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| > My favorite uncle, Sam ZEIDMAN, worked for many years (1920 something to> 1930 something) at Grays Drug store in Manhattan. The couple of older> relatives Ive asked say that Grays Drugs was well known at the time,> but havent been able to give me any details. |
| >Hi, there is a drug store in Harvard Square that specializes in rare perfumes>and colognes, but I cant remember the name of it. I would like to give them a>call -- can anyone remind me of their name? Thanks.I think its Pepe LePews. |
| After all, he WAS the first person elected president to cop the 5th whenasked about his Mafia ties, and he did put 400 Marines into one convenientlydestructible package in Lebanon, and who can forget his behind the scenesnegotiations with the Ayutulas to hold onto the American hostages in Iranuntil election night, or for that matter trading arms for hostages ingeneral, and then there was the illegal drug dealing his folk (and the thenVP) used to fund the wholesale murder of farmers and Indians in El Salvadorand Nicaragua, not to be surpassed by the failure to even offer a budget forseveral of his deficit ridden years, or his blatant delusion that he hadbeen a Navy pilot as well as one of the first to visit a concentration camp,or even his visit to an SS memorial. He was, after all, the "GreatCommunicator." |
| Then we figured it out -- it was a ghost drug store! As anybody who hasread Tim Powers Expiration Date knows, ghosts have certain definingfeatures, and this drug store had them all. It is obviously a drug storethat had accreted enough spirit that when it closed who knows how long ago,it managed to maintain a facade of continued existence that fooled actualcustomers into coming in, which of course boosted its spirit level enoughfor it to continue further, and so it has continued until the present day,despite the fact that it is in fact a big empty store front. Probably foolssuppliers, too. |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~To post a message to this mailing list please address it to ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***Get ready for the upcoming holidays*** Shop the JewishGenMall~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Grays Drug Store had a large ticket brokering agency during the 1930s and40s -- instead of walaking from theater to theater to see what wasavailable today, one just went to Grays -- on the East side of Broadway,about 43rd Street. If the show was doing well, one paid full price; if ithad lots of empty seats there were bargains. The agency was, if I remember,in the basement. |
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