Komorn St & Main St corner shop (in the Ironbound)

Follow Komorn Street until you fade in the horizon of this picture and you'll get to Wilson Avenue where I used to live on the 1st floor of a go-go bar just at the corner of Barbara Street. 

See this quaint 2-floor house at the corner of Komorn & Main Street? Well, it used to be a corner shop in the late 60s & early 70s. I used to work the night-shift at a record factory on the corner of Komorn & Saint Francis St. We worked from Monday through Friday and knocked off a quarter-to-eight in the morning. 

I remember Dentinho (real name: Luis) and I used to walk the one block to Main Street enter the corner shop and get served by a nice lady who owned the business. We usually got ourselves a cup-of-coffee, a single banana (10 cents) or a slice of industrialized apple-pie. Sometimes we sat at a table next to the street window and looked outside while drinking our hot coffee. Most of the times we got a pie or banana and ate it while walking our way back home to Wilson Avenue.

#1: corner of Wilson Ave. & Barbara St., the first place I resided in the Ironbound; #2 Saint Francis Street, a vynil record factory where I started working in mid-October 1971 and met Dentinho; #5 corner of Komorn St. and Main St. where Dentinho & I had coffees and cakes in the morning after knocking off shift work; # 3 house on Wilson Ave which Dentinho shared with 2 other Brazilian fellows; #4 corner of Ferry St. and Wilson Ave.