{"id":6328,"date":"2011-10-19T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2012-03-26T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T21:37:21","slug":"the-billys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/the-billys\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BILLYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>My parents<\/strong><\/span> often name-dropped Billys, who I usually didn&#8217;t recognize.<\/p>\n<p>The Billys were:<\/p>\n<p>1.) Billy Rose.\u00a0 He\u00a0 put together the Aquacade show at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936-7.\u00a0 The Aquacade was a theater-like pool.\u00a0 There was an orchestra and synchronized swimming.\u00a0 Johnny Weissmuller starred in it. Billy Rose took the show to the New York World\u2019s Fair in 1939.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/worlds-fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6329\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"worlds fair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/worlds-fair-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/worlds-fair-256x300.jpg 256w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/worlds-fair.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2.) Billy DeWolfe.\u00a0 A character actor. \u00a0 Billy De Wolfe occasionally ate at my Great Uncle Itchy\u2019s restaurant, Seiger\u2019s, on Kinsman Road.\u00a0 Was Billy De Wolfe\u00a0 really Billy D. Wolf,\u00a0Billy The Wolf, or what?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>3.) Billy Weinberger,<\/strong><\/span> a Short Vincent Street restaurateur (Kornman\u2019s) who moved to Las Vegas in 1966 and took over Caesar\u2019s Palace.\u00a0 My Uncle Al\u00a0 got discount hotel rates &#8220;from Billy&#8221; in Vegas.\u00a0 Billy was close with the Cleveland mobsters who started Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Did I ever name-drop Billys to my kids?\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think so.\u00a0 I can\u2019t think of any Billys.\u00a0 My parents took all the Billys.<\/p>\n<p>I did Garys: Gary Moore, Gary Powers and Gary Lewis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Bonus:\u00a0 <em>Whatever Happened to Putt Putt?<\/em>, an original video:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Qnk8Wx2Lfo?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents often name-dropped Billys, who I usually didn&#8217;t recognize. The Billys were: 1.) Billy Rose.\u00a0 He\u00a0 put together the Aquacade show at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936-7.\u00a0 The Aquacade was a theater-like pool.\u00a0 There was an orchestra and synchronized swimming.\u00a0 Johnny Weissmuller starred in it. Billy Rose took the show to the New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age","category-family-history-not-boring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","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=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8762,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/8762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}