The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-30
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 The Tickets outside the Palace Theater where Walt Disney's new xilm The Reluctant Dragon" is starring. Their signs read: Don't Rat on Mickey Mousel" The hobby shop on downtown Broadway with the sign in the window: Trade an your old autographs" Joe Di- Maggie and his pretty bride being pombarded by autographters at 18th and the Main Steb Nutzi, the 18th Street cab pilot. After winning a noisy argument between taxi mil- 1tary experts Con the best way to stop 8 blitz) Nut1 was bawled out by the traffic cop with: "Wnaddya think yer drivin'-a tank2" .. Shubert Alley between Broadway and 9th Avenue (4t4h to 45th streets)-it was made in order to provide an escape for theatergoers in case of fire .. It also provides an escape for bored critics.
 The wardrobe mistress backstage at the Eitinge Theatre, who is three-quarters Indian, or1e-quarter Irish !. The straw fan in the paw 'of Robert Burns statue in Central Park. Some prankster's idea of Q good hot spell gag The femme haberdashery on Broadway which advertises: "A Pretty Girdle Is Like a Melody" {. The 86th Street newsdeaier who displays several front pages dated 191y-side by side with today's headlines The lit- tie old man with the long black beard who scavenges the Broadway waste barrels. The legend is that he once was 8 prominent cafe owner until he met a blonde blitz.
 The hinterlanders taking over Times Square for the weekend. Broadway on Sunday is Scranton, Pa, on Monday .. The Columbus Circle soap-hoxer, talking to an aud- fence of one-a bored cop Safe ' ty sign seen near the Lido Beach Club: "Drive Slowly. Don't Be a Hearse'S Neckp :. The down. and-outer near the City Hall foun- tain washing his face and drying 1t with Q dirtier kerchief The chorus girl whose shoe came off at 48th Street and the Main Drag-and the two gailants who bumped heads In their haste to retrieve it for her . The cilalked lettering on Tombs Prison--"Cooler Inside"
 Some of the trees still standing in Washington Square which once served as gallows. The Square once was a poter,s field Macy'S, which was founded by whaling captain The Negro Community In the West eos called San Juan Hill "a tribute to the heroism of Negro troops in the Spanish American War The scars on buildings at 18th Street and 8th Avenue-bullet marks. The result of a riot in 1871 Gramercy Park-the most ex- elusive park in town-orlce swamp. That granite hitching post near Rutherford Place. It once stood in front of William Penn's home in Phila. The private park for swanky Tudor City residents. It once was Q gangsters' hideout On the wall of a meat packing plant on First, Avenue and Forty Sixth street is a tablet denoting the spot where Nathan Hale was executed.
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 The snow scene in the I. J. Fox window (fursl which is turned on only when the temperature hits 90 q. The Madison Avenue florists window card: Our flowers are good to the last droop" That fort ress-like warehouse on DePeySter Street was built more than 100 years ago by a few East Indian merchants The towns oldest restaurant is located on Cedar Street and caters only to men The Commodore Hotel, 28 stories high, which has five additiona! stories underground to strengthen its foundation :. Near Grants Tomb. there's a rare gingko tree. whatever that is Six hun- dred and fifty steel foundation col- unlns support Pennsylvania Station Feel safer?