Irving’s Toy & Card Shop

Brookline, Estados Unidos

4.7

20 avaliações

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+1 617-566-9327
Endereço:
371 Harvard St, Brookline, MA, 02446
Coolidge Corner
Paradas e estações próximas de transporte público:
30 mHarvard St @ Williams St
40 mHarvard St @ Beals St
240 m322 Harvard St
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Horário local (Brookline) 08:50 quarta-feira, 4 de junho de 2025

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20 avaliações para Irving’s Toy & Card Shop

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Classificação do local: 4
San Francisco, CA
My candy store when I was a kid growing up. I lived right up the block and it’s sad to hear that the owner passed away.
Classificação do local: 5
Winchendon, MA
So sad the owner passed away on December 10th. She was loved by all and will be missed. The end of an era.
Classificação do local: 5
Beacon Hill, Boston, MA
Cool little store with an amazing woman running it. My little boys loved it. Reminds me of places I visited from way in the past.
Classificação do local: 5
San Francisco, CA
I used to go there after shul when I was 8 years old…60 years ago.
Classificação do local: 5
Taunton, MA
I was in the area a couple of weeks ago and went to go in Irving’s-after more than 55 years!-but, alas, the store had closed just 10 minutes before! I remember going into Irving’s when I was a young girl. Coincidentally, CBS Sunday Morning just did a story, 15 minutes ago, on Ethel and her store! Ethel’s still going strong at 101! Amazing woman!
Classificação do local: 5
Saugerties, NY
I was here last Summer, and it was like stepping back in time. It is the most charming little store you will find anywhere. I want to go back to Brookline, just to go here.
Classificação do local: 5
Pittsburgh, PA
The cutest little game shop you’ll ever see.
Classificação do local: 5
STUDIO CITY, CA
I went to Devotion School in the ’40’s. Irving’s was THE place for me to hang out between school and Hebrew School. Devil Dogs, Coke (in the good sense) and reading comics (without paying for them, of course). Irving used to yell at me to «go to Cheder, already!» Years later, I went back and being away for 50+ years and Ethel not only recognized me but asked for my brother by name and how he was. Wonderful memories, wonderful store, wonderful people.
Classificação do local: 5
San Jose, CA
Back in the 50s, I grew up around the corner from Irving’s. It was an everyday stop for candy or a soda. I remember when Irving was alive and when he died and how Ethel kept going.
In the 50s and early 60s, every neighborhood had a store like Irving’s. Kids would come for the candy. Their parents came in to pick up the afternoon newspaper and a coke or a greeting card.
Irving’s is a landmark on Harvard Street and Ethel an icon of that landmark.
Classificação do local: 5
Clearwater, FL
Love it. This is one of the coolest little shops I have been in a long time. It reminds me of my childhood with yo-​yos and all kinds of cool stuff. Mrs. must be close to 100. Irvings has been there since 1939. I felt like the proverbial kid in a candy store and I was. I bought my nieces Duncan Imperials — gotta stay a purist. They immediately started spinning. We are most fortunate that Ethel Weiss has a dream
Classificação do local: 5
Manhattan, NY
I don’t live in Massachusetts any more, but one of the happiest moments of my first trip back a few years ago was my trip to Irving’s. The moment my sisters and I got our allowances, we would rush over there, and we spent many happy hours poring over the wall of penny candy. Irving’s has not changed. It is a time machine back into the 50s and 60s. You can get anything a child might want there — not necessarily need, but really want. And Ethel (Mrs. Irving’s) even sort of remembered me and my sisters after 40 years. Along with many nostaligic goodies I got for myself, I bought a few postcards for my family, and took some pictures. My sisters were amazed at how little has changed. I will visit again every time I got back to Brookline.
Classificação do local: 2
Salt Lake City, UT
I went there after seeing the great reviews. It was bit disappointing. It has a very very limited toy collection. A old lady, who is hard of hearing sits in front. She is quite sharp for her age. She is helpful, but there is not much to pick from. There is lot of useless junk, here and there. I saw a lot of small kids in her store buying candies. It was more like a cornerstone candy shop, rather than a serious toy store. She does not accept credit cards. Only cash. Not worth a trip!
