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Learning From Old Guys

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My wife likes to joke with me that I collect old guys. Well, everyone needs a hobby. But it’s true. For some reason, I connect with older gentlemen on a personal, visceral level, much more so than with guys my own age and of my own generation. Maybe I’m an ancient soul, or perhaps I’m just in training for my own geriatric years. I just find I can learn so much more from older folks than those who’ve lived through the same fairly dull times as myself. Last week, I lost one of my old guys, Morris Martick. Morris was the owner, operator, chef and head bottle-washer at Martick’s Restaurant Francais, a French bistro on Mulberry Street that would’ve never existed if not for the sheer force of personality, innovativeness and quirky determination of this irascible, idiosyncratic man. To… read more

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