"Nobody Goes There--It's Too Crowded" (1957)

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"NOBODY GOES THERE--IT'S TOO CROWDED"

   This is attributed to New York Yankee player and manager Yogi Berra.  Some
say the restaurant was Mama Leone's.  However, here it is, at an early date,
in a Walter Winchell column.  John McNulty wrote for THE NEW YORKER:

   30 September 1957, AUGUSTA CHRONICLE (GA), pg. 12, col. 1:
   _Walter Winchell_
_Madison Ave, going "Mad"_
   MADISON AVENUE (the Home of Big Advertising) is now called Mad Avenue, for
obvious reasons..."The World of John McNulty" is a readable collection of his
essays.  It includes a cabbie's classic crack about a popular joynt: "Nobody
goes there any more.  It's too crowded."

(CATNYP)
The world of John McNulty, with an appreciation by James Thurber.
Imprint Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1957

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OT: JOHN HESS ON _TIMES_ OMBUDSMAN DAN OKRENT

http://www.nypress.com/16/52/news&columns/rotation.cfm

   This week's NEW YORK PRESS has an interesting piece by John L. Hess titled
"Therapeutic Times: And a few humble suggestions for Dan Okrent."  Hess is
the author of MY TIMES: A MEMOIR OF DISSENT (2003).
   With his wife Karen Hess, he wrote THE TASTE OF AMERICA (1977).  Karen
Hess is one of the editors of the forthcoming OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN
FOOD AND DRINK.
   I recently wrote to Dan Okrent.  You'll find out about it the Sunday after
next.