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Created on: 08/11/09 10:48 PM Views: 3990 Replies: 30
Working at Korvette's
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2009 05:48 PM

Did anyone work at Korvette's ? I worked there part of a summer and was "asked to resign" because I told the manager of the Mens dept. where to stick his shirts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:42 PM

I had also worked in Korvettes in the window shade/curtain department, it was horrible!!  The supervisor was a mean and nasty old woman, guess they should had reviewed the supervisory staff maybe it would had helped them to stay in business!!

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:38 PM

I had nice memories of working at Korvettes. I worked there the summer of 1970. At that time you had to be 18 to work there, and I was only 17. I wanted the job so badly, that I photocopied my birth certificate and changed the date to make me 18. They accepted the photocopy and never questioned me. I had to tell all the people who worked there I was 18 because I didn't want to get fired. I was a cashier in a lot of different departments: Women's clothing,(where the played Teach Your Children by CSNY over and over). I loved CSNY but I got to really hate the song.), the candy shop(where I actually got sick of chocolate. LOL!) and my favorite, the record department(who knew then that 5 years later, I would be married and open an oldies record store with my husband!)

I remember my immediate boss was Wanda, who was pretty nice. I even got $50 for finding a bad credit card. I also remember when Korvettes was robbed. I went home early that night, and was shocked to find out it was robbed right after. I was glad no one was hurt.

The only person I remember working with from Little Neck or Douglaston was Barbara Drabkin, who was a few years older than me. She was really nice. I wish I could remember other people who worked there then.

 

 

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 09:03 PM

I worked at Korvettes for a few years starting in 1965. I started in the snack bar which was across from the tire center. I remember at times the counter was three people deep. I remember when we got a microwave oven. We did not really know what to do with it so we put in hot dogs to get them cooking faster before we put them on the grill . I was working the the snack bar the night in November 1965 when New York had its first big blackout. From the snack bar you could see the city. The lights started flickering and the whole city went out. We placed cars facing the window and turned on the headlights so we could clean up and go home. I later worked as a stock clerk in the candy department.

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 11:18 AM

Ellen Weinstock Rosenberg - Class of 1966

I worked in Korvette's from 1970-1971.  I worked in the boys' department and ladies' accessories.  I was a salesperson and a cashier.  I remember once catching a shoplifter.  She had a heavy coat on and merchandise kept falling down on the floor from under her coat.  I called security and they told me that they had been watching her through their cameras.  They arrested her outside the store.

 
Edited 08/24/09 11:20 AM
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 01:12 PM

Kenny,

I never worked at Korvette's but shopped there alot.  I never got a discount from anyone that I knew there but when my daughter was 5 years old and the Cabbage Patch Dolls were the impossible item to get for Hannukah, we did get a call from the store manager to come to the back door and ask for him by name.   He kept one in reserve.  It was like dealing drugs or going to a speak-easy but we bought it a regular price and my daughter was excited.

Since you got into the Waldbaums chat room alls fair in love and war!

Did you know that E. J. Korvettes stood for Eight Jewish Korean war Veterans? Thats a fact.

I remember the pit before they built Korvettes.

 

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 01:22 PM

Max,

 

If it stood for 8 Jewish Korean war vets, where is the "W" ?  That was my cabbagepatch doll that the guy saved for you ! I want it back !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  For 40 years, I've been looking for "the neighborhood cabbagepatch thief " and I've finally found him. NYPD will be at your door in the morning with a search warrant !

 

Kenny

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 01:53 PM

E.j. Korvettes does not stand for Eight Jewish Korean War Veterans. It is an urban legand.

Name origins

E.J. Korvettes was founded in 1948

 

According to Korvette's founder, Eugene Ferkauf, the name E.J. Korvette was coined as a combination of the initials of its founders (Eugene and Joe) and a re-spelling of the naval term Corvette. This claim, and the fact that the name pre-dates the Korean War by three years, contradict an urban legend that the name stood for "Eight (or Eleven) Jewish Korean War Veterans".[4] 

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 01:53 PM

Kenny,  The "W" stands for Waldbaums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We can make an arrangement to return the Cabbage Patch Doll but I must let you know that for the last 34 years my wife and I have treated her like family.

