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Keep Off the Grass: 1904
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 3:37pm.
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New York circa 1904. "Gen. Sherman statue at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street. Hotels Netherland, Savoy and St. Regis." 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
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Jack Benny
Submitted by fishtrucker on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 5:56pm.
On Jack's radio show, Mary Livingston would stay at the Sherry Netherland , while Jack {in the plot of the radio show} stayed across the street in the "Acme Plaza Hotel" , penthouse 4 flights down. Jack said on the show that he would rather pay Acme Plaza rates , and look out his window at the Sherry Netherland , then pay the price of a Sherry Netherland room and look out over the dump that he was living in..
Hotel Netherland
Submitted by cnik70 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 9:20am.
That's the Hotel Netherland in the background. Built in the 1890's. The current 'Sherry Netherland Hotel' was built on the same site in 1926/27.
Typical Northerner
Submitted by Glenn Wall on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:54pm.
As Florence King's grandmother once said, "Just like a Yankee to make the woman walk."
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