Appell Pie Dec. 2019
Returning to my roots
By Howard Appell
I was born in a black and white era and spent my childhood mostly in Brooklyn New York. Most Saturdays were spent at my grand-parents apartment on 1st St and Fifth Ave. where my grandfather, who was a furrier, had his retail store. (Hausner Furs).
Their apartment building was a four story walk up with marble steps and a dumbwaiter in each apartment. (Dumbwaiter, a small elevator for carrying things, especially food and dishes, between the floors of a building.) People in the building could send a cup of sugar to the apartment above and below them on the dumbwaiter. The dumbwaiter has nothing to do with this story, I just thought it was cool.
I would spend Saturdays in my grandfathers "factory" in the back of the retail store nailing.........Continue Reading
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