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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6072
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 - 1:52 pm: |    |
No matches.
Sorry.
Chuckjav, thanks. There was plenty for everybody, eh.
jjaba. |
Alan55
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Username: Alan55
Post Number: 1200
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 - 1:57 pm: | |
I am still waiting for Jjaba to open that specialty store, a "niche" retailer that only sell winter head gear, middle eastern delicacies, coffee, and 70's psychedelic lighting - I can see it now -
"Jjaba's Java, Baklava, Balaclavas, and Lava Lamps Boutique" |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6074
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 - 3:05 pm: | |
Add some music and you got jjaba's java jive...
Alan55, thanks for thinking of jjaba.
Where's the market for jjaba's store? Name a location in Detroit. Location, location, location is all's ya gotta know.
jjaba, on the Westside. |
Ravine
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Username: Ravine
Post Number: 1908
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 - 4:16 pm: | |
How about over there on Schaefer, near Kwame's church. That way, the next time our embarrassment of a mayor draws a crowd by perching over there to try to sell us some shit, Jjaba can try to sell the crowd some shit.
See? The plan virtually suggests itself, Jjaba, and you don't even have to leave our neck of the woods.
--Ravine, Plymouth Road heretic |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6076
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 04, 2008 - 5:47 pm: | |
jjaba is checking locations. Think he can find a vacant storefront?
jjaba. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 657
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 12:35 am: | |
look what I found
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Ragtoplover59
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Username: Ragtoplover59
Post Number: 197
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 6:04 am: | |
I've been to that place, If you can zoom in on the door you can clearly see a sign,
"No Socks, No Shoes, No Service!"
and just inside the door, a stack of News Papers for a $mall fee.
Looks like a good location, besides the fact that it's not on a bus route? who would have guessed?
(Message edited by Ragtoplover59 on February 05, 2008) |
Alan55
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Username: Alan55
Post Number: 1201
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 9:49 am: | |
If your place really gets popular and jumpin', Jjaba, you can offer spicy ethnic food -
Jambalaya. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 661
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 10:52 am: | |
Kosher Jambalaya?
hmm... |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2671
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 11:51 am: | |
Is that stack of newspapers inside the door the Detroit Times? I believe it is.......... |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6086
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 12:10 pm: | |
Gnome, what the hell? Where is this?
The photo looks so authentic and so 50s.
jjaba. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 662
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 2:19 pm: | |
Sorry to dissapoint, but I googled Greater Grace Emmanual Institutional Church of God in Christ and Spot Welding.
It's Kwame's church down the street from Tom's Tavern. The added jjabe java and jive artwork was a photoshop trick; thought it would turn up the corners of your mouth a tad.
(Message edited by Gnome on February 05, 2008) |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6091
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 5:16 pm: | |
What's the address of Kwame Church?
Great photo. jjaba loves it.
jjaba. |
Gnome
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Username: Gnome
Post Number: 666
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 1:11 am: | |
the location? 7 mile and schaffer, don't know the number
Thinking about stopping in to visit?
I think the building use to be a theater, but can't be sure about that. Maybe Gistok would know. |
Wanderinglady
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Username: Wanderinglady
Post Number: 29
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 11:10 am: | |
Jjaba,
I'm surprised that a Westsider like you doesn't recognize Greater Grace Temple on 7 mile and Schaefer. It's humongous, and you can't miss it. I grew up not too far from there, and remember the "old" church (which I think is still behind the "new" church). In fact, I think the "old" church used to be a synagogue (I remember seeing a Star of David on the side of the church). That might ring a bell for you.
The "new" church was built from the ground up. There may have been a building torn down, but at least part of the church was built in the parking lot. It was built sometime in the late '80's/early '90's, I believe. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6105
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 6:02 pm: | |
jjaba needs to get out more.
jjaba. |
Rel
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Username: Rel
Post Number: 64
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Monday, February 11, 2008 - 9:22 am: | |
To respond to a WAY earlier question...
