i have to ask, what is Beef on 'Weck'? -- "...the hardest thing in this living world is to confront your own pain and go through it, but somehow life is not a paltry thing after all next to this child's inheritance of eternal black." ~Lester Bangs, "Peter Laughner", New York Rocker 1977 ---------- >From: "Vee Housman" <housman@adelphia.net> >To: NYNIAGAR-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Lunch with Carol and Bill >Date: Sat, Feb 10, 2001, 9:26 PM > > Dear Group, > > I had a very special lunch today with Carol (Greenwald) and Bill Scouler > from Niagara Falls who now live in Massachusetts. They're members of our > list and over the past year or so Carol and I have exchanged memories of Mr. > Atkinson's Dancing Class and other such old memories of Niagara Falls, and I > have done a bit of local research on her Greenwald family from LaSalle (you > know, Greenwald's Hotdog stand! The best hotdogs ever!!) Well, today was > the day that we finally got to meet each other. > > We agreed to meet at D.J.'s Restaurant on Main Street in Youngstown at > precisely 12:30 p.m. I made certain I got there a few minutes early and I > waited in my car in front of the restaurant for them to show up. Shortly > thereafter, a car with a man and women in it parked nearby and I just knew > it must be them. I got out of my car and waved to them. They waved back > and got out of the car. However, comma, another car pulled up just then and > parked and I noticed that it had Massachusetts license plates on it-AND it > had a man and woman in it! Whoops, I had waved at the wrong couple! > > Carol and Bill got out of their Massachusetts car and I got a chance to > finally hug both of them. We headed for D.J.'s and so did the other couple. > I apologized to the other couple and let them know that I really didn't know > them-it had been my mistake. However, the woman corrected me! Hey, Vee, it > 's me Doreen Roth from High School! Oh MY GAWD, DOREEN!! And there I stood > with my Niagara Falls High School Class of 1949 yearbook in hand to show > Carol and Bill-and there was Doreen whose picture was in it!! > > The four of us entered D.J.'s, I introduced Doreen to Carol and Bill, and > then Doreen and I babbled a bit about how exciting our 50th class reunion > had been. She asked me if I had seen the pictures that had been taken of me > when I was the "Ginger Rogers" of the dance floor that evening and when I > told her that I hadn't seen a one, she promised she would mail them to me. > Oh my, what an evening that was! > > Carol, Bill and I then sat down in the coziest section of the little > restaurant-the smoking section. It had a lovely view of the Niagara River > and even though there weren't any sailboats moored out in the river, it was > the best scenery that I could scrape up at this time of year for them. > > All three of us promptly ordered Beef on 'Weck and then Bill dove into my > yearbook. He had graduated in 1951 but he knew that he would know some of > the kids in it. Oh boy, did he ever! Not only that but Carol had dated > some of the guys in the yearbook and between the three of us, we had a great > old time talking about mutual acquaintances and teachers-especially our > Physics teacher, Mark R. Bedford! In addition, there was a couple "our age" > sitting at the table next to us who was thoroughly enjoying our conversation > and a lot of laughs were exchanged between our two tables. They were total > strangers but by the time they left, we all exchanged warm goodbyes. > > Carol and Bill and I sat at the table long after we had finished our lunch. > All three of us talked about Jack Viele who all of us had known-both Carol > and I had responded to the query about him that showed up on the list-and, > well we just talked and talked as if we had known each other forever. > > And so there you have it. Just a Saturday lunch at D.J.'s in Youngstown > overlooking the Niagara River with two people I had never met. Now why do I > get the feeling that it was something beyond just an "ordinary" lunch?? :-) > vee > > > > ==== NYNIAGAR Mailing List ==== > Looking for a dead-end Niagara County ancestor? Check the WorldConnect > Project, <http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/>, to see if an unknown > cousin may be able to help! > >