Pop Tate's

My favorite palace without a doubt in Riverdale is Pop Tate's Chok'lit Shoppe, which is the only place I'll lower myself to eating cupcakes in this crappy era.

Pop Tates in Better Times!
Mr. Hunt can be seen reading the paper.

Randolph Hunt is Pop Tate's best customer as well as his most intoxicated. There is a little placque over the toilet that says, "Randolph Hunt Memorial Toilet" even though Mr. Hunt is by no means deceased. In fact he is writing this, right now, this new journalism. He is editing this as well, and later will pay himself just about enough to go out an buy a takeout Chinese restaurant container of Heineken, or maybe
even Guinness, if he's feeling bold. He has been known to run up a tab at Smith's Bar nearly, and try to get out of town visiting friends to pay for it. Randolph Hunt's story has inconsistencies to say the least. His life is melting like an old-fashioned ice cream parlor atmospheric device.

He really really believes that losing the store would be horrible, so please don't tell him that it has closed. What will go in the site where Pop's used to be? Forever 69, or 420 For Beginners, or the Formula 409 Outlet store, it doesn't matter. Maybe even Domino Sugar the Broadway musical or the new Crown Confectionery and Crackhouse. If so, meet Randolph at the Chocolate and Pita Shop on Merrimack Street in Tuscarora Country or on the last remaining parkbench on Winter Street in Lower Manhattan.