FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM MAY 4, 2017 • THE QUEENS COURIER 17 Feel like a “kid in a candy store” again, at Bobb Howard’s General Store Eileen Caplin Wysel & Ronnie Wysel, 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 71 years ago on Columbus Day, 1946, by Eileen’s parents. Today, as in 1946, old-time values continue to be followed… They opened the General Store about 24 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 1000 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.... Throughout the years, 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 Muffler Shop, Best of Long Island, Best of the North Shore, “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 everyday, 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 from their 1947 popcorn machine! Bobb Howard’s General Store 581 Lakeville Road New Hyde Park, NY 11040 516 354-9564 email: oldcandy@aol.com www.bobbhowardsgeneralstore.com Why not add some NOSTALGIA to Mother’s Day this year? YES! We have SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERSNUT ZIPPERS
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