Stop at the Red Apple : the restaurant on Route 17

389 Pages·2014·12.42 MB·English

by  Elaine Freed Lindenblatt

STOP AT THE
RED APPLE
STOP AT THE
RED APPLE
The Restaurant on Route 17
Elaine Freed Lindenblatt
Photos “Greyhound Bus Stop” & “ ‘Frankfeuters’ for Sale,” Chap. 3, & “And a Map,” Chap. 33, are from
the collection of Gregory W. Buff and his daughter, Laura Buff, and reprinted by permission.
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2014 Elaine Freed Lindenblatt All rights
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lindenblatt, Elaine Freed.
Stop at the Red Apple : the restaurant on Route 17 / Elaine Freed Lindenblatt.
pages cm. — (Excelsior editions) ISBN 978-1-4384-5368-2 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1. Red
Apple Rest (Restaurant : Tuxedo, N.Y.)—History. 2. Lindenblatt, Elaine Freed—Childhood and
youth. 3. Lindenblatt, Elaine Freed—Family. 4. Restaurateurs—New York (State)—Tuxedo—
Biography. 5. Jews—New York (State)—Tuxedo—Biography. 6. Fathers and daughters—New
York (State)—Tuxedo—Biography. 7. Red Apple Rest (Restaurant : Tuxedo, N.Y.)—Employees—
History. 8. Tuxedo (N.Y.)—Biography. 9. Tuxedo (N.Y.)—Social life and customs. 10. Catskill
Mountains Region (N.Y.)—Social life and customs. I. Title.
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For my father, Reuben Freed, a great restaurant man

—Herbert Freed
Contents
Part One: Beginnings
Prologue: Sold into Demise
1. A Seed Is Planted
2. In the Middle
3. The Restaurant Man
4. A Good Man
5. Checks and Balances
6. Dropping In
7. The Foster Child
8. From Depression to War
9. The War Ends
Part Two: Our Heyday
10. The Core of the Apple
11. The Habit of Eating
12. On a Bus
13. Doing My Job
14. The Calendar Turns