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Harlem Business on 125th Street

Among the larger business establishment to dot 125th Street which was the hub of all business activities when I was young was buy ladies shoes from King's shoe store who bought the building to get a street level location on the street between Lenox and Fifth Avenue; then there were all those combination business schools that F. Norris Roache placed in every loft he could rent on 125th between Lenox and Seventh Avenue. And from these classrooms, Norris taught and prepared black boys and girls to enter into the commercial world as clerks, typists, secretaries and office workers. Norris, I recall was the first real showman Harlem had in the business world. Norris would dress up in a Caftan and would do magic tricks on the corners of Harlem streets operating by drawing zodiac on the street floor then would sell fortunes which had a number written on them

I remember Mr. Roache because he was a grown man who had decided to go back to school and was in my graduation class at P.S. 139.

The day we graduated Mr. Roache was

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