“You’re like a rock star “Shoot the Sherbet, Herbert”, asked the Daily News Inquiring Photographer. . “Considering that a former William Morris office boy donated eleven million big ones for Lincoln Center naming rights, consistent with his naming rights at the former UCLA playhouse off the corner of Le Conte and Westwood Boulevard …the gateway to Pauley Pavilion, the tennis stadium, John Wooden treadmill gym and Janss Steps to the campus and quad, the buses, Faculty Club, hospital, and Jules Stein eye hospital..
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“What’s the secret of your cool, your notoriety?” the Inquiring Photographer..”, Brooklyn warehouse, all those bottled sodas in storage”. Meyer Lansky and his Bugsy Segal….. getting in “Shoot the Sherbet Herbert’s’” face..
“How’d it all begin? asked our readers on line and off. “At the Brownsville ‘Murder Inc. “Al “Bummy” Davis, his Golden Glovers (Marlon Brando “I wiz once a contender” “(On the Waterfront”).
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Wheeling the iced baby carriage….the Cokes, Pepsis, RootBeers, Creams, Sarsaparilla, Lemonades, Orange, seltzer…..
”A nickel a pickle” thru East 92nd Street(East Flatbush) WPA bricklayers, carpenters, cement mixers (the
mixer of a “whale”, the truck parked at the curb of these WPOA 1938 projects.
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Whether it was Bugsy’s strong arm iced baby carriage like Paul Muni (George Raft) flipping the half dollar as George Raft, his partner in crime, cased a “modus operandi”, “Scarface (Pau Muni) in the lookout role, t flipping the half dollars..
The P.S. 233 4th grader feeling Bugsy’s or Meyer Lansky’s muscle, supporting the “Cokes, Pepsis… a nickel a pickle” the 9 year old kiddo strolled down 92nd Street past Linden Boulevard and the Waldorf movie theater’s lobby.
“THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL’
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The lobby posters John Garfield (Jules Garfunkel a blonde actress Joan Caulfield, a Warner(Jack L.) Brothers production….Holden Caulfield, Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye”” Marty Rye, our wife’s coz.
….Claude Rains, the Dead Ed Kids from the slums. (Brussels, Belgium).
Strolling thru the lobby as in a moment of personal discovery, the die was cast. He guarded the sidewalk walking to the candy store, next to the cash on the barrelhead admissions.
“A frozen Milky Way, please!”
April Fool’s Day 2016
April Fool’s Day, 2016 The City that never sleeps
