Bill Gem Spa, and Ratner's were our special Yippie hangouts. There were still plenty of candy stores in the Lower East Side area and egg creams were not a novelty. But I can, having grown up on them on Ave. U in Brooklyn, declare that Gem Spa's were the best. A word of about Ratner's and their grumpy waiters. They were always nice to the Yippies, "Abbie, why can't you act like a mench?" - And they gave us plenty of free rolls and whatever else - when we came bouncing and kibitzing in there late at night. Stew http://hometown.aol..com/stewa/stew.html
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