Reminiscences on a Passover in 1917 a ti have stood up to fully replace By DANIEL L. TICKTON The lament, "Eicho Yoshvo that era. It was the time when there Bodod,” is 'quite appropriate when remembering Hastings was a Jewish theater in Detroit, Street of 1917. Oh, how she when the People's, Arcade and "sits solitary," bereft of what Medbu:ry. theaters presented the was the cream of the local Jew- old Yiddish classics and also the ish crop. Once familiar sounds Jewish equivalent of then popu- and senses are gone. No others lar vaudeville. Passover Greetings to - Our Friends and Customers a Famous for All Chinese Native Food. Specializing in American Food _ Real Cantonese Family Dinners Carry Out. Service TO 8-7551 322 W. McNICHOLS Passover Greetings Jersey-Rosebud Creamery Wholesale and Home Delivery — Milk & Cream WA 1-2015 6431 EAST PALMER Holiday Best Wishes ROBERT LAURIE Wholesale Beef and Boneless Cuts 2852 Eighteenth A. M. KIDDER & CO. Then there were the saloons, not peculiarly Jewish, of course, Complete Investment and Brokerage Service but when Passover rolled Established 1865 around, the bars in our neigh- Members New York Stock Exchange and Other Security borhood — Goldberg's, Stern's, Levy's and Sidney Frank's— 'and Commodity Exchanges were shut up tight. 600 GRISWOLD ST. (Ground Floor) WO 3-4320 Passover brought many changes to the community. The barber shops (Citrin's, Lichtenstein's, Kutt's) picked Passover Greetings up much business. People waiting to get shaves, to trim their beards, not only to look nice for the Passover, but also to be prepared for the S'firah Wilford Ballantyne - Norman Laskowsky —no-haircut period.. Neighborhood groceries were • • Ferndale, Michigan stocked with necessities and delicacies for Passover. Stein- berg's Market, Cooper's, Nathan Cash's, Shurgin Brothers were loaded with piles of Matzo Happy Passover boxes, nnts, candies, the usual fruits and vegetables. And when you bought horseradish for the Seder, it didn't come in bottles. You bought the raw vegetable, and it was ground up for you right on the spot. It couldn't 18 . 218 James Couzens Hwy., Detroit 35, Mich. be any fresher. Among the shoeshine boys, Diamond 1-1077 who always shined to music coming from the phonograph, it was understood that , the faster, the louder, the nicer Sincerest. Holiday Wishes the music,* the better the shine. So all day long and far • into the night, the street was - flooded with over-loud treat- ments of the popular music of the day — "Dardenella" and "How Dry I Am"—as business 314 Fox Building picked up for the holiday. At the - bakeries, business was as usual, even though the Lod- zer, the Warsaw, Rosen's and practically all other bakeries Sincere Holiday Greetings would soon be producing no more "Chometz" for the dura. tion of Passover. Business at Binyomin the Blacksmith's, at Able Gross's Harness Shop -and at the feed- store was declining. The ap- proaching holiday had nothing 625 Lafayette Bldg. WOodward 1-5630 to do with it. Horses were on the way out. Income tax had • 11 been around for four years, but the bill was counted in pennies Best Wishes to Our Friends and Patrons and dollars—not hundreds of For a Joyous Passover Season dollars. Personal exemptions were $3,000 instead of the pres- e.nt $600. In 191.7, the first day of Pass- Weatherstripping and Coulking over fell on Shabbos. As much a part of every 908 PHILLIPS Clawson, Michigan neighborhood as its permanent Lincoln 3-9650 fixtures was the local "Shabbos Goy." He was any non-Jew who lived in the neighborhood, and upon whom the Orthodox Jew- ish families depended to stoke Happy Passover to Our Friends and Patrons the ofurnace, bank the stove, open or close the lights. This person was usually the paper- boy, who took on these duties in addition* to his route. For Distributors of Alside Baked Enamel these services, an extra guar- ' ter was usually added to the 15470 Schaefer VE 8-1017 amount paid for the week's pa- pers. Our Shabbos-Goy (and paper- ■ ■ ■ b oy) was Tony. Th at was the only name we knew him by— Tony. He was reliable and punc Happy Passover To Our Friends and Patrons I tual. Our illusions of having found were aPerfect Shabboover. Go shattered that Pass When the people in the neigh- borhood came home from Shul ELgin 6 9380 after combination Shabbos and j 19481 TEN MILE ROAD Passover services, they found ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ their houses as cold as the brisk 15 degrees outside. They waited for Tony to show up and put coal on the fire. They waited Happy Passover to Our Friends and Patrons in vain. Tony did not show up. So with hot tempers and cold houses, the people observed - the seder, bundled up in their win- Jerry Peacock, Prap. ter coats. On the second day of Pass- 14801 W. 7 Mile at Lauder over; Sunday, Tony showed up with the Sunday paper. When VE 5-9666 the irate citizens fairly breathed fire at him, he felt called upon to explain. His explanation cost him four newspaper subscrip- tions and all his Shabbos-serv- Passover Greetings ices clients. The Baal-Kriah was the only one who thought it funny. I can still see him stand- ing there, stroking his . long, snow-white beard and laughing Fuel and Stove Oil for Your Comfort fit to bust as Tony explained, "My darn old Zade. He made 12950 Evergreen VE 8-5800 me come to shul with him and sit through the long seder." 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