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Sun Chun Mei 1 – Chinese Restaurant – Closed Over Six Years – West Village, NYC

June 2015 © Frank H. Jump

I remembering coming to eat at Sung Chun Mei 1 after ACT UP meetings in the late 80s. Enzo and I would go there on occasion when in the Village. We happened upon it again after the LGBT Pride NYC and it looked so perpetually closed. I could remember the last time we were there. Pork and string beans in a brown sauce. Pan fried dumplings. Cold noodle with sesame sauce. Eggplant with garlic sauce. I found this article that mentions it called No Longer Driving the Culture, is the Village Now “a Geography of Nowhere?” in the Washington Square Park Blog where Catherine says:

I knew Sung Chun Mei, the restaurant referenced in the article as closed and sitting shuttered for six years (picture above), well. It was a vibrant thriving business, a Chinese restaurant I considered my “go to” place to order dinner often. It is hard for me to even think of it as closed.

Jeremiah Moss references Sung Chun Mei more recently on September 28th in his Vanishing NY Blog. Living in Brooklyn, working in Brooklyn – I am so out of touch with Manhattan anymore. So much is changing in Flatbush, I find it hard to keep up with the changes and harder still to keep up with what isn’t changing beyond my immediate horizon.

Louise Marshall’s Music & Bookstore – Black Lives Matter – Jackson, MS

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Italian Ices Vendor – Gelataio – Vicksburg, MS

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Johnson Bros. Barber Shop – Monroe, LA

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Yucca Motel – Vacancy – Garage – Vaughn, NM

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McMahon’s Tavern Ad – Elmhurst, QU – 2008 – 2015

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Prissy’s Hair Fashions – Coca-Cola – Selma, AL

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Coca-Cola – Brown Circle – Farish Street – Jackson, MS

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A once thriving African-American Blues community is now a ghost town.

Shoe Shine – Jackson, MS

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Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys – Birmingham, AL

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Are you feeling Lucky?

A piece of 1970s-era facade recently disappeared from the corner of the former Red Cross headquarters building downtown, revealing an old “Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys” sign underneath.

Charles Simpson, whose Brookmont Realty Group is marketing the building at 2225 Third Avenue North, said the culprit was a thief who probably used a crowbar to try and steal a piece of the stone siding. But what he really did was uncover a little bit of history.

According to city directories kept at the Linn-Henley Research Library, the Lucky Strike bowling alley was located next door to the Red Cross building, at 2217 Third Ave. North, from 1941 through 1948. That location now is a parking lot.

That bowling alley was hardly alone. Just prior to World War II bowling was big in Birmingham, and there were at least half a dozen alleys nearby in what amounted to a bowling district.

The vacant, former Red Cross headquarters was built sometime in the 1940s, Simpson said, but got its current look when it was expanded in the ’70s. So that sign may have spent 40 years in the dark.

This item was published in The Insider, a weekly column in The Birmingham News Business section. – Stan Diel –  February 24, 2011 [taken from alabama.com]