[rollei_list] Re: New Haven pizza photos

Doug,

I currently live in a little village in Southern California called La Jolla,
a
quiet, simple place with not very many photo opportunities. They call it
a suburb of San Diego, but it is not.

The NYU that I attended was in The Bronx, not Washington Square in
Manhattan.  I never set foot in the downtown "campus".

Jerry

Douglas Nygren wrote:

> Jerry,
> I split my time between New Haven and NYU. Almost every Friday, I'm
> down at Washington Mews near Washington Square. It's not an even split,
> but it's a good one. I've got to go try out that pizza place on Spring
> Street. I photograph in that area all the time. Where are you now?
>
> Doug
>
> On May 25, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
> > 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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