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rapher incorrectly
identified the loca-
tion of
Flashenberg's Deli
as Linwood and
Elmhurst. This
caused me to take
out my Boy Scout
maps and reconnoi-
ter the area. I remembered
Flashenberg's as holding forth more
than two blocks north at Richton and
Linwood next to an ancient gray shul.
I also remembered Jerry Flashenberg,
as kind a man as you could find. For
lunch you got two gigantic corned beef
sandwiches and a Nehi Grape for 50
cents. If you forgot your lunch money
or gambled it away in the aircraft
machine at Hainey's across from the
powerhouse at Roosevelt Elementary,
he would arrange a loan. If you stood
in front of Flashenberg's, you would be
smiling at Korn's Restaurant and
Goldstein's Barber Shop in the Richton
Apartments. I still remember the saw-
dust on the floor as Flashenberg's had
been a kosher butcher shop before
Jerry arrived.
"I remember Ralph Goldstein and
his father the barber eating lunch at
Flashenberg's. Also present was Sammy
from the corner market at Linwood
and Monterey and Charlie who ran the
market directly across the street. I
remember all the kids went to Sammy's
to see his beautiful wife in the produce
department. Sammy's Market had also
been a shul for the High Holidays the
year before he opened it.
"If you crossed the street going
south from Sammy's, you were in
front of Ethel Mertz's Bakery, which
was right in front of the Speedway 79
station. For 10 cents you had a seven-
layer cake that has yet to be improved
upon.
"A few doors further south on the
corner was a large and forbidding
yeshiva, the Yeshiva Chachmev
Lublin, the only neighborhood build-
ing, I understand, that is still standing.
It was rumored that the boys who
lived there kept snakes in the attic.
This caused many forays into the for-
bidden halls by local youth that want-
ed to see the snakes. As one of those
brave souls, I now confess that the
closest thing I saw to a snake was a
curled up tefillin one Saturday morn-
ing in the fall of 1948 when Sheldon,
Donny, Joe and I successfully
breached the yeshiva walls.
"After working up a prodigious
thirst the only answer was to cross the
street to Farber's Drugs, catty corner
from the yeshiva at Elmhurst and

