[Ads-l] 5th Ave. in the '30s

[George Thompson]

JL

I forgive you.

GAT

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 4:06 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As you may have guessed, that wasn't for the list.
>
> Ignore.
>
> JL
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:18 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Ah, very nostalgic—would be even more so for my parents, if they were
> > still around (of course they'd be well into their second century by now).
> > I do remember when you (well not me, but the car and bus drivers) could
> > drive north as well as south on Fifth Avenue.  Are those double-decker
> > buses you see in the video regular NYC Transit buses (i.e. the 1,2,3,4)?
> > If so, when were they phased out?  If they were still around when I
> started
> > to commute to elementary school on the 4 (now M4) from Washington Heights
> > to the 70th St. stop near the Frick in 1952, I don’t recall them.
> >
> > LH
> >
> > > On Mar 21, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Keith,
> > >
> > > 59th St. to 79th St. (first east side of street, then west).
> > >
> > >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D65Deh9u2pLw&d=DwIFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=U2NBMUemzNkvIcg_pkMyRFMsXnmUOzH0dWOulRe2YSI&s=xbrvnCW72D_MpZJO0td8a1HbUq_bJ2Q62GtXU5GLywI&e=
> > >
> > > My old stomping grounds.
> > >
> > > 860 not built yet!  Spot looks like the big courtyard of the gray
> mansion
> > > just north of the site (demolished 1949).
> > >
> > > Jon
> > >
> > > --
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> > truth."
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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