Pickle and Pearl

A very enjoyable, entertaining selection of the adventures of two onions! Our thanks go out to Walter, who has graciously volunteered to keep us up to date on these two. On this blog, the most recent post is at the top!

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Monday, May 19, 2008

These boots weren't made for walkin'.


"Where are we now?" asks Pearl. Pickle replies, "I'm not sure, all I know is we are on the banks of the (blue) Danube, but whether we are in Buda or Pest, I can't say, but it is Hungary. We are in the middle of a monument called 'Shoes on the Danube' by sculptor Gyula Pauer. There are 60 pairs of shoes and boots in cast iron as a memorial to the Hungarian Jews who were shot and thrown into the Danube by members of the fascist Arrow Cross Party in 1944."
"There are many well-known and famous Hungarians, some you will recognize and some you won't and some will surprise you".
Leslie Biro of pen fame, George Cukor, film producer and director, Tony Curtis,an actor, the Gabors, Harry Houdini, Leslie Howard, another actor, Estee Lauder, a smelly one, Bela Lugosi, a scary one, Rubik, the well-known cube, Billy Wilder, film director, to name a few.

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