<\/p>\n
Steve, an<\/strong><\/span> apartment painter, had more words for white than Jews have for fool.<\/em> Steve talked about antique white, Navajo white, pearl white, bone white and white. [Fool <\/em>in Yiddish: nar, shlemiel, shmendrik,<\/em> shmegege, yold<\/em>.]<\/p>\n \u201cOil or latex?\u201d — that was the first question at Lakewood Paint and Wallpaper back in the day. Also: \u201cIs Dutch Standard the same as Dutch Boy?\u201d\u00a0No, Dutch Standard was from Canton, Ohio.\u00a0Dutch Boy is the nationally known subsidiary from Sherwin-Williams, Cleveland.<\/p>\n Bill, a<\/strong><\/span> paint salesman, made regular stops at Lakewood Paint. He told me to use an “alkyd” (oil).\u00a0He cornered me and asked, “Are you a Yehudi<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYes.”<\/p>\n “What are you doing over here?<\/p>\n “I’m working for my old man.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFour years of fun and games at college. Now look!\u201d Bill said. \u201cThere are only two Yehudis <\/em>at Dutch Standard. Me and another guy.\u201d<\/p>\n Bill<\/strong><\/span> wandered<\/span><\/strong> the aisles of Cleveland paint stores in the 1970s. I traveled a similar circuit. Still do. The other day I paid a man for painting a stairway camel white, which is a Behr color from Home Depot. Lakewood Paint and Wallpaper is long gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve, an apartment painter, had more words for white than Jews have for fool. Steve talked about antique white, Navajo white, pearl white, bone white and white. [Fool in Yiddish: nar, shlemiel, shmendrik, shmegege, yold.] \u201cOil or latex?\u201d — that was the first question at Lakewood Paint and Wallpaper back in the day. Also: \u201cIs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27540","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=27540"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27716,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27540\/revisions\/27716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}