Classificação do local: 4
Somerville, MA
This place harkens back to a bygone era. A tiny, highly specialized mom & pop shop from the pre-​megastore days, when people would shop locally, and walk to their stores rather than drive tank-​sized SUV’s there. I wish more places like Irving’s still existed.
Classificação do local: 5
Boston, MA
This place was literally like someone placed a time capsule back in the day. There is an amazing selections of fun stuff for the young and the young at heart. There is also a supply of common ‘school’ things, like poster boards, construction paper, etc.
The lady that runs the place is super sweet and has great customer service skills. I look forward to bringing my kids here soon.
One note: cash or check only
Classificação do local: 4
Brookline, MA
I must have walked past Irving’s several dozens times before I stopped by to pick up a last minute present for my 5 yr old cousin.
The shop is filled to brimming with all your favorite classics, and I was surprised to find how reasonably priced things were. I was a little weirded out when the sweet old lady pulled out a random plastic bag (with some other store’s name on it) to put my loot in, but really, it’s kind of cute in a «my grandma would so do the same thing» sort of way. Irving’s is absolutely great.
Classificação do local: 5
Roslindale, MA
I FINALLY had the opportunity to go in!!!
Being a preschool teacher and a lover of all things cheap and/​or old, this is my new spot! I love local businesses but sometimes it is a tough decision to go local and pay more for items or sell out and go to a giant and pay less…
well., one is not faced with such compromises here!!! Ethel Weiss, who told me that she is 94 years old!!, keeps her prices
LOW, LOW, LOW, LOW! (to quote Flo Rida)
She has board games such as candy land as well as little toys and all kinds of old-​fashioned goodies. It is like a time wharp back a few decades, at least!!!
Go in and see for yourself!
Classificação do local: 5
Jamaica Plain, MA
Yea Irvings!
I used to go there almost every day after school (I went to Devotion next door) and Ethel used to sell these little hand-​made baggies of Swedish Fish for a quarter. So awesome. To say that very little has changed in the 15 years since I started going there is not doing the store justice — how about: Very little has changed about the place in the 50 years it’s been open!
Me and C stopped in recently to snack it up and hung out with Ethel for a bit, talking about her store and so on. She has a list of guidelines for living up on the wall, ask her about that — she’s the coolest.
Classificação do local: 5
West Newton, MA
What a little gem. I felt like I need to take a time machine to get there. Candy, gum, games, cards… some of the toys were like the cheap plastic toys that at we’d get at the general store when camping, like little plastic farm animals or activity pads that come with those magic markers. The woman who works there, Ethel, is a sweetheart. She wears a button that says, «I love my customers.» I asked her who Irving is and she said, «My first husband. Died in ’60.» Definitely chat her up if you stop by.
I had been passing by Irving’s for years but I never actually stopped in. So when I did, I bought gum and a figurine of Birdie from McDonald’s.
I hope Irving’s lasts forever.
Classificação do local: 5
Philadelphia, PA
My mom used to walk here on her way home from school when she was little, she then took me when i was little (often after we went to rubin’s).
the older woman who owns/​works here is a sweetheart and i really hope that people take the time to chat with her. I have not been in in a while and the other day for some reason I started worrying. what if one day there is no more Irving’s? that will be a very very sad day… and one i hope does not come.
Classificação do local: 5
San Francisco, CA
When I was in Kindergarden my Grandpa used to take me here to get me little toys or an ice cream from the freezer. Over 20 years later Ethel still runs one of Brookline’s most beloved little shops. She remembers all the neighborhood kids (even the old ones like me!) and knows everyone’s parents, sisters and brothers.
Irving’s is the only place to get a candy bar, a soda, old Devotion School buttons or school supplies with a little friendly gossip.
Tip– Watch Ethel sell candy like a pro when all the school kids stream in at 2 PM. She manages to keep her composure even when surrounded by thirty fourth graders!