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...Keezer's," at 221 Concord Ave. has been in business since 1895, specializing in "traditional Brooks Brother type men's wear," according to owner Len Goldstein. Two of the Keezer's most popular items are tuxedos and overcoasts, he said...
...when gangsters went there, and showgirls, and all those members of what they called high society. Tommy's is like that too, in that too--in a strangely refracted way. The gangsters are usually crypto-punks in tortured leather, the showgirls strident and society--well, society usually consists of Keezer's on parade--but still, it has a certain something to it like Sardi's used to. It has that certain je ne sais quoi--I guess you could call it desperation. You see, nobody I've ever really wanted to meet at 2:30 in the morning is ever...
...remain anonymous, the freshman in mention discovered that several hundred years before a totally undistinguished poet had resided for a term in his study. He immediately charged out every volume of the man's work in Widener Library (two). purchased a third or fourth-hand frock coat from Joe Keezer's on Mass Ave., and for the duration of the winter did become that poet. Devotees of the Harvard Union dining hall three or four years ago will recall him striding through food lines, volumes under arm, or rising without warning from the table to rip off a couplet...
...Alice is a veritable Breck poster girl, a walking Palmolive ad, a cutie who lifts her calf when kissed and who drops into a Pola Negri swoon when embraced. Colin Cabot's Tony, the boss' son, isn't just a thirties romantic; he crackles around the stage like a Keezer's clothes dummy...
Untroubled by modern cancer research, many undergraduates smoked Murads, "the Turkish cigarette." Crisp Arrow collars did a brisk business around the Square at 20 cents each, two for 35 cents, three for 50 cents. Max Keezer proclaimed "Old clothes wanted--will call at your room day or evening at your pleasure...