Schmidt's Candy Store, Woodhaven, Queens
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Schmidt's Candy is a Queens landmark, having been around since 1925. During the 1950s, German-immigrant-owned candy stores and soda shops, like the one owned by the Heinemann family, were more common throughout Brooklyn and Queens, New York City's eastern boroughs.
This file appears in: Fun with Cousins
Fun with Cousins
"We moved to Queens for a while, and then in 1954 my brother was born."My Aunt Edie and her three daughters lived in Brooklyn with my uncle. They lived in the bottom part of a two-storey house, and on the top were my uncle’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.…