{"id":21254,"date":"2015-02-11T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=21254"},"modified":"2015-03-17T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T18:12:00","slug":"machers-on-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/machers-on-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"MACHERS<\/i> ON THE ROOF"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Howard Metzenbaum<\/strong> <\/span>was the big name in my father\u2019s generation.\u00a0 Metzenbaum made millions in parking lots, and eventually became a U.S. senator.\u00a0 My father and Metzenbaum were born the same year, 1917, in Cleveland.\u00a0 My dad didn\u2019t know Metzenbaum but enjoyed following his career.<\/p>\n

Metzenbaum, in his later years, owned a condo at Three Village, the holy of holies for upscale living in Cleveland.\u00a0 The building went up in 1978 near Cedar Road at I-271.\u00a0 The Three Village condo development was wooded and secluded.\u00a0 My parents lived nearby, at the Mark IV apartments (now called the Hamptons).\u00a0 I don’t know why my mother went to apartment living from a colonial in South Euclid.\u00a0 She was a gardener, and then suddenly she was\u00a0 doing tomatoes in pots on her Mark IV balcony.\u00a0 My parents liked brand-new housing; they weren’t keen on used.\u00a0 Everything had to be shiny and new, maybe because they grew up in poverty.<\/p>\n

Across from the Mark IV was Acacia on the Green — a step up, rent- and prestige-wise.\u00a0 Next to Acacia was Sherri Park, a step down.\u00a0 Across from Sherri Park was Point East, a step up from Acacia but down from Three Village.\u00a0 These buildings all went up in the 1970s and were popular with my parents’ generation.<\/p>\n

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My parents<\/strong><\/span> never went inside Metzenbaum\u2019s building.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 I visited a friend who bought a condo in Three Village.\u00a0 Metzenbaum was long gone — dead as of 2008 — and this was 2014.\u00a0 The building’s buzzer directory read Maltz, Mandel, Ratner, Risman, Weinberger<\/em> and Wuliger<\/em> (among others).\u00a0 Some of the condos were 7,500 square feet.<\/p>\n

Maltz, Mandel, Ratner . . .<\/em> Maybe you have to be an old Cleveland Jew to appreciate that.\u00a0 If you’re not an old Cleveland Jew, and have read this far, please explain.<\/p>\n

Buzz.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> Come in.<\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/a>

Alan Douglass (L), Bert Stratton and Tamar Gray<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The Klezmer Guy Trio performs at Nighttown<\/a>, 7 p.m. Wed., Feb. 25.\u00a0 An evening of social commentary, plumbing tips and music. $10. 216-795-0550.\u00a0\u00a0 Alan Douglass, piano and vocals.\u00a0 Tamar Gray, vocals.\u00a0 Klezmer, soul and standards.\u00a0 I’ll do prose blurts and play clarinet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howard Metzenbaum was the big name in my father\u2019s generation.\u00a0 Metzenbaum made millions in parking lots, and eventually became a U.S. senator.\u00a0 My father and Metzenbaum were born the same year, 1917, in Cleveland.\u00a0 My dad didn\u2019t know Metzenbaum but enjoyed following his career. Metzenbaum, in his later years, owned a condo at Three Village, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21254"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22722,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21254\/revisions\/22722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}