The significance or a "chai" gift. When someone has a Bar Mitzvah, wedding or other "simcha" (joyous happening), some give monetary increments of $18 ($36, $180, etc). Giving "chai" is giving "life". The numerical value of the Hebrew letters in "chai" amount to 18. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 399
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 3:28 pm: | |
Hello Jjaba.....
My family frequently availed ourselves of the wonderful offerings at the Jewish Community Center on Meyers & Curtis; fellowship, counseling, swimming, Red-Cross certification courses, flag football league, basketball, Camp Tamarack...etc.
Those were the days, my friend!
Can you trace the history of the Detroit Jewish Community Center leading up to its establishment at Meyers and Curtis? |
Wanderinglady
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Username: Wanderinglady
Post Number: 37
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 1:52 am: | |
Where's Jjaba? I haven't seen any posts by him in weeks! Does anyone know if he's OK? I miss his wit and wisdom. |
Eriedearie
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Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 991
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 8:19 am: | |
I read on another thread a message from him that he was going on vacation for a while. I don't think he went to the Eastside tho'!
We all miss him...Hurry back Jjaba! |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 426
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 9:24 am: | |
I....we - you/me - cannot possibly celebrate the Festival of Purim absent the wonderfully whimsical wit and wisdom of Jjaba.
Holler! |
Rel
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Username: Rel
Post Number: 310
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 10:39 am: | |
Send him a mishloach manot. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 429
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 11:52 am: | |
Rel....nothing says loving quite like Manischewitz Brand Gefilte Fish, smothered in Durkee Brand Hot Sauce, on Streit's Brand Matzos.
More Silver Spring Brand Horseradish please! |
Rel
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Username: Rel
Post Number: 326
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 7:56 pm: | |
No such thing as too much horseradish, Chuckjav!
Hey... would anyone be willing to get together a Deli Day for Jewish/Jewophile D'Yesers? That sounds like a delicious idea. It'd be nice to meet other buchors passionate about the City (especially jjaba). Thoughts, anyone? |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4579
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 10:48 pm: | |
Correction... Greater Grace Emmanual Temple at 7 and Schaefer is has grown from its core of the former Avas Achim Synagogue. This is on DetroitYes's sister site at http://shtetlhood.com/Avas_Ach im_star.htm.
It was preceded by the "Delmar Shul" Avas Achim on Delmar on the near eastside nka the Pentecostal Church of God. http://shtetlhood.com/Avas_Ach im_1.htm. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 440
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Friday, March 07, 2008 - 9:58 am: | |
Rel...This nice Jewish boy will be in Hamtramck on Saturday night (New Dodge) - watching son's band (Decibilt) kick out the jams at 11th Annual Hamtramck Music Blowout.
Would love to set future date for DetroitYes Picnic; looking forward to meeting all who visit this discussion board |
Rel
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Username: Rel
Post Number: 341
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 12:04 am: | |
I think I'll be in Dearborn tomorrow night (announcing at a charity event) but maybe I'll try to stop by after the event. I have never been to the Music Blowout, sounds fun! Is it all Klezmer? ;)
What time will y'all be there? |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 441
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 7:09 am: | |
Rel....My son's group is scheduled to perform at midnight; family and friends will be massing at the New Dodge by 10:30...10:45.
We always have a good time; fun for folks of all ages (and we don't even drink). |
Rel
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Username: Rel
Post Number: 347
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 7:26 am: | |
Perfect timing. I think my event goes until 11:30, midnightish.
I'll be the girl in black, overdressed for a Hamtown bar. If I am able to make it, please feel free to introduce yourself! |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6168
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 6:48 pm: | |
The Jewish Communiy Centers evolved from E. Ferry St., to Woodward and Clairmont, to Davison just West of Dexter, to Meyers and Curtis, to W. 10 Mile Rd. near Greenfield, to the Drake Road campus today.
Remember, Jews move en masse every generation so expect them to leave the neighborhood every 25 years.
jjaba just got back from Guadalajara and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Your kind words were a nice greetings. He was gone about 10 days.
