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Best Of Everything

Some Readers Reminisce
About The Good Old Days

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B

ack in time ... with attorney
Stanley Rosenberg ... in
Adventura, Fla. ...
"On a recent trip to
Detroit, I toured the area with my
brain in reverse and noticed the fol-
lowing that are no longer.
"They tore down Roosevelt School
on Linwood near Burlingame and the
ghosts of my principals, Jennie Clow
and Norman Drachler, are homeless.
Gone forever is Dr. Radlow's box of
lozenges that he gave to everyone who
wasn't feeling well and Mrs. Belkin's
piano where some notes that never
before existed were sung by the
a capella choir.
"So is the editorial room for the
sixth-grade newspaper where I, as edi-
tor, incorrectly predicted the election
of Adlai Stevenson and counted the
bags of flowerseeds that we ordered
every winter from Ferry Seed.
"I once got a radish and some
morning glories with some help from
Dr. Plitz, the science teacher. Where
now is Alice Karlek's blue hair and the
square dances in the upstairs gym?
Where can I go to race my Monogram
Monojet cylinder car that we raced
every Friday after school?
"In fact, where can I buy one now
that Smith's Bike Shop on Linwood is
gone? What about all the candy from
Hainey's store at the corner of
Linwood and Burlingame? Mary
Janes, wax lips, Klein bars for three
cents, and that machine where you
shot targets that flew through the air
and sunk Japanese destroyers as you
ate candy on paper, or Denver
Sandwich bars?
"Roosevelt had no hot food cafete-
ria, so when the hands were straight
up we had an hour to go to
Flashenberg's Delicatessen on
Linwood near Richton, where for 60
cents you got two corned beef sand-
wiches and a Birely's pop and sawdust
on the floor.
"If you were Orientally inclined

you could go to Atlantic Gardens with
the Sussman Printing shop on Dexter
the mysterious carved booths where
and the Yeshivath Chachmey Lublin
people you couldn't see ate strange
on Linwood at Elmhurst. Because of a
food behind closed doors. Egg rolls at
rumor that snakes were kept by the
two for 25 cents and wonton soup
Yeshivath boys, a group infiltrated the
with tea cost 50 cents. I used to sneak
building in 1951 and found many
into the booths and these Oriental
Torahs but no reptiles.
men wearing yarmulkes would throw
"As for me, I was on the top floor
me out.
porch behind the Speedway station at
"If you were a lover of hot dogs
Linwood and Monterey, shooting
with fries, there was a restaurant at the
large mayonnaise bottles in back of
corner of Linwood and Webb that was
Zeman's Bakery with my Daisy Red
full all the time. I remember going to
Rider pump gun purchased across the
Farber Drugs almost every day
street from Miller's 10 Cent
to read comics after school.
Store.
The kids used to come and
"I have to go now, as the
read the Classic Comics and
Good Humor truck just
sit for hours as they were long.
turned off Linwood onto
Farber finally stopped selling
Monterey."
them because there were no
Harold Finegood remembers
seats left for customers at the
fountain.
"On the corner of Michigan
"And oh, what a fountain it
Avenue and Washington
DANNY
was with the large frosted
Boulevard were the most
glass Vernor's globe and Coke
RASKIN
prestigious hotels of that
at 15 cents each that I have
Loca 1 Columnist area. In the Book Cadillac
yet to have better. I remember
was the Motor Bar, Cafe
bringing home the tube-shaped boxes
Cadillac, and Book Casino where the
of rum-flavored Rockwood Chocolate
Glenn Miller Band and others played.
for my mother. She was addicted for
"I was a busboy at the Cafe
35 cents a half-pound.
Cadillac, a regular restaurant that in
"By far the most popular activity
summer would become a sidewalk cafe
for children in the area was to attend
right on Washington Boulevard. I
the show on Saturday. The Dexter
accidentally spilled coffee over Hank
Theater at Dexter near Burlingame
Greenberg. He was very gracious and
had all the things that the Avalon had
not upset with me, but I wasn't a bus-
with Duncan Yo Yo shows to boot. I
boy much longer.
still remember the popcorn boxes fly-
"I became a valet boy, picking up
ing to the screen as the show opened
guests' suits and ladies dresses to be
and the see-through curtains revealed
pressed. I would take them up to the
a horse opera or 15 cartoons before
top floor. After being there for about a
the double feature wherein you could
month, I spoke to a bellboy who told
eat the egg rolls from King Lim's near-
me that he was making $5 a day in
by.
tips — a considerable sum in those
"I used to make my father go to
days.
Ben & George's Delicatessen on the
"Remember, just a few years earlier,
same strip as the Dexter-Davison
I had been working for a nickel an
Market and get a few of Ben Epstein's
hour at Jim Simon's Central
and George Fink's sandwiches to get
Delicatessen. So $5 a day in tips, plus
me through the Randolph Scott
$1 a day salary, was a big sum to me.
movies.
"I soon became a bellhop.
"All that is left from that era now is
Sometime around that period, the
war was on and a movie by the name
of Hitler's Children had its premier in
Detroit, starring Bonita Granville.
She was staying at the hotel and I
tried by hook or crook to get a date
with her. I was kind of bold in those
days, but the date never did material-
ize.
"Shortly after that, Allan Jones was
starring in the Civic Light Opera at
the Masonic Temple. The play was
called Fire y with the most famous
song being "The Donkey Serenade."
Allan Jones is the father of the popular
singer Jack Jones.

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