Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

TIME FOR PUTT-PUTT

by Bert Stratton

 
Whatever happened to Putt-Putt? There are only 29 Putt-Putt courses left in the United State.

My son Teddy had a childhood birthday party at the Northfield Road Putt-Putt in 1990. He got a trophy and a cake. The birthday boy got a trophy, no matter what.

At Putt-Putt, you can make a hole-in-one on every hole if you are good and lucky. All the holes are par 2. Teddy — in his adulthood — had a friend who was a Putt-Putt pro.

There used to be a Chinese mini-golf course on Libby Road at Broadway Avenue in Cleveland, with a Buddha that went up and down. That was the epitome of exotic outings to my high school gang.

My grandkids are now two and four years old. Time for me to revive my mini-golf outings? I just need to stay healthy so I can bend down and pick up the ball. That’s the hardest part of mini-golf.

I always liked the windmills and streams, like at Pirate’s Cove. The man who started Putt-Putt called those features “gimmicks.” He was Don Clayton of Fayetteville, North Carolina. I’m not him.

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Yiddishe Cup plays a free concert 7 pm Sunday, June 28, at the Alma Theater, Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

2 comments

1 Mark Schilling { 06.10.26 at 2:13 pm }

I played putt-putt at Lakeside OH with my brother Jeff and my cousins in the early ’60s. The course is still there but my cousins aren’t — they moved when their dad, my uncle Bud, got a gig teaching dentistry in Georgia. Lakeside was fun though the movies they screened there were terrible — Elvis and beach blanket pics.

2 MARC { 06.10.26 at 2:22 pm }

Don’t have putt putt near me but do have
Monster-themed mini-golf chain featuring a glow-in-the-dark indoor course, plus arcade games & a DJ.

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