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for Joe Ades
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Susan Wind
August 30, 2020
Unforgettable. This morning I used the vegetable peeler I bought from him so many years ago. Of course, I could never use it with the skill he had, but no matter. He will always be missed in this city.
Paula Morris
February 13, 2009
I just found out today that Mr. Ades passed away . I am so deeply saddened. My Condolences go out to his family and to the rest of the people, who, like me, were fascinated bystanders. His selling style and skills were compelling. My daughter and I always looked and found Mr.Ades on our walking trips through Manhattan. I am so grateful for the pictures I have of him. He will always be remembered and missed. Union Square will never be quite the same without him.
Madalyn Benoit
February 3, 2009
I am so sad to learn of Mr. Ades' death. I have been seeing him around the city for many years and, even if I wasn't buying peelers that day, I would always stop to listen and tell people what a great peeler it was. I feel the city has lost a real treasure.
Bill McKinley
February 3, 2009
I am so saddened by the passing of Mr. Ades. This past Christmas, I gave his peelers (plus a DVD video of him in action and a printout of the Vanity Fair article) as presents to all my friends and family back in Indiana. They were a big hit, and everyone was so intrigued by Joe and his his story. I frequently stopped and listened to Joe and his spiel, and looked forward to seeing him--he just brightened my day. I even flirted with the idea of asking him to teach me to hawk, he was so good at it.
Please let me know of any plans for a service, and please let me know how I can get more peelers :)
With great sympathy-
Bill McKinley
Marc Furstenberg
February 3, 2009
It’s the end of a great if little appreciated tradition- street hawking. I can remember as a kid seeing the last of the I-cash-clothes men crying their business in the streets of The Bronx and knew that this might be the last time I heard the cry. I remember the bagel man who despite his name sold pretzels, 3 cents and two for-a-nickel. Like milk men and seltzer men
- all gone. I even remember a trip to Atlantic City in the early 50s and seeing the actual Ron Popeil and family hawking the Chop-o-matic on the boardwalk. Seeing Joe in my neighborhood, Union Sq., was a pleasant refreshment from the inevitable Brave New Word where we buy things by passing an advert and hold up our cell phones. The personal touch. Gone, all gone.
My only regret was being unable to engage Joe in a conversation about his profession. I know in Brick Lone in London and there-abouts they still hawk and I wondered about a lot of the TV hawksters in the infomercials who seem to be British as if they too are the last in a long line of a traditional and fast disappearing profession. I guess Joe wasn't interested in wasting valuable breath on such academic rubbish. So here's to Joe - gone, but not forgotten. The last of his race. Gone.
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