Celebrating Benny’s 90th

Posted 11/18/14

To the Editor:

Thank you so much for the wonderful article about Benny’s. It brought back lots of happy memories.

Don’t know if you have seen the recent TV commercials, but my husband and I …

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Celebrating Benny’s 90th

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To the Editor:

Thank you so much for the wonderful article about Benny’s. It brought back lots of happy memories.

Don’t know if you have seen the recent TV commercials, but my husband and I laughed out loud because we could hear Dad telling us the same thing.  The slogan, “If Benny’s doesn’t have it, we don’t need it,” is not new. Our dad, John Eaton Jr. told us that in the ’50s when Benny’s first opened. All of his grandchildren, all in their 40s now, remember Grandpa telling them the same thing.

Thank you, Benny’s, for such a long legacy of wonderful memories and happy shopping for so many years.

Joan Eaton White

Warwick

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  • ronruggieri

    I know a beautiful Italo-American woman named Rinata Mallozzi who worked for years at Benny's in Warwick, I believe. Rinata is now almost 90 herself. Her husband Phil-also Italo-American- passed away shortly after my mother Janet Ruggieri , Rinata's beloved life-long friend passed away too- a few years ago . I think the editor of the Wawick Beacon will recall publishing a touching article about the World War II romance of Rinata & Phill Mallozzi. I last saw Rinata at my mother's funeral. And I want to send her my family's enduring love.

    I remember the Benny's store in Washington Park , Providence in the golden post war years ( 1950s and 1960s ) What was special about this Benny's was the life size model airplane on the roof. Back then not just Benny's but Washington Park was a real American Dream. That neighborhood had everything. I went to Broad St. School there. And Roger Williams Park was my back yard. I remember visiting the Museum and being welcomed by huge portraits of Galileo and Kepler. A huge New England whale bone. And a glow in the dark model of the Uranium atom with its 92 protons in the nucleus and 92 revolving electrons. And also the old Planetarium where I could get a crystal clear view of our night sky. Life was beautiful ! ( And still is, Ma said ) Ron Ruggieri, Cranston

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