The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1940-11-21
By L. L. STEVENSON

Three meals-breakfast luncheon
and dinner-can now be obtained at
q cost of % cents down on the
Bowery. The place is the penny
cafeteria" which was recently
opened in the Bowery branch of the
Y. M. G. A. The food is well cooked,
wholesome and there is considerable
variety in the menu. Since prices
charged do not meet costs, the main
support of the cafeteria comes from
the Wilhelm Lowenstein Memorial
fund. Patrons, for the most part,
are men without jobs. Those with
intermittent employment or work
that does not pay them living wage
are also made welcome. On the
opening day, there were more than
300 patrons. Breakfast is z cents;
luncheon, S; and dinner, IL. If the
diner does not care for the regular
meal, there is an a la carte menu
with prices ranging from l cent to
81 cents.
A typical 7-cent breakfast con-
sists of large bowl Of oatmeal,
milk, coffee, prunes or a sugar bun
or doughnut. Soup, bread, coffee,
and a choice of prunes, rice pud-
ding or sugar bun are served for
luncheon. The big meal Of the day,
dinner, consists of broiled hambur-
ger steak. two vegetables, coffee
and choice of prunes or a sugar
bun. If a salad is desired, the cost
Is increas ed from to cents, de-
pending on the choice made. On
q la carte orders, vegetables are 2,
8 or 5 cents. ALI beverages are 4
cents. So are desserts with the ex-
ception of ice cream which is 5
cents and is popular despite its high
ier price. The most costly item on
the bill of fare is sirloin steak which
is listed at 81 cents.
For IL hours starting early Sum
day evening, all traffic was barred
from Rockefeller plaza in Rockefel-
Ter Center. This was in accordance
with the terms of the lease executed
by the Rockefellers with Columbia
university which owns the property
on which the development was built.
The lease provides that once each
year, between the hours of sunset
and sunrise, the street must be
barred with "rope, chain or other
effective device" There must also
be suitable signs showing that the
thoroughfare is private property. In
addition, an affidavit must be SUBJ
mitted, together with the names OF
witnesses, that the terms Of the
lease have been complied with. The
barring of the street, is, of course,
to keep it from becoming public
property.
Rockefeller plaza is 600 feet ir
length and runs from Forty-eightt
to Fifty-frst street right through the
heart of Rockefeller Center. 1t wa:
built to provide light and air for the
various buildings. as well as to per
init easier access. For such {
convenience, the Rockefellers pay
Columbia 100000 year in addition
to what they pay for the rest of the
property. A July Sunday wa:
chosen as the time for barring the
plaza because then traffic is at its
lowest point.
Trinity church. which owns st
PauPs chapel, takes similar precau
tions to protect title to its property
The chapel, where George Washing
ton used to worship, is at Broad
way and Vesey streets and pedes
TRANS find it convenient to GU
through the churchyard from on
street to another. So. on occasion
they find their paths barred. Dow
in Greenwich Village, stone Sc
in the sidewalk announces that it
private property and has never bee
decided to the public. Thousand
walk over it daily. But SO far as
know, no barriers have ever bee
put up.
Young lovers on bus tops al
familiar sights. But lately, r
nance has taken new turn. Som
of the couples who ride from OF
end of route to the other, tai
their portable radios along and thu
wooing with an accompaniment
name bands. Usually other passe
gers merely smile. Sometime
however, there are objections, so Il
dial is twisted. Then everythil
goes along smoothly with the b
driver doing all the worrying abo
red lights, traffic and cops, tn
leaving the modern Romeo with DO
hands free.
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