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An entertaining inside story of how Reuben Freed's roadside eatery became the famous Red Apple Rest.
The Red Apple Rest was a legendary restaurant open from the 1930s through the 1980s on New York's Route 17. Located midway between New York City and the resorts of the Catskill Mountains, the restaurant served as a who's who of entertainment luminaries. Elaine Freed Lindenblatt was born into restaurant royalty as the youngest child of the establishment's founder, Reuben Freed. For her, the Red Apple was the "family room" across the road-one she shared with over a million customers every year. In this book fifty-plus years unfold in a series of lively vignettes-enhanced with photos, memorabilia, and even a closely guarded recipe-as she recreates what it was like to be raised in the fishbowl of a round-the-clock family operation. Stop at the Red Apple is at once an account of growing up in 1950s small-town America, a glimpse into the workings of a successful food operation, and a swan song to a glorious slice of bygone popular culture.
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
15. Comings and Goings
16. What We Leave Behind
By Alan Goodman
17. Away for the Summer
18. Hacking It
19. Tangents of Trade
20. Show Me the Food
21. One of a Kind
22. The Party Line
23. A Dream of a Specialty
24. Hot Dog!
25. To Be Frank
26. Stand—and Be Counted
27. A Sure Bet
By Morton L. Janklow
28. The Country Bumpkin
Part Three: Challenges Met
29. A New Generation
30. When Ruthie Met Joe
31. Scouting the Apple
32. The Road Not Taken
33. Sign Language
34. The Price Is Right
35. Fitting In
36. Wipe the Counter
37. Laundering the Crooked Money
38. Police Blotter
39. A Date in the Life
40. Driving Myself Crazy
41. Weather—or Not
Part Four: The Renovation
42. Can the Checks
43. Giving Thanks
44. A Day Off
45. Dinner at Grossinger's
46. With Reservations
47. Where's My Pig?
48. Cast of Characters
49. College Courses
50. Destination New York
51. The Danish Are Coming
52. Growing Pains
53. Tea at The Plaza
54. Two Weddings and a Robbery
55. Unrequited Recognition
56. Piano Man
57. The More It Changes
58. A Princess in Queens
Part Five: Constancy Amid Change
59. Feisty at Forty
60. The Dilemma of Uniqueness
61. Sal Versus Sol
62. Our Just Desserts
63. A Year to Remember
64. The Cast, Revisited
65. A Moving Experience
66. There's No Business...
67. Wishful Memory
68. It Takes a Family
69. Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Part Six: It Ends
70. Forgiveness
71. Aftermath
72. The American Dream
73. A Guide to Ms. Pac-Man
By Suzanne Lindenblatt
74. Holding On
75. Letter to Elie Wiesel
76. Nothing Gold Can Stay
77. The Last Hot Dog
By Bob Barlow
78. Crossing the Road
79. Hindsight
80. The Bridge of Silence
81. Touch the Living
Epilogue: That Place Called Home
Contributors
Acknowledgments
