The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
ON THE NEW YORK SCENIC
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ON THE NEW YORK SCENIC
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 The long parade and the exciting band music in the fierce rains and winds north along Fifth Avenue with hardly anyone among the pedestrians brave enough to pause and watch. (What dope insisted upon that parade, anyhow, in such pneumonia weather) The knots of nuts cluttering up Columbus Circle-exercising their Constitu- tional rights with double talk about the next war |. The blinking elec- tricks on the Broadway signs em- bellished by the penmanship of the ftriously falling rain The 59th Street arrangements reply to freez- ing tenants: "No heat until October 1stl" The Waldorf has it, however Miss Liberty, everyone's fav- orite pin-up gal, winking happy hellos to shiploads of returning vet erans, who fought for her honor.
 The CacOphOny of buses, taxis, trolleys, cars (and women) as they merge at 34th and Broadway in what seems like an inextricable tangle-then miraculously emerge again without fender dented-a symphony of NYClatter The aroma of oncoming autumn herald Ing the return of King Football and rah-rahcoon coats-the signal that Ma Natures getting set to wield her brush with those magic browns, yell lows and reds Staten Islands shore line still brimming with the implements of war . .. Newly in- ducted soldiers, without war ribbons looking like overgrown Boy Scouts.
 Broadway, washing her face of war paint, trimming her wartime time hustle and hustle and setting her coiffure with the brightest of lights for the postwar hoopla Faces and facades, absent for too long, reappearing with joyous smiles, like exiles who've been given a re- prieve The red, white and blue service flags now flecked here and there with stars of gold-grim re- kntnderS of those who fought the good fight and won't come back :. The be-medaled private, cane in hand, strutting down Vth, tilting his MacArthur corncob pipe at Q 1auntily precarious angle.
 The book stores along the Gayer White Way advertising Social Dancing" instead of How to Pre- pare for Your Army I. e. Test. ,. The 42nd St. Army & Navy stores offering "Tailor-Made Sailor Suits" ct reduced prices Drug-stores with signs shouting, "Yes, We Have Bobby Pins (. The honey-sweet sThank you" from the cutie behind the ciggie counter ct the Waldorf .. The dance hall on 7th Avenue where the GIs go to cut & rug on Saturday nights. It is called "The Midtown Youthopia" The sub ways, returning to their eerie dawn patrolling-half empty, looking semi- nude without their early ayem sleepy war workers.
 w The Chatterers in Bryant Park trying to figure out what's worth arguing about The medieval architecture of St. Patrick's, getting It's modern face-lifting - grudgingly yielding to the hordes of busy work CTS while kids feed the pigeons on the steps The faded picture of FDR almost hidden in the side wins dow of Q downtown picture gallery V The wisieS who diller-dollared their war time moo on nonsense and frillies - eye!ng the Wise Men who sunk theirs in bonds-and are holding on to them .. The big, new department store being dug at 53rd and vth, with knot hole fence knee high Sign in the window of c 72d Street eastery-"Waiter Manufacturing References"
 The c0IorfuI ribbon of light whIrl- ing around the neck of the Times Bldg, waving all that good news to the Broadway gapers The Brooklyn Navy Yard and It's half finished ships The one-armed window gazer on Madison and 43d with battle ribbons on his gray Flannel civvies The long line of want-addicts in front of the Madison Avenue U. s. Employment offices The Bowery joynt offer- ing e Victory Bath" and shower for c dime A returning air force captain being greeted with sticky "heloooo, dahleeeennng" from a sub-deb in an Beast Fiftieth sub- cellar The Tower of Babel that congregates in the St. Moritz lobby and spills out on the sidewalk That ';situations wanted' ad in the Times of a well known war analyst.
 A ferry dawdllng across the Hud-, son like glacier of molaSses (. The tattered shoes of shoeshine boys {. The Belasco Theater's unique marquee with its hanging lanterns . The Players Club where theS- plan Edwin Booth once lived. The 2 Furnishings in his room remain in. tact The Waldorf's opulent residential suites decorated with garden terraces The two-story frame structure wedged in among Convent Avenues tenements-bvilt by Alexander Hamilton as his cour- try home The wounded Empire State Bldg.
 An avalanche of activity rumbling across Erie Basin, the nations bust. est chipping center Exuberant block parties welcoming home Ser- vicemer Manhattan Beach, where the building of apartment houses is prohibited The 5ol- diers' and sailors Memorial Arch
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