Serendipity One?

[Joel S. Berson]

East 60th is above 59th, and therefore to the east of Central
Park.  I didn't go "up" there from Carnegie Hall.

On the other hand, Leonard Bernstein arrived at the NY Philharmonic
in 1958, I'm told, and by then I was out of NYC and in Cambridge.  I
can't seem to turn up conductors for the Young People's concerts in the 1940s.

Joel

At 2/8/2012 03:34 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I only remember the east side one, although it may have moved from
>one location to another in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge.  I
>remember stopping there after the theater with my parents on the way
>home to Long Island, in the latish 1950s, and it was always on the
>far east side.  The history given at what appears to be the official
>site, http://www.serendipity3.com/history.htm, doesn't mention a 1
>or 2 or a west side location or any place of a similar name under
>different management; instead, the "3" seems to have denoted the
>three guys who came up with the idea.  My mother was so fond of the
>place and the concept she named our cat Serendipity (Serrie for
>short).  The cat was much more interesting than the eponymous movie
>with John Cusack that I saw on an airplane once.
>
>LH
>
> >
> > Wasn't there a Serendipity (One?) a bit further west, perhaps
> > actually on the West Side (i.e., west of Fifth Ave.) earlier?  (Than
> > the founding of Serendipity 3 in 1954 [Wikipedia].)  And on 57th
> > Street, a block or two east of Carnegie Hall, rather than on East
> > 60th?  I faintly recall a fanciful ice cream dessert before that date
> > when I was taken by my aunt after a concert (Leonard Bernstein's
> > "Young People's"?) to a place whose name I recall as
> > "Serendipity".  IIRC, my aunt thought I was too young to know the
> > word, and she explained it to me.
> >
> > Joel
> >
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