We sent her to Summer Camp until she was twelve.

We sent her to Teen Tours in her 13th, 14th and 15th years

We gave her  a Bat Mitvah at Leonards of Great Neck

We gave her a Sweet-sixteen  party at a Disco in the City

We paid for her undergraduate education at Brandeis University

We paid for her Masters Degree from NYU

And just this Spring, bought her a new Corvette (Not Korvette!)

So lets say we have invested $450,000.00 in her upbringing.

Make a check out to cash and we'll call it even

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 02:01 PM

Hey Kopman stop being a technaphobe!  I like Eight Jewish Korean Veterans better.

What was Waldbaums named after? 

And the word is spelled LEGEND not LEGAND

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 02:05 PM

Max,

You're a typical enabling Jewish parent. How come you never sent her to Medical School ? She could have been a Dollatrician ! Did you ever hold your cabbagepatch over a balcony like Michael did his baby ?

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 02:16 PM

Max,

Waldbaum's was named for Julia Waldbaum who later became a chef and changed her name to Julia Child. There was also a TV series named after her starring Diane Carroll. Actually, Korvette's was named after Ralph Kramden, who learned to "Kor" A Apple ! He mastered this art and became a VETeran apple KOR er !

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 03:41 PM

Max

If you did not work at Korvettes why are you posting on this forum. You told Ken Miller when he posted at the Walbaums forum that" this chat room is reserved for Ex-Waldbaumers only"  

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 03:48 PM

YOU TELL HIM, BARRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 07:26 AM

Barry,

Growing up in the sixties I learned that to get attention you must break the rules!

Kenny Miller paid no attention to my comment on the Waldbaums' website so I'll pay no attention to the rules on the E.J. Korvettes site.  I'm a rebel!

P.S.My Mother worked for a short time at Richies Bakery.  Did anyone out there work there?

Kenny,

We did send our Cabbage Patch Kid to Medical School but she won a scholarship to Mount Sinai  with internship at Albert Einstein Hospital and Residency at Johns Hopkins.

Hey where's my check for $450,000.00???????????????????

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 08:17 AM

Yale Brettschnieders mom worked in Richies Bakery for years.....wonderful lady, always gave us a black and white cookie for free...yum yum

 
Edited 08/25/09 08:18 AM
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 08:31 AM

There was always a box of cake, with red & white string, from Richies Bakery in our home.  My mom played Mah Jong two to three times a week and when the game was in our apartment, cake from 'Richies' was always served.   Good memories!

Now they have changed the name to Richard's Bakery; more formal I guess. You can get coffee too and sit down at a few tables they added when they expanded next door.  Alot of the old timers use the bakery as the morning coffee shop hangout.

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 04:51 PM

MAX,

It was Richer's Bake Shop, not Richie's ! Perhaps if you weren't so busy stealing my Cabbagepatch doll , you would have known this important fact ! Besides, you never even worked at Korvette's and didn't even know what it stood for. All you know is that cheap ass schmaltz herring from Waldbaum's ! You probably had day old cake from RICHER'S !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

KENNY

 
Edited 08/26/09 04:54 PM
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 05:18 PM

you boys better play nice, or you i will send you to the Dean's office.

 

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Wednesday, August 26, 2009 07:11 PM

 

My mom and Dawn's mom-Don Rosenthal's mom and Jorden Fox's mom all worked at Korvettes-they were the original employees that opened the store. My mom worked in men's and then ran the Smoke Shop for a good while. They were loyal employees for many years. We all got a 10% dscount and then we got 20%. Remeber guys.

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 07:17 AM

MR. Kenneth Miller,

 

Who are you to critisize every thing that I mention in these postings?  Who appointed you the Little Neck/Douglaston historian? 

When we meet at the reunion next Spring, better be ready for an ass-whooping from this former Little Neck Lions football player and martial arts artist.   Better start saving and storing your blood now.  You'll need it!

MAX

P.S.    Best of regards to your Mom and brother Larry.

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 12:55 PM

I worked for one month there in August 1966 as an assistant to the, I guess you would call him an engineer or custodian. It was between my first and second year of college. I basically handed him tools, etc. as he worked . Not a hard job. I was going to college out of town so I left after that month. Neil

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 04:11 PM

I worked there after high school....they put me in the cosmetic department and candy department.   It was ridiculous.  Women would come in and ask for make up for a sallow complexion....what did i know????   As far as the candy went after awhie nothing looked good or tasted good.   

