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Let’s go into Bob Feeney’s when Al and Jim Haley took over, where they would make room for Bessie in the bar where no ladies tread and sat her down so she could watch her granddaughters on TV; where Eddie Milton held court with Tedd McGuire, Doggy McGann, Al Burns, Donny and Mackey Baker, Joe Evanofsky, Paul Gargam, Jimmy Lannigan, Larry Pickman, and Mac McCarthy the cap had his morning cup of tea.

To North Russell Court, where Harry Levine flew his pigeons off the roof – he, the father of Frank, Peter, and Jerry, cousins of Al, Charlie, and Bob Levine, and happily not related to that pseudophilanthropist Joseph E. Levine, the movie mogul – El Bumbo.

Does the passage of time dull our memories so that we cannot remember names like Barney, Sam and Larry Epper, the Lieberman Family, Maxie Lampert, Eddie “Newsboy” Curley, Bert and Arthur Wilkins, Morris Greenstein, the Condell Family, Lee Locatelli, Beatty Sterns, Sid and Oscar Berkman, Helen Silbert, Millie Stein, Herbie and Mitzie Wein, Sam, Abe, Nate, and Sarah Patt, Red the Barber, Lennie Hersch, Helen, Annie, Marie, and Ruby Marko, the Kowal Family (Leon, Sam, and Harold), the Taylors, Lee Teitelbaum, the family that made Dartmouth College and dentistry (Henry, David, Allan, Irving, Lee, and Cyril Romanow), Abe Moish Feldman, the Drooten Family, Lee Lenethal, the Myer Sherman Family, Koppy and Saul Shulman and their families, Harold Zimmon, the Charles Schlosberg Family, Irving Rohtstein (Mickey Redstone’s nephew), Toots Mondello, Harry (Bashetsky) Silva, Mike and Ida Gray, Max Spotnitz, Peter Tempesta, Kosta Christie, Bill Tatten. Who can forget that wonderful Black man Pee Wee Hartley and his pretty sister, Marion, he could hit a ball faster than a bullet, so strong, yet so gentle; Ralph and Nick Pagliuca, and big and little Whitey Rabinowitz, Morris (Dash) Dashute, Harry and Aggie Katseff, Sam and Diddle Stearns, Fred Ferarra, Joe Kaplan. Ten there was Ben Gargill, Alec Shapiro, Al Miller, Norton Miller, Lucky Boorstein, Dave and George Blusher, Phil and Hy Goldstein, Max and Jerry Feld.

What Don’t think that I have forgotten Charles Milligan and Motle and his brother, Duvidal – you knew him as Morris Goldstein Brezniak, who would move your furniture out of your house. Now he’s known as Morris Brezniak, who will move you out of your house.

Ring some more bells with Leo Tarr, George, Hy, and Irving Seigel, Louis Levine, another Segal is gone, but I can never forget Ty.

And do you think that I forgot George Mercantante, who was so kind to a very fear fellow named Teddy Dubrow when he was in need? His kindness and greatness will never be forgotten.

Natalie, Tootsie, and Barbara Anapoulsky, Charlie and Ben Wax, John and Nat Spinale, Al Grosser, the Fletcher Family, the Frenni Family, Nate and Bob Nason, Henry Ectman, Harvey Shapiro, Ben and Aza Wurf, Harry, George, and Jackie Schiraga, Al and Ira Hollander, Harry, Murray, and Sylvia Cohen, Ben Mizner and Lillian Schwartz, Frank, Alec, Haney, and Betty Brooks, Buddo and Rose Greenberg, Allie Stolman and Ruthie Lewis. It would be lamentable to forget Jack and Myron Burnes, Charlie and Bea Meirick, also Abe, Miltie, and Justin Burnes, Mike Pelsko, Biggie Goldberg, Puggy and Musty Yanofsky.

What was this place that evokes so many fond memories? It was relatively small in area, but it encompassed miles and miles of memories.

One might ask what was so unique about such an area – what was its charm? Perhaps, simply put, after eight decades there is so much to talk about and wishfully remember. All these people made it the priceless jewel that it was.

Many readers are aware of the many articles I have written in the past. The above is one of them.

The following are those who have since left us. I suppose I will get calls questioning how I left out this name or that name. My answer is that I didn’t go to a cemetery with a notebook and pen ands take names off the tombstones. They came from the mausoleum of my mind.