6/23/2023 0 Comments These old shades book![]() ![]() That was our niche, and it's been our life ever since." ![]() "But the guy next door just sold new lamps, didn't sell lampshades, didn't service or restore lamps, so we got a lot of his overspill. That was 27 years ago and it was during the oil crisis, and my new wife, Carol, and I had this theory that if the price of gas goes up, so does everything else, so people would have less disposable income and instead of buying new lamps they would restore old ones." Friends told him he was nuts, especially when he opened right next door to a full retail lighting store with 40 years in the neighborhood. "It was a million dollar a year business, but with the five grand I had left when the lawyers were through I opened this store. "I used to have four retail lighting stores all over Brooklyn," Romeo says about another lifetime, before a fuse blew on his first marriage. If he rubs an old lamp, the genie who appears will look a lot like Peter Romeo, a smiling, sad-eyed Brooklyn Native who earns his living making old lamps look and work like new. If Aladdin reappears any time soon, my guess is he'll show up in the Lamp Doctor on Coney Island Ave. ![]()
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