BEg2 brief summary of chapter 25 / whoa, that was 26/some refs

[Michael Bailey]

We are proceeding apace, aren’t we?!

Chapter 26 has many fascinating references.


Loehmann’s - well-described in text but

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loehmann%27s
said they were liquidated in 2013 (yr of BE pub)
So, more 2001 nostalgia

Fordham Road
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordham_Road
“Separates the North Bronx from the South Bronx”
“houses the borough’s most extensive and diverse shopping district”


Maxine’s memories of the old Loehmann’s on Fordham Road of her childhood,
which Heidi loved:

“For Maxine it was less cosmic. The changing room was short on privacy,
what people liked to call “communal,” crowded with women in different
stages of undress and attitude trying on clothes half of which didn’t fit
but nevertheless offering free fashion advice to whoever looked like they
needed it, meaning everybody. Like the locker room back at Julia Richman
without the envy and paranoia. Now here’s this pearl-wearing WASP wants to
drag her back into it all again.”

Maxine’s East Side High (or sometimes on the match) School alma mater has
been referred to as requiring a crosstown bus - but here it’s named as
Julia Richman High.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Richman_Education_Complex
Has it that they closed in 1993, so Maxine had to’ve at least matriculated
prior to then - probably several years prior, as even 18 at graduation
would make her 26 in 2001 which wouldn’t be enough time for marriage, two
sons, and  the career heights she’s reached, would it?

Julia Richman - Lived from 1855-1912. She was the first female district
superintendent of schools in NYC, and the first Jewish woman to get even as
far a principal. Author, and instigator of programs for delinquent
education and chronic absentees.






On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:49 AM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maxine meets up with Cornelia (Mrs Slagiatt) for some shopping at
> Loehmann’s.
>
> Gets bored soon after they separate (to meet up at 1pm near the registers)
>
> Goes to shooting range Sensibility (mentioned in ch 18, pg 199 of Nook
> edition)
>
> Pretends she’s shooting Windust
>
> Meets Randy (from the wine cellar in ch17) on her way out and sits down
> for chitchat
>
> Lunch with Cordelia at a deli, a bit of Cordelian  life/love story
>
> Cordelia mentions her husband Rocky (Slagiatt) is worried because Maxine
> (to his eye) shows signs of distress, but that he’s reluctant to interfere.
>
> Maxine decided to confide a little - the existence but only in vaguest
> terms the nature of the rooftop video.
>
> Cordelia recommends Maxine take it to some dude named Chandler Platt, (not
> Bing unfortunately,) the name of whom she recognizes with a modicum of
> distaste.
>
> But she goes to Platt’s law office & shows him the video.
>
> Then he leaves her with an intern who regales her with some original rap.
>
> Having made a call, he comes back & tells her whatever is about to happen
> is going to be permitted to happen. Asks her to leave via the rear entrance.
>
> For distraction she heads to Saks, but meets up with  Emma Levin, Ziggy’s
> Krav Maga teacher, and then with her beau Naftali the ex-Mossad guy.
>
> She drops a hint about wanting to get out of town, in case he’s in the
> know, but he refers to most rumors being unfounded - and flirts with her
> until Emma reins him in.
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