Behind the Scenes at Seven Mile Market
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Back in 1979, when
I moved to Baltimore, Jack’s Grocery was the “in” place to shop. It was a cozy,
quaint,
heimishe mom-and-pop grocery
store, where everything from the freshest produce and canned goods to
appetizing and hot take-out food specialties, all within two aisles. The
proprietors, Jack and Rose Boehm,
a”h,
were hardworking,
ehrliche,
goodhearted Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia who worked their way up in
America, despite not knowing a word of English when they arrived.
Mrs. Boehm was the
cashier. She kept a card file box by the cash register that contained accounts