Comments on: Socialism: The Opiate of the Inept and Surly http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4245.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 21:22:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Tatyana http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4245.html/comment-page-1#comment-20864 Tatyana Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:32:11 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004245.php#comment-20864 *dick, the store you remember is on 5th ave and 26th or 27th: the address is 174-176 5th ave; the owner's name is Galya and the store is nice and tidy and smells of good tea and fresh print. Kamkin was below 23rd, I think on 19th or 20th str, and the stench was truly unbearable. *dick, the store you remember is on 5th ave and 26th or 27th: the address is 174-176 5th ave; the owner’s name is Galya and the store is nice and tidy and smells of good tea and fresh print.

Kamkin was below 23rd, I think on 19th or 20th str, and the stench was truly unbearable.

]]> By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4245.html/comment-page-1#comment-20863 John Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:53:42 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004245.php#comment-20863 Dick, You might try the online store in the link - they are still selling those Melodia records. The fairy tale books with the late-19th century illustrations are exquisite, aren't they? I have a few in both Russian and English. The NY store did seem a lot friendlier, but I was only ever in there twice, while I visited the MD store many times. Dick,

You might try the online store in the link – they are still selling those Melodia records.

The fairy tale books with the late-19th century illustrations are exquisite, aren’t they? I have a few in both Russian and English.

The NY store did seem a lot friendlier, but I was only ever in there twice, while I visited the MD store many times.

]]> By: dick http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4245.html/comment-page-1#comment-20862 dick Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:28:45 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004245.php#comment-20862 I used to work right around the corner from the book store in NYC which was on 21st and 5th Ave if I remember correctly. I used to go in there for the records, CD's and some of the children's fairy tale books with the beautiful illustrations. My experience with the people working in the NYC store was that they were really very nice. They went out of their way to find the stuff I wanted. Great records by Mark Reisen, Chaliapin, Richter, Rostropovich, and the newer ones. They had some fantastic records there, stuff you would never find anywhere else in the US. I was really sorry to see that they had closed. I used to work right around the corner from the book store in NYC which was on 21st and 5th Ave if I remember correctly. I used to go in there for the records, CD’s and some of the children’s fairy tale books with the beautiful illustrations. My experience with the people working in the NYC store was that they were really very nice. They went out of their way to find the stuff I wanted. Great records by Mark Reisen, Chaliapin, Richter, Rostropovich, and the newer ones. They had some fantastic records there, stuff you would never find anywhere else in the US. I was really sorry to see that they had closed.

]]> By: John http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4245.html/comment-page-1#comment-20861 John Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:29:08 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004245.php#comment-20861 There are certain smells that indicate a difference in culture and technology, that send one's mind to a particular time and place. Two that come to my mind that indicate the backwardness of the USSR are the smell of their poor paper technology that I assocaite with this bookstore, and the incomplete combustion in their diesel engines that made most of their cities smell like an enclosed garage. What I probably expected at age 18 in Kamkin's was the smell of cabbage. I was not totally disappointed in that. There are certain smells that indicate a difference in culture and technology, that send one’s mind to a particular time and place. Two that come to my mind that indicate the backwardness of the USSR are the smell of their poor paper technology that I assocaite with this bookstore, and the incomplete combustion in their diesel engines that made most of their cities smell like an enclosed garage.

What I probably expected at age 18 in Kamkin’s was the smell of cabbage. I was not totally disappointed in that.

]]> By: Enoch http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/4245.html/comment-page-1#comment-20860 Enoch Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:25:30 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/004245.php#comment-20860 You expected the aroma of pot roast???? Sheeeesh!! Dust mites forrrr you, boobala. You expected the aroma of pot roast???? Sheeeesh!!
Dust mites forrrr you, boobala.

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