NY legend

This guy - Manchester-born Joe Ades, who died this week - was a legend of the streets of NYC.
He learned his patter here during the second world war, and made his fortune hawking all kinds of things - latterly $5 Swiss potato peelers - ending up living in a plush apartment on Park Avenue.

The obit is here

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