Posted on 03/16/2009 3:29:13 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
I found the Guinness to be a fine match. Tonight we’re doing spaghetti; no, not home made. And a glass of cabernet sauvignon though not my particular favorite with spaghetti. It’s what’s available.
The Maurice Seymour Studio was on the near north side, I think. I wonder if Maurice and Sonia lived there, too, or if they lived farther north, in the neighborhood I grew up in, which was the most Jewish neighborhood in the city. Maurice Seymour’s actual surname was Zeldman.
Maurice and Sonia’s son, Ron, now runs the photography studio:
See more on Seymour:
http://www.ronseymour.com/ronsite/msquote.html
http://www.ronseymour.com/ronsite/maurice.html
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2006/Time-Exposure
Close enough. My neighborhood was actually West Rogers Park (aka Nortown, West Ridge). I grew up by Devon Ave., just west of Western (6400 block of Maplewood Ave.). That was the most Jewish neighborhood in the city when I was growing up ('50s and '60s). Now it's "Little India."
My grandfather, an immigrant from Sweden, built our bungalow and two-flat in 1925, when the neighborhood was more Swedish, Irish, and German. The church I belonged to when I was a little kid was a Swedish Augustana Synod congregation, but it disbanded because so many of the Swedes had moved out to the suburbs by then. So that's how I ended up in a German Lutheran church and school, a Missouri Synod congregation near Pratt and Western.
My German family immigrated in 1854 (paternal side) and wound up on the West side, just below Roosevelt Rd. Their church, First Immanuel, is still there and now a part of Chicago Circle Campus. The family lived about 3 blocks South of Roosevelt, and 5-6 blocks East of Ashland (On which First Immanuel exists).
But when I arrived (1943), my grand dad had already bought a new property in Oak Park, around 1912. And that’s where I grew up into jr. high at Christ School. We then moved to Southern Wisconsin in ‘55.
I’ve visited the old Chicago neighborhood. First Immanuel (a few years ago) was beginning a major renovation. The gentleman who gave me a tour gave me a copy of their centennial history. The family was there during the Chicago Fire. The 3 brothers had construction businesses, including a brickworks which my great grand dad ran. So they apparently did quite well. He died in 1878 and was missing for a couple days, his body being discovered in the slip of his brickworks along the canal. No foul play.
The Chicago Fire started just North and a little East of them. Fortunately for them, the prevailing winds meant they were safe, but so many others weren’t. But then, during the Eastland disaster, the broader family had two sisters who died in that catastrophe.
Just had our St. Patrick’s Day dinner. Corned beef, from the crockpot, then served with a nice mustard glaze; cabbage; boiled potatoes; washed down with a beer. Dee-lish!
Your Mustard:
Poupon, “French’s” or (my favorite) coarse grind? The poupon and coarse-grind go well with a pumpernickel rye. Jihadi Kerry’s style goes well with “white”.
The local bar in my hometown (Cascarelli’s) makes a corned beef on grilled light rye that I would walk across Lake Michigan for (I tend to driver tho). Yellow mustard and lots of real butter on the grilled rye. Top it with a “frankfort” of Oberon (ask, I will reveal) and you have a lunch made for a taxi ride home (guaranteed to make you fall asleep)!
I’m gonna try and make some of those soon for the pastor loci and wife.
Quaint, yes.
Irish pub, not really....
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