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The inspiration behind the lead character from the moviel Crossing Delancey, legendary Izzy Guss opened Guss' Pickles in 1920. Pat Fairhurst continues the pickling traditions of the old-world selling pickles, peppers, olives and sauerkraut from a barrel and shipping nationwide.

Guss' Pickles is a famous pickles vendor located on the Lower East Side of New York City. Considered one of New York's cultural landmarks, and for many years located on Hester Street, it is often included as a site of interest in tours of the Lower East Side, much as is Katz's Deli and Kossar's Bialys. As a wholesaler, Guss pickles was also a major purveyor of pickles to many of the hotels in the Catskills and Las Vegas while the storefront on Hester Street served as the focal point for its retail operations

From an open storefront, Guss' vendors sell different types of pickled goods (including four varieties of pickles) straight out of huge barrels. They also sell sweet peppers, hot cherry peppers, giardiniera, marinated mushrooms, pickled tomatoes, sauerkraut, olives, horseradish, sweet relish, pickled celery and more. The men and women, wearing thick sweatshirts advertising the store, scoop out large bowls of pickles and cram them into quart containers for the often long line of people on the sidewalk.