Those who frequented Yonkers head quarter will certainly recognize some of the names of the restaurant Mr. Gumbinner mentions here. One Italian restaurant he does not mention but vivid in my memory is Amalfi on South Broadway where Mr. Halpern first approached two DIC representatives about their purchase of Polychrome stock. (He of course did not intend to sell all the shares at that time but it turned out DIC purchasing entire Polychrome stock eventually.)
Polychrome lunches
Food
being an important part of our lives, I will include in this Memoir
what I consider interesting eating experiences. The first few years
we ate in the laboratory. We sometimes made sandwiches. One day,
Arnold Rose, an important dealer from Chicago, who had accounts such
as Sears visited us. We asked him what he wanted to eat. He said he
would like a drink. We had a half full bottle of rye which he
finished. He said he was still hungry. Cort Briggs went out and
bought another bottle which he drank. He said he had cut down on
liquor. He use to drink a case of beer and four bottles of whiskey a
day. Eventually, he died of cirrhosis of the liver and his son took
over the company.
One
of the restaurants we often went to was the French Chef on South
Broadway near the intersection with New Main Street. The most famous
of their dishes was stuffed clams, which was made with cheese and
cream. We once had a visitor from a German photographic film company
who ate four dozen of them. Other interesting dishes were clam
manicotti, whale and turtle meat, cherries Escofier--a sort of
trifle-and mint parfait pie. We went to a Chinese Restaurant on S.
Broadway and Louies by Loews theatre on S. Broadway, an Italian
restaurant, which had an Italian cheese cake with dried fruit which I
liked. If we used my car to go there, our dog Trooper often was
lying under the car. So we had to take him back to 10 Baldwin Pl.
We also went to Manzi’s on Warburton Ave. There we often had his
antipasto. The restaurant was moved to Hastings and Mr. Manzi sold
it to Nancy where we often ate until 1990. On Thursdays, if I did
not go to lunch with Mr. Halpern, I would go with Ray Lauzon to
Central Lunch on Main Street for the boiled beef and horseradish
sauce.