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Jeannine does a double page spread in Playboy, no centerfold unfortunately.
It was impossible to live in Chicago, during the 60’s and not be aware or be involved with Playboy; bunnies, magazine or even Hef, as we called him.We lived next to his mansion on the near north side,...
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A flask…in Greece?
A flask to me, having lived in the UK and seen movies about prohibition, has always seemed a little sinister and sneaky and secret.A flask seemed to represent a means of getting a drink when it was...
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‘’No way, that raise is much too much’’.
I started at McCann in 1960 as an assistant art director, straight out of Pratt, with a salary of 5,000 dollars a year, it was a good beginners salary, I was in a big agency and the future seemed...
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Greek saying, “If you haven’t built a house, or married off a daughter, you...
I have now done both, and I have not really suffered, at least not much.Actually the saying should be “ If you haven’t built a house, or married off a daughter, you haven’t LIVED.”I loved building our...
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Butlins and the Yank
London, the mid sixties, the Ad business…everybody was full of themselves, great cars, preposterous salaries, lots of perks, trips to Europe for photo shoots, Cannes for the Ad Festival, a very trendy...
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“DESK DRAWERS!” I shouted at the top of my voice.
Learning a new language is not easy if you are older than two, learning it well is damn hard. I have yet to manage it in any language.My English is still pretty Brooklyn and not just the accent.I...
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Pavlo, my cousin...my tailor.
I come from a family of tailors on my Mothers side.Mama and her family ended up in Paris after the Asia Minor catastrophe.My uncles were all men’s tailors and my Father was totally transformed when he...
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Diving 50 years ago in Nassau.
We have been married over fifty years and we went to Nassau on our honeymoon.It was January and not only did we go diving for the first time in our lives but we took our first airplane ride….lots of...
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Brooklyn goes to Ascot
London in the late 70s…McCann would sponsor a day at the races, Ascot actually.We would invite our clients, suppliers and senior staff for a day out. We had a tent with drinks and food.It was quite a...
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My first job in advertising...sort of
I started working in summers when I was 14, in Coney Island.My father had an ice cream parlor there but he didn’t let me work for him, he believed I should work for somebody else since fathers are too...
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Gary and the Corvette
We had some great times in Mexico with Gary and Kay, some stand out a bit more than others.We had a weekend house in Tepoztlan, about 2 hours out of Mexico City.One weekend, Kay was away and we invited...
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"You can't fire me, I don't work for you."
London in the sixties again – Three Americans in McCann London, facing weird problems. Our chairman was a good-looking Irish-American executive, from Bay Ridge Brooklyn.White hair, immaculately dressed...
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Buying a “round” in an English pub.
When you go to a country to live, or even to visit there are things you have to get used to, some are hard, some are easy.In the 60s in London, going to the pub was easy to get used to, after work we...
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“Damn it… another dog in a yard.”
While in college I worked for the post office at Christmas time delivering mail.This was pre Internet and it was snail mail, especially at Christmas time, tons of it.Two to three weeks of helping the...
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Turkey to New York, now and 100 years ago.
We normally go to the states once a year for doctors and family. We go direct from Athens non-stop. This year there were no direct flights from Athens to NY during the winter, evidently they will start...
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Crystals in the Labyrinth!
I was getting dizzy when I turned my head a certain way, or when I got up.It even happened when I rolled over in bed at times.Was I having a hangover, was it my blood pressure, was it something in my...
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How to eat Barbounia
By far one of my favorite fish to eat is fresh caught and fresh fried Barbounia, crispy from head to tail.They are small and delicious…for you xeni, they are red mullets.There is an old Greek...
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The smoking room
Pretty much everybody I know that smokes or used to smoke has started the same way.As a kid 12,13 years old, they stole cigarettes from their Father’s pack.My Pop smoked cigars, 5 cent White Owls, they...
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My singing cousins
It is amazing, since I have a tin ear, that two of my first cousins were professional singers.My Mother’s family left Turkey after the Catastrophe and went to France. My Mothers oldest brother was...
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Vasilopita a tradition for all Greeks…that sometimes gets weird.
Every new year, pretty much all the Greeks, at least the ones I know, prepare, or buy and cut a Vasilopita to celebrate the new year.It is an ancient tradition that honors St Basil.A pita, or a cake...
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Blog block, blogger’s block….block, block!
It has been a year since I have written a blog, obviously BLOG BLOCK.I had ideas but it just seemed impossible to sit down and just write.Just hope this is over and my block is un-blocked.as a sort of...
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Mt Ararat is really a mountain
Ok, that really sounds nuts; I thought it was an international chain of Armenian restaurants. Every city I have lived in seemed to have an Armenian restaurant called Mt Ararat.I wonder if there is a...
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Greeks are funny
I was in the local supermarket and saw this product there.It was Calamari (squid) and the photo was beautifully rendered octopus.Question is, what is in the actual can?Squid, octopus, fish, tomatoes,...
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Mama had a thing for Elvis
My mother was born in Asia Minor and moved to Paris after the catastrophe. She lived in Paris for about 5 or 6 years, before she married my father and moved to the States.Pop was from the same village...
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Birthdays, we remember them; most of mine that I remember have been pretty good and some even fantastic. 50 years old in Mexico, and a surprise bullfight, basically a young bull that does it every day,...
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