I then  worked in the children's department.  I remember when they changed the cash registers and it took forever to figure them out. 

All and all not a bad place to work.  I think I lasted two years.  

 

I wonder what happened to Saul   the guy who swept the floors.....

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 07:08 PM

I was a cashier when the store opened in November, 1965.  First, we trained in an empty store down the hill at the Deepdale stores.  I worked in the toy department and then the record department.  Most albums were $3.49.  Those were the days my friends!

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Monday, November 2, 2009 09:37 AM

Iris,

 

I remember you, not from Korvette's, but from the neighborhood . You were friends with Helene(may she rest in peace). I was friends with Dave Reiter, Doug Andriole, etc.hope life has been good to you!

 

Kenny Miller

 

 

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Saturday, November 7, 2009 03:25 PM

 

OK I give up....I'll weigh in here.  Man, you folks go way back....even before me.  I worked at Korvettes from 8/71 thru 7/77....mostly in the cashier pool, but on the floor in the record department for the last 6 months.  The record dept. manager, Rudy Rutherford, was so cool that he actually made it more fun to work WITH the boss than it was to work when he was off.

 
I remember so much from there, and so many people, that I could type a novel about my experiences there (I guess that's a contradiction....I meant a novel-size entry....it couldn't be a novel because it wouldn't be fiction).  But....I'll be glad to share some memories little by little, in future posts.
 
Not sure how many “future celebs” worked there, but one that I remember in particular. She came on as summer help (as a cashier) for about 3 months, and was my co-worker over the summer of 1974. She made me laugh even back then. She is……..well known comedienne Cathy Ladman.
 
Adrianne, we were never in any classes together, but I certainly knew who you were, and I believe the reverse is true, and....I remember your mom very well....a very nice lady.
 
Vicki, thanks for having nice memories of my sister. I don’t know if she ever looks at this, but I’ll relay it to her. You and I lived across the street from each other and were friendly acquaintances during our elementary school days. We then stopped talking….I’m not sure why, but if I had to guess…..I’d guess it was my fault, so my apologies. 
 
I also remember that night the store was robbed. It was still a year before I became a Korvettes employee, but I WAS working right outside there in the pretzel stand that night, and, just like you, went home just before the robbers showed up. However, my sister had to work a little later, and she did, in fact, get caught up in the robbery, along with her boyfriend at the time (now her husband), Larry Tetenbaum, who worked in the Snack Bar.
 
More Korvettes memories next time.
 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 06:44 PM

Yes i worked in the record department for a little old man named Mo and his assistant named linda. I can still see their faces. What a goof. Lewis Spencer walked in and we bet him he wouldnt put the life size Cigar Store Indian on his shoulder and walk out. And he did. We used to play in the pit where they built it. There was a small lake with deer.

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Friday, January 1, 2010 08:57 PM

You still working at Korvets?

Hope to see you at reunion in May

Jay

Jay 'Bernstein' Bennett

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 06:05 PM

NOT QUITE, BUT I WORK FOR A COMPANY IN CEDARHURST. REUNION IS GONNA BE A PROBLEM AS I NOW LIVE IN TZFAT, ISRAEL. HAVE FUN.   DOUG

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Wednesday, February 24, 2010 10:46 PM

Hi Mark,

Yes, I remember we lived across the street from each other when I lived at the Westmoreland Gardens. I moved to Van Zandt Avenue when I was in first grade, but still went to P.S. 94. I honestly don't remember ever having a fight or argument with you. If I ignored you then, I apologize, it was not intentional.

I didn't realize you worked at the pretzel stand! It's funny how selective our memories can be. Hope you are well and happy. Are you coming to the reunion? I would love to hear from you. Please email me from the class of '68 site.

 

Vicki

 
RE: Working at Korvette's
Posted Thursday, December 30, 2010 04:31 PM

YES I WORKED IN THE RECORD DEPT. FOR A NICE SHORT JEWISH MAN NAMED MOE. AND JUDY WAS HIS ASSISTANT.