Word: pastrami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Night at Charlie's. Beechers' gave an open house for him when he got famous. Hot pastrami was served, a trombone, guitar and saxophone trio played When I Grow Too Old to Dream, and in the back room Bummy obligingly ruined a couple of sparring partners for the entertainment of close friends...
...locomotives dumped cinders down the necks of people on the street below; later electric cars went overhead with a clattering roar like garbage cans rolling down endless flights of stairs. In the shadow of the "El" taxis wove wildly among pillars, and in the murky streets blocks of laundries, pastrami shops, employment agencies, dingy bars and doubtful bookshops grew like mushrooms...
That's fed on pastrami...