{"id":3115,"date":"2011-01-19T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2012-03-26T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T22:03:44","slug":"fishing-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/fishing-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"FISHING FUN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My mother went<\/strong><\/span> deep-sea fishing off the coast of Miami Beach and caught a sailfish in 1965. \u00a0She had the fish mounted, and over the years, the trophy fish moved around like Waldo. \u00a0It’s in a garage now at my nephew’s in Arizona.<\/p>\n

\"Cleveland

Cleveland Press<\/p><\/div>\n

When I was young, my family went to Florida just that once.\u00a0 I’m not saying we were deprived.\u00a0 I’m saying I didn’t go to Florida regularly like my wife did!<\/p>\n

My wife, Alice, went every single year.\u00a0 Her family stayed at the Deauville. Even Alice’s mother (a small-town Jew from West Virginia) went to Florida annually in her <\/em>childhood. \u00a0\u00a0That was in the 1930s, to a kosher hotel in Miami Beach.<\/p>\n

I married into<\/strong><\/span> money.\u00a0 Or so I thought.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [See the post “Major Roofer.”<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"fla-fishing-the-reel-world\"<\/p>\n

In the mid-1980s, I took my parents’ car and drove from Boca Raton (where my parents had a condo) to Miami Beach, looking for extremely old Jews.\u00a0 The Boca Raton Jews weren’t old <\/em>enough for me; I wanted to see Isaac Bashevis Singer and similar alter kockers<\/em> in Collins Avenue cafeterias.<\/p>\n

Philip Roth’s father<\/strong><\/span> had stayed at the Hotel Singapore. So had Meyer Lansky.\u00a0 Mickey Katz patronized the Delano.\u00a0 (I didn’t see these men. That would have involved time-traveling.)<\/p>\n

The Clevelander Hotel at 10th and Ocean Avenue featured a horrible restaurant, Harpoon Mickey’s. \u00a0I saw plenty old Jews on that trip.<\/p>\n

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A piece fish, plus Toby and Julia Stratton. Florida, 1983<\/p><\/div>\n

Last winter I returned to Miami Beach and saw very few old Jews.\u00a0 I saw a lot of jet-setters speaking foreign languages and wearing nearly nothing.<\/p>\n

I noticed the Clevelander Hotel was spiffed up; the bedroom floors had a silicon seal to keep the guests’ puke from seeping to the rooms below. The Clevelander was now rocking.\u00a0 I looked for T-shirts in the hotel gift shop and read about the silicon seal in a local newspaper article.<\/p>\n

At the Fontainebleau<\/strong><\/span> Hotel, Max Weinberg’s swing band was playing in the lobby.\u00a0 The horn players — studio musicians from California — were wailing.\u00a0 What a treat, and it was free.<\/p>\n

I phoned the cultural arts director at the Boca Raton JCC.\u00a0 She was on vacation.\u00a0 I wondered, Where does a Miamian go for winter vacation?\u00a0 I left a voice mail: “Yiddishe Cup wants to play in Boca again!”<\/p>\n

Success. We landed the Boca fish.\u00a0\u00a0 Yiddishe Cup plays the Boca Raton\u00a0 JCC<\/a> this Sun. (Jan 23), 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

Please see the post below too.\u00a0 It’s fresh fish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mother went deep-sea fishing off the coast of Miami Beach and caught a sailfish in 1965. \u00a0She had the fish mounted, and over the years, the trophy fish moved around like Waldo. \u00a0It’s in a garage now at my nephew’s in Arizona. When I was young, my family went to Florida just that once.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-road","category-toby-stratton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","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=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8810,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}