Judy & Jerry Lubell's first Apartment

Our First Apartment


Our first apartment 6250 N Winthrop Ave. in Chicago.

We could not wait to move into our first home as Husband and wife but until our “Deluxe apartment” was ready - we rented a studio apartment.

This Studio was in an apartment hotel , upstairs of Ashcanaz deli. At the time Ashacanaz was a very popular restaurant, in fact it was a sort of Icon in the world of Jewish delis. It was located on Morse avenue in Rogers Park. Morse was a very crowded street; so each night we had to search for a place to park often several streets away, then walk back to the building.
The main thing we remember of our short stay there, was that we could smell the food. We are not talking about an up-scale 5 star gourmet restaurant with the subtle aromas of Sage and Basel. No this was “Real food”, “Old-World food.

We would guess from the smell what was being served--although sometimes it was easy to tell, because we could hear the orders being called to the kitchen- “I need 3 Cabbage soups, one Matzo ball, one order of Fried kippers two tongue sandwiches and a pastrami on Rye" We would be sitting in our studio and all night we would hear people ordering and smell salami omelets, corned beef on rye, cheese blintzes and Chopped Liver.

Its 50 years later, but we still remember those two weeks at the New Morse Hotel