Warren Newson wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
Warren Newson wrote:
Lost in all of this is the real lede: Marv Levy is, somehow, still alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marv_LevyThat mfer looked like he was 80 about 30 years ago.
Marv Levy one of the many prides of South Shore!
I think I've heard Bernstein say that he had some sort of uncle who also attended South Shore High School. That's one Jewish community that's long gone. The only Jewish communities, of which I'm aware, left on the South Side (writ large) are Hyde Park and the Homewood/Flossmor/Olympia Fields area.
The guy who mapped DNA, Larry Ellison, at least one Hollywood studio boss among others. Shortly before we moved here there were something like 22 synagogues and only like five or six Catholic churches. Iirc there was one corner on 72nd Street where three future studio bosses grew up.