Yes, all Hebrew letters are numbered and Chai (to life) is #18. When you give a Bar Mitzvah gift, give in $18 increments for the Bar Mitzvah Bukkor who has studied hard for the huge mitzvah and simcha. No harm done giving double, triple or quadra-chais.
jjaba, Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. |
Eriedearie
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Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 1019
Registered: 08-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 8:19 pm: | |
Welcome home Jjaba! |
Jimaz
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Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 4744
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 8:42 pm: | |
Welcome home, Detroit's ambassador to the world. You've been sorely missed! |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6170
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2008 - 11:46 pm: | |
jjaba got gas for less than $2.00 in Mexico. Ask how.
jjaba. |
Rel
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Username: Rel
Post Number: 349
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 12:30 am: | |
Welcome home, Jjaba. OK, I'll bite: how did you get gas for less than $2?
Chuckjav, I showed up at the New Dodge tonight at 11:58. But I was turned away at the door because I didn't have a wristband, which cost $20 cash only. Since I don't usually carry cash, I only had $10 and they wouldn't let me charge it on my card. I look forward to meeting you some other time  Can't say I didn't try... I hope you enjoyed your son's band! |
Ragtoplover59
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Username: Ragtoplover59
Post Number: 214
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 10:32 am: | |
Jjaba is correct about gas for under $2, But you don't need to travel to Mexico to get it, plenty of resources here in the states ! lol
Welcome back Jjaba!
(Message edited by Ragtoplover59 on March 09, 2008) |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 443
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 11:27 am: | |
Hello Jjaba, good to see that you're back home; thank you for the background information on the city's Jewish center.
Rel...sorry to hear about Saturday evening; the boys put on a very good show.
I will be certain to post the date of Decibilt's next performance (ep release tour this summer). |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6171
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2008 - 8:45 pm: | |
Try the bean burrito at Taco Bell. You'll get gas for less than $2.00.
jjaba, Proudly Westside. |
Wanderinglady
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Username: Wanderinglady
Post Number: 39
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 12:28 pm: | |
Jjaba, glad you had a nice vacation. Did you see Lowell's post about Greater Grace Temple?
Did you bring back a souvenir from Mexico, maybe something like this? http://www.dvdtown.com/images/ displayimage.php?id=7204
I remember the Jewish Community Center when it was on Meyers. I can't believe it has moved twice since then. The location moves as much as the location of Catholic Central High School... |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6174
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 9:12 pm: | |
Since Jews came to Detroit, they've been on the move. Each generation (25 yrs.) seems to move out when the signal is given. It is well documented.
The trend has been stalled a bit in Huntington Woods, Michigan and northern Oak Park, Michigan.
The former has a population of acculturated Jews who like the location, the schools, and other city services. The latter, Oak Park community prefers to live as a shtetl in the Orthodox community apart from the more intergrated types.
Both of these communities of Jews are quite stable.
The vast majority of Detroit Jewry lives NW in a rolling series of cities always moving. A good example of how they left is Southfield, Michigan, considered "played out."
In jjaba's Detroit, we saw how Jews moved through generations every 25 years, occupying then leaving. When leaving, this means abandoning religious schools, synagogues, Jewish retail, and housing. Thus, Jewish Detroit today is almost 100% beyond Detroit City limits, with the exception of earning a living all over town.
jjaba. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6175
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 9:27 pm: | |
Lowell's reference of Congregation Avas Achim is a perfect example of the demographic shifts amongst Jewish synagogues. All of those mid-century modernist 1950-60s NW Detroit synagogues have been sold long ago now. Those in the inner surburbs have also transitioned from Jews to churches or community centers.
