Why is Egg Roll House? (2 Viewers)

[Mr. Blue Sky]

You know, I actually never ate there. Back in the day there was a Godfather's pizza in that strip mall.

And a Pheidippides running shoe store way in the back corner.. spent a few hours in there while trading for Crescent City Classics.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

My favorite pizza place in the 80's was Peter's pizza on Magazine. Non other than Saint alum Rich Mauti (i worked with the same company as him for a time in college) turned me onto it. The first (and best) real NY style pizza I had ever had.

You went to Penn State with Rich Mauti? I met him once (well, besides the few times i met him while collecting autographs in the bowels of the Superdome when i was a little kid in the 80s) and he showed me his ring, and spent a few minutes talking about playing for JoePa (this was prior to all the scandals that engulfed the school a few years later).. When i was a kid i wanted to be a WR like him, and even wanted to wear #84.. but alas, i was a little too .. husky.. and they put me on the offensive line. :-(

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Heh, I won a Pizza Man pizza one night on the B97 Hot Rocks Scramble.

what did you win with?

 

[LAhotsauce]

I know one thing. Do NOT use their parking lot to go to the Shake Shack next door.

Classic case of it you want trouble you found it.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

My dad told me that one time at Egg Roll House he got a piece of meat with a hollow bone inside.

 

[Charlie Brizzown]

My dad told me that one time at Egg Roll House he got a piece of meat with a hollow bone inside.

He might have been talking about a different kind of house.

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

He might have been talking about a different kind of house.

No, specifically the Egg Roll House.

 

[Zack Lee]

This thread is now epic. I have to go back and read it all since it appears it could eventually be legend

 

[Doug B]

And a Pheidippides running shoe store way in the back corner.. spent a few hours in there while trading for Crescent City Classics.

Either this place is STILL open, or they closed within the last few years. Every time I'd go to that TJ Maxx in recent-ish years, I'd keep seeing Phidippides and thinking "Man ... that place is still there?"

EDIT: OK, I went and looked it up -- Phidippides closed just last year on August 31, 2019. It was owned by a husband and wife, and the husband died of cancer in 2016.

Metairie's Phidippides, a fixture in New Orleans running, is closing

Phidippides, a Metairie athletic shoe retailer and a fixture in the local running community for nearly 40 years, is closing. The store's final day will be Aug. 31.

www.nola.com

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Either this place is STILL open, or they closed within the last few years. Every time I'd go to that TJ Maxx in recent-ish years, I'd keep seeing Phidippides and thinking "Man ... that place is still there?"

EDIT: OK, I went and looked it up -- Phidippides closed just last year on August 31, 2019. It was owned by a husband and wife, and the husband died of cancer in 2016.

Metairie's Phidippides, a fixture in New Orleans running, is closing

Phidippides, a Metairie athletic shoe retailer and a fixture in the local running community for nearly 40 years, is closing. The store's final day will be Aug. 31.

www.nola.com

I remembered seeing an article about it closing, but I thought it was 3 or 4 yrs ago.. nice to see they made it to 2019, they must have had a run of 40 yrs or so.. And they shut it down just in time to avoid 2020!

 

[antipop]

And a Pheidippides running shoe store way in the back corner.. spent a few hours in there while trading for Crescent City Classics.

that place just recently closed down

 

[TheRealJRad]

And they shut it down just in time to cause 2020!

Or maybe...

 

[Dago]

when i worked for cox (lol), we went there a lot. loved the place (not cox). though haven't been in a long (lol) time.

Heh....you love cox

 

[Dago]

Fongs - I think it was more across from Nicholson and Loup than the western store. Grandparents used to live not to far down from there actually neighbors with the Congemi family. There was a tale of the fire department entering Fong's one time and finding dog's hanging up, in which Fong declared that was for personal consumption.

Back when i was little we would go there. My dad would always say "Let's go get Fonged"

 

[Dago]

Comeback Inn has a great muffaletta.

Negative!