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Remember what it
was like to
feel like a kid in a
Candy Store?...
581 Lakeville Road ~ New Hyde Park
516 488-7996 / 516 354-9564
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News 12, FiOS 1
Eileen and Ronnie, the owners of Bobb Howard’s General Store
and Auto Repair Shop, are a couple of baby boomers who grew
up on Long Island playing hopscotch and hide-and-seek, stickball
and stoop ball, flipping baseball cards and jacks, and playing
hit the penny and spin the bottle...This family-owned and operated
auto repair business was opened 74 years ago on Columbus
Day, 1946, by Eileen’s parents. Today, as in 1946, oldtime values
continue to be followed…They opened the General Store about
38 years ago, when Eileen, noticing the frenetic pace of today’s
computerized world, decided it was time to go back to a simpler
time, to have people remember what it felt like to be a “kid in
a candy store” again, and go back to a time when games didn’t
require batteries - a place where kids of all ages could come and
browse and giggle with nostalgic memories. The store now
has over 1400 retro candies and toys and ships “packages of
memories” all over the world... People often comment on the
combination of the two businesses, but for Eileen and Ronnie
it is a natural extension of the things they love. Cleanliness,
honesty and integrity are of utmost importance to them, traits
that were passed down to them by Eileen’s parents. There is also
an awards program set up each year at the New Hyde Park High
School in Eileen’s parents‘ memories, not for the smartest kids
in the class, but for the kids that “try the hardest” - that’s all her
parents ever asked of her.... Both the General Store and the Auto
Repair Shop have won numerous awards, including Best Candy
Store, Best Collectible Store, Best Toy Store, Best Auto Repair
Shop, Best Muer Shop, Best of Long Island, Best of the North
Shore, Best of Queens, “One of the 101 Places to Take Your Family”,
and“Family Friendly Favorite”, but the one they are the most
proud of is the award they won for BEST MOM and POP BUSINESS
on LONG ISLAND!!! Eileen and Ronnie feel very blessed and incredibly
lucky: they love what they do, they love coming to work
every day, and they love working with“kids”and“kids at heart”in
both the General Store and the Auto Repair Shop - it must be a
“generational thing”.... Go visit their place and take a stroll down
memory lane. You will smile, and they will send you home with a
free bag of popcorn fromtheir 1947 popcornmachine!
THANK YOU
FOR VOTING US:
BEST CANDY STORE
BEST TOY STORE
BEST COLLECTIBLES & NOSTALGIA
BEST MUFFLER SHOP
email: oldcandy@aol.com
www.BobbHowardsGeneralStore.com
www.BobbHowardsAutoRepair.com
smiles available: Monday - Saturday 7:30 - 5
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