Ratner's Dairy Restaurant - 138 Delancey Street, Manhattan
Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman at Ranters Delancey St. [courtesy of Amy Newman (no relation)]
"When Jackson Pollock would show up falling down drunk in the middle of the night at his close friend Barney's Front Street studio (Barney was an insomniac), Barney would take him to Ratner's. What I find especially delicious about this picture, is how the other artists saw Pollock. Milton Resnick said that Life magazine's famous story on Pollock in 1949 was, for artists, one of the most important revolutions in the country because "the first thing that occurred to millions of people is that he looked like everyone they knew. He didn't look like a foreign type, a strange man, a Jew; he really looked all right. He looked like Saturday night." Barney enjoyed having Ratner's see him with Pollock and Pollock see him at Ratner's."
Bennett R. Katz: memories of Ratner's Delancey St.
I ate at those places as a kid in the 70s.
Like the Catskills resorts, I experienced the dairy restaurants when they were in sunset.
I remember the guests at Ratner’s Delancey taking the amazing onion rolls home “ferlayta.”
There was a Maitre‘d at Ratner’s on Second Avenue who had a very heavy Yiddish accent. Apparently was a well known character. He would exhort the guests waiting for a table to “watch your next.” We laughed about that for a long time .
Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman at Ranters Delancey St. [courtesy of Amy Newman (no relation)]
"When Jackson Pollock would show up falling down drunk in the middle of the night at his close friend Barney's Front Street studio (Barney was an insomniac), Barney would take him to Ratner's. What I find especially delicious about this picture, is how the other artists saw Pollock. Milton Resnick said that Life magazine's famous story on Pollock in 1949 was, for artists, one of the most important revolutions in the country because "the first thing that occurred to millions of people is that he looked like everyone they knew. He didn't look like a foreign type, a strange man, a Jew; he really looked all right. He looked like Saturday night." Barney enjoyed having Ratner's see him with Pollock and Pollock see him at Ratner's."
Bennett R. Katz: memories of Ratner's Delancey St.
I ate at those places as a kid in the 70s.
Like the Catskills resorts, I experienced the dairy restaurants when they were in sunset.
I remember the guests at Ratner’s Delancey taking the amazing onion rolls home “ferlayta.”
There was a Maitre‘d at Ratner’s on Second Avenue who had a very heavy Yiddish accent. Apparently was a well known character. He would exhort the guests waiting for a table to “watch your next.” We laughed about that for a long time .