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Friday, December 15, 2023
Turkeys on sale at C.C. Hopkins at Christmastime, 1929. Just before the Great Depression hit.
Point of Order: Black Thursday was Oct. 24 that year. The Great Depression was well underway by Christmas. Which is why most of those turkeys probably never got sold nor eaten.
Was in a high-school spelunking club and we went to explore the Bustamante caves in Mexico. (Sometime between 1970-1972.) Made a side trip to Monterey, and saw a public market set up in what once may have been a multi-level, open-air parking structure. One of the enterprises we saw was a butcher shop; they'd drive in a small herd of goats and gut and skin them on the spot. Hanging meat, covered in flies. Mr. Schriever said that was pepper steak.
My mother's stepfather was a surveyor in the early 1900's. Seems to have specialized in railroad work. Told me about working in North Africa, where one of his duties was acquiring supplies for their camp. Said that when looking for beef in the markets, the technique was to brush the flies off, and poke a finger into the side. If the finger sank to the first knuckle, it was properly aged. Neat old guy, seems he did surveying for some of the logging railways south-east of San Jose CA after his Africa stint. IIRC, the remaining trains there are mostly used for tourism, and may still be steam powered.
Point of Order:
ReplyDeleteBlack Thursday was Oct. 24 that year.
The Great Depression was well underway by Christmas.
Which is why most of those turkeys probably never got sold nor eaten.
One word - botulism.
ReplyDeleteMy God, the flies! The flies!
ReplyDeleteA very valid argument for better conditions and water being responsible for decline in diseases and NOT vaccines.
ReplyDeleteWas in a high-school spelunking club and we went to explore the Bustamante caves in Mexico. (Sometime between 1970-1972.) Made a side trip to Monterey, and saw a public market set up in what once may have been a multi-level, open-air parking structure. One of the enterprises we saw was a butcher shop; they'd drive in a small herd of goats and gut and skin them on the spot. Hanging meat, covered in flies. Mr. Schriever said that was pepper steak.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's stepfather was a surveyor in the early 1900's. Seems to have specialized in railroad work. Told me about working in North Africa, where one of his duties was acquiring supplies for their camp. Said that when looking for beef in the markets, the technique was to brush the flies off, and poke a finger into the side. If the finger sank to the first knuckle, it was properly aged.
DeleteNeat old guy, seems he did surveying for some of the logging railways south-east of San Jose CA after his Africa stint. IIRC, the remaining trains there are mostly used for tourism, and may still be steam powered.
corner of thompson and bleecker there was a live poultry market when I first was in nyc, c.1980
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