The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, September 27, 1963, Image 20

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'7*1) IP IZ Z A 124-10TH ST., N.E. 876-6242 COLLEGE AVENUE AT CANDLER ROAD—DR. 8-9224 DECATUR, GEORGIA Shall I Give Your Regards to East Broadway Before It Disappears Altogether? by RACHEL ANNE RABINOWICZ Brown’s Northeast Shell GEORGE BROWN, Proprietor “Service Is Our Business” 2 LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU 2174 N. Druid Hills Rd. (at Expressway) 636-0411 BRIARCLIFF SHELL SERVICE 2755 Clairmont Rd., N.E. (at Briarcliff) ME. 6-2151 Atlanta, Ga. ACADEMIC CAPS, GOWNS AND HOODS. toheA (^api and Cjowni 261 Walker Street, S. W. Atlanta 3, Georgia SALES RENTALS JAckson 4-4388 Gracious Holiday Greetings Crest Lawn Memorial Park 2000 Marietta Boulevard, N.W. Atlanta, Georgia A young woman with dark damp hair dashes out of a ritualarium into her waiting limousine. The doorway of the semi subterranean shtiebel frames four men, grouped around a candle which casts a spell of flicker and flame upon the pre-occupied quartet and the shadowy ark behind them. The window of the “Tem porary Synagogue of the Old Rabbis,” adjoining the Home of the Sages of Israel, pic tures a patriarch so pale, so frail, so aged, so ephemeral, that the word “temporary” loses its temporal quality, takes on timeless overtones, hints of a permanent dwell ing place where an Ever-last ing Landlord holds a never- ending lease. Turn up your collar and pass on, on, through this syn copated stretch of a yester day’s yesterday — through East Broadway, in fact. On one side hefty housing projects, twenty stories high, blaze with light and life, lift ing loud-lit well-windowed heads toward the sky. On the other hand, the very names lead back to a jumbled Sho- lem Aleichem world where Zyshe Slutsky’s meat is not just kosher but “kosher- kosher” and where Noah Zark supplies such cosmopol itan comestibles as pizza, do nuts, knishes and assorted kosher kick-shaws. Occupational leidig-gehers hold crumbling conventions on the corner of Straus Square, adjoining periodical ly for coffee in the Garden Dairy Cafeteria where bagels bloom and idlers moon. On newspaper -padded stoops clacking cliques of kerchiefed ladies squat in quotidian confab on the sins of sons-in-law and the tal ents of delicious einiklach, a gesunt oif zeur keppelach. Jolly jabbering schoolboys erupt from sundry yeshiviot, SAVE WHERE THOUSANDS SAVE MILLIONS i FULTON 4 FEDERAL SAVINGS l 1 DOWNTOWN BUCKHEAD EAST POINT HIGHLAND-VIRGINIA CASCADE HEIGHTS Gracious Greetings for the New Year Season—and the Year ahead The DARLINGTON 2025 Peachtree Road TR. 6-6345 Itfanta, 20 The Southern Israelite