Reminiscing about NYC’s golden age — and some – Latest News
Our golden metropolis’s tarnished
Back perhaps 75 years when NYC was 18-karat gold within the USA:
Stores had customers on all flooring. Tiny TV units offered “Juvenile Jury” adopted by Steve Allen with Guy Lombardo. And Barbara Walters’ showbiz father Lou’s B’approach nightclub the Latin Quarter opened his new Parisian revue, “The Loveliest Girls in the World.” Jackie Gleason was hustling Capitol Records’ “Music to Make You Misty.” Greta Garbo was shifting into her East 52nd Street condo. Yul Brynner did a stop-in on the Waldorf barber store. Sutton Place’s Anne Baxter watched the boats and barges trafficking the East River. Rosalind Russell, after starring in B’approach’s “Wonderful Town,” was purchasing in Saks.
Fly back to Nineteen Forties
My own outdated notes turned up notes about Sonja Henie’s ice show on the Garden, Louis Prima and Keely Smith headlining the Paramount and thriving resorts just like the Astor, Biltmore, Savoy-Plaza. Today, they’re workplace buildings. And scratching via an outdated 1941 magazine cowl flashed Mickey Rooney and Norma Shearer plus TWA’s full web page boasting “five daily fast flights to LA — only 13 hours and 40 minutes.”
Two cents on taxes
Today, I’m asking: This New York to Jersey tunnel costing a fortune to dredge? How will NYC recoup that money?
Also asking, to fund the beforehand freezing homeless who refused shelters, an thought to help is likely to be the maybes that Crapdammy will triple-tax New Yorkers who own sweaters.
Why sweaters? He might then subsidize his giant employees’s wardrobe so he might handle to subsidize these free buses.
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To scrape up more money to help the homeless, our mayor will discover that even secondhand has upped costs.
A 1980 Sammy Davis Jr. puppet as soon as value $25. Now, sporting a tuxedo and sporting his Star of David pendant, Sammy is perhaps $50.
So now, if Crapdammy have been to exit City Hall, he might virtually be value even more presumably than a 1980 Sammy Davis Jr. puppet.
Miracle staff needed
Anyone else know “Project Hail Mary” has Ryan Gosling taking part in a science trainer orbiting a space mission? He obtained his script during COVID-19. Ryan: “An opportunity to make my life’s most epic theatrical experience — and everything including theaters were closed. The film’s about the sun dying but shows we’re capable of solving impossible problems. If we don’t give up, miracles are possible.” Yeah, proper. Fake the solar. For a miracle let’s strive discovering work for Meghan Markle’s unemployed prince whose sole occupation is spearing the household. And when you’re at it, discover work for Meghan. Nobody’s hungering after her. Even CNN may flip her down.
So when smart-ass Jasper married lovesick Theresa they moved into an outdated uptown flat. First furnishings the husband introduced home? A stitching machine and a full-length mirror. Lovingly, he mentioned: “Your choice. Take the sewing machine and go to work — or take the mirror and sit down to watch yourself starve.”
Definitely not solely in New York, children . . . not solely in New York.
