Barry Popik - Message from Big Apple web site visitor

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>From a NY Times advertisement, Oct 15 1917, p 2, for the "Palais Royal"
Restaurant:
"No Cover Charge for Dinner"
 


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        From: bapopik at aol.com [mailto:bapopik at aol.com] 
        Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:19 AM
        To: NonstopNY at aol.com
        Cc: jester at panix.com; gbarrett at worldnewyork.org;
sclements at neo.rr.com; Mullins, Bill AMRDEC
        Subject: Re: Barry Popik - Message from Big Apple web site
visitor
	
	
        i am in turkey right now on a honeymoon with a bad turkish
keyboard and cannot answer that today. please email me during memorial
day in ten days, or my colleagues can answer.
        ...
        barry popik
        ...
         
        -----Original Message-----
        From: NonstopNY
        To: Bapopik
        Sent: Wed, 17 May 2006 4:42:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time
        Subject: Barry Popik - Message from Big Apple web site visitor
	
	
        Barry Popik - 
          Quick Question: the term "COVER CHARGE" - -
          Texas Guinan claimed that she instituted a NEW practice - -
charging a cover fee to enter her nightspots.
	
        Have you heard of the term "a COVER CHARGE" before the mid
1920s?
          Thank you.
        - - - come up and see MAE - - - - MaeWest.blogspot.com - - 

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