Ofcourse, the sale of Jewish Community Centers, Hebrew Schools, and other Jewish philanthropies can been seen as a collection Detroit ruins. A dandy example is Sinai Hospital on W. Outer Drive.
jjaba can name many DPS high schools which were heavily Jewish during some times of the past; Old Central, Eastern, Northern, Central, MacKenzie, Mumford, Ford, and others. Plot those high schools and you plot Jewish transition across Detroit.
jjaba, Westside Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4604
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 9:40 pm: | |
If the current Avas Achim [or its successor] sells their shul, I want to buy it. They obviously bring luck. Both of the old Avas Achims have become hugely successful churches with giant additions that dwarf the former synagogues. jjaba, you in on that investment? |
East_detroit
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Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1556
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 9:53 pm: | |
The former Sinai Hospital is not in ruins. |
Lowell
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Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4605
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 11:33 pm: | |
That true ^ what little fraction remains of what was once a huge campus. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6176
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:24 am: | |
jjaba is for any investment in Lowell if he's FDIC insured.
jjaba, on the Far Westside. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6177
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 12:28 am: | |
As they say in Detroit, invite a Black minister to Shul, so he can see where his next church will be. Eventually, the Jews move out farther and leave behind everything but the Torahs and the memories of grande simchas.
jjaba, Dexter Blvd. Bar Mitzvah Bukkor. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 444
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 1:11 pm: | |
Jjaba....The demographic shift of Jewish folk in the Dayton area took a different turn.
A few synagogues remain in Dayton; there is also a synagogue in the first-ring southern suburb of Kettering.
But....
The Jewish Community Center moved from NW Dayton, to a mega-structure in the southern suburb of Centerville. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6182
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 1:28 am: | |
You mean Jews still live in Dayton? Is there a good Jewish delicatessen for "essen?"
Thanks Chuckjav.
jjaba. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 448
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 8:27 am: | |
Jjaba....Dayton has Bernstein's Kosher.
Beavercreek features the European Deli (sells pork and Kosher products under the same roof).
oy vey iz mir! |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6185
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2008 - 2:16 pm: | |
Precisely, Oy veyesmere.
(jjaba using the Ashkenazi spelling.)
jjaba, the Sociology of Pastrami. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2863
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 8:09 pm: | |
Pastrami? Did someone say pastrami? With mustard and on good Jewish Rye bread (is there such a thing as BAD Jewish Rye bread?)
Count me in. |
Chuckjav
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Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 457
Registered: 09-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 2:45 pm: | |
Ray1936 & Jjaba....
I have visions of a gigantic Reuben sandwich and a bowl of classic French onion soup on the side.
What's not to like? |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2868
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 3:47 pm: | |
Oh, man, and I had to settle for warmed up leftover pizza for lunch........ |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6194
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 4:03 pm: | |
Good pizza is the perfect food. Has all 18 food groups on one slice. Ray1936 know the difference between sex and pizza, eh.
"When the pizza is good, it's very very good. When it's lousy, it's still pretty good."
jjaba ate at Lindy's at the Las Vegas Hilton. The deli sandwiches and sides were pretty good, not Detroit, but ok. Same for any pizza.
jjaba, the Sociology of Pastrami. |
Ray1936
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Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2870
Registered: 01-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 5:41 pm: | |
There has been one really bad pizza in my journey, Jjaba, so don't say it's still pretty good. It wasn't. And it was in Wawa, Ontario. I think an Eskimo made it from seal blubber. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6198
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 16, 2008 - 7:52 pm: | |
Ray1936, oh, and jjaba forgot one other.
Don't eat the pizza in Havana. When there's a shortage of cheese, they use condoms. They have these little unlicensed take-away windows on the front of private homes. Not recommended.
jjaba, Travelin' Man on the Westside. |
Jjaba
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Username: Jjaba
Post Number: 6200
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 17, 2008 - 11:41 am: | |
jjaba going to Lakeland, Fla. this week for Spring Training at Tigers. jjaba plans to tell his old joke about taking girls to Tigers games at Briggs Stadium, high up in Sec. 24, in the 1950s.
Any advice about the Lakeland ballpark, restaurants, other attractions, etc.
jjaba, Tigers Fan. |
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