[mplpost] Breugels/Nostalgia/Crime scenes

[Joanne Crabtree]

The Town Tavern was the height of glamour, beautiful and decadent.  I
considered it at a great accomplishment that, at the age of fifteen, I
could don something sexy and sneak past the bouncers and drink grasshoppers
in the presence of the immortal Gerry Mulligan.  Legal age was twenty-one
at the time. Joanne


At 04:49 AM 11/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks to Rob Wakelin for correcting my crappy memory.  Breugels (and maybe
>it wasn't named after the painter, spelled that way) WAS on Queen East, not
>King E.
>	Number 14 King East, in the mid-50s, was the Town Tavern, a
>then-famous jazz jointg which I first visited on my third day in Canada.
>There was a hockey game (Stanley Cup semi-finals, I'd guess, since it was
>April 1957) on a TV screen over the stage.  Fortunately, the sound was
>turned off, because the rotund black pianist was Oscar Peterson.
>	Sometime later in the '50s, a famous Toronto mafia figure, one Max
>Bluestein, was battered within an inch of his life by some heavyweight
>goons he had fallen out with. Despite the fact that many - upwards of 25,
>the cops figured - saw the event, every one of them developed serious
>amnesia and/or eyesight problems.
>	Later (and I don't mean to start a crime thread here, but it's
>three in the morning and I can't sleep!) poor Max was blown up in his bed
>at the brand-new Sutton Place Hotel, only a few days before it was
>officially opened.  They had to pick a lot of mattress ticking out of his
>body, but he survived.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Richard
>
>
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