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Tweak says, "Shiver me timbers!"

ʙᴇᴠ (mollyringwald) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2020-03-04 09:54:00

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!partner thread, beverly marsh, st john allerdyce (616)

Who: Bev & (St) John
What: A lox bagel, that's what
When: Now
Where: Through the doors, 1940s New York

Send a salami to your boy in the Army.

That was the slogan, an advertisement hanging up on the wall in Katz's Deli, world famous and a draw for regular schmo's and celebrities alike - Bev thought it was a nice idea, because they clearly stepped into a time when World War II was still going. And soldiers overseas lived off of rations that fell under the umbrella of 'godawful.'

It had been easy enough to find the place - the neon sign lit up like a beacon though, admittedly, Bev felt like she wasn't dressed for the times. It was supposed to be a date so she attempted to look decent, however, and had picked a striped sweater dress that hugged her nicely, with tall boots beneath - she was more 70s throwback than 40s, but whatever. At least they actually found an appropriate door, and didn't end up in Timbuktu or something.

She had a chocolate egg cream (though it contained neither eggs nor cream, discuss) and a lox bagel sandwich that was all about the salmon and she was surprisingly into it. "Should probably pick up some old-timey candy while we're here," she noted, poking her straw around in said egg cream. "Maybe that'd be a fun addition to the movie theater that is...slowly being built."

If Eddie and Stan could both stop for two seconds and pull their heads from their asses, that is.

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untamedinferno
2020-03-10 12:47 pm UTC (link)

A small chuckle came from John. "I wasn't near any of that popularity." His small little of collection was humble, and paid the bills a bit at the time. Of course, there were only a few who knew of such things. Carol, Kitty, and now Beverly. "I'll have to see what I can find, if I have any of the work." Which of course he did, it was one of his early on gifts.

Following the line of sight from his date, he smirked. "We didn't have Bazooka gum where I'm from." He stated as the approached the shop. "By where I'm from, I mean Australia - not my world." He laughed. Opening the door for Bev he allowed her to go in first as they were greeted by an older man in a apron.

It was just like he hoped it to be, and honestly it was similar to those he went into during any stint he spent in New York to start with. Bodegas were just sort of frozen in time. "Oh, Bev," John pointed. "Coke in glass bottles..." He trailed off. "Coke was always better from glass." With that in mind, he started taking some good old items and bringing them to the front counter.

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mollyringwald
2020-03-10 07:11 pm UTC (link)

Beverly sort of did love an ice cold Coke - especially with a slice of pizza or a cheeseburger. Yum. "Nice choice," she grinned. "What kind of candy did you have in Australia?" She had never been, obviously. But it always seemed like an exotic place, where the toilets flushed backwards (did they really?) and kangaroos just bouncing around on the dusty roads.

She was delighted to explore the shop, with shelves that were taller than she was - and she picked out some good stuff too. Some old-fashioned things, like caramel marshmallow sticks, jellies, finger crackers (which just sort of looked like long, thin biscuits with chocolate), those Fun Dips and even, yes, a box or two of Bazooka gum.

Such nostalgia. Such greatness, that everything was basically a nickel.

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untamedinferno
2020-03-10 07:42 pm UTC (link)

Oh their stacks were getting large alright. Between the cases of coke they were getting. Coke, Mountain Dew (who knew they came to be in 1940), 7-Up, and others. It was really becoming quite the haul honestly. Glancing around a shelf to Bev he stopped to think for a moment back to his childhood and the candy that graced his sticky fingers. "I would suppose, things like Bubbly and Double Dip." He shrugged some. "Realizing some, a lot of the candy I had had different names here."

Feeling satisfied with the number of treats he had gathered, he looked about the stuff and they might have gotten a little carried away. "Fuck me." John said, getting an immediate look from the older man for such language in front of a lady. John rolled his eyes. "Y'know, this might be too much - but I sure the hell am not putting any of it back." John laughed though, looking at the considerably small amount of money that their load was costing considering they were almost draining the store dry.

"Oi, mate?" John called out to get the attention of the man. "How much for that trolley?" He pointed out to the dolly in the corner. "How about this.." John looked at the price and dug into his pocket pulling out two hundred out. "I'll give you this for all of this, plus the trolley." Needless to say, there was little argument from the older man getting such a deal in his favor. "There. Problem solved. "Anything else, you want?" John called to Beverly while loading up their loot on their brand new, fairly used trolley.

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mollyringwald
2020-03-10 10:54 pm UTC (link)

"I think you gave him a heart attack," Beverly teased, since the look on the man's face - well, it was like he'd won the lottery and then some. Of course he was going to give up his dolly - two hundred dollars could probably buy a car in this time period.

Or, well, maybe not. But it was still more than it happened to be in their current time period.

It was like, real soda too (all that Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew) and not just the stuff tainted with high fructose corn syrup - so it'd be good to have for the movie theater, Bev thought. She added a few more packages of candy and surveyed their haul. "Nope, looks good,"she decided, dusting her hands off. "We can definitely roll this back through the door pretty easily."

So it was a successful trip, in her view. You're welcome for all the sugar, Starklandia.

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