a little ditty called “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (incidentally, he’d never been to one). To maintain a proper rhyme scheme, Norworth lazily name-checked his favorite confection in the lyrics—“Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack . . .”
When the song subsequently became the year’s biggest hit, nobody was more blindsided than the guys at the Cracker Jack offices. Without lifting a finger, they’d become the beneficiaries of perhaps the greatest pro bono marketing campaign in American history
It was the country’s first great sports anthem, and by a stupid stroke of luck, it permanently correlated the Cracker Jack name with America’s pastime— with a free ad in every rendition, ad nauseum.
In the ‘20s and ‘30s, a kid might get to the bottom of a box only to find a tiny diecast “thing”—a hat, a boot, maybe a thimble or an iron. Of course, when those same diecast molds wound up as Monopoly game pieces a wee bit later, it was no coincidence. They were all manufactured by another pair of Chicago siblings, the Dowst Brothers.
Young Alta told Nelson he was out of line. Nelson quipped something back at her, and the rumble was on.
“Details of a free-for-all battle royal that would have crowded the most agile comedy from the movie screens were described yesterday before a jury in Judge Robinson’s municipal court,” the Tribune reported.
“Harry tried to wallop the chauffeur and Kimball received one from Nelson. Miss Roberts, it is alleged, picked up a wrench and used it freely. After she lost it she scouted up an empty milk bottle. Finally Nelson was borne to the ground, and while lying there, according to testimony, Mrs. Rueckheim twisted his nose. . . . Mrs. Rueckheim and her daughter deny most of the assault charges, but Miss Roberts does admit the wrench part.”
“Details of a free-for-all battle royal that would have crowded the most agile comedy from the movie screens were described yesterday before a jury in Judge Robinson’s municipal court,” the Tribune reported.
“Harry tried to wallop the chauffeur and Kimball received one from Nelson. Miss Roberts, it is alleged, picked up a wrench and used it freely. After she lost it she scouted up an empty milk bottle. Finally Nelson was borne to the ground, and while lying there, according to testimony, Mrs. Rueckheim twisted his nose. . . . Mrs. Rueckheim and her daughter deny most of the assault charges, but Miss Roberts does admit the wrench part.”
Harry, Alta, and Nelson were charged with assault; Ola and Robert were charged with disorderly conduct. The judge decided to dismiss all the charges and told the involved parties to “go home and be peaceful.”
“‘Who Hit Our Chauffeur?’ Is Court Comedy,” Chicago Daily Tribune, August 8, 1917, 13 might detail the court transcripts, which I bet were funny... but I can't find an online copy
https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/cracker-jack-co/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/04/06/cracker-jill-debut-cracker-jack/
When the Great Chicago Fire flattened the skyline in 1871, Rueckheim decided to head north and help with the cleanup effort.
Fred Rueckheim, carrying $200, met William Brinkmeyer out on the city salvage circuit. Before the fire, Brinkmeyer had been the fairly successful owner of a Chicago popcorn stand. Now Rueckheim put up his stash of cash to re-establish Brinkmeyer’s business. They operated out of a backroom, utilizing one molasses kettle and a single popper.
There were a couple key technical innovations that really separated Cracker Jack from the legions of similar candies out on the market at the turn of the century.
First, Louis Rueckheim figured out how to prevent the individual morsels from sticking together into a coagulated gooey mess—some sort of barrel rotation trick. This made the stuff exceedingly more edible.
Second, a new addition to the company, Henry G. Eckstein, came up with a way to better preserve the freshness and crispness of the snack for those long shipments back to the east coast. In 1899, his “waxed sealed package” enabled F. W. Rueckheim & Bro. to sell their product in slim waterproof cartons instead of expensive, bulky tins.
Tin Pan Alley singer who, in 1908, penned a little ditty called “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (incidentally, he’d never been to one). To maintain a proper rhyme scheme, Norworth lazily name-checked his favorite confection in the lyrics—“Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack . . .”
When the song subsequently became the year’s biggest hit, nobody was more blindsided than the guys at the Cracker Jack offices. Without lifting a finger, they’d become the beneficiaries of perhaps the greatest pro bono marketing campaign in American history
In the ‘20s and ‘30s, a kid might get to the bottom of a box only to find a tiny diecast “thing”—a hat, a boot, maybe a thimble or an iron. Of course, when those same diecast molds wound up as Monopoly game pieces a wee bit later, it was no coincidence. They were all manufactured by another pair of Chicago siblings, the Dowst Brothers.
The recipe for Cracker Jack has only changed once since 1896. After Borden purchased Cracker Jack in 1964, the recipe exchanged white sugar for corn syrup
By 1930, the Cracker Jack Company used 25 percent of the world’s supply of popcorn for its products
this was easily a 2 hour post just to read source material and decide what to repost, and was motivated by the chauffer funny story, and then the desire to share the story of the iconic Cracker Jack that had originated as a street vendor selling fresh popped popcorn, in the cleanup of the devastating fire of Chicago - the only story I have heard that connects events that have had to do with Chicago's fire and salvage of any major city disaster.
San Fran was destroyed in 1906, posted about https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/10/san-francisco-1906-earthquake-and.html and https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/03/west-san-francisco-had-street-car.html
Baltimore was destroyed in a 1904 fire https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/01/how-goliath-fire-horse-became-hero-in.html
and I can't recall any others that were this large and destroyed, but a lot of smaller ones were, like Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Johnstown,
Friday, July 16, 2021
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Cool photos colorized by Imbued By Hues
1952 W. 88th St. Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC Photo by Ruth Orkin
Just passing the time of day, or, mixing words about the turf one of them is claiming the other is trespassing on?
https://www.facebook.com/imbuedwithhues
Hoover Dam construction
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
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