Tell Me About Manhattan/NYC During The 1950's (New York, York: trees, mayor)
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I've been feeling nostalgic about the Manhattan I grew up in. No one has been interested 'til now!
In 1948 my parents and I moved from Far Rockaway to 201 West 66th Street. It was off the corner down from a coffee shop and was one of the more modern buildings. There was a cobbler around the corner on Amsterdam Avenue who repaired shoes and I loved to go inside and sit on a little leather throne-like chair which was encircled by a low intricately carved wooden wall. I would sit and wait for my shoes to be done all the while being enveloped by smells and sounds like nothing else! The smell of leather, the smell of different substances the cobbler would use like glue, polish and machine oil. The sound of the different belts whining would excite and terrify me - it always sounded as if "the machine" was going to chop me up into little pieces!
Past the cobbler was the German butcher - beef bones were free - liver also - They were supposed to be for the dog or cat but people with limited incomes were glad to get them. The bakery speaks for itself - of course there were free cookies and the SMELLS!! Also owned by a German couple was the delicatessen -they had big kosher pickles in a barrel for a nickel - I forgot to say that at the German butcher was would get "chop meat" - the butcher would take a steak which you would select yourself and after grinding it in a meat grinder he would pass you a sample of the RAW meat - I'm 70 years old now and can still remember the taste - try doing that these days (It was delicious!)
Anyway, I could go on and on but have other things to do today - tomorrow I'll get to the candy store.
...If only William F. Buckley Jr. were elected mayor in 1965. Things might have been different...
Yes, quite quite. Everyone would be an intellectual fraud and speaking with an insufferable Republican Long Island Lockjaw accent.. Tres fun! Simply tres!
Most of the movie, "The Apartment" was shot on a Hollywood sound stage or on its back lot. The scene where Shirley MacLaine is operating an elevator was shot at a Los Angeles office building.
Naked City, the TV series, was patterned after the movie "The Naked City," a 1947 production which was shot entirely in NYC. To enhance realism, street scenes were photographed with cameras hidden in the back of trucks and subway scenes were also shot with hidden cameras. For those who would like a glimpse into the way things were in NYC years ago, rent the movie.
Interestingly another "NYC" television series "Car 54 Where Are You?" and film set here (Butterfield 8) were shot at the same studio and or locations around the City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biograph_Studios
Yes, quite quite. Everyone would be an intellectual fraud and speaking with an insufferable Republican Long Island Lockjaw accent.. Tres fun! Simply tres!
I'd take that over your John Lindsay. We all know how he worked out.
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