{"id":10212,"date":"2012-06-11T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2014-01-30T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:48:36","slug":"the-nostalgia-vortex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/11\/the-nostalgia-vortex\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NOSTALGIA VORTEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>About half<\/strong><\/span> the people I meet in Cleveland are graduates of Shaker Heights High School or Cleveland Heights High.<\/p>\n<p>The others are often out-of-towners.\u00a0 (\u201cOut of towner\u201d is anybody who moved to Cleveland within the last 30 years.)<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Heights High grads like to reminisce about the Cedar-Lee neighborhood. Their nexus is the Cedar Lee Theatre and what used to be around there . . . Mawby\u2019s, Meyer Miller shoe store,\u00a0 Earth by April.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/meyer-miller4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10236\" title=\"meyer miller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/meyer-miller4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/meyer-miller4.jpg 718w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/meyer-miller4-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>One Heights<\/strong><\/span> guy told me he learned almost everything in life by selling shoes at Meyer Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer Miller\u2019s co-owner was Cuppy Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>The pool hall below the Cedar Lee Theatre was Wally\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Who cares?\u00a0 Heights people do.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Sid Abrams,<\/strong><\/span> the late freelance writer for the <em>Cleveland Jewish News<\/em>, wrote about Coney Island for many years.\u00a0 He and the<em> Jewish News<\/em> editor grew up in Coney Island.\u00a0 Two people in Cleveland read the Coney Island stories: Sid and the editor.<\/p>\n<p>My nostalgia vortex is Mayfield Road, South Euclid.\u00a0 Mayfield Road was Italians and a couple Jews.\u00a0 My elementary school was on Mayfield, as was my high school.\u00a0 On my way home from elementary school, I would buy Italian bread at Alesci\u2019s and hollow out the insides.\u00a0 My mother would say, \u201cWhere\u2019s the bread?\u201d as I handed her the crust.<\/p>\n<p>West of Alesci\u2019s was the Cream-O-Freeze; to the east, Norge Village Laundromat.\u00a0 It took a village . . . Jay Drugstore (for baseball cards), Lawson&#8217;s (for Hostess cupcakes), Society for Savings (for uncirculated pennies).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Excuse me,<\/strong><\/span> I have to check the Sohio Jackpot winners list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alescis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10238\" title=\"alesci's\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alescis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alescis2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/alescis2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About half the people I meet in Cleveland are graduates of Shaker Heights High School or Cleveland Heights High. The others are often out-of-towners.\u00a0 (\u201cOut of towner\u201d is anybody who moved to Cleveland within the last 30 years.) Cleveland Heights High grads like to reminisce about the Cedar-Lee neighborhood. Their nexus is the Cedar Lee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18503,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions\/18503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}