• By Sadie
    Feb 3, 2009 11:45 AM 2,183
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    R.I.P. Joe Ades, The Peeler Man

    A moment of silence, please, for a great urban character: Joe Ades, champagne-swilling, Park Avenue-dwelling, bespoke suit-sporting, British-accented, motor-mouthed vegetable- peeler-hawker extraordinaire and New York institution, has died at 75. [NYT, Vanity Fair]


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