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Originally Posted by Hitch
You will not believe this, but lo, I am well familiar with Junior's and yes, I've had it delivered here in AZ for...gosh, years now. I want to say 20 years, maybe longer; I don't want to lie, but a looooong time, ever since they started offering that.
I used to have to go to this local deli-cum-restaurant, Guido's and beg them to let me buy one off them. (Paying their retail, in the store, per-slice price!) Finally, Junior's started offering them shipped, and OH, BABY, yes, I was in cheesecake heaven. I like mine plain. Just cheesecake, no foofy stuff. :-)
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Plain Juniors Cheesecake is already simply perfect. Any additional adulterants are actually detractors. Oh, I wouldn't turn one down with strawberries on it, but I'd likely scrap them off.
I was actually working on the subway in NYC, at the Atlantic Avenue IRT station, when the great Junior's Cheesecake Fire happened in 1981.
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Originally Posted by Junior's
In 1981, late on a hot Sunday, August 17th, a fire destroyed the roof and top floor of Junior’s. As firefighters shot water into the building, onlookers chanted: “Save the cheesecake, save the cheesecake!”
For nine months and three days, Junior’s was closed. We opened a temporary kiosk in Albee Square Mall next door to sell cheesecake that we baked at a nearby candy factory.
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I was one of those chanting, given that I'd just hopped a train down one stop to Nevins St. to grab some lunch when I saw the fire.