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Available
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Publication
New York, Random House [c1939]
Description
Originally published in 1939 at the time of the World's Fair, this is a reissue of this guide for time-travellers. It offers New York-lovers and 1930s-buffs a look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost only a few cents, a room at the Plaza was $7.50, Dodger fans flocked to Ebbetts Field, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town. The New York of 1939 was a city where adventures began under the clock at the Biltmore, the big liners sailed at midnight, and Times Square was considered the crossroads of the world.
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I once had this book checked out for nearly six months (I found it deep in the stacks, and nobody had checked it out for DECADES, so I didn't mind using the power of a faculty-staff library card to check it out for a month at a time) and used to just pick it up and read a section from time to time.
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For some reason I've been thinking of it again over the last couple of days, and wish I had it around. Show Less