{"id":26243,"date":"2019-03-06T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26243"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:53:12","slug":"big-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/big-names\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG NAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Howard Metzenbaum<\/strong><\/span> was a big name in my father\u2019s generation. Metzenbaum made millions in parking lots, and eventually became a U.S. senator. My father and Metzenbaum were born the same year, 1917, in Cleveland. My dad didn\u2019t know Metzenbaum but enjoyed following his career.<\/p>\n<p>Metzenbaum, in his later years, owned a condo at Three Village, the holy of holies for upscale living on East Side Cleveland. The building went up in 1978 near Cedar Road at I-271. The Three Village condo development was wooded and secluded. My parents lived nearby, at the Mark IV apartments (now called the Hamptons). My parents liked brand-new housing; they weren\u2019t keen on used. Everything had to be shiny and new, maybe because they grew up in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Across from the Mark IV was Acacia on the Green &#8212; a step up, rent- and prestige-wise, from the Mark IV. Next to Acacia was Sherri Park, a step down. Across from Sherri Park was Point East, a step up from Acacia but down from Three Village. These buildings all went up in the 1970s and were popular with my parents\u2019 generation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/three-village-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"three village\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/three-village-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/three-village.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My parents<\/strong> <\/span>never went inside Metzenbaum\u2019s building. I did. I visited a rich friend who bought a condo in Three Village. Metzenbaum was long gone &#8212; dead as of 2008. The building\u2019s buzzer directory read <em>Maltz, Mandel, Ratner, Risman, Weinberger <\/em>and<em> Wuliger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe you have to be an old Cleveland Jew to appreciate that. If you\u2019re not an old Cleveland Jew and have read this far, please explain why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Metzenbaum was a big name in my father\u2019s generation. Metzenbaum made millions in parking lots, and eventually became a U.S. senator. My father and Metzenbaum were born the same year, 1917, in Cleveland. My dad didn\u2019t know Metzenbaum but enjoyed following his career. Metzenbaum, in his later years, owned a condo at Three Village, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full","category-toby-stratton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243","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=26243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26251,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26243\/revisions\/26251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}