[rollei_list] Re: New Haven pizza photos

Doug,

Sort of makes me regret not accepting the scholarship that I was
offered in 1947 to the Sheffield School of Engineering at Yale.
I elected to go to NYU which was three blocks away from my home
in The Bronx.  I would have enjoyed New Haven back then.

Jerry

Douglas Nygren wrote:

> Marc, I don't know this place. There are great restaurants, but none
> like you describe. There is a lot of Greek pizza, which, unlike
> Italian, seems to look and taste the same wherever you have it. It has
> a thick pita-breadlike crust and thick cheese.
>
> Slightly to east of Yale is a decent Irish pub in a cellar where on
> Sundays and Monday evenings Irish musicians gather to fiddle Irish
> music and drink beer. A few of us meet there Monday nights after
> working in the darkroom of the Creative Arts Workshop, one of the
> city's gems.
>
> It seems the good Jewish delies are gone. M&T and Zacky's are gone. A
> new deli has taken their place, but not in my heart. I miss the old
> places' chopped liver and kugl. Bagels are so so in town. They've never
> been good while I've been here. This is a disappointment.
>
> There was a good Italian restaurant in the Hill section of town, but it
> had labor problems, moved and never recovered. Eating there was quite
> an introduction to New Haven. People would stand in line to get in, but
> if you knew the owner, you entered through the side door and got seated
> faster than the others. This was quite a different experience from
> German Cincinnati, where the rules were followed to the letter and the
> policemen wore white hats (and shot at least one person in the back, if
> memory serves me right, who was trying to escape and climbing a fence).
> Another example of Cincinnati is from a Sunday morning when I was
> driving down a three-lane one-way city street. There was no traffic to
> speak of, but the four cars on the road were all following one another
> driving below the speed limit. Experiencing that, I had the feeling
> (rightly or wrongly) that the people of the city were rigid in their
> ways, an impression I still hold. Moving to New Haven, however, I
> frequently saw people drive through red lights--not something that
> gives one a lot of confidence.
>
> It may be that Cincinnati has changed over the years. I no longer
> notice the cars here driving through red lights. I've come to accept
> that the bagels here are assimilated,  but I do note that the quality
> of the pizza has not changed and would be upset if it did.
>
> Doug
>
> On May 25, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
>
> > At 09:10 PM 5/24/06 -0400, Douglas Nygren wrote:
> >> Isn't it remarkable how much action this thread on pizza gets.
> >>
> >> I must admit, I love Italian food. When we moved here (New Haven) from
> >> Cincinnati, I complained the entire way. After a couple of means at
> >> Italian restaurants, I no longer complained.
> >>
> >> I believe others might confirm that not only is the pizza good in New
> >> Haven, Italian food is superb as well.
> >
> > When I was in graduate school at Yale back in the early 1970's, there
> > was a
> > great Greek place over to the East where a bunch of Greek men would
> > gather
> > to dance on Friday evenings.  Lots of Dolmada and Retsina and we had
> > some
> > grand times.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> >
> >
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