Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . y, sport—guys like Charlie Steel, Oscar Raphael, Doc Middleton, BillHickey, Pink Dillig, Billy Chambers, Rud Conrad, GeorgeMartin, Lovin Henry, Art Kelly, Emil Berg, Al OHern, DadFrench, Doc Raben, Mannie Adler, Charlie Caswell, LeeDaugherty, Ott Paulsen, Pete Petersen, Schiller Rice, CharlieBecker, Hans Schraam, Billy Harrison, Max Ruben, HarrySpencer, Phil Daum, Aleck Roberts, Fred Brooks, Red Heeney,Al Mueller, Brady Thompson, Tony Moore, Jim Gorman,John Ruhl, Jimmy Cahill, Ed Carroll, Ben Geertz, Harry Man-gan, Barney ONeill, Ha
Them was the good old days, in Davenport, Scott County Iowa . y, sport—guys like Charlie Steel, Oscar Raphael, Doc Middleton, BillHickey, Pink Dillig, Billy Chambers, Rud Conrad, GeorgeMartin, Lovin Henry, Art Kelly, Emil Berg, Al OHern, DadFrench, Doc Raben, Mannie Adler, Charlie Caswell, LeeDaugherty, Ott Paulsen, Pete Petersen, Schiller Rice, CharlieBecker, Hans Schraam, Billy Harrison, Max Ruben, HarrySpencer, Phil Daum, Aleck Roberts, Fred Brooks, Red Heeney,Al Mueller, Brady Thompson, Tony Moore, Jim Gorman,John Ruhl, Jimmy Cahill, Ed Carroll, Ben Geertz, Harry Man-gan, Barney ONeill, Harry Winters, George Scott, JohnSorenson, George Dempsey, Chub Thompson, Billy Clancy,Hugo Moeller, Jack Marinan, Butter Kuehl, Al Goldschmidt,Pink Meinert, Charlie Hild, Billy Noth, Frank Sammons, andDoc Stoecks. When the city council changed Pretzel alley to Librarystreet, that thoroughfare began to slip, and when the moistureexchanges at the east and west end closed, Pretzel alleyturned up its toes, leavin nothin behind but memories of thegood old 215 Come Back to Pretzel Alley. Noise—Come Back to Erin merged with Fatherland. In Pretzel Alley, Heiney Stein, the leader of the hunched by the gesang-verein from far off Fatherland, That all his Uncle Fritzs gelt—a billion marks or so Was left him, with the tighwad belt, when Uncle made his Heiney kissed his lieber schatz, to make gay Berlin sij^zling red the highest spots he smeared his Uncs Gretchen at the pretzel stand grew grumpy with the when she took her pen in hand she spilled this style of news: Chorus:Come back to Pretzel Alley, where onion blossoms bloom,Limburger cheese flings to the breeze its beautiful but one place for sicha face in all the Wapsie Valley,So howld your tin, youll nade it whin you light in Pretzel Alley. But Heiney thought his jane too gay. He wrote—Dear Wooden Shoes: Ill not come back to old P. A. to battle squirrel juice
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