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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4527 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Broadway Harry’s on Beach 28 St. Charles Levenstein Broadway Harry’s on Beach 28 St. Sun-burned Harry, peddler’s voice lusty and loud, body red and strong with sex, drew the summer women, pale husbands working worried back in Brooklyn. I learned to sweep the wooden floor without raising clouds of dust, a skill useful in later life to dampen temper and impatience. Even more, he taught me to display oranges turned carefully in the box so navels were concealed; to shave watermelons so they were fresh to ladies’ eyes; to bounce a bag of peaches on the scale. The special fruit – exotic mangos from distant Puerto Rico. Each day he’d open one, offer a sliver, a special taste for dark eyes. She who bought today returned tomorrow, kept the dream alive. |
