In memoriam: A few final words about comic Shecky Greene chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Good morning, Chicago. A couple remodeling their rented home in Batavia 45 years ago found some interesting items behind the walls — old bottles, shoes and corncobs. But one discovery was the stuff of nightmares. While ripping out a plaster wall, the wife spotted human bones in the debris, including a piece of a skull and a lower jawbone, according to a 1978 article from the Batavia Chronicle. .
CHICAGO — In recent days in the places where older folks gather to remember and talk about what they remember, conversations were peppered with the name Shecky Greene. Only those of a certain vintage know that name, fewer still can recall seeing him on television and even fewer can share memories of what he said and did on the stages of such bygone places as Mister Kelly’s on Rush Street, Mill .