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...sight of the Expressway there are more lambs, more stacks of oranges, more imported Italian groceries. Then, just when the banquet seems ended, pass through the shadow of the aerial highway and the world is bananas, watermelons and parsnips. Friday and Saturday the outdoor pushcart market comes to Dock Square, and the North End goes shopping. The vendors set up their pushcarts on Blackstone Street and enclose themselves in a square of crates. Pyramids of tomatoes and oranges. Baskets of brocholi. "A-spare-a-grass. Four pounds for 95 cents. A-spare-a-grass here," yells a short, bouncy vendor...
...took his name from what the streets of America were reportedly paved with and left his native Russian village against the will of his own father. Sam Gold is traced from the pre-World War I ghetto in New York to Cleveland; from water boy to cigar maker to pushcart vender to greengrocer to successful real estate speculator. A prodigious worker, he conquers the New World through the marketplace and adjusts to the traumas of his family's assimilation. He emerges tough, pragmatic, and optimistic beyond the comprehension of his sons...
Long, Red Curls. Jack, a quiet, neat child with long, red curls, began working at eleven, helping his mother sell crockery from a pushcart. After graduating as senior class president from Manhattan's George Washington High School, he worked as a lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when...
...Manhattan's upper East Side, Straus joined Macy's training squad straight out of Harvard in 1921, moved up from corsets and handbags into the nonselling side, eventually becoming fourth assistant general manager. Then one day his father chided him: "Jack, if I take a pushcart and fill it full of management, I haven't got much to sell. If I fill it with merchandise, I have something to sell." Straus began all over again as a junior buyer, did so well on the way back up that he was made boss 25 years ago-a fact...
Australian retailing was still in the Middle Ages when such practices were first introduced to Aussie shoppers by Sidney Myer, a penniless Russian Jew who emigrated to Australia in 1905 and began to hawk merchandise from his back, not far from Melbourne. He moved up to a pushcart, then to a rented store, and by 1911 had amassed enough money to buy a small general store in Melbourne-right on the present site of Myer's. He quickly became the city's most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers...