{"id":2836,"date":"2010-12-17T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2023-12-28T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T22:57:58","slug":"a-whiter-shade-of-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/a-whiter-shade-of-white\/","title":{"rendered":"A WHITER SHADE OF WHITE"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nA modern apartment<\/strong><\/span> is easy to paint. You just roll the drywall.<\/p>\n

Prewar apartments, however, can take two days or more.\u00a0 You need to cut-in at the baseboards and at the mullions, and sometimes it’s smart to use two shades of white to contrast the woodwork and the walls.<\/p>\n

\"\"sSteve — a West Side apartment painter — has more words for white than Jews have for fool.<\/em> Steve talks about antique white, Navajo white, pearl white, bone white and pure white (a.k.a. hospital white). [Fool <\/em>in Yiddish: nar, shlemiel, shmendrik,<\/em> shmegege, yold<\/em>.]<\/p>\n

The big question<\/strong><\/span> at Lakewood Paint and Wallpaper was “Oil or latex?”\u00a0 Another pertinent question was:\u00a0 “Is Dutch Standard the same as Dutch Boy?”\u00a0 No, Dutch Standard is from Canton, Ohio.\u00a0 Dutch Boy is the nationally known subsidiary from Sherwin-Williams, Cleveland.<\/p>\n

\"\"Bill, a paint salesman,<\/span> made regular calls at Lakewood Paint.\u00a0 He said, “I would stick with an alkyd [oil].\u00a0 You kids will try anything.”\u00a0 He looked at me.\u00a0 “Let me ask you something.\u00a0 Are you a Yehudi<\/em>? \u00a0That’s a word only one of us would know.\u00a0 What’re you doing here?” \u00a0(On the West Side.)<\/p>\n

“I work for my old man.”\u00a0 (I was 26.)<\/p>\n

“Four years of fun and game at college,” Bill said. “Now look!”\u00a0 He studied my painter’s clothes.\u00a0 “There are only two Yehudis <\/em>at Dutch Standard.\u00a0 Me and another guy.”<\/p>\n

. . . Yehudi Ha-Rishon<\/em> (The First Jew).\u00a0 That was a Hebrew school primer about Abraham.<\/p>\n

Yehudi Ha-Shayni<\/em> (The Second Jew).\u00a0 That was Bill, who wandered the Northeast Ohio paint-store circuit in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A modern apartment is easy to paint. You just roll the drywall. Prewar apartments, however, can take two days or more.\u00a0 You need to cut-in at the baseboards and at the mullions, and sometimes it’s smart to use two shades of white to contrast the woodwork and the walls. sSteve — a West Side […]<\/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-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","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=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31298,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/31298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}