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re: Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery..........

ER — 6/15/2006 2:07:43 AM (archived)

Bless you, Publius. We had socialized medicine, by subscription, full coverage, for about $6 a month as late as the early '60s. There was El Centro Asturiano hospital and La ClÃnica Trelles. They were sponsored by non-profit social clubs which provided entertainment, libraries, ballrooms, dances, theaters, all for prices which any working family could afford. It was an idea inspired by Cuba and Spain's long-time Anarchist tradition. Ybor City had sidewalks way before downtown Tampa got them. As Ferdy Pacheco once said, "they didn't do when they were mining coal in Pennsylvania, or hunting whales in New England", but they had it Tampa. It all died when the cigar-making machines were introduced; any dumb Cracker could make a thousand cigars in an hour.

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Fortunate Son - ER - 6/14/2006 1:22:26 AM
- re: Fortunate Son - ER - 6/15/2006 2:31:07 AM
- Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery.......... - Publius - 6/15/2006 1:56:25 AM
  - re: Fortunate indeed if you ever found Alessi's bakery.......... - ER - 6/15/2006 2:07:43 AM
- re: Fortunate Son - Tom Brosz - 6/14/2006 6:59:32 PM
  - Creedence, not GWB. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:44:15 PM
- Americans did not invent racism - FrankC - 6/14/2006 5:46:16 AM
  - I agree with you Frankie.......... - Lindy - 6/14/2006 5:26:19 PM
    - And roast pork and yucca with butter and salt and pepper. mmmmm - alcaray - 6/14/2006 10:12:53 PM
      - So you know about yucca? Lucky man! - ER - 6/14/2006 10:31:47 PM
    - Frankie - FrankC - 6/14/2006 7:30:21 PM
      - Well! - Lindy - 6/14/2006 11:03:31 PM
    - Oye, Yanqui! Un sanwiche Cubano, por favor. - ER - 6/14/2006 6:00:09 PM
      - I'll settle for un media noche et cafe coladito, por favor...... (n/t) - Publius - 6/14/2006 8:34:50 PM
        
        "media noche = "midnighter" - ER - 6/14/2006 8:49:49 PM
        
        Gracias... pero, que es un "cafe coladito"? (n/t) - Fox - 6/15/2006 12:49:58 AM
        
        Die, Yuppie scum. - ER - 6/15/2006 1:46:15 AM
        
        Cuesta Rey 95 comes close................. (n/t) - Publius - 6/15/2006 1:59:17 AM
      - "the piece of bread at each end of the baguette" - Tom Brosz - 6/14/2006 7:00:50 PM
        
        Anatomical bread - Laurie Street - 6/14/2006 9:44:32 PM
        
        "Called the heel here" - Mary Anne - 6/14/2006 11:47:29 PM
        
        re: "Called the heel here" - Fox - 6/15/2006 12:51:04 AM
        
        Bread - Laurie Street - 6/15/2006 7:52:04 PM
        
        re: Bread - Lindy - 6/16/2006 5:24:01 AM
        
        Kaslo - Laurie Street - 6/16/2006 6:27:13 AM
        
        re: Kaslo - Lindy - 6/18/2006 10:24:22 PM
        
        re: Kaslo - Lindy - 6/16/2006 4:56:52 PM
        
        Bagels - Tom Brosz - 6/16/2006 5:04:20 AM
        
        Oddly enough, it is called the pancreas here (n/t) - R.L. - 6/15/2006 7:24:15 PM
        
        I didn't know baguettes had made it to the midwest yet. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:21:32 PM
        
        We called it French bread. - Tom Brosz - 6/15/2006 12:56:08 AM
        
        So do the Cubans! - ER - 6/15/2006 1:54:26 AM
      - Pentagon spying on your sandwich preferences....LOOK here! - Lindy - 6/14/2006 6:50:42 PM
        
        I don't care what they collect, as long as they spell my name right. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:25:10 PM
        
        I'm in trouble now. - ER - 6/14/2006 8:57:51 PM
- re: Fortunate Son - Laurie Street - 6/14/2006 4:21:26 AM

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