Rian James, Dining in New York, 1929. Dust jacket artist unknown.
This is a New York booklet written for New Yorkers. James offered a unique slice of the New York dining scene just before the October 1929 stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression. The good times were to end soon after.
While there were a ton of contemporary guidebooks published about New York City, very few delved into the restaurant scene. James’s punchy one-line descriptions tell you a lot more than many a detailed review. The writing has some jazz age jargon such as “Beeway” for Broadway and “black and tan” for an establishment that has race mingling between Blacks and Caucasians.
Some excerpts:
MAXL’S – 86th St. near 3rd Ave. Tyrolean Sausage and Sauer Kraut and Tyrolean high jinks after theatre.
THE BLUE RIBBON-145 W. 44th St. German. German cuisine, and plenty of German celebs.
HENRY’S – 69 W. 36th St. Swedish. Roll your own hors d’oeuvres, from a huge center table.
CEYLON INDIA – 148 W. 49th St. East Indian. Curried dishes that are hotter than a Sophie Tucker finale.
DINTY MOORE’S-46th St. west of Beeway. Irish Corned beef and marv lemon pies and giant baked potatoes. Favorite of Ziegfeld, Berlin, Will Rogers, et al.
HOTEL ALGONQUIN – 44th St. bet. 5th and 6th Aves. The snootier of the literati lunch here. The pastry is grand.
GYPSY TEA SHOP – 435 Fifth Ave. Your fortune, from tea leaves, gratis, and all you want to eat, for 75¢.
GREENWICH VILLAGE INN – 6 Sheridan Sq. What customers from Hoosick Falls would he disappointed at not finding.
THE EVERGLADES – Beeway at 48th St. An extravagant floor show with considerable costume economy, and ex-Vanities girls to sit it out with you.
THE MADHOUSE – 169 W. 133rd St. All the name implies. For colored whoopsters chiefly, but whites admitted. Come here after all the others have closed, and SEE things!
For more excerpts and more about the author, see Stuff Nobody Cares About.
Photo: The Cary Collection Text: Stuff Nobody Cares About
Yellowstone, Montana [OC] [7008 × 4672] - Author: symmetricalbeauty
Hi! I’ve made these cover pictures for the Not Easily Conquered series by dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears, as you can see, and I really liked making them! I thought I could share them online in case anyone’s interested. But if you are interested, please don’t download them from here, the quality isn’t great, instead you can download them in full resolution on AO3, where I’ve uploaded them all.
in decent quality too!
here is the archive collection of these films so you can favorite on there/save if desired.
links below
black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene
the battle of algiers (1966) dir. gillo pontecorvo
paris, texas (1984) dir. wim wenders
desert hearts (1985) dir. donna deitch
harold and maude (1973) dir. hal ashby
los olvidados (1952) dir. luis bunuel
walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roag
rope (1948) dir alfred hitchcock
freaks (1932) dir. tod browning
frankenstein (1931) dir. james whale
sunset boulevard (1950) dir billy wilder
fantastic planet (1973) dir. rené laloux
jeanne dielman (1975) dir. chantal akerman
the color of pomegranates (1969) dir. sergei parajanov
all about eve (1950) dir. joseph l. mankiewicz
gilda (1946) dir. charles vidor
the night of the hunter (1950) dir. charles laughton
the invisible man (1931) dir. james whale
COLLECTION of georges méliès shorts
rebecca (1940) dir. alfred hitchcock
brief encounter (1946) dir. david lean
to be or not to be (1942) dir. ernst lubitsch
a place in the sun (1951) dir george stevens
eyes without a face (1960) dir. georges franju
double indeminity dir. billy wilder
wild strawberries (1957) dir. ingmar bergman
shame (1968) dir. ingmar bergman
through a glass darkly (1961) dir. ingmar bergman
persona (1961) dir. ingmar bergman
winter light (1963) dir. ingmar bergman
the ascent (1977) dir. larisa shepitko
the devil, probably (1977) dir. robert bresson
cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. agnes varda
alien (1979) dir. ridley scott + its sequels
after hours (1985) dir. martin scorsese
halloween (1978) dir. john carpenter
the watermelon woman (1996) dir. cheryl dune
Annie Hall (1977)
Director : Woody Allen
Director of Photography: Gordon Willis
Night view of the Eiffel Tower on the 1925 Paris Art Deco Exhibition
French vintage postcard
Quick sketch of my boy Bucky Barnes. Inspired by @tempestaurora’s beautiful fic, “Let me be buried under your name”.
I am such a sucker for them exchanging dog tags. It’s very tiny but you can see Bucky wearing Steve’s tags here.
That fic single handled gave me a stucky resurgence and I love it so much. If you haven’t, seriously go read it.
(she/her). I like leisure, reading, music, movies, history, Captain America, & a bunch more.
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