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...Vermont plant prospered, Sid and Louise decided it was time to expand, and they looked for a place in Cambridge because, "Frankly," says Sid, "I hate Vermont. Cambridge has the Orson Welles, Chinese food, diverse people--besides, it's near the beach...
...have a G.S. 13 but I've never used it," says Sid. "Louise said to me, 'you know how long you would last in a bureacratic job? About two months.' I'd blow up the place. Besides, it's a happy scene, it's not a pressure thing...
Small-scale capitalism still has its contradictions for this social worker-cum-entrepreneur and his Berkeley graduate son. His face animated, Sid says he feels "caught between what I want in life and what I need, and what I want to do for others. I'd like to be involved in a social cause, I'd like to make sure that the needs of the elderly get taken care of. I'd like to work to change the system, but I'd be knowing all the while that it's virtually impossible to change...
...Sid is even more convinced that Grandma's is the right choice for him. "I've paid my dues for ten years," he says, "and I've been a hustler creating good things for poor people. Now I want to create good things for myself. Since I stopped being a professional do-gooder I've realized that each solution creates a different set of problems. All you can do is create a daily world that's decent...
...home, man!"). He intended to save enough to start his own business in Jamaica, but he's invested in his restaurant and doesn't now know whether he'll go back home. The Silver Slipper is as much a second start for Leonard Matthews as Grandma's is for Sid Gerstenblatt; but Leonard has weaned his child for eight years instead of eight weeks, and then, Leonard never had much choice about work...