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I had an egg cream every Wednesday walking home from religious instruction. Our Mom walked my sister and I home and we past Bernie and Leo's luncheonett. I got an egg cream, my sister a lime rickey or cherry coke and mom a Manhattan Special. Some of the best days! We always had bottles of Fox's U-bet in the house. Seltzer was delivered every 2 weeks by the soda man in ancient squirt bottles in 8 compartment wooden cases that he carried up to our apartment. Brooklyn in the early 60's was magical.