Remembering NYC’s golden years – and some ideas to help Mamdani with her problems
Our city of gold is dirty
Back perhaps 75 years when NYC was 18-karat gold in the USA:
Shops had customers on every floor. Small TV sets presented “Juvenile Jury” followed by Steve Allen and Guy Lombardo. And Barbara Walters’ dad’s nightclub Lou’s B’way the Latin Quarter opened her new Paris single, “The Loveliest Girls in the World.” Jackie Gleason was singing the Capitol Records song “Music to Make You Misty.” Greta Garbo was moving into her apartment on East 52nd Street. Yul Brynner walked into a Waldorf barber shop. Anne Baxter of Sutton Place watches the boats and barges plying the East River. Rosalind Russell, after playing B’way’s “Wonderful Town,” was shopping at Saks.
Go back to the 1940s
My old notes revealed notes about Sonja Henie’s snow show at the Garden, Louis Prima and Keely Smith talking about the Paramount and booming hotels like the Astor, Biltmore, Savoy-Plaza. Today, they are offices. And flipping through the magazine’s vintage 1941 cover flashed Mickey Rooney and Norma Shearer and TWA’s full page boasting “five fastest daily flights to LA — only 13 hours and 40 minutes.”
Two cents in taxes
Today, I ask: Is this tunnel from New York to Jersey costing a lot of money to build? How will NYC get that money back?
And asking, to support homeless people who were frozen who refused shelters, the idea of helping would be the chances that Crapdammy will pay triple taxes New Yorkers who own sweaters.
Why sweaters? He is then able to fund his large staff cabinet so he can fund those free buses.
In order to raise more money to help the homeless, our mayor will find that even the secondhand ones have not raised the prices.
A 1980 Sammy Davis Jr. doll once cost $25. Now, sporting a tuxedo and wearing his Star of David panties, Sammy is probably $50.
So now, if Crapdammy ever gets out of City Hall, he’d be almost more deserving than Sammy Davis Jr.’s puppet. of 1980.
The miracle worker wanted them
Anyone else know “Project Hail Mary” with Ryan Gosling playing a science teacher orbiting a space mission? He got his script during the time of COVID-19. Ryan: “The chance to do the most epic theatrical experience of my life—and everything about theater was shut down. The movie is about the sun dying but it shows that we can solve impossible problems. If we don’t stop, miracles can happen.” Yes, of course. A fake sun. On a whim, let’s try to find Meghan Markle’s unemployed prince his only family job. And while you’re at it, get Meghan a job. No one is hungry. Even CNN might reject it.
So when smart-ass Jasper marries sickly Theresa they move into an old apartment upstairs. The first piece of furniture the husband brought home? Sewing machine and full length mirror. Affectionately, she said: “Your choice. Take the sewing machine to work—or take the mirror and sit down and watch yourself starve.”
Certainly not just in New York, kids. . . not